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Ep. 2281 The Psychology of Human Action: Why Some People Slavishly Follow the Elites

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Why Are People So Silly?

Jeffrey Toobin: Why are people so silly? That's the question I want to try to answer. He says he saw Walter Block, a libertarian economist, and Bernie Sanders go to the same high school; they ran track together. Toobin: How did one guy become one of the leading socialists in the country and another guy be one of the top libertarians in the country? And that just took me aback. It was like something out of left field. So that kind of got him on to thinking like this. The bottom line is it's genetic and I'll explain why.

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