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At this sold-out Independent Institute event, Tucker Carlson discusses America's elites, a group whose power and wealth from government privilege have grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has floundered. The people who run America now barely interact with it, and in his #1 New York Times, best-selling book, Ship of Fools, Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by authoritarians who hide their hard-edged agenda behind identity politics. They’ll fleece you while lecturing you about bathrooms, plastic straws, and safe spaces.

“Left and right,” Carlson says, “are no longer meaningful categories in America. The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.” Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” At this event, and in his signature fearless and witty style, he addresses the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?

How has the socialist agenda gone mainstream, and when did this begin? Independent Institute President and Founder David J. Theroux explains the origins of the rise of socialism in today’s society and how young people are using the internet to learn about alternatives such as Independent’s Catalyst website and the YouTube satirical series, Love Gov2: A Crisis Not to Waste.

Independent Institute Founder and President David Theroux talks with Jim Bohannon about the new YouTube series, Love Gov2: A Crisis Not to Waste and why such a video series is needed today. Millennials are facing issues such as student loan debt, housing shortages, soaring healthcare costs, and the invasion of privacy. The Love Gov series deals with all these issues using humor to show how government interference blocks a lot of solutions that younger people are creating for themselves.

Panel on the Global Climate Action Summit organized by the Heartland Institute and the Independent Institute, held in Oakland, California, September 13–14, 2018. Thanks to the Heartland Institute for permission to publish this video.

Young people are being lured to the promise of socialism's equality and protection. Independent Institute President and Founder David Theroux explains how socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried. He discusses the new website Catalyst and Love Gov are showing millennials how free markets and capitalism is the best way to address issues of housing shortages, job creation, affordable healthcare, and internet privacy.

Why do millennials seem to be embracing socialist politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? David Theroux, who is also the Executive Producer of the Independent Institute's new Love Gov2 YouTube series discusses how the Love Gov series addresses the issues of housing, debt, privacy, healthcare, and employment as it relates to millennials.

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Rebekah, Sam, and Katie agree to move out, but they keep hitting obstacles from Gov as well as the prohibitive cost of living in the city. Will they find a way to break free of Gov’s control and overcome the hardships that they face? And what if Gov decides to pull out all stops to keep them under his control?

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Rebekah discovers that something else about Gov isn’t quite right: In fact, she finds that he has a driving passion for spying on them and messing up their lives. She teams up with Sam and Katie to figure out a way to rid themselves of Gov’s meddling and build new lives for the future. But what can they do when Gov seems to have stacked the deck in his favor?