Yeah I know, but I can’t totally blame him. As I was saying here, Schiff is mostly just doing the show for himself. I think you of all people would recognize the main reason he created the show was just to give himself an outlet for his take on everything. He’s like Adam Carolla, in that he’s basically got an opinion about everything (then again, I guess, what libertarian doesn’t), and he has a real need to let that out. I can’t imagine being in his position: literally being raised with Austrian economics and libertarian principles (as in, going through your entire life already knowing all this stuff that most of us had to discover on our own at a much later age)…and not only dealing with everyone you encounter throughout your formative years up through college, but even now, running a successful business and being involved in the news and the highly regulated financial world all day…he’s either being faced with someone in the business world who is talking nonsense, or even if he can get away from that, it’s thrown in his face in the form of a regulation he has to make sure and comply with.
I think partly he does the show because it’s basically like a habit. He’s so used to battling all this nonsense that it’s just what he does. I know I don’t have to tell you how he sometimes talks about how he basically went through college (at Berkeley no less) arguing with leftist professors and students. I think the show is basically just his way of continuing to have that conversation because that’s what he’s always done. And I think the other part of the reason is that it’s largely cathartic…like he sees and deals with so much statist crap that he just has to get it out.
Again, I can’t imagine being in his position with his knowledge and not having to find some way to do that.
Ditto.
He was making a joke…a reference to Schiff’s Senate run last election season. Schiff obviously got it, which is why he laughed.
Yes Schiff didn’t display an understanding of how a lasting anarchic society would come about, but he also didn’t say anything about “electing” away the government. His scenario was posed with the question of “how do you get there?” and then he offered the possiblity of a revolution, in which case groups would form and the strongest one would take over…which, more or less aligns with history when a revolution does in fact overthrow a government.
As I said earlier, Schiff just hasn’t dedicated the extra time to make that step…and obviously therefore doesn’t see how it’s possible (which, I suppose if he did see how it was possible, he wouldn’t be arguing it couldn’t be done)
And I’m sure he calls the cops when someone is breaking into his house too. So?