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Legendary Economist Thomas Sowell Shares the One Thing That Makes Him Think Society May be ‘Doomed’ (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit ^ | 09/26/26 | Mike Lachance

Posted on 09/27/2026 3:08:42 AM PDT by Adder

There is a clip of the celebrated conservative economist and historian Thomas Sowell circulating on social media right now that is fascinating to watch.

In the video, Sowell shares what makes him think that society as we know it might be doomed. He uses the example of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Sowell points out that people are so stupid that they called Kirk a fascist when all he did was talk to people and try to convince them of his ideas, while noting that it is fascists who shoot and kill people.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: assassinationplots; charliekirk; fascism; fascist; leftwingviolence
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To: Kudsman

I think we are inevitably headed for totalitarianism; either in the form of a takeover by the barbarians or as a last-ditch effort to prevent that from happening. I see no middle ground ahead that preserves the liberties we’ve become accustomed to, which have been manipulated to threaten their very foundations.


21 posted on 09/27/2026 6:59:17 AM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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To: Adder
I'll say it again. It is a crime and a shame that Thomas Sowell has not been given the Economics Nobel. Barring that, he deserves the Literature Nobel for his body of historical, political, philosophical, and economics texts that serve to explain the world to every fair-minded reader.

Barring that he deserves the Peace Prize for defusing the monument of lies stoking the resentment of minorities toward whites and Western Civilization.

Pick one and write your congressman, or someone else who can nominate him.

But it would be an obscenity if he were to cross the Rainbow Bridge without getting that deserved award.

I think the Nobel committees responsible are so infiltrated with Communists that it won't happen.

Which is proof of their ignorance and stupidity.

22 posted on 09/27/2026 7:00:03 AM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: caddie

I was thinking the same thing; so many are uninformed, prejudiced, utterly ignorant. That is no recipe for saving the country.


23 posted on 09/27/2026 7:16:06 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Adder

by any means necessary includes violence


24 posted on 09/27/2026 7:22:46 AM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
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To: Adder

p


25 posted on 09/27/2026 8:16:29 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: Adder

Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest men of our time.


26 posted on 09/27/2026 8:17:31 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Chickensoup

The Republic Rep baseball team.


27 posted on 09/27/2026 8:18:47 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: Chickensoup

28 posted on 09/27/2026 8:28:53 AM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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To: joshua c
I take Sowell's insightful, as usual, comments to apply mostly to western, capitalist society. He's definitely, IMO, in concert with the concept of the "normal distribution" of human intelligence.

But I put great faith in Robert Lucas, Jr's, theory of the economic effects of "rational expectations" by people, as smart or smarter than the government, who will "optimize" their individual interests. Making it impossible for government to control these people forever...

It is possible the weight of "stupid" humanity could bring about the "doom" of society, but the comments posted by many here on FR give me hope.

29 posted on 09/27/2026 8:32:40 AM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence And yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: Adder

bump


30 posted on 09/27/2026 9:41:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: Theophilus

The other day I was trying to list the known and suspected leftist (and gov) assassinations and attempts both in US and abroad.

Copy and add?

Trump Butler
Trump Golf course
Charlie Kirk
Andrew Breitbart
Michael Hastings
John F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Abe. Japan
State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed
State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded
Reagan
Bork
Thomas
Scalia
Kavanaugh
Seth

Come on cant you all think of local and national and international assassinations’ and attempts??? wasn’t there a guy in England shot within the past couple of years??

copy and add


31 posted on 09/27/2026 10:04:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Lincoln?


32 posted on 09/27/2026 10:05:12 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: maddog55

If they are so stupid why do they have successful beachheads on a number of American cities over the past 15 years and have worked with international organizations to take down the rest of the cities??

While the conservatives do nothing.


33 posted on 09/27/2026 10:07:29 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

why do they have successful beachheads on a number of American cities over the past 15 year

That’s where the stupid people go...

And, yes, while conservatives do nothing.


34 posted on 09/27/2026 12:28:27 PM PDT by Adder ("A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.” GW.)
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To: Adder

Not so stupid if they have taken over cities.

........................

why do they have successful beachheads on a number of American cities over the past 15 year

That’s where the stupid people go...

And, yes, while conservatives do nothing.


35 posted on 09/27/2026 12:50:20 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Adder

Not so stupid if they have taken over cities.

........................

why do they have successful beachheads on a number of American cities over the past 15 year

That’s where the stupid people go...

And, yes, while conservatives do nothing.


36 posted on 09/27/2026 12:50:20 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

You answered your own question... conservatives do nothing.


37 posted on 09/27/2026 12:58:06 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: wintertime

The other day I was trying to list the known and suspected leftist (and gov) assassinations and attempts both in US and abroad.

Copy and add?

Trump Butler
Trump Golf course
Charlie Kirk
Andrew Breitbart
Michael Hastings
John F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Abe. Japan
State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed
State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded
Reagan
Bork
Thomas
Scalia
Kavanaugh
Seth
Lincoln
The Republican Representative Baseball team
David Amess, a British Conservative Party politician

Surely you can remember a few others???


38 posted on 09/27/2026 12:59:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Anne Widdicombe, British politician, was killed this summer. There was also the IRA assassination of Charles III’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten 40 or so years ago.


39 posted on 09/27/2026 1:15:42 PM PDT by x
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To: x

The other day I was trying to list the known and suspected leftist (and gov) assassinations and attempts both in US and abroad.

Copy and add?

Trump Butler
Trump Golf course
Charlie Kirk
Andrew Breitbart
Michael Hastings
John F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Abe. Japan
State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed
State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded
Reagan
Bork
Thomas
Scalia
Kavanaugh
Seth
Lincoln
The Republican Representative Baseball team
David Amess, a British Conservative Party politician
Anne Widdicombe, British politician,

Surely people can remember others. What was Seth’s full name?


40 posted on 09/27/2026 1:41:33 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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