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What's the Point of Government? Election Day Rant + Bears

What's the Point of Government? Election Day Rant + Bears

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 It's Election Day, and the polls say Democrats could take both the House and the Senate — but without two-thirds in each chamber, presidential vetoes still stand. So today's show starts with the obvious question: is this really what we want? We go back to first principles — what is the point of government, anyway? — and find that even countries as different as the US and China agree on the main jobs: defend the country, keep the peace at home, rule of law, make people's lives materially better, and hold the country together. Then the harder questions: how do midterm elections actually help with any of that? Is the President too powerful in the US system? Why not hold presidential elections every two years too? And how the media and the money for ads turn the whole thing into a mess. Then the news of the day: Election Day voting disrupted by weather, with flooding moving 21 polling places across eight Florida counties, Utah and Colorado letting flood-cut-off voters return ballots electronically, and a tornado damaging an Oklahoma polling place — plus the DOJ's largest-ever poll-monitoring effort. The Bears look genuinely good after Jeffery Simmons' debut — so can they actually make it to the Super Bowl? US strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island whipsawed the diplomacy trade, sending oil back up after Monday's 7% plunge. And the Nasdaq 100 bounced off its 200-day moving average for a small tech lift, despite post-earnings drops from Apple and Palantir. Topics covered: Election Day, midterms, Democrats, House, Senate, presidential veto, purpose of government, US China comparison, rule of law, general welfare, form a more perfect union, midterm elections, presidential power, election ads, campaign money, media, flooding, polling places, Florida, DOJ poll monitoring, Chicago Bears, Jeffery Simmons, Super Bowl, Iran, Qeshm Island, oil prices, Nasdaq 100, 200-day moving average, Apple earnings, Palantir #ElectionDay #Midterms #Government #Bears #JefferySimmons #SuperBowl #Iran #Oil #Nasdaq #Apple #Palantir #Podcast
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