Michael Malice

Now you got to support me.

It's a very deadly game, obviously.

Oh yeah, easily.

So first of all, I don't think anything is obvious in politics.

It's not obvious that humans have rights.

It's not obvious that liberty is better or the markets either.

Whether you're for a welfare state or you're for more free markets, neither of those is obvious.

Both of them involve an enormous amount of thought

and background information.

So when someone says something is obvious in politics, they really mean something is apparent.

Well, it's not apparent on its face that if we all get together and promote a society based on equality and we all chip in that it's gonna really be good for everyone.

I mean, that to me is the promise of communism.

And it was also very appealing to many people because it was new.

So the idea was, all right, we've tried it these other ways.

There's all these negative consequences.

You have all these slums.

You have people getting fired and then they have no recourse.

You have women with 10 kids and they can't feed their kids.

Infant mortality.

You don't have sanitation.