742 – Topics

00:03 Just say yes: importance of political involvement, ‘Maybe politics doesn’t interest you’, politics is interested in you, ineffectiveness of protests as means of influencing incumbent politicians, politicians reacting to polls, protest distinctions between left and right, intolerance of protests on the right, support of protests on the left, common people have never overthrown governments, military overthrows governments, politics the only way for effective individual political action, most people don’t want to get in politics, get involved

15:20 Private party: loss of faith in political party system, even politicians fail to understand the nature of political parties, parties a private organization, gravitating towards power and away from principle, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump, personal political experiences, UWO staff organization, creating an organization on the spot, doing what everyone wanted but did not do, Libertarian experience, introduction to Ayn Rand, winning debates, getting headlines, saying yes gets the ball rolling

30:32 I just said yes: London-Middlesex Taxpayers’ Coalition, Jim Montag, chairman of education committee, do process instead of due process, Why Johnny Can’t Read, running for municipal trustee, losing elections, winning elections, Megan Walker’s challenge, running for London council, Reform Party, Canadian Alliance, dark horses in party politics, candidate nomination

44:55 Machine politics: simplicity of getting into machine politics, a long string of yes’s, people unwilling to commit to political action, history of political activity, political activity outside the electoral process, voting the last part of politics, Freedom Party, perpetual investment, two parties in Canada for freedom – People’s Party of Canada and Freedom Party of Ontario, write your elected official, part of the polling

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