Ep. 501 The Notorious Red and Blue Button Brouhaha
Bob first addresses a pro-political process argument from Tom Woods, then spends the balance of the episode analyzing a brain teaser that swept X for 3 days.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this episode.
- The Tom Woods episode with Clint Russell.
- Two interesting (one and two) substack posts from Tim Urban.
- Bob’s pamphlet on Texas independence.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
Your analysis contains a fatal flaw – it is not my red vote that causes 4 billion people to die. It is the actions of whoever forced us into this situation.
I find the obvious propaganda somewhat annoying … red button = voting Republican, blue button = voting Democrat.
So the Democrats like to pretend they rule on behalf of all Americans while the Republicans only work strictly for their own interests and hate the other half of the country. Nothing could be further from the truth … when you consider Joe Biden weaponizing the FBI against Christians and other similar activities. This kind of “logic puzzle” allows spreading the false premises under cover of “It’s only this abstract question, you are just making up some interpretation here!”
Then let’s play the game and treat it as logical … start with the phrase “private vote” and therefore nobody even knows who voted what … and then suddenly, after the vote, they do know exactly what you voted for. Forgive my cynicism but sounds like the whole thing is a scam and the correct response is not to play. Perhaps it’s set up so that if you refuse to vote, that gets counted as a blue vote but then at least you undermine the pretense of secrecy.