Dave Smith is nonsense to me. I’m writing a longer piece on him and other comedians so treat this like an introduction briefing.
Dave Smith comes off as some anti-war, anti-Zionist intellectual and gets a lot of attention out talking everyone he debates but his underlying philosophy is conservative and I would argue regressive.
I’m not sure if he is a committed idealist with a penchant for stubbornness or a disingenuous person who uses libertarian ideals to sound autuer and above politics, but his politics have always been those of the status quo. Literally.
In this video, he commends Milton Friedman for having sound economics. Really?
“Milton – Greed is Good – Friedman” has sound economics?
The same Milton Friedman, who was heavily tied to the CIAs Neoliberalism, with figures such as the Chicago Boys from Chile, who designed Augusto Pinochet’s economy, while Augusto Pinochet and other Latin American leaders (often harboring Nazis like Klaus Barbie) were waging purges across the South American continent?
That’s your scion Dave?
Libertarians are liberals and liberals emphasizing private property, thus are capitalists, and capitalists always take over and hijack governments, and use government to insure their losses, steer investments their way, and use the military-intelligence apparatus to expand imperialism for market domination.
The “New World Order” has always been the full dominance of capitalism across the globe (despite controlled conspiracy theories alleging the NWO is leftist).
The NWO is a full spectrum agenda including the promulgation of Libertarian ideas thru billionare funded think-tanks (e.g., the CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation, Atlas Network, etc. — who have advanced away from paid intellectuals like Friedman and Sowell, towards podcasters and New Media).
Also, the NWO uses borderless multi-national corporations, regime change, etc. When the capitalist class pushes a society to its brink and near logical conclusions, with that being a land of deep wealth disparity, manufactured “buy the dip” booms-and-busts, de-industrial wastelands, and an economy more dependent upon asset investing (bloated stocks and real estate) rather than manufacturing (where the slivers of remaining manufacturing have been automated), then the elite class (who funds Libertarian movements) drifts towards fascism.
They do this because they know the system is reaching a conclusion but need a nationalistic, militaristic, & nostalgic regime to distract from the fact, so they can extract more wealth while the current version of this game is still around.
Libertarians are in feed back loop, and is equally as idealist as what they claim Communists to be. In other words, regardless of any facts countering to their ideas, they’ll still push forward with a worship of the idea regardless.
Dave Smith is not a revolutionary. And, I’m never going to listen to his comedy to know if he’s funny or not. But, if his political beliefs are anything like his comedy, I suppose I’ll be laughing at him and not with him.
Sure, he’ll go against the “boogeyman CIA” or take the high horse pacifist position – as if peace in natural anyways – but, his libertarian ideals will A) always lead towards a totalitarianism of capital over democracy and is (B) an ideology that comes from elites.
Murray Rothbard, Reagan Milton Friedman are the exact opposite of “anti establishment”.
If anything Libertarianism is just a veiled type of Straussian elitistism, and by that, I am talking about the Rockefeller Foundation funded thinker Leo Strauss of the New School and gee-go-figure, the University of Chicago, who not only hated modernity, but wanted a Plato based Republic, which of course is ruled by “Philosopher Kings”, which in reality ends up being Tech Bros, the old gentry class, billionaires, etc.
There’s no suprise that libertarian movements have often expressed themselves or have found solace in right-wing, often racist, traditionalist, and hierarchical movements, since patriarchy, racism, etc., are effective buffers for protecting the capitalist class.
I don’t trust Dave.
I’m not sure if he’s controlled opposition or just a clown.
His libertarianism is nothing more than Generation X MTV Republicanism in the vein of Kurt Loder or Fox New host, Kennedy. To no suprise at all he’s friends with Fox News figures such as Greg Gutfeld.