The Deadly isms

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcJk64UdxIQ&ab_channel=JohnStossel

Multiple Choice

1. What is a common characteristic among many of the –isms Matt Kibbe discusses?

• Limited government intervention in people’s lives.

• Free markets and enterprise.

• Government control of the means of production.

• Freedom of speech.

Multiple Choice

2. Why does Matt Kibbe say it is a problem to think of the political spectrum as “left” vs. “right”?”

• It leads to people fighting with each other even if they have common values.

• Seeing the spectrum as left vs. right hurts political fundraising.

• Left and right are opposites and opposites attract.

• There should be no spectrum. We are all just individuals.

Multiple Choice

3. According to John Stossel, what usually happens when politicians agree on issues?

• They decrease government spending.

• The political parties work together to solve America’s problems.

• They increase government spending.

• The government runs the country better.

Multiple Choice

4. Capitalism differs from corporatism because corporatism is big businesses __________________.

• competing with each other without government help

• partnering with big governments to protect those businesses from competition

• lowering prices and improving products to keep customers happy

• just doing what works

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5. What is an alternative to the -isms of the left and the right?

• Liberty, a philosophy that emphasizes not hurting people and not taking their stuff

• Dictatorship that puts people first, like Che Guevara fought for

• Non-ideological technocrats who do not follow any –isms.

• There are no alternatives to the -isms of the left and the right.