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Written by Devon Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n Roanoke\u2019s Center for Economic Freedom had its inaugural David L. Guy Lecture Series event with speaker Stephen Moore in a talk entitled, \u201cIs Socialism Coming To America\u201d. In case you don\u2019t know who Stephen Moore is, he is an economic and political analyst who wrote for the Wall Street Journal and recently was an economic advisor for Donald Trump. Of course, I thought this would be a fantastic talk to attend being a left-leaning individual. =<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m going to be upfront. I was not a fan of Moore\u2019s talk. Not because he is conservative or worked for Donald Trump. What really irked me is a) he didn\u2019t actually discuss socialism; b) he began the talk bragging about his rich friends, riding on private jets, and his bestie Trump; c) he didn\u2019t substantiate his claims; and d) he was kind of offensive. I expected to be exposed to another viewpoint to better understand other perspectives. Instead, I left feeling annoyed I listened to a man claim America is not systematically racist while using derogatory terms concerning indigenous people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moore would put up a slide with a graph on it, not fully explaining what the graph was and where the data came from, then move on saying, \u201cand that\u2019s why I don\u2019t believe this is good for America,\u201d but wouldn\u2019t actually explain what he didn\u2019t think was good for America. I truly didn\u2019t learn anything except confirmation bias is a very real thing.<\/span><\/p>\n I would have been happier to hear Stephen Moore speak had it not been clear that he couldn\u2019t take the bias out of his lecture. I would like to hear a conservative speaker at one of these talks not mention how great Trump policy is and how tragic any democrat\u2019s policy is. When Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke to Roanoke College, she was careful not to dump on Trump. She was tactful whereas Moore seemed to care more about his agenda than challenging the minds of college students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Devon Mitchell Roanoke\u2019s Center for Economic Freedom had its inaugural David L. Guy Lecture Series event with speaker Stephen Moore in a talk entitled, \u201cIs Socialism Coming To America\u201d. In case you don\u2019t know who Stephen Moore is, he is an economic and political analyst who wrote for the Wall Street Journal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}