How Court Historians Turn Political Villains into Heroes | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

“In return for power, positions, and money, intellectuals persuade the majority that their government is good, wise, and at least inevitable.”
This event was co-hosted by the Mises Institute and the Ron Paul Institute, and recorded in Lake Jackson, Texas, on April 13, 2024.
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[@libertycoffeehouse3944]

Some people look to movie stars and sports players as heros. My heros are historians who expose the establishment historians who lie. Thomas DiLorenzo is a hero.

[@burnyourhabitat]

But he supports KZbin enough to post on their website? Sure.

[@unbreakable7633]

My comment about Lincoln was censored. And all I said was that Lincoln ended limited government when he declared war on the South and the Constitution.

[@neilreynolds3858]

It's true but that's the problem with it.

[@albertorios1799]

To say the Constitution has no fixed meaning is tantamount to saying we have no Constitution at all. What good is a constitution if the very people that it was written to limit can define their own powers. Don't remember who said it but a good point.

[@neilreynolds3858]

It's good to hear from a realist once in a while. They're so rare in America.

[@homewall744]

The Constitution is a "living Constitution" if and only if it's amended to reflect any new interpretations or needs, and if government actually follows it rather than just interprets it by "reading between the lines."

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

“There is nothing there”😂 the Supreme Court has taken powers it was not given. Acting as legislators who then use their judicial authority to enact the regulations or amendments to the Constitution. Tyranny that is allowed by all department heads, presidents, senators, congress member, lobbyist, major institutions like MIT, Harvard and Stanford.

[@rogerwelsh2335]

Love DiLorenzo

[@DavidThurston-us7hn]

Keep on. Truth tellin.i so happy you are still at it

[@lanceripplinger8352]

Alexander Hamilton was insane!

[@markteague8889]

If he was, then he was crazy like a fox. ;)

[@mikeb5372]

He wasn't insane, he was one of the smartest among them. His ideas were more in the direction of oligarchy rather than lesaissez faire

[@c.philipmckenzie]

He wanted a president for life, which doesn’t sound too healthy post 20th century.

[@lukeasacher]

Megalomaniacal and sociopathic IMHO- drove Burr to shoot him...

[@bowlingvanjapan4099]

The best thing he ever did was lose to Burr in a duel.

[@lv4077]

I think we should have more monuments to Aaron Burr.

[@barbaracarlson5018]

Great video!!

[@lukeasacher]

We read Spoon River Anthology in middle school. Thanks once more and always Tom for your great stuff

[@n88986]

if only the people had their true history! However, I'd settle for the people at least knowing their history has been tampered with and to view it with a wary eye!

[@neilreynolds3858]

It would be a start.

[@uhlijohn]

I have a photo of that very churchyard Tom spoke of where Hamilton is buried and in that photo there is the headstone of Mary Miles, wife of James Miles who died on September 11, 1796 at the age of 36. I took that photo on or around September 11, 2010. I had NO idea Hamilton was buried in that church graveyard! If I had known I would have looked for his grave and spat on it!

[@porcudracului]

You can always go back:). I'll do it for you. Address please

[@thomaswayneward]

A great talk. Very enjoyable and all true.

[@howelltaylor6774]

Well I guess all the modern day democrats should be thanking John Wilkes Booth because if Lincoln had lived all the Africans would have gone back to African. For the first time in my life I'm a little sorry for what Booth did not that Lincoln didn't deserve it. Deo Vindice

[@gern7535]

And things are only going to get worse.

[@karencarter8292]

I'd like to know if Mr. DiLorenzo has written anything on Charles Dana, I believer that was his name, one of Lincoln's top administrators.

[@howardclegg6497]

Those are Great types of research ideas. One day Valerie Jarrett will be cut from that mold.

[@kyselykovac2477]

loving the dilorenzo content

[@danielbtwd]

Corporate power is unfettered while the common man is arbitrarily criminalised to no end.

[@joemccarthy4270]

Ever think all these Lincoln types might be thinking about doing it again on a bigger scale?

[@sawyerahbiesadventuressaa4158]

WOW. IT LIKE HE IS PRESIDENT NOW!!

[@RealRorschach100]

surprised this is allowed on KZbin

[@homewall744]

Slavery had to be Constitutional since it existed and was practiced by those who drafted it. And it has clear clauses about how to count them for representation terms. And SCOTUS backed that up with repeated rulings about returning slaves, etc. That's also why Lincoln was wrong to attack the south for leaving the union when it wasn't yet illegal to do slavery.

[@mikeb5372]

It was the south that attacked the north Also, slavery wasn't the pretext for the war. The issue of slavery came later as a reason to continue waging the war

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

He pushed war with the south because of taxation, the slavery component was mostly incidental to the taxation issues.

[@zg-it]

Abolishing slavery was punishment for those who disobeyed the northern cartel.

[@mikeb5372]

@@zg-it Gee! How terrible to abolish slavery regardless of reason. Would you rather it remain?

[@zg-it]

@@mikeb5372 Lincoln enslaved half a million.

[@johnx983]

Sad how the jig was up right at the very beginning.

[@c.philipmckenzie]

Hamilton sounds like he would have fit in with the villagers in “Hot Fuzz” with their constant refrain “the greater good”.

[@myd0gr3x]

Capitalism = going to a bar at 2:am lurking to score 👈

[@deathevokation1017]

Better than sitting on you butt doing nothing while expecting everything.

[@porcudracului]

Going to a bar at 2am lurking to score=Hamilton

[@markwithak2055]

The Dutch invented capitalism already in 1600, read 'Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800'

[@kingbaldwiniv5409]

They did great work, but monastic in the 900s is who Rodney Stark at Baylor cites. I would also suggest the Salamanca scholastics.

[@markwithak2055]

@@kingbaldwiniv5409 ok, but Capitalism took off in 1609 when first Central bank 'Amsterdam Exchange' was founded

[@markwithak2055]

And Worlds first Stock Exchange in 1602 (also in Amsterdam)

[@thereisnospoon277]

Capitalism may have been more pronounced in the Netherlands (i.e. The Dutch Republic), but I doubt that it was invented there.

[@markwithak2055]

@@thereisnospoon277 Ok, also the world's first Multinational Coorporation founded there in 1602. All of the above seem like the invention of modern capitalism right?