https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcgih4s_pN8 

It's full of cringe.  

A long time ago this guy walking perpendicular to me on a Las Vegas sidewalk was like *"HAVE YOU HEARD OF ALEX JONES!? FREEDOM UNDER FIRE."* or whatever thing about the elites and how important Alex Jones is.

And I'm like, "lol, he's one of them".

I don't know if there's really a cabal of people secretly running the world, but in general creating your own opposition and dressing it as a clown seems like a good way to protect whatever shenanigans you have going on. So when someone tells me about the banking elite **_and here's this one guy_** exposing them, my first thought is they want him to be doing that.

People will reflexively want to disagree, when you present the message in such an absurd way, probably with some wrong info and dead-ends.

After I added a soundbite or two, the guy seemed intrigued and stopped and was like "....I never thought about that". (But then probably carried on with the info war.)

Alex doesn't seem like a Christian to me. He seems more like the devil. I feel an aura of 'devil' around him. And it's a devilish thing, to try to wrap the truth in an ugly package.

Amazon and Jeff Bezos
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The issue is pretty simple. When you weed through everything and try to get to the heart of what Jones' concern is, it's basically an argument against crony capitalism. Against violent intervention and distortions in the marketplace. 

He's correct that Bezos/Amazon are unfairly achieving windfall profits, due to government aggression/intervention that favors them.

But Peter Schiff or Stefan Molyneux would be able to explain the same things rationally with a calm demeanor and without a clown suit on.

You don't have to go on a witch hunt about Bezos, the problem is the system we have and the incentives in play. Bezos is the example of how it gets exploited, and the way to stop it is to change the underlying incentives, not to try to make people feel a vague and unspecific worry about Amazon.

(If you wack that mole another will come up.)

The onion goes so deep
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I do also think about *another* layer to the whole thing:

World being so imperfect, there are lots of people who respond to anger and hate and aren't so much turned on by philosophical arguments or points of principle. So perhaps it's good (or fine, or there's at least some redeeming side) when Alex Jones inspires them to HATE things that are at least actually bad, rather than they end up hating on things that are good.

So maybe Jones is one step ahead and just has it all figured out? 😏

I guess what's important is to remember you can take tidbits from people without needing to see them as entirely good or bad. You don't need to wholly support or oppose people.

the left
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I do like linking Bezos to the left and their policies.

Jones correctly (if maybe a bit wildly and oddly) points out some of the government interventions and why Bezos is able to achieve windfall profits and monopolistic behavior.

In a free market, there really isn't a way to have windfall profits (MAYBE you could briefly, if you invented some awesome new thing and it took people a little bit to figure out how to make it themselves). In general, if you're making a lot of profit, it just means someone else will be able to undercut you and you'd go kaput if you didn't lower your prices. So there's a natural equilibrium towards nobody being able to have wildly high profits. 

When you use violence to distort markets, now it evolves where whoever has the most money will succeed at getting the rules that favor them, and that create barriers and make things difficult on new market entrants and smaller players, and a vicious cycle towards centralized and consolidated results.

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So I like that Jones is correctly linking Bezos to the left and to distortions of free behavior. It's really about time they stop pretending they're egalitarian and for the people.

People like Bezos and Bill Gates etc love leftist intervention in markets, because it keeps the competition at bay.

p.s.
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I kind of can't stand conflating "you can't film here" with *"it's on now, Bezos!!!"*. The guards asking him to leave literally aren't sensitive at all to the content of his message or what Bezos is doing. 

(The store maybe sees Jones as being generally negative towards them, but whatever concerns they have are in the realm of "what is he saying about our products?". If they knew what he was actually on about, that it's about Bezos sucking lizard blood or whatever, they probably would be less likely to care too much lol.)

So it's just a cheap way to try to pretend like "look! Bezos sending his goons after me!!! I struck a nerve!" when it's just standard to what you know the store's policy will be.

p.p.s.
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But Jones is reasonable to ask about his car!!!

The security guard took a while to hear him out on that. (On whether he'd be okay walking into the parking lot to get his car. Reasonable question.)