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Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Trump & Sanders

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Topics include:

How Keith is a non voter but is interested in the election as a political scientist, historian, and sociologist
How this election is the first where two major candidates are political independents
Bernie Sanders’s Democratic Socialism and Donald Trump’s National Populism
How Trump does not fit into the traditional GOP coalition of business interest, evangelicals, and foreign policy hawks
Trump as a Radical Centrist
How the key differences between Trump and Sanders supporters are cultural but are both responding to the economic decimation of the middle class
The divide between Sanders supporters who care about economic issues and Clinton’s about identity politics
How we now have the widest class divide in modern history
Could Trump Provoke a Political Realignment?

How the establishment views both Trump and Sanders as a significant threats
How Trump and Sanders could set a precedent for more dissident candidates in the future
The End of Rand Paul…and Libertarian Populism?
The Libertarian Moment That Never Was
Libertarian Jeffrey Tucker‘s article Two Flavors of Tyranny: Red? Or Brown?
Weimar America.
A 2016 Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Report Card
How Trump foreign policy outlook is closer to Realism than the dominant outlooks of Neoconservatism and Liberal Internationalism
Why the Neoconservatives despise Trump
How Trump’s main flaw is his civil liberties stances


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Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about the Iran Deal, Russia’s role in the Mideast, & the US Elections

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Topics include:

The Iran Deal and the myths about it
Why the US Establishment is divided over the Iran Deal
US Jews shifting their views on Israel and Iran
Why the Neoconservatives oppose an independent Iran that has emerged as the leader of the Resistance Bloc
How the US has supported Islamic Fundamentalist against Secular Regimes in The Middle East
Why the US is concerned over and wants to prevent Russia from having influence in Mideast
The Refugee Crisis in Europe and how it’s largely a product of Western Intervention in the Middle East
Why the Gulf states are not letting Syrians Refugees in and how they bare much of the guilt over the crisis in Syria
Sanders v. Klein on immigration: The old Left against the adolescent Left
Bernie Sanders and his enemies to the left
How the Plutocracy and Democratic Establishment co-opted the Cultural Left
Trump’s Incoherent Foreign Policy
How Donald Trump is similar to Ross Perot in the sense that their wealth enables them to be outspoken and are favor of Economic Nationalism over Supply Side Economics
How ironically a Trump versus Sanders race could lead to an even more polarized America, because those candidates represent positions closer to those of their supporters as opposed to special interest

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Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Pan-Secessionist Meta Politics

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Topics include:

Keith’s Essay Taking the ATS Philosophy and Strategy to the Next Level: Building the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party

How a Pan-Secessionist Meta Party would be based practical goals toward decentralization as opposed to ideology

The barriers to bringing together different ideological faction

How the barriers to pan-secessionism include both American Patriotism from the right and internationalist and the stigmas of the left(ex. The Confederacy)

Norman Mailer’s Mayoral Campaign in New York City advocating for decentralization and local control

Third Party Politics

The need for meta politics before political action

 

 

Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Distributism

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston of Attack the System for a written interview.

Topics include:

Keith’s interest in alternative economics that opposes both capitalism and socialism such as distributism
Why third way economics theories have limited influence but a large potential audience
A Traditionalist critique of Capitalism
Chesterton and Belloc’s views on Nationalism, Eugenics, and Imperialism
How Marxist viewed Distributism as a Petit Bourgeois movement
The Distributist critique of the welfare state versus the modern conservative view towards poverty
Taxation policies such as a Negative Income Tax and Asset Tax

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Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston on The European Elections

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Topics include:

•The recent elections in Europe
•How the elections were a referendum on the neoliberal establishment
•How European Nationalist parties are moving to the left economically
•How European Nationalist parties have appealed to constituencies of the left
•Whether the United State could see similar movements
•Ralph Nader’s call for a left right alliance against the corporate state
•Whether dissident movements could appeal to ethnic minorities in the future
•”Time For White Male Thick Libertarianism?”
•Libertarians who oppose free speech in the private sector
•Arguments about whether dissident political movements inspire mass murderers

Robert Stark Interviews Keith Preston on the Declining Middle Class & the Rise of Populism

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Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston of Attack the System on the decline of the American middle class and the prospects for radical populism. Topics include:

  • Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
  • Neo-liberalism 
  • Left-wing oligarchy
  • The Tea Party
  • Cracks in the Left coalition
  • The emergence of a permanent Right-wing opposition
  • The decline of the Republican Party
  • The prison-industrial complex
  • Why more men than women are raped in America