A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Milton Friedman: “How To Stay Free”

Democracies have only recently been considered desirable. Historically, it was feared that democracies always self destruct when citizens, forgetting that you cannot remove want and misery through legislation, insist on government actions that physically and morally bankrupt their nation. Friedman explains why the United States has so far avoided this outcome and how we can continue to do so.

From time to time I post video from the mind of the late, freat Milton Friedman.  If you want to know some of the very real differences between Right and Left in this country, you need to hear from Dr. Friedman what free markets are all about, and why there is such an intimate connection between political and economic freedom.

In 1980 PBS ran a 10-part miniseries based on Friedman's book Free to Choose, which includes a documentary on each chapter, followed by lively debate and discussion between some of the elite economic minds on the Right and Left.  Below is Part 10, "How to Stay Free."

Watch it.  Please.