Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
Don't "JUST Vote". LEARN.
June 29, 2022
Well, we finally did it. We've come out against voting... for policies you don't understand.
Seriously. Voting is fine. But if you don't take the time to actually *learn* something about the public policy issues and candidates you're voting on, you're going to do much more harm than good -- even if you think you're doing the right thing.
CREDITS:
Written by Tyler Brandt, Sean W. Malone, and Seamus Coughlin
Animated by Seamus Coughlin
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
LINKS:
Unintended Consequences of Policy:
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html
https://www.austriancenter.com/unintended-consequences-of-regulation/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AustrianSchoolofEconomics.html
https://fee.org/media/15003/cliches46.pdf
https://fee.org/articles/the-cobra-effect-lessons-in-unintended-consequences/
https://immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/CATO_US/C050125W.pdf
https://fee.org/articles/st-paul-s-mayor-is-already-scrambling-to-amend-the-city-s-harmful-rent-control-law/
https://fee.org/articles/how-minimum-wage-and-rent-control-laws-fail-the-bronowski-test/
https://fee.org/archive/topics/Unintended%20Consequences
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6867865-the-curious-task-of-economics-is-to-demonstrate-to-men
Irrational Voting:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1830396seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter#:~:text=The%20Myth%20of%20the%20Rational%20Voter%3A%20Why%20Democracies%20Choose%20Bad,can%20trust%20to%20make%20laws
https://www.issuelab.org/resources/2808/2808.pdf
https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=723
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/03/myth_of_the_rat_9.html
https://fee.org/archive/topics/Voting
https://fee.org/resources/liberty-a-path-to-its-recovery/#link-8
https://fee.org/articles/fa-harper-the-greatest-threat-to-liberty-is-the-idea-that-democracy-guarantees-freedom/
https://fee.org/articles/3-ideas-for-making-the-post-election-world-a-better-place/
https://fee.org/resources/against-majority-rule/