Here at cato. Its my pleasure to welcome you to a book forum today, where well be discussing the latest book from ralph naadir, unstoppable the emerging leftright alliance to dismantle the corporate state. You heard that right. Ralph nader is speaking at the Cato Institute. And that little popping sound you hear is heads exploding all over washington. The same sound you hear when people discover store the third time the Koch Brothers support drug legalization, because when you look at the world through ideological spectacles and see everything in terms of left versus right, the most interesting things in the world become invisible. In particular, if you look back at recent American History, important parts of the story get lost. So when we think back to the 1960s, and opposition to the military draft, we think of this as a heroic leftwing cause. Student cad cals opposing the war and radicals opposing the war conscription. But the other part of the story is that one of the most influent
Existing distribution of power, wealth and property, conserve tim has been associated with societies where the few dominate the many, and i just think, especially the first part of that, that the conservativism, that the argument gets used to justify Big Government in many ways, that this idea of a resistance to change which, again, i think thats a good instinct. Its in the declaration of independence. Dont change unless you absolutely have to bass it will bring bat beside things but that argument, resistance to change, is corporateist protectionity. People use protectionism to use to tariff us but i use it to refer to stuff like the wall street bailouts. It was pinstripe protectionism. Wall street, people saying we have0 this economy, five big banks and they do good things, and yes, there are good things brought about by having giant investment banks that can create mere efficient flows of capital and can do things maybe 100 small banks cant do. So the pinstripe protectionism is look
Had a pretty cushy coming in now, life coming up. I didnt know a lot of people who would serve in the military and you talk about the scourge of Sexual Assault in the military you are trying to address, which i think is great. I dont know a lot about the military, so when i hear that senator Barbara Mccaskill added misery seems to have a different approach to your proposed solution, i dont really combat it with a lot of expertise. I was wondering if you could address the contrast. Being that women agree on a lot of things, but we disagree on many things, too. But claire and i agree on a lot more than we disagree. Now we are working hand in glove on the Sexual Assault a College Campus issue. I still think the way the women in the senate work is really special. Women in the senate have a quarterly dinner. Barbara mikulski when she was senator and there was finally too, she said im going to start having a caucus. The two women started having dinner and she kept the tradition up for 20 yea