Voting and Politics (1974)
Channel: misesmedia
Date: 2023-12-08

On a bus from Boston to New York, a reporter learns a lot from voters. On NBC Evening News for Monday, November 4, 1974, Tom Pettit talks with voters in the northeast about the upcoming elections.

"I voted a long time ago, but I learned later on that it was useless."

Murray Rothbard responded to this broadcast in The Libertarian Forum in November 1974: https://mises.org/library/voting-and-politics

"On the night before election, and again on the Today show on election morn. I appeared on nationwide NBC-TV, denouncing politics and declaring that I never vote. Despite the fact that the interview was a pure fluke, taken while minding my own business on a New Haven bus, that it was severely edited and truncated on TV to fit the anti-politics theme of mass sentiment as picked up by the reporters, I was immediately besieged by phone calls from libertarians throughout the country."

Rothbard's full response is published at https://mises.org/library/voting-and-politics