Whenever I hear people working in media complaining about straight white men, I automatically assume they are trying to shift blame for their works' failures.
For the most part, I disagree with the Liberals, but not always. I always disagree with Socialism and Communism. I believe that for the most part both Socialism and Communism is evil.
For liberals mass immigration meant cheaper nannys, plumbers, mechanics and gardners for poor people it meant more expensive poor quality rented housing, greater competition for jobs and public schools. I speak as a poor person in the precariat class.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Yep another group ignored by the liberal rich and when I say 'poor' I mean people who would never be considered rich or middle class. People with one home, who worry about a repair bill for the car whilst managing, if they are lucky one vaction trip a year.
The political and media class of liberals pretend that bringing in immigrants who will seek out bluecollar jobs and seek to buy the lowest price houses available won't negatively affect the existing working class. It's baffling. And on top of that, they then portray the frustration of that working class as racism or lack of education. Supply and demand for jobs and housing exists, and if the jobs and homes don't exist at the time immigrants arrive, then there will be direct competition. Look at where newcomers end up buying houses: poor black and poor white neighborhoods. Yet the complaints of poor blacks about immigrants are ignored and those of whites treated as redneck rage.
I'd argue its not liberalism anymore, its progressivism. True old school liberals would fit more as a moderate Republican or an independent these days. Its clear just how much the Overton window has shifted the past few decades.
I would argue they're the same thing. Liberalism always becomes progressivism. They both believe the each same things about the world, the liberal just tries their best to arrest the development of their beliefs. The egg can try to stay as an egg for as long as possible, but it inevitably hatches.
@tntnuke659 You would be wrong to argue that. Progressivism is inherently authoritarian as it seeks to force "progress". Liberalism is at its core anti authoritarian as it's intention is maximizing individual liberty. Progressivism is more akin to a religious dogma, that must be followed to the letter lest the offender be ostracized from the group.
Read a comment a few days ago I have to give anonymous credit to: "You can agree with 98% of what a liberal believes, and he'll reject you. Agree on just 2% of what a conservative believes, and he'll say, "come on in, you're welcome. We can't fight that."
I used to consider myself 100% in the middle. The left has pulled the line SO far left that I am about right in the middle of the red at this rate. Simply because "do what you want and leave others alone" has become "right-wing extremism"
indeed when you can't just "Live and let live" anymore because so many idiots are convinced "silence IS violence" (because things that rhyme are true I guess? )
The last thing conservatives want is to leave each other alone. Modern Christianity practically demands that they interfere with the lives of others. Conservative foreign policy is the same. I never feel the hand of government more in my life than when conservatives are in power. Liberals are the ones who don’t interfere…which just ends up being hypocrisy because things like “Hope” and “Change” require action.
Same here, im in the middle, if you asked people about me 10 years ago or so they would tell you im center left or something. My ideals havent really changed but according to people i had arguments with recently im far right
Similar. Younger, but I generally try to listen to moderate/centrist spaces. Both extremes irritate me. But man, if you see some of the replies I get you'd think I was as far right as anyone could imagine
@@steamnamebbderinvade__ How is that dehumanizing? How is not liking football and hunting dehumanize people? I think the Dems dehumanized Tim Walz to be this generic white guy.
Classic liberal here. 39 years old now, and starting in 2014 the major shift to identity politics have pushed me to support conservatives parties for the first time in my life. So, dear liberal parties, please cut the following lead balls from your chain: calling anything western / European “colonial” In fact, cut out the “decolonizing” crap completely. Anything to do with “toxic masculinity” and talking down to men. Body positivity, just stop. Neo-pronouns and the militant fringe trans activism. Until you can say what a woman is, I’m not on your side. Critical race theory. This has done so much more to divide people than unite, so stop it. I believe in equality of opportunity, good public health care, good public transportation, good public schools, and good public utilities wrapped up in a capitalist based society. Once liberalism returns to that, I’ll be there!
While liberalism has serious problems, MAGA conservatism poses a existential threat to the traditions and freedoms of the United States and, sadly, many of it's non-rich supporters don't seem to recognize that Trumpism's primary goal is to benefit the rich with corporate welfare, unlimited corporate freedom, and unlimited governmental control.
CRT, and the equivalent CGT, cause division, and this was easily predictable. The Psych and Sociology types should have known this since 1980, at least.
Yep, pretty much there myself. Stop it with the performative contrition, deconstruction and "unpacking" of everything already. It's tiresome, demoralizing and useless. I'm at a point where ALL activism, of any flavor, grates on my nerves. It doesn't help that most of it seems to stick itself in my face in all my free time in the most obnoxious and rank way possible. Looking at you, TV / movie writers and game developers.
@@WalterBishop-t4b yeah, the constant in your face and divisive style of activism has done so much more damage to what were mainly good causes at the start than help. It has now caused me to instantly tune out and ignore anything that even hints at activism because it has become so nauseating.
If you want to improve the lives of minority groups in the US, you need excellent police to make the streets safe for people to live their and safe for local business to grow in minority communities. There needs to be trust and cooperation between communities and police. You can't just take police away and act surprised when gangs fill the power vacuum.
What was weirder to me was the idea they wanted to challenge discrimination and abuse by police by reverting to a system of community policing called the Frankpledge from 1000 years ago. Which basically makes being part of the police like jury duty, sending untrained people to patrol the streets and make arrests. Like that wouldn't result in even worse conflicts, since you have random people trying to arrest folks who probably don't want to be arrested. 1000 years ago communities were smaller and more tight-knit. And back then most trials were ended by the accused simply swearing they were innocent, as there wasn't anyway to proof or disproove the allegations absent an eyewitness. It was the public shame of being arrested and accused that was enough of a deterrence and punishment. But with the public's quasi religious faith modern forensic science based principally on how it is portrayed in media, and with our society having more cameras than people, the threat of being accused and arrested by someone with no formal training in investigation or the law could make anyone feel threatened enough to want to escape by whatever means necessary. It just isn't something a reasonable person would accept in modern times.
@@tongla9447Radicals actually wanted to defund (get rid of) the police, and then more moderate Dems redefined "defund the police" to mean "cut police budgets" to try to reduce the backlash they'd receive from the non-extremists.
The past 16 years from the democratic party has successfully shifted me from ever considering to vote for them. Republican and third party only for me.
15:13 "in a similar vein the pronouns 'they/them' referring to an individual in the plural is starting to wear thin with many reasonable decent people" I think this is an easily overlooked fact that gender activists are loathe to acknowledge. We are told that being critical of this kind of gender ideology is an exclusively conservative position, but I think that there is a large contingent of people left of center that has been cowed into silence for fear of being ostracized, but their politeness and patience will continue to erode at a rapid pace as they are demanded to accept increasingly radical ideas without question.
Oh yeah. In private pretty much everyone around me despises "inclusive writing". What is especially obnoxious about it where I am is that my mother tongue does not have neutral pronouns. You have to completely deform language with horrible neologisms to indulge a few spoiled, attention-seeking upper middle class adult toddlers with an obvious cluster-B personality disorder and too much time on their hands.
Personally I hate pronouns because it's pointless and idiotic No way in hell I don't apply that crap if you pay me but I still never do it longer I live
The almost immediately jump from “we just want to get married” to “we want to show up in drag and be around small children” and here’s a confused kid with Michael Alig was the beginning of the end for me. Follow that with the rampant trans/non-binary identity of young women that are: Typically on the spectrum Abused at some point in life Struggle with body issues already Along with men claiming to be women for an advantage in sports. That boxer is a prime example. We all saw through it immediately.
Some are arguing that the Democratic party's problem is that it's not Marxist ENOUGH, or that it's Marxist in the poseur way and not in the authentic way. I'm not one of them, but I see their point. Traditional leftism is class-based and mass-based, not identity-based. Trump has co-opted the classic Marxist elite-bashing and rebranded it as anti-Marxist, even though he's an elitist himself and - though he would never admit it - still sympathizes with elites (as long, of course, as they're the ones who are nice to him, like Elon Musk).
For me, as a Democrat, that's part of the problem. MAGA Republicans don't care about people being pro-conservative as much as they care about those people being anti-liberal. The Republican party has become far too cynical, far too infected by the nihilistic spirit of the 1960s youth culture it once despised. Republicans have gone from romanticizing the past to simply demonizing the present, and use sarcasm and bullying to appeal to voters' worst impulses. At least the Democrats still hold some idealism.
@@Jose04537and why *wouldn't* one call out those who claim to be on your side, but exclusively caucus with the opposition? So they can keep interfering with the wants of the voters? So more conservative voters get disenfranchised to the point of just not voting anymore? NOT calling out the likes of Liz Cheney only helps their opposition and is not smart
The Democrats' strict adherence to identity politics and social constructivism is one of the main things holding them back. Sure, there are some who stringently identify by their group identity, but most Americans are individualists.
Social constructivism is a very scientifically accurate idea, but now the Democrats will unfalsifiably perceive any crime committed by an "oppressor" against an "oppressee" as part of a grand conspiracy of discrimination. Hence hysterias like the recent one on "femicides" or the "trans genocide".
The main thing holding the Democrats back is the fact they're so dependent on "bundlers" for their campaign contributions that they don't care about getting people to vote for them. They'd much rather lose an elections, than choose voters over contributors.
And the left hates that. As shown by covid, and how they putrightbstated American's sense of independence and making out own decisions was problematic.
There is no point to them changing the way they speak to straight white men like myself. They did it for over a decade and the message has been received. I would stay home before I would ever vote for a democrat again.
If The Left really wants to see anything from Straight White Men again, they better be ready to invest 25 years worth of positive engagement with very little return. This means pitch the militant Feminists, political homosexuals, neoMarxist academics, and perpetually aggrieved ethnics and racial minorities very publicly into the shitcan repeatedly for a generation. The amount of distrust that the Left has sown among is THAT profound. Frankly, I don’t think you can or will….so ESAD.
I could realistically see a time in 30 years where none of those people are in the party anymore and dems become a reasonable choice. But anytime soon? Not likely.
Exactly. If they tried to course correct and stopped demonizing white men, it would be seen as a disingenuous effort at best and outright lying at worst. They showed us their true colors, and I won't vote for a Democrat for at least 20 years.
Stick people of every walk of life together in an area and wait. They will all gravitate to their own kind. It is animal nature (we are animals after all). To claim we will mix together and sing kumbaya is preposterous. They tried it in school at lunch where we would all meet new people. You’d imagine how that went.
@@drengillespieYet, humans have always had a segment of the population that has moved around, mixed with other cultures, sought to expand their understanding, and reach out to isolated pockets of humanity. Folks might not see race, gender, or religion as their in-group either. Nobles of different groups liked each other and treated foreign cultures as curiosities to be explored together. Tradesmen had more in common with foreigners who practed their trade than locals who practiced widely different trades. And so on. Just like how animals might leave one heard or pack to join another.
Jordan Peterson once ridiculed the incessant need of progressives to subdivide people into identity groups would ultimately lead to groups of one i.e. individualism.
@@roykliffen9674 ah the horseshoe model applies :) reject identitarianism you get individualism or go all in on identitarianism all the way to it's logical conclusion... individualism.
Democrats are thinking about long term benefits to the Americans? Printing and spending like drunken sailors in 2021 was a good thing? Are you out of your tree, sir?
Yeah, this guy is still on the left. He just acknowledges the tactics, agendas, and narratives the left have been using have become counter-productive. The democrats were taken over by the left, and are solely responsible for every negative aspect of the typical citizen's life. They overspend, constantly seeking ways to increase our burdens, try to force abnormal and immoral beliefs down our throats, are censorious, and extremely authoritarian. They've proven they will use any way they can to subvert and marginalize anyone who doesn't agree with them; including lawfare and cancellation. They are extremely soft on crime, and treat criminals better than law-abiding citizens. Democrats choose lies and propaganda over facts and truth. They are destroyers of a decent and civilized society, innately corrupt, and spread hatred and division at every turn. And democrats target certain groups for no other reason than their gender (male) or religious persuasion. If you are a white, heterosexual, Christian male, they are outright hostile to your existence! How we let them get this far is beyond me. And unfortunately, they've ruined a lot of lives of people who were brainwashed and bought into the hatred and divisiveness; which has and will lead these ardent followers into a sorry and bitter existence. And their perceived 'victimhood' will become a self-fulfilling prophecy!
If, by your own words, "Liberals" in government can not deal with immediate concerns, then they should remove authority from the government to allow for people to figure it out on their own. It's not a "sugar rush," it's the working class not being burdened with the capricious spending of self-important twats. No one cares about credentialism when they are struggling with basic needs.
I also object to the "sugar rush" typification. Tax cuts are healthy for the economy--not some kind of short-term, immediate gratification. They're a much healthier way to expand an economy than printing more money! Anyone who has thought about it much at all can see that.
I’m liberal and haven’t really changed. But “progressives” have left me and gone further left. For those keeping score, the denying of sex and inability to define women in a simple, non-circular way is what “radicalized” me.
The cass report being real doesn't mean blanket-banning puberty blockers for all youth. That only harms trans people who actually need blockers to fucking survive. Sweden has a good approach - Republicans say that Sweden tightened its restrictions - which is true. It made multi-departmental teams require the child to present a long history of mental stability, definite will to transition since youth, and lack of other mental issues, to even consider them for medical treatment. But, giving them medical treatment is never explicitly prohibited for all transgender children. The Cass Report says not to give puberty blockers because the children could turn out cis - it said that puberty blockers harmed the majority of children who feel distress about their gender at youth, NOT that puberty blockers harmed the children that actually will turn out trans eventually. Please. Get your fucking research done, and stop harming the trans community. I do not support biological males in competitive women's sports that are physical in nature, (Chess, darts and gaming don't count!), and I support basing prisons, changing rooms, and bathrooms on the genitals of the person, aka for trans people it would depend on bottom surgery. I also support a cautious, not a blanket ban or blanket permissiveness to puberty blockers specifically for
The notion that certain forms of entertainment are "made for" a specific demographic is so ridiculous it could only be a strategy of the woke ideology. It's that stupid.
Well... actually... Sports (and action movies) mostly appeal to boys/men... and that's a demographic. Barbie dolls mostly appeal to girls... and that's a demographic. "Chick flicks" got their name, for a reason... and that's a demographic.
Nothing wrong with this notion, if you take anime - it's made for a different age groups and either for males or females and for so on. The progressivism take on this notion is what's wrong. They say you (regardless of your beliefs) must love what's made for a certain small group of population or you're a heretic
@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 The woke have also said any major groups they don't like or disagree with have no place in X legacy franchise or medium (like they're the ultimate authority on said things), and have done so with pretty much every medium in existence. It's a weird form of authoritarianism applied to entertainment media and geek communities that unfortunately has worked incredibly well in past years thanks to mass gaslighting, cancel culture and the terminally online users who supported it.
It is literally correct, the lesbians on cartoon network are just bad at pulling it off because they can't take criticism and so their writing skills never mature.
The Democratic party lost me in Bill Clintons' second term when no one in the party had the integrity to denounce a serial rapist. The staggering hypocrisy.
I'm not even going to disagree with you on that. It's just a shame that one has been elected the highest office in the land from the other side now. Sacrificing any possible moral high ground. Really doing their best to play into the "all as bad as each other" mentality that I think so many voters are sick of.
I remember this. The feminists defended Clinton because he had the "right" views on women's issues. And him getting impeached for Monica was the equivalent of Al Capone going down for tax evasion.
In regards to the trans kid crap, I remember seeing a video from a top graduating medical class I believe in New England. Maybe Boston, not really sure. Have had trouble finding it since youtube has probably hidden it away. Anyway, the woman giving the congratulatory speech straight up said, mask off, that they should all heavily push the trans kid stuff not because it'll help anybody through difficult times, but because it'll make them a lot of money. It was fucking sickening and proves exactly what conservatives have been saying about it for years.
As a conservative nationalist (German, not American though), the thought of liberalism and leftism fragmenting, deteriorating and imploding on itself is heartwarming.
In the US, the sides can regroup and reform into a new coalition shockingly quickly. It just takes the right people to speak to the grassroots base and push the party in the right direction. If you need an example, look no further than the US GOP. In 08, the old coalition was just dying. They had squandered all of their good will. By 12, it's was dead as a doornail and they were finally starting to get the message. In 16, DJT picked it up and forged it into something new. It was a little shaky at first, but by 24 it's a very strong, mostly united coalition with clear drives. Now look at the left. In 16, their old coalition was dying. In 20 they got a reprieve because of the beersy bug and everyone felt buyer's remorse soon after. In 24, it's dead as a doornail and they're finally starting to get the message. So, the million dollar question is - Who or what is going to try and do something with the left in 24 and will it succeed? Personally, my money is on the idea that by 28, the DNC establishment won't have had a real honest primary in 20 years. Won't be until 2032 that there's enough grassroots support to overthrow that system and give someone a chance. Hard to say for sure though.
Agreed but I, even as a conservative, desire an alternative that is focused on stuff like anti-trust and urban planning. It took a renegade like Trump to up end the old uniparty RINOs and if that didn't happen, there wouldn't have been anyone I wanted to vote for.
@@taliawtf6944 The actual meaning of classical "Liberalism" is basically the same thing as libertarianism. The "liberalism" you known in America is left-leaning social democracy.
The grift was "everyone thinks like us and you're on the wrong side of history and you'll go away soon". But there are times when we get to choose, and that choice is revealed to all, and the grift pops like a baby's snot bubble. Election results. Beer sales figures. The box office. I love it when the Lady of the Green Kirtle's song meets the Marsh-Wiggle of hard data.
What is shocking now is you need to vote to the right to keep the values of the left from a few decades ago. The entire political spectrum moved to the left in a very significant way. The right of today is not the right of the 50s-60s-70s. I would have been a liberal then, but now i vote on the right.
The right of those past decades was superior to today's right. I actually think they were LESS right-wing, because they didn't automatically despise Democrats, and (in most cases) they could even rein in their "Commie-bashing" impulses. The John Birch Society was once an extremist group even in the eyes of Republicans, but now their presence is tolerated to an alarming degree.
The leftwing is still the same deranged people they were when they chose Saul to be king of Israel. They're still the same when they chose Barabus over Jesus. Democracy is a Satanic lie.
you are extremely dumb if that is shocking for you. every conservative is stuck in the past no matter were in history you put them. In 1960s conservatives morons voted to keep the values from the 1930s.
As a conservative I want nothing more than the success of our country and I didn’t consider myself a republican or conservative until I as a White straight guy was villainized for no reason.It felt like they where shifting blame from their mistakes on to a different group.I also was called a nazi and evil when I started asking questions, that’s the issue with democrats right now.I hope we can chill the hell out on both sides and just be American again
Anyone who grew up with culturally Mexican people should not have been shocked that they are not down with woke. Had the Republicans started Spanish language programs the shift would have started a lot sooner.
We don't want u here either 🙄 trust me we'll be looking into ways to deport even supposed legal migrants. Maybe we'll find a slip up on paperwork years ago that proves they shouldn't have been here. America is for Americans
By most accounts I'm a lefty and many here would even consider me "woke" but I too detest the excesses of the left as much as I do the right, and the supposed "enlightened center". A huge issue with modern liberals is the inability to truely empathize - they cannot understand why someone else would have different views or come to different conclusions to them. Too many confuse empathy with pity; too many pretentious and self-righteous white savior types out there trying to make up for percieved past injustices. They are indeed out of touch - they think everyone is terminally online like them, feverishly keeping up to date with today's newest controversy. Hogwarts Legacy is a great example - I know loads of people who were stoked for it and utterly oblivious to any controversy and probably still are. The echo chambering (heh) of all these groups has become so complete, everyone is unaware that there are other competing worldviews out there.
Well said, as well as a lack of empathy, their mindset also creates such an insular bubble that they truly believe that the majority must think like they do, that's how you get the 'Bud light' situation, they just assume that everybody will be 'onboard', lol.
This is what I find most shocking about the left as well. I went to grad school in California. The sheer bloody-minded ignorance of the people in that department... with advanced degrees. I still can't account for it. You can disagree, but for heaven's sake, try to understand the other side?
The attitude towards men one is one that I've been saying for years now. What a lot of these progressives who blame men, belittle men, and exclude men don't realize is that there are women in that man's life that love him. Whether it's his mother, his wife, his sister, or his daughter, and when you disparage, belittle, or dismiss him based on his maledom, then you're alienating those women. They're not going to go "wow, that other woman is right. Female solidarity!", they're going to stick up and protect the man they love.
You talk about progressives attacking men and the only thing you can think about is how it affects women. Have you considered that blaming, belittling and excluding men is cruel and evil? You make it sound like the only issue with attacking men is that it cost you female voters and if it did not it would be fine.
@@davidrossa4125@davidrossa4125 My guy, reading comprehension and subtext is not your forte, is it? We literally agree on the same thing but you're too busy trying to sound smart to understand that.
Red pill moment for me was, for an assignment I had been handed specifically dealing with women's issues, I uncovered hard data pertaining to male suicide rates. I wanted to shift topics, which would have been fine considering the course was Brit lit, but my professor wouldn't allow it. She then insisted it was men's fault and women were most affected. A few days later I was in the library doing more research, and a featured article on a page I was called, "White Men Must be Stopped." The article was featured on Vox and called for the gen oc ide of w hite me n.
I hope Liberals will take these data to heart, but I'm pretty sure they won't. I'm a college educated professional and I voted for Trump, because Liberalism has gone completely off the rails. There's no way I could even consider a Democrat because they don't stand for anything useful to me. You see, I'm one of those "Straight White Males" they all love to hate for what they think straight while males have done in some far, distant time. Again, I'd like for sanity to return to American life, but I know it most likely won't.....
Nothing quite screams Democracry like directly appointing your presidential candidate without a primary, wanting to win the election by changing the rules and then scream that "democracy is on the ballot"
It doesn't help when you call people Nazi's and fascists. Especially when they had family survive a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Personally I don't want to vote for Republicans, but once I started hearing men can give birth, math is racist, etc I was done.
17:20 - You clearly do not understand Americsn politics whatsoever. The 'infrastructure bill' was nothing but a grift for certain 'green energy' companies (crony capitalism) and didn't address inftastructure. Just like the 'inflation reduction act' actually INCREASED INFLATION. Its called double-speak you know about it and I respect your views there. Why cant you see it here? Obamacare reduced the overall quality of our health insurance and medicine in general. Just because something has 'become popular' doesnt make it good. The most popular aspect of Obamacare was no refusal for prior conditions and that could have been passed seperately into law without the Obamacare Debacle but the democrat majority refused.
Most of the 'popularity' came from decisions made after it was clear it couldn't be removed wholesale to make it into something that could function in the interim.
As a Classic Liberal/Libertarian Mexican the issues with progressivism from a Latino perspective, Democrats have embraced the Racial Theory and identity politics that create a collective identity according to someone's skin color. Still, with Latinos, there is a problem we are not a race but an ethnolinguistic group that encompasses white mixed Amerindians and black people. It also bases on historical racial issues that Anglo countries endured, LATAM had a different colonial history from The US. In contrast, we still had racial issues. Still, they were different and not as big as the US or the other English-speaking countries and this allowed the flourishing of mixed races like the mestizos and mullatos , who acknowledged we wouldn't exist without the Spanish and Portuguese whites, so the whole White people bad "logic" of democrats can feel foreign and only exclusive to Europeans and anglo countries to Latin-Americans. Besides Latinos know Corruption and Political incompetency very well, with Neo-Liberal progressives or Lefies Socialists that make the whole identity political and social justice issues their whole ordeal when their country's economy is exploding or being at the edge of civil war and pretending that everything is alright, like what happened with Argentina with the Peronists before milei that makes women eights when their inflation was reaching the moon, or like what is happening right now here in Mexico when our congress was arguing over the rights of animals when cartels we're using car bombs against or police. So when Kamala showed that was making the whole Wokeness and SJW stuff his Prioty over the Economy and security a lot of us knew it was just a smoke curtain to hide the problems democrats had created and had no intention to fix it.
Not only nasty and destructive, they are downright evil. This video implies that the Dems are somewhat naive, even benevolent, in their acceptance of the extreme behavior, but fails to mention the appalling censorship operation that came to light with the 'Twitter Files' investigation, and the subsequent vindictiveness targeted at Musk, that is still ongoing. Then there's the lawfare aimed at Trump, and some of his associates, gleefully cheered on at all times by the 'left'. Then there's the fake 'russian collusion' propaganda scheme, which, as far as coups go, made Jan 6 look like a disorganised picnic. I see people from the 'left' here, stating that the 'woke' stuff is turning them off, that should be the least of it.
That last bit about the economics being set up for Trump to succeed is pretty laughable. No one is hiring anywhere near where I am, and this is the Christmas season when it's usually extremely busy. While inflation might be under control in terms of percentage year over year, what's actually needed is a deflationary cycle. People are beyond stretched thin at this point, and slower rises in prices aren't the fix. What may help Trump is if the regulation can finally be brought under control, and the economy itself can be unleashed from its pent-up state. The reality is in my entire lifetime there has not been a single good Democrat president on the economy except Clinton, and that had a lot to do with the tech boom he just happened to be around for and trade agreements that on future observation weren't nearly as helpful as once thought. Plus after the first two years he was essentially neutered by the 94 Republican wave that took over American politics. Anything he wanted to get done had to be done on their terms. So yeah, Democrats and Rinos have been proven to be good at one thing: spending as much money as possible...
The trick of course to the rampant over regulation, is to ensure you don't swing too hard back in the other direction. You have to strip away the onerous regulations that make it difficult for new companies to flourish in competition while making sure not to strip out the ones that actually keep those industries honest. IE food must be made of food, good regulation. Your food must be hand inspected per piece to ensure it is food, or run through this machine worth 8 times your entire business that the large corporation can afford and you can't, bad regulation.
As a "true liberal" living in the US (I'm not even sure if that makes me a "moderate" at this point by US definitions), who formerly organized in liberal-turned progressive political spaces, this is the most honest, precise, balanced nuance take on why the Democrats are collapsing that I have encountered. It is better than any political pundits on television right now. It has clarity of self-reflection the Democrats and Progressives do not, and lacks the smugness of the conservative pundits over the recent presidential win. Thank God there are still people making videos like this.
@@philobeddoe8342 Oh yeah, it's just two different flavors. The Dems (not Leftists) have that "I'm Smarter Than You" type of academic smugness draped over fundamental insecurity, and the conservatives have more of the "Schoolyard Bully Wins and Rubs It in Your Face" proto-sadist way. lol. Leftists have "Moral Id Pol Superiority" smugness. It's fatiguing at times bc it makes you not want to listen to anyone.
Nonsense, it's a puff piece, that fails to mention the appalling censorship operation that was set up by the Democrats, revealed during the 'Twitter files' investigation, and the subsequent, childishly vindictive, ongoing smear campaign that has been levelled at Musk for exposing it. Then there's the unprecedented, 'novel' lawsuits directed at Trump and his Associates, which even some Democrat Pundits are now admitting are completely politically motivated. Yes, the 'woke' stuff is bad, but their other activities are borderline evil. .
Mass immigration depresses wages, this I think the populist left and populist right agree on. Where the disagreements arise are in socio-cultural areas. As someone who highly values cultural homogeneity and societal cohesion as well as an ordered society, the lefts cultural outlook on drugs, marriage, and race is not something I can get behind.
The results of liberalism speak for themselves. Turns out the conservatives were right the whole time. Unfortunately there's no going back so enjoy the progress.
@@Nicksonian You sound brainwashed to all hell "Governmental control over the citizenry" , all the while liberals propose the ban on weapons, the expansion of the government, and the state emforced ban on freedom of expression, as long its the opposite party!
The biggest issue I have with this video is that you're not necessarily dealing with liberals. Liberalism is its own unique school of thought. There are names in faces that go along with liberal ideological theory like Locke and Rousseau. A liberal concept that even conservatives agree with is the concept of a universal principle. For example, theft is wrong no matter who is doing it. A universal principle that theft is wrong, end of discussion. The universal principle is a liberal idea. What is happening with American Democrats and left-wing parties in other western nations is that they have been infiltrated in influenced by communist theory and power politics. For a real and true liberal it may be confusing to see people on the left side of the aisle supporting Palestine, but if you understand communist power politics principles it makes perfect sense. They are judging the world through the ethics and processes of communism. That anything that happens to the powerful, especially at the hands of the less powerful, is right and righteous. That the proletariat is always morally justified in whatever they do, especially if it's against the bourgeoisie. Under their power politics framework the Palestinians have less power than the israelism the Israelis have more power. I know the general reaction to that sort of information and criticism is to shriek right wing talking point and shut down any and all thought and conversation, but actually look into communist theory and tell me I'm wrong. If liberals in Western nation want to win again they have to deal with the communists
American "liberalism" isn't the same as classical liberalism. It's actually left-leaning social democracy but they call it liberalism because the American public don't like left-wing poltitics and a party calling themselves the Social Democrats or Labour party (like they do in the UK, Australia and NZ) would never get elected
I was too young to pay attention to Obama’s 2008 campaign, but from what people say, it was a very unifying campaign. He was for the little man against the big machine of government and Wall Street. It didn’t turn out that way, he wasn’t much different than Bush except superficially. By the end of his time as president, my impression was that he thought he was better than us. The little people needed lording over. They stole the nomination from Bernie and got Trump elected because he was giving them the middle finger. I don’t pretend to be smart enough to know how the economy works, but why is it that it started really going under Trump and not the 8 years of Obama? You say he inherited it and got to reap the benefits Maybe so, but I think you can argue that Democrat policies hinder economic growth. Maybe that hindrance is meant to pay out later with better returns, but that’s not how the electorate thinks. Both times in my life a democrat has been elected president, the price of my gas went up. That’s a huge deal to most people. I seriously considered voting against Trump after 2020, but the democrats had gotten even worse on freedom of speech, gun rights, and covid made them into fledgling authoritarians. I could not vote for that party this time around. Trump’s messages really resonate with people. He’s working with Elon who let me say what I want on twitter and is actually trying to explore space. He partnered with RFK. Maybe he’s a bit eccentric, but he points out a lot of good things wrong with the health of our nation. Trump 2024 was Obama 2008. He is basically Bill Clinton from 1992. The left went insane and I won’t vote for them until they figure their problems out. I want individual freedoms. Neither party is very good at working for those, but the republicans (unfortunately) are better right now.
You wanna know what? Your uncertainty about cause and effect in regard to economic policies makes you a lot smarter than the people who confidently diagnose who deserves credit and blame for certain outcomes. I was a financial adviser for close to a decade and got completely smoked in the 2008 financial crisis, before eventually washing out. The more informed I got, the more I questioned my previous beliefs. The gas price thingvis unbelievably complicated, but it can be traced back to Bush 1 and Clinton. They both lifted restrictions on the commodities market. Investment in oil futures was heavily restricted up until the 2000s. Allowing big banks to create a speculative futures market in oil created wild instability. It completely undermined the supply and demand standard that we have always applied to raw natural resources. Bush 2 deserves his share of the blame for the financial crisis, but he is also the last president that allowed the doj to prosecute corporations and executives for their egregious crimes. Obama and Eric Holder set the precedent of non-prosecution aggreements that were supposedly meant to minimize economic harm. Believing you don't know the correct answer makes you smarter than most ppl.
@RustCole01 I don’t see how any of them know what they’re doing on the economy. They’re probably just trying to short term benefit their donors and lobbyists.
Post iraq, I think people wanted to feel clean again. In the lead up to Obama 08, I read articles that described him as a souffle (as in, short on substance). I think there were a raft of politicians globally who were unserious. Trudeau. Clown. Ardern. Clown. Kevin Rudd. Utter clown. He had his throat slit so Julia Gillard could be installed. The UK has descended into getting a new PM every two weeks. If the public wants a new toy, then maybe you get people who aren't principled and serious. Who don't have the intellectual seriousness to not slide into corruption or authoritarianism. Obama was a bit of an accident. The establishment DNC were all tarred by Iraq and I think he rose after the fall of republican Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan was married to Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine in Star Trek). She divorced him after he tired to get her to do stuff in public. So Obama rose to power due to one of his opponents being a pervert. I think that shows. When he hectored Black men for not feeling Kamala, you thought "this guy is a politician. How are his instincts so bad?". If Obama just got lucky, then it would explain why he could get his messaging horribly wrong. (we live in a stupid era. Mayor Pete ran for president. Beto O'Rourke tried. He was comical enough to climb on top of tables at bars and try to deliver speeches)
The real issue was the economy was imploding while the US was bogged down in a nasty war in Iraq. The real issues in modern America go back to 2007-8. It was then that the Colledge campuses shifted further to the left for the first time since Vietnam. while Iraq was never as large scale as Vietnam culturally Bush unpopularity helped to solidify the normalcy of overtly bias against Republicans and Conservatives in the "elite" prior to that there was an expected level of "neutrality" The acceptance of overt bias is demonstrated that the sponsored personality cult of Obama. Like him getting a Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after being elected and having literally done nothing to get it.
"Splashy tax-cuts." Hah. I'd happily take those from either party--much, much more happily than nanny-state, non-optional health insurance. Stop telling me how I should be taken care of and leave me the resources to do it myself.
The main problem of Liberal parties all over the world is that they are not only incredibly illiberal but that they are also indistinguishable from the Left/Green/Progressive parties. The Liberal party in my country (The Netherlands) fits this description and their only aim seems to be to take away freedoms away for the indigenous people (including the old (often historical) migrant groups (in our case Surinames, Antillians, Indonesians, Chinese, refugees from Eastern Europe and so on) while opening to border to the dark Middle Ages. I despise Liberal parties (and I consider myself to be a liberal on most (social) issues (live and let live and all that) but I fear these insufferable self-righteous nihilists and zealots lost me aeons ago).
One thing the Right under Trump is doing well is promoting big picture ideas that appeal to most everyone - ex. security and economic prosperity. The left has to balance so many disparate, sometimes conflicting coalitions and concepts that messaging becomes confused, contradictory or (as exemplified by Harris' messaging during her presidential run) so vague as to be virtually meaningless. Much harder to unite a coalition with those headwinds.
@@flowermeerkat6827 Define real issues? Because when you're constantly worried where your next meal is coming from, you don't have time to think about 'real issues' like how someone else in another part of the world is feeling.
The Left is essentially only united in the hatred and urge of destroying White, Christian Western Civilization. Without that “Big Bad” they turn on each other. The Dems tried to appeal to both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict as to not to lose the Jewish vote/donors and not lose the Muslim and their aloes vote. When you try to please everyone you please no one and that was one of the reasons Kamala lost Michigan because the Muslim population around Detroit turned on her and the Dems by going third party.
@@Triaxx2border and food insecurity are precisely the real issues that the career politicians want to ignore, and so use made up problems like transgenderism to distract people from. If the voters are fighting over who uses what bathroom, they’re not agreeing we need to close the border and bring back factory jobs.
@@Triaxx2 according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, food, water, and shelter are the most base issues one can get, hence they are 'real issues'. Safety and security goes next, then love and belonging, before going to self-esteem and self-actualization. The Right is focusing on the bottom three layers, which a lot of people are struggling with if votes are anything to go by, while the Left only focuses on the top two. This divide is exactly why a lot of these 'real issues' around DEI are getting throw to the wayside and people move right: they don't matter while the base layers aren't being met.
They failed to account for integration because they don't believe in integration, they believe that cultures should stay separate, and that's why they get all upset about "cultural appropriation". It's not only that men don't want to be part of the literature scene, the scene is actively hostile towards them. When you are told that your point of view is no longer marketable, and we are going to go with someone more diverse. Why would you continue down that path? This is pretty common in a lot of liberal spaces, if your told over and over that your viewpoint has no worth, your going to find someplace else where your opinion does matter. I think the issue with the girl boss is that the people who write them don't seem to understand what makes their OG counterparts like Luke for instance in Star Wars, or Aragorn in the LotR interesting. They see the trappings of the sci-fi and fantasy universes and don't understand that magic/"space wizards" doesn't mean you can just do whatever you like with the characters. That there has to be a verisimilitude, that Rey needed to actually go on a journey. Maybe they didn't have to ruin Luke in order to make Rey great it wasn't necessary etc.
Liberalism lost me 8 years ago and during 2020, the summer of love and those 'peaceful', non-flammable protests reminded me of my wise decision. Trump is the future and let's see that kind of common sense worldwide.
As a leftist anarchist living in Portland, Oregon in 2020, I'm with you. I am now a conservative leftugee who started a family in Oklahoma. I saw riots firsthand that the media said weren't happening. It made me grow a brain real fast.
@christopherkelley1664 God Bless you and your like-minded kin. It takes dedication to build and weakness and ego to destroy. Keep on building. Thanks for the uplifting comment! 🙏🏽 It gives me hope.
@@christopherkelley1664 I grew up on the Island of Guam, but have lived first in Alaska, and now in Oklahoma for years. Go back 40 years ago, and I dreamed of living in California. That has all changed, and I feel privileged to live in Oklahoma now. It is a place of refuge and sanity compared to other areas of the country. And I raised a great family here who are happy, well-adjusted, and rational adults. The modern left loves to trash Oklahoma...I still see it often in the comments sections. It pleases me greatly when I hear a leftist say they'd never live here. No tearing down of traditions, no attempt to put down or emasculate men, no divisive agendas designed to separate us into groups. Oklahoma City is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country...yet we get along just fine. I wish more places were like this.
The democrats were sane until about 2008. Eversince they started preaching hate against white males (around 2015), I knew the dem party was in trouble.
Personal, individual rights is a Liberal concept. The problem isn't Liberalism, the problem is that the Left has moved left of Liberal values. Classic Western Liberalism is now right of the Left. The Left's concept of Diversity is demonstrably exclusive and divisive, contemptuous of Liberalism. Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic community values are downright right-wing conservative reactionary. Save Liberalism, give up on Progressiveness.
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.” Proverbs 16:18-19 NIV 🙏❤️
I'm an old conserva-dem of the Blue Dog persuasion. You've made an excellent list, and I will refer others here to help illustrate much of what I saw leading into this election. I didn't vote for trump, though once upon a time, I was a republican. But while I really dislike a lot of what the far left has become, I will always choose sanity over idiocy and dementia. But as a latino man, I can say that this attack on men in general, and the smug condescension of so many in "liberal bastions" like Hollywood, I can say with all honesty, that this line of attack is not only not helpful in the least, but its also extremely hurtful. I've spent my whole life as a man who will never be ashamed of that fact, and in fact, am proud of the man I became. I work in a women dominated field, and most of my friends are women because of that. I've been the guy who they call when they need a designated driver (I don't drink myself), needed a guy they can trust implicitly to ensure they can escape an unsafe situation, and of course... the guy they call when they need heavy boxes lifted for moving (maybe not quite as much prestige there, but hey, I do what I can). I'm the guy who they know they can call at any hour, and have, knowing I'll head out into the dead of night to come help. That's my honor as a man. And I will never apologize for it, and will never be spoken down to about it. Yet, that's what the far left has become. It truly is more destructive than anything. And it really cripples a key element of the general left wing coalition, to which I am a hair left of center. And I'm sorry... but I am not on board with gender ideology and never will be. I have been a historic ally of the LGBT community, and remember fighting against prop 8 down in California. I am totally down for any man or woman to love who they love so long as everyone is an adult and is consenting. I remember my own epiphany way back when, "oh... gays and lesbians are just normal people who happen to love people of the same sex! What's wrong with that? I can't really think of a thing..." It seems so simple now, but in hindsight, it was like a flash of wisdom that I was proud to have unlocked. But what scares me, and the three gay friends I have, is the explosion of "gender ideology" that pushes basic biology aside, has no real core tenets, as the "rules" are always in flux, and has this new "queer" element, that I at first thought was satire... I thought that because to my gay friends and me, "queer" was a cruel slur a la "smear the queer" at recess... It was NOT something they wanted to be called. And beyond that, the people who identify that way now, are often not same-sex attracted in the first place. To an older guy like me, it sure looks like a hairstyle and a fashion statement that goes out of its way to spit in the face of "we in the LGBT community are just normal people!" The Q element seems to be hellbent on destroying that image, and as it has, support for the community as a whole has been DROPPING! I've known only two transsexual women in my life. They both transitioned in the early 2000's out of country. And with the one I knew before and after her surgery, I knew something was different. At first, I thought he was gay and closeted. But I remember when he came out, thinking "ohhhh! Okay, she makes sense to me now!" Even before the explosion of people as identifying as trans-GENDER, which to me, is utterly different as so many state that they don't need "dysphoria" which to me and the two trans women I know, both suffered from extremely. But I do remember watching the effect it had on the one trans woman's family. I had worked with his wife, and had met his two daughters. I learned that life can be pretty cruel to everyone, and that sometimes, even despite our best intentions, to live as our "authentic selves," other people are hurt. That doesn't make anyone in the equation a bad person. Not for living in pain with the condition, or being hurt that the marriage and life that she thought she'd have, and their daughters as well, was now gone in a way she never anticipated. I'm recalling this story, because I don't believe that this far left mindset of living as your authentic self somehow transcends everything and everyone else, including your loved ones, is healthy. And I really do not like this rash of selfishness that decrees, "I may be married and have kids, but I'm going to be a woman now, and if my family doesn't understand and support me, I'm leaving them because they're the bigots." It's a celebration of self, which is okay to a point. But to me, when you make a vow to your spouse, it means that your life becomes "our lives," and when your children are born, should you have them, it really becomes "their lives." I'm over simplifying it, but only a little. My point is, one person's "authentic life" should not be paid for in broken promises and hurting children. And when it comes to those who decide that their sense of "self" means that they are no longer part of the actual human experience by claiming they are somehow neither male or female, or use those with rare genetic disorders as sword and shield to justify their own extreme behaviors, I can only roll my eyes with disappointment. Man or woman, you can live your life how you like, do what you do, and hopefully have some fun and some love along the way. But the second you start trying to dictate how I need to perceive you, under threat of accusing me of things that I am not, you've lost me, and honestly, most other people. You do you. But I'm gonna do me. So please don't think that placing a semantic minefield around yourself is going to make me want to navigate it for you, when I have my own problems. I can see I'm really just rambling, and only using more words than you did to sum up what you did so much better than what I am capable of... but I'll end it with this. I worry the far left has gone so far, that its rejected skepticism, credulity, and has gone beyond the "for the good of all of us," full circle into "celebration of self above all." Which is quite the trick. The far left needs to maybe listen to people towards the center, and people towards the center right. Because like it or not, there are so many normal people who don't actually want to fight or put you through purity tests to be their friend. No matter what, we're all on this slab of rock between two oceans and two nations. So maybe we should shake off the far left and the far right lunacy, and see what we can do together. But hey, what do I know? I'm a random yak on the internet...
Thank you for that!! You've made my experience clearer for me. I have family members who have become wokist drones and because I love them and don't want to lose them I just nod and say: "uh-huh, right." There's not much room for a 60's 'classic lib.' in 2000's Portland.
Except Trump is not "far right" nor are like 99% of his supporters. Trump's positions on almost everything are in line with what a Democrat in 1990 would agree with. There effectively is no "far right" in this country, this is just a strawman fabrication created by the far left wackos that you claim to be against.
They've been incapable of grasping the concepts of projection and irony for years now, to the point that it's at dangerously high levels of pure, unfiltered cringe.
@@dillancartmel9074 You don't expect deflation, do you? Inflation is already down to about 2% in the US, just as it was before the pandemic. Unless we get another great depression, prices won't be going down
7:25 there’s a meme that goes around right wing circles that’s something along the line of “girls want a man that reads but all the men that read are frighteningly right wing”
If Obamacare is so great why are we still talking about the high cost of health insurance. As predicted it wasn’t a solution but rather made private insurance more expensive.
Classic Liberal here. The Democrats of today are strongly at odds with the values and political ideology of Classical Liberal thought. There are very few people left who are actually Liberal remaining in the party, mostly older who have stuck around mostly because of inertia, and every year more of them are becoming Independents. Something is seriously wrong when Conservatives are far more tolerant of people they disagree with than the party of "Liberals". An actual Liberal is willing to fight (at least to the extent of voting) for peoples right to do things they disagree with. I might be personally Pro Life, but I will your right to Pro Choice. I might be an atheist, but will support your right to follow your creed. I support your right to say things I disagree with, but will not accept restrictions on what I say because you disagree with them. Yes I have limits on the extent, but those limits are mostly around causing non-consensual harm or limiting someones right to choose.
@@earlofdoncaster5018freedom of speech was destroyed in my native country of the United states which still is the best in the world while liberals stood by and watched that’s why im not a liberal anymore classical or otherwise
I come from an immigrant family that came here legally and assimilated. cheap Gas , cheap Eggs, cheap Guns ! Mass Deportations! I love It ❤ I voted for Trump 3x 😊
The problem with “liberalism”, and I here use that to mean what it is commonly taken to in the modern US, is it seeks remove all responsibility from everyone and therefore all agency and legitimacy. Authority without responsibility is tyranny, responsibility without authority is slavery. To be a citizen means freely accepting both for yourself at least. Not blaming others or expecting the state to do everything for you.
7:21 I have friends in these spaces and friends who are not. With my friends who are not, I can have an actual discussion on politics where we both disagree. With my friends who are, any hint of straying from progressive thought instantly makes them angry and they call me a bigot.
None of what you’re describing is Liberalism, neither the classical liberalism that gave the word its name and meaning, nor even the more recent American liberalism which was the rebranding of the first phase of American progressivism that still believed in things like free speech, a basic free market, etc.. What you’re describing as liberalism is better described as modern progressivism, or leftism, or even socialism lite. Do you think Elon Musk considers himself a conservative? Or RFK, Jr, or Joe Rogan? No, what brought them all to join Donald Trump was individual liberty, whether economic, political, religious, etc., as well as the idea that people should be judged as individuals, not members of a group. Indeed, if you actually read writings of the American Left, you’ll find them attacking “liberals” as much as they attack anyone else, because they too recognize liberalism as antithetical to their purposes. I think your essay would have been more compelling if you had picked a better name for the group you were describing. It got jarring enough that I had to stop at 12:00. I’m going to assume from your other essays that you actually don’t see yourself as a progressive, so I don’t think the title actually works, since you, a “Liberal” are trying to talk to progressives, who believe in fundamentally different things than you do.
It is good to see that you are learning and trying to spread this knowledge to your fellows, mostly because we don't want the conservatives to gain total power, otherwise they will become just as corrupt as your party has become recently. Ideological competition and the ideological free market. Are important to the freedom of all of humanity. It is best that we remember. That is the best idea that wins. And the best ideas can come from anywhere. So, I hope that in the coming years, liberals and the democratic party will regain a sense of having better ideas.
Seeing how the left has devolved and how the right slowly cedes ground to them has made me go full conservative (separate from right wing) and want to install a monarchy
@ not even close. The right is to conserve culture. The left is a gradient of change. One conservative is a static force and any yielding to left ideas is a loss. Whereas the left can operate on a gradient of change
@@anival9576 no, I mean the right cedes ground to the left. Example, if you were to ask anyone from the early 2000's how many genders there are, they'd say two. Now we have a large portion of the population what a woman is they can't answer.
Toxic masculinity is not stale. It's both very rare and important to deal with on a personal level, not at a societal level. Same goes for toxic femininity.
I love your quote...[they were unable to build the house so they micromanaged moving the furniture]. Yeah! What they thought was important was the only thing that mattered.
Somewhat amusing that, while the video was surprisingly objective, you still had to lay the groundwork for crediting Biden with the pending boom economy. The only "natural upswing" in an economy is when policies change and confidence rises. There would be no upswing if Biden remained or Kamala took over.
In 2003/2004 former US Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) wrote a book called, 'A National Party No More,' and what he wrote about the Democrat Party then was true then and is still true today.
I used to vote Democrat. I moved away from the party because it has become clear that they are now the Military Industrial Complex. I have a ton of different complaints, but that mighr be the biggest.
The ACA might be doing ok in the polls now, but only because people don't connect the current insurance problems to the ACA that worsened them. The pollsters shouldn't ask people how they feel about the ACA that was passed 11 years ago. They should ask if they like the insurance plan they have purchased from the insurance marketplace/exchanges. I bet the answer to *that* question will be a resounding, if not universal, NO.
@@pippip8744We have similar wait times here too, except in addition to waiting for months, we then have to pay hundreds of dollars for a 15 minute visit. I hope you can solve your medical issue soon!
I feel like me and a lot of other people regardless of upbringing before 2008 were pretty in the middle. A lot of us just simply held firm to the belief of live and let live, and other normal values like treat each other well and if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything etc, but the left put it in first, dumped the clutch and peeled out so far left we all ended up red before we realized it. We all miss jokes. We miss not feeling like we're walking on eggshells. We miss all being needed in one role or another, and appreciated for it be it in society or physically like just a tall guy helping a shorter guy reach something and vice versa.
You are part of the problem. Immigrants are not assimilating into Liberalism (it will work this time, trust me). It's just that the politics within a multicultural country are plural, shifting and complex. The Liberals you criticize were wrong to think immigrants would mostly vote for them and you are wrong that there is some unifying liberalism to assimilate into. Both are nice and simple delusions and both are dangerous.
Pro Choice seems fine enough. However, most European countries allow abortion, but most will only allow up to about 12-20 weeks. This is typically informed by debate and viability balanced against moral concerns. Ask a US 'liberal' where they think that line should be. They generally won't say, even when pushed for an answer. I don't like the practice but I also appreciate that the 94% that are purely elective are typically the result of immature people making bad decisions and ideally they shouldn't be parents to begin with. Those who think it's all good right up till birth are disturbed. That's what they mean when they 'won't say'. Such is the fear of the liberal that they might say a perfectly arguable 20 weeks and be burned at the stake for being off message.
Orange man is the most 'liberal' candidate on the national field, with perhaps some exceptions with RFK or Tulsi or others that have been forced to flee their party.
According to the media, black people are still victims of American society. Meanwhile, whether it's the VA or civilian medical facilities, I get care from black medical staff that range from the least accredited nurses to physicians and surgeons. All are pleasant and highly competent. It all seems like a giant disconnect from the rhetoric.
For being so racist, sexist and homophobic, it's interesting how the Republicans are getting more diverse with poc, gays, and women voting red. Kinda makes you think that bashing white straight men didn't just bother them, but everyone else was too, and Liberals just do not care.
Not quite in the case of gays they got alienated by being associated with trans and for the lgbtq+ movement accepting and defending child predators openly. This lead many, not all gays to leave and move towards the right.
Whenever I hear people working in media complaining about straight white men, I automatically assume they are trying to shift blame for their works' failures.
Their life failures.
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For the most part, I disagree with the Liberals, but not always. I always disagree with Socialism and Communism. I believe that for the most part both Socialism and Communism is evil.
That is THE correct way to look at it.
For liberals mass immigration meant cheaper nannys, plumbers, mechanics and gardners for poor people it meant more expensive poor quality rented housing, greater competition for jobs and public schools. I speak as a poor person in the precariat class.
One of my favourite mask off moments was when an audience member of some out of touch talk show said "who's gonna clean your toilets Mr Trump?"
It also hit workers in the trades particularly hard.
@@GeraltofRivia22that would be Kelly Osbourne.
@@Nyet-Zdyes Yep another group ignored by the liberal rich and when I say 'poor' I mean people who would never be considered rich or middle class. People with one home, who worry about a repair bill for the car whilst managing, if they are lucky one vaction trip a year.
The political and media class of liberals pretend that bringing in immigrants who will seek out bluecollar jobs and seek to buy the lowest price houses available won't negatively affect the existing working class. It's baffling. And on top of that, they then portray the frustration of that working class as racism or lack of education. Supply and demand for jobs and housing exists, and if the jobs and homes don't exist at the time immigrants arrive, then there will be direct competition. Look at where newcomers end up buying houses: poor black and poor white neighborhoods. Yet the complaints of poor blacks about immigrants are ignored and those of whites treated as redneck rage.
I'd argue its not liberalism anymore, its progressivism. True old school liberals would fit more as a moderate Republican or an independent these days. Its clear just how much the Overton window has shifted the past few decades.
I would argue they're the same thing. Liberalism always becomes progressivism. They both believe the each same things about the world, the liberal just tries their best to arrest the development of their beliefs. The egg can try to stay as an egg for as long as possible, but it inevitably hatches.
This checks out with many former Democrats allying themselves with Trump.
@tntnuke659 what specifically do you think liberals and leftists have in common?
What's "progressive" about stealing my money or threatening me with jail time if I "misgender" someone?
@tntnuke659 You would be wrong to argue that. Progressivism is inherently authoritarian as it seeks to force "progress". Liberalism is at its core anti authoritarian as it's intention is maximizing individual liberty. Progressivism is more akin to a religious dogma, that must be followed to the letter lest the offender be ostracized from the group.
Read a comment a few days ago I have to give anonymous credit to: "You can agree with 98% of what a liberal believes, and he'll reject you. Agree on just 2% of what a conservative believes, and he'll say, "come on in, you're welcome. We can't fight that."
It really illustrates, in bold colors, which side is truly tolerant and inclusive (to borrow their insipid bromides), and which side is not.
I used to consider myself 100% in the middle. The left has pulled the line SO far left that I am about right in the middle of the red at this rate. Simply because "do what you want and leave others alone" has become "right-wing extremism"
indeed when you can't just "Live and let live" anymore because so many idiots are convinced "silence IS violence" (because things that rhyme are true I guess? )
The last thing conservatives want is to leave each other alone. Modern Christianity practically demands that they interfere with the lives of others. Conservative foreign policy is the same. I never feel the hand of government more in my life than when conservatives are in power.
Liberals are the ones who don’t interfere…which just ends up being hypocrisy because things like “Hope” and “Change” require action.
Same here, im in the middle, if you asked people about me 10 years ago or so they would tell you im center left or something. My ideals havent really changed but according to people i had arguments with recently im far right
Similar. Younger, but I generally try to listen to moderate/centrist spaces. Both extremes irritate me. But man, if you see some of the replies I get you'd think I was as far right as anyone could imagine
Censoring children's books that are not at all offensive to children is hardly a laissez-faire attitude.
I think Tim Walz is just happy that he doesn’t have to pretend that he likes football and hunting anymore
@@coffeyallday I am sure he is back to afternoon tea and shoe shopping. He probably made new friends with White Dudes for Harris.
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way to dehumanize bud.
Gets his old dog back
@@steamnamebbderinvade__ How is that dehumanizing? How is not liking football and hunting dehumanize people? I think the Dems dehumanized Tim Walz to be this generic white guy.
Classic liberal here. 39 years old now, and starting in 2014 the major shift to identity politics have pushed me to support conservatives parties for the first time in my life. So, dear liberal parties, please cut the following lead balls from your chain: calling anything western / European “colonial” In fact, cut out the “decolonizing” crap completely. Anything to do with “toxic masculinity” and talking down to men. Body positivity, just stop. Neo-pronouns and the militant fringe trans activism. Until you can say what a woman is, I’m not on your side. Critical race theory. This has done so much more to divide people than unite, so stop it. I believe in equality of opportunity, good public health care, good public transportation, good public schools, and good public utilities wrapped up in a capitalist based society. Once liberalism returns to that, I’ll be there!
While liberalism has serious problems, MAGA conservatism poses a existential threat to the traditions and freedoms of the United States and, sadly, many of it's non-rich supporters don't seem to recognize that Trumpism's primary goal is to benefit the rich with corporate welfare, unlimited corporate freedom, and unlimited governmental control.
CRT, and the equivalent CGT, cause division, and this was easily predictable.
The Psych and Sociology types should have known this since 1980, at least.
Yep, pretty much there myself. Stop it with the performative contrition, deconstruction and "unpacking" of everything already. It's tiresome, demoralizing and useless. I'm at a point where ALL activism, of any flavor, grates on my nerves. It doesn't help that most of it seems to stick itself in my face in all my free time in the most obnoxious and rank way possible. Looking at you, TV / movie writers and game developers.
I do agree what you say it is true that makes sense and thank you speaking out
@@WalterBishop-t4b yeah, the constant in your face and divisive style of activism has done so much more damage to what were mainly good causes at the start than help. It has now caused me to instantly tune out and ignore anything that even hints at activism because it has become so nauseating.
The moment I stopped voting Democrat was when theyc hanted "defund the police". We should have been chanting "improve the police".
Right!? Over 120 000 words in English dictionary and they had to pick "Defund"?!
If you want to improve the lives of minority groups in the US, you need excellent police to make the streets safe for people to live their and safe for local business to grow in minority communities. There needs to be trust and cooperation between communities and police. You can't just take police away and act surprised when gangs fill the power vacuum.
What was weirder to me was the idea they wanted to challenge discrimination and abuse by police by reverting to a system of community policing called the Frankpledge from 1000 years ago. Which basically makes being part of the police like jury duty, sending untrained people to patrol the streets and make arrests. Like that wouldn't result in even worse conflicts, since you have random people trying to arrest folks who probably don't want to be arrested. 1000 years ago communities were smaller and more tight-knit. And back then most trials were ended by the accused simply swearing they were innocent, as there wasn't anyway to proof or disproove the allegations absent an eyewitness. It was the public shame of being arrested and accused that was enough of a deterrence and punishment. But with the public's quasi religious faith modern forensic science based principally on how it is portrayed in media, and with our society having more cameras than people, the threat of being accused and arrested by someone with no formal training in investigation or the law could make anyone feel threatened enough to want to escape by whatever means necessary. It just isn't something a reasonable person would accept in modern times.
@@gamera5160 the police are fucking cowards; hence, they arent on the beat patrolling in high-crime neighoborhoods full of lead.
@@tongla9447Radicals actually wanted to defund (get rid of) the police, and then more moderate Dems redefined "defund the police" to mean "cut police budgets" to try to reduce the backlash they'd receive from the non-extremists.
The past 16 years from the democratic party has successfully shifted me from ever considering to vote for them. Republican and third party only for me.
15:13 "in a similar vein the pronouns 'they/them' referring to an individual in the plural is starting to wear thin with many reasonable decent people" I think this is an easily overlooked fact that gender activists are loathe to acknowledge. We are told that being critical of this kind of gender ideology is an exclusively conservative position, but I think that there is a large contingent of people left of center that has been cowed into silence for fear of being ostracized, but their politeness and patience will continue to erode at a rapid pace as they are demanded to accept increasingly radical ideas without question.
To be fair they/them works, because ugly people with no social skills was a bit of a mouthful
Oh yeah. In private pretty much everyone around me despises "inclusive writing". What is especially obnoxious about it where I am is that my mother tongue does not have neutral pronouns. You have to completely deform language with horrible neologisms to indulge a few spoiled, attention-seeking upper middle class adult toddlers with an obvious cluster-B personality disorder and too much time on their hands.
Personally I hate pronouns because it's pointless and idiotic No way in hell I don't apply that crap if you pay me but I still never do it longer I live
I'm not gonna it was the thing that changed my mind, but it was definitely beyond the pale of what I'm willing to accept from a government.
The almost immediately jump from “we just want to get married” to “we want to show up in drag and be around small children” and here’s a confused kid with Michael Alig was the beginning of the end for me.
Follow that with the rampant trans/non-binary identity of young women that are:
Typically on the spectrum
Abused at some point in life
Struggle with body issues already
Along with men claiming to be women for an advantage in sports. That boxer is a prime example. We all saw through it immediately.
Liberalism isn't failing. Liberalism is precisely what conservatives are trying to conserve
this right here ^
@@dannybonsai7102 You may have a fair point here. When I often agree with old school Liberals, things have somehow come full circle.
The conservative of today is the liberal of 25 years ago.
Liberalism is succeeding. The chaos you’re witnessing is exactly the end state of that ideology
@@maxis2knot anymore really.
Be Americans, not Marxists.
Some are arguing that the Democratic party's problem is that it's not Marxist ENOUGH, or that it's Marxist in the poseur way and not in the authentic way. I'm not one of them, but I see their point. Traditional leftism is class-based and mass-based, not identity-based. Trump has co-opted the classic Marxist elite-bashing and rebranded it as anti-Marxist, even though he's an elitist himself and - though he would never admit it - still sympathizes with elites (as long, of course, as they're the ones who are nice to him, like Elon Musk).
What is Marxist about the modern Democratic Party
@@josiahandre_ Almost everything.
you mean "White"? i mean it's what the Founding Fathers wanted "Americans" to be.
MAGA Republicans are
JFK Democrats
Modern Democrats are
Marxists
You’ll never be Blue enough for the Blues. The Reds don’t care how Red you are, they just accept you for being Red.
For me, as a Democrat, that's part of the problem. MAGA Republicans don't care about people being pro-conservative as much as they care about those people being anti-liberal. The Republican party has become far too cynical, far too infected by the nihilistic spirit of the 1960s youth culture it once despised. Republicans have gone from romanticizing the past to simply demonizing the present, and use sarcasm and bullying to appeal to voters' worst impulses. At least the Democrats still hold some idealism.
They literally call you RINO (Republican in name only) if you're not perceived as conservative enough.
@@Jose04537 Yeah, calling out infiltrators is just SOOO weird...🙄
@@Jose04537and why *wouldn't* one call out those who claim to be on your side, but exclusively caucus with the opposition? So they can keep interfering with the wants of the voters? So more conservative voters get disenfranchised to the point of just not voting anymore?
NOT calling out the likes of Liz Cheney only helps their opposition and is not smart
@@Jose04537 I'll admit that I've been plenty guilty of that, myself.
The Democrats' strict adherence to identity politics and social constructivism is one of the main things holding them back. Sure, there are some who stringently identify by their group identity, but most Americans are individualists.
Social constructivism is a very scientifically accurate idea, but now the Democrats will unfalsifiably perceive any crime committed by an "oppressor" against an "oppressee" as part of a grand conspiracy of discrimination. Hence hysterias like the recent one on "femicides" or the "trans genocide".
The main thing holding the Democrats back is the fact they're so dependent on "bundlers" for their campaign contributions that they don't care about getting people to vote for them. They'd much rather lose an elections, than choose voters over contributors.
And the left hates that. As shown by covid, and how they putrightbstated American's sense of independence and making out own decisions was problematic.
There is no point to them changing the way they speak to straight white men like myself. They did it for over a decade and the message has been received. I would stay home before I would ever vote for a democrat again.
If The Left really wants to see anything from Straight White Men again, they better be ready to invest 25 years worth of positive engagement with very little return. This means pitch the militant Feminists, political homosexuals, neoMarxist academics, and perpetually aggrieved ethnics and racial minorities very publicly into the shitcan repeatedly for a generation.
The amount of distrust that the Left has sown among is THAT profound.
Frankly, I don’t think you can or will….so ESAD.
I could realistically see a time in 30 years where none of those people are in the party anymore and dems become a reasonable choice. But anytime soon? Not likely.
Exactly. If they tried to course correct and stopped demonizing white men, it would be seen as a disingenuous effort at best and outright lying at worst. They showed us their true colors, and I won't vote for a Democrat for at least 20 years.
What these proponents of diversity overlooked: diverse groups have themselves become fragmented.
Diversity breeds greater diversity.
Stick people of every walk of life together in an area and wait. They will all gravitate to their own kind. It is animal nature (we are animals after all). To claim we will mix together and sing kumbaya is preposterous.
They tried it in school at lunch where we would all meet new people. You’d imagine how that went.
@@drengillespie While I disagree on the "we are animals", I agree on the rest
@@drengillespieYet, humans have always had a segment of the population that has moved around, mixed with other cultures, sought to expand their understanding, and reach out to isolated pockets of humanity. Folks might not see race, gender, or religion as their in-group either. Nobles of different groups liked each other and treated foreign cultures as curiosities to be explored together. Tradesmen had more in common with foreigners who practed their trade than locals who practiced widely different trades. And so on. Just like how animals might leave one heard or pack to join another.
Jordan Peterson once ridiculed the incessant need of progressives to subdivide people into identity groups would ultimately lead to groups of one i.e. individualism.
@@roykliffen9674 ah the horseshoe model applies :)
reject identitarianism you get individualism
or go all in on identitarianism all the way to it's logical conclusion... individualism.
Democrats are thinking about long term benefits to the Americans? Printing and spending like drunken sailors in 2021 was a good thing?
Are you out of your tree, sir?
I know, right? I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.
He still wants to seize total power, he is just sneaky enough to realize the current strategy is not working.
Yeah, this guy is still on the left. He just acknowledges the tactics, agendas, and narratives the left have been using have become counter-productive. The democrats were taken over by the left, and are solely responsible for every negative aspect of the typical citizen's life. They overspend, constantly seeking ways to increase our burdens, try to force abnormal and immoral beliefs down our throats, are censorious, and extremely authoritarian. They've proven they will use any way they can to subvert and marginalize anyone who doesn't agree with them; including lawfare and cancellation. They are extremely soft on crime, and treat criminals better than law-abiding citizens. Democrats choose lies and propaganda over facts and truth. They are destroyers of a decent and civilized society, innately corrupt, and spread hatred and division at every turn. And democrats target certain groups for no other reason than their gender (male) or religious persuasion. If you are a white, heterosexual, Christian male, they are outright hostile to your existence! How we let them get this far is beyond me. And unfortunately, they've ruined a lot of lives of people who were brainwashed and bought into the hatred and divisiveness; which has and will lead these ardent followers into a sorry and bitter existence. And their perceived 'victimhood' will become a self-fulfilling prophecy!
Republicans do the same thing too, these elites are both of the kind, just different flavour. Tho the Dems have a pretty putrid flavour rn
Not only are they spending like drunken sailors but they brought the crabs and syphilis with it.....🤣
If, by your own words, "Liberals" in government can not deal with immediate concerns, then they should remove authority from the government to allow for people to figure it out on their own. It's not a "sugar rush," it's the working class not being burdened with the capricious spending of self-important twats. No one cares about credentialism when they are struggling with basic needs.
Justice for Peanut!
I also object to the "sugar rush" typification. Tax cuts are healthy for the economy--not some kind of short-term, immediate gratification. They're a much healthier way to expand an economy than printing more money! Anyone who has thought about it much at all can see that.
I’m liberal and haven’t really changed. But “progressives” have left me and gone further left. For those keeping score, the denying of sex and inability to define women in a simple, non-circular way is what “radicalized” me.
The cass report being real doesn't mean blanket-banning puberty blockers for all youth. That only harms trans people who actually need blockers to fucking survive.
Sweden has a good approach - Republicans say that Sweden tightened its restrictions - which is true. It made multi-departmental teams require the child to present a long history of mental stability, definite will to transition since youth, and lack of other mental issues, to even consider them for medical treatment.
But, giving them medical treatment is never explicitly prohibited for all transgender children.
The Cass Report says not to give puberty blockers because the children could turn out cis - it said that puberty blockers harmed the majority of children who feel distress about their gender at youth, NOT that puberty blockers harmed the children that actually will turn out trans eventually.
Please. Get your fucking research done, and stop harming the trans community. I do not support biological males in competitive women's sports that are physical in nature, (Chess, darts and gaming don't count!), and I support basing prisons, changing rooms, and bathrooms on the genitals of the person, aka for trans people it would depend on bottom surgery.
I also support a cautious, not a blanket ban or blanket permissiveness to puberty blockers specifically for
the denying of sex?
@@meciocio I think he's referring to gender... as in, "there are no objective genders." Maybe? Just speculating.
The notion that certain forms of entertainment are "made for" a specific demographic is so ridiculous it could only be a strategy of the woke ideology.
It's that stupid.
Well... actually...
Sports (and action movies) mostly appeal to boys/men... and that's a demographic.
Barbie dolls mostly appeal to girls... and that's a demographic.
"Chick flicks" got their name, for a reason... and that's a demographic.
Nothing wrong with this notion, if you take anime - it's made for a different age groups and either for males or females and for so on. The progressivism take on this notion is what's wrong. They say you (regardless of your beliefs) must love what's made for a certain small group of population or you're a heretic
@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 The woke have also said any major groups they don't like or disagree with have no place in X legacy franchise or medium (like they're the ultimate authority on said things), and have done so with pretty much every medium in existence. It's a weird form of authoritarianism applied to entertainment media and geek communities that unfortunately has worked incredibly well in past years thanks to mass gaslighting, cancel culture and the terminally online users who supported it.
It is literally correct, the lesbians on cartoon network are just bad at pulling it off because they can't take criticism and so their writing skills never mature.
That's (checks notes) just "your truth" and you're "punching down"...
The Democratic party lost me in Bill Clintons' second term when no one in the party had the integrity to denounce a serial rapist. The staggering hypocrisy.
I'm not even going to disagree with you on that. It's just a shame that one has been elected the highest office in the land from the other side now. Sacrificing any possible moral high ground. Really doing their best to play into the "all as bad as each other" mentality that I think so many voters are sick of.
It all depends on what your definition of 'is' is.
I remember this. The feminists defended Clinton because he had the "right" views on women's issues.
And him getting impeached for Monica was the equivalent of Al Capone going down for tax evasion.
I’m not defending Bill Clinton but I don’t think he what That!
Believing that Trump is a serial rapist is a shining example of CommuDem menticide.
In regards to the trans kid crap, I remember seeing a video from a top graduating medical class I believe in New England. Maybe Boston, not really sure. Have had trouble finding it since youtube has probably hidden it away. Anyway, the woman giving the congratulatory speech straight up said, mask off, that they should all heavily push the trans kid stuff not because it'll help anybody through difficult times, but because it'll make them a lot of money. It was fucking sickening and proves exactly what conservatives have been saying about it for years.
As a conservative nationalist (German, not American though), the thought of liberalism and leftism fragmenting, deteriorating and imploding on itself is heartwarming.
As a libertarian nationalist (American lol ) I have to agree whole heartedly.
All across the west. Trudeau in Canada is the next far left lunatic to get flushed.
In the US, the sides can regroup and reform into a new coalition shockingly quickly. It just takes the right people to speak to the grassroots base and push the party in the right direction.
If you need an example, look no further than the US GOP. In 08, the old coalition was just dying. They had squandered all of their good will. By 12, it's was dead as a doornail and they were finally starting to get the message. In 16, DJT picked it up and forged it into something new. It was a little shaky at first, but by 24 it's a very strong, mostly united coalition with clear drives.
Now look at the left. In 16, their old coalition was dying. In 20 they got a reprieve because of the beersy bug and everyone felt buyer's remorse soon after. In 24, it's dead as a doornail and they're finally starting to get the message. So, the million dollar question is - Who or what is going to try and do something with the left in 24 and will it succeed?
Personally, my money is on the idea that by 28, the DNC establishment won't have had a real honest primary in 20 years. Won't be until 2032 that there's enough grassroots support to overthrow that system and give someone a chance. Hard to say for sure though.
Agreed but I, even as a conservative, desire an alternative that is focused on stuff like anti-trust and urban planning. It took a renegade like Trump to up end the old uniparty RINOs and if that didn't happen, there wouldn't have been anyone I wanted to vote for.
@@taliawtf6944 The actual meaning of classical "Liberalism" is basically the same thing as libertarianism. The "liberalism" you known in America is left-leaning social democracy.
The grift was "everyone thinks like us and you're on the wrong side of history and you'll go away soon". But there are times when we get to choose, and that choice is revealed to all, and the grift pops like a baby's snot bubble.
Election results.
Beer sales figures.
The box office.
I love it when the Lady of the Green Kirtle's song meets the Marsh-Wiggle of hard data.
Money talks.
Liberalism aka leftwing aka atheism aka paganism aka globalism aka Satanism has always been a grift.
Nice C.S. Lewis reference!
What is shocking now is you need to vote to the right to keep the values of the left from a few decades ago. The entire political spectrum moved to the left in a very significant way. The right of today is not the right of the 50s-60s-70s. I would have been a liberal then, but now i vote on the right.
The right of those past decades was superior to today's right. I actually think they were LESS right-wing, because they didn't automatically despise Democrats, and (in most cases) they could even rein in their "Commie-bashing" impulses. The John Birch Society was once an extremist group even in the eyes of Republicans, but now their presence is tolerated to an alarming degree.
It's not the right of the 80s, either.
The leftwing is still the same deranged people they were when they chose Saul to be king of Israel. They're still the same when they chose Barabus over Jesus. Democracy is a Satanic lie.
you are extremely dumb if that is shocking for you. every conservative is stuck in the past no matter were in history you put them. In 1960s conservatives morons voted to keep the values from the 1930s.
@@YouttubiThere has been a true realignment.
The most satisfying outcome to an election in my lifetime
It won't be for long...
As a conservative I want nothing more than the success of our country and I didn’t consider myself a republican or conservative until I as a White straight guy was villainized for no reason.It felt like they where shifting blame from their mistakes on to a different group.I also was called a nazi and evil when I started asking questions, that’s the issue with democrats right now.I hope we can chill the hell out on both sides and just be American again
Anyone who grew up with culturally Mexican people should not have been shocked that they are not down with woke. Had the Republicans started Spanish language programs the shift would have started a lot sooner.
We don't want u here either 🙄 trust me we'll be looking into ways to deport even supposed legal migrants. Maybe we'll find a slip up on paperwork years ago that proves they shouldn't have been here. America is for Americans
By most accounts I'm a lefty and many here would even consider me "woke" but I too detest the excesses of the left as much as I do the right, and the supposed "enlightened center".
A huge issue with modern liberals is the inability to truely empathize - they cannot understand why someone else would have different views or come to different conclusions to them. Too many confuse empathy with pity; too many pretentious and self-righteous white savior types out there trying to make up for percieved past injustices.
They are indeed out of touch - they think everyone is terminally online like them, feverishly keeping up to date with today's newest controversy. Hogwarts Legacy is a great example - I know loads of people who were stoked for it and utterly oblivious to any controversy and probably still are. The echo chambering (heh) of all these groups has become so complete, everyone is unaware that there are other competing worldviews out there.
Well said, as well as a lack of empathy, their mindset also creates such an insular bubble that they truly believe that the majority must think like they do, that's how you get the 'Bud light' situation, they just assume that everybody will be 'onboard', lol.
This is what I find most shocking about the left as well. I went to grad school in California. The sheer bloody-minded ignorance of the people in that department... with advanced degrees. I still can't account for it. You can disagree, but for heaven's sake, try to understand the other side?
The attitude towards men one is one that I've been saying for years now. What a lot of these progressives who blame men, belittle men, and exclude men don't realize is that there are women in that man's life that love him. Whether it's his mother, his wife, his sister, or his daughter, and when you disparage, belittle, or dismiss him based on his maledom, then you're alienating those women. They're not going to go "wow, that other woman is right. Female solidarity!", they're going to stick up and protect the man they love.
You talk about progressives attacking men and the only thing you can think about is how it affects women.
Have you considered that blaming, belittling and excluding men is cruel and evil? You make it sound like the only issue with attacking men is that it cost you female voters and if it did not it would be fine.
@@davidrossa4125@davidrossa4125 My guy, reading comprehension and subtext is not your forte, is it? We literally agree on the same thing but you're too busy trying to sound smart to understand that.
@@davidrossa4125 i think they were cutting straight to an angle that might mean something to progressives.
@@dannybonsai7102 If 50% of the population means nothing to progressives they don’t need to wonder why they loose.
Red pill moment for me was, for an assignment I had been handed specifically dealing with women's issues, I uncovered hard data pertaining to male suicide rates. I wanted to shift topics, which would have been fine considering the course was Brit lit, but my professor wouldn't allow it. She then insisted it was men's fault and women were most affected. A few days later I was in the library doing more research, and a featured article on a page I was called, "White Men Must be Stopped." The article was featured on Vox and called for the gen oc ide of w hite me n.
As a liberal, I can totally relate to this. I have long been frustrated with other liberals who became fixated on the wrong things.
I hope Liberals will take these data to heart, but I'm pretty sure they won't. I'm a college educated professional and I voted for Trump, because Liberalism has gone completely off the rails. There's no way I could even consider a Democrat because they don't stand for anything useful to me. You see, I'm one of those "Straight White Males" they all love to hate for what they think straight while males have done in some far, distant time.
Again, I'd like for sanity to return to American life, but I know it most likely won't.....
It can. If we work together.
@@jaredray7034 For a while anyway. Then there will be another wave of insanity...
Even if it had worked, winning through demographic change is disgustingly undemocratic
Nothing quite screams Democracry like directly appointing your presidential candidate without a primary, wanting to win the election by changing the rules and then scream that "democracy is on the ballot"
They lost the argument with Americans, so they decided to replace the electorate.
Give it 10 years, you'll be a narzeeeee like the rest of us.
Kiwis are famously herd animals, even going this far makes Echo practically a revolutionary by New Zealand standards.
So will we have to say "Zieg Heil Comrade?"
It doesn't help when you call people Nazi's and fascists. Especially when they had family survive a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Personally I don't want to vote for Republicans, but once I started hearing men can give birth, math is racist, etc I was done.
Not saying you're not right, but I don't recall anything about the left saying math is racist
@@ovo5228 then you are not paying attention. math is racist. being on time is racist. tax cuts are racist. self defense is racist. its all been said.
@HarryF-tz5fo
Don't forget, air conditioning is sexist.
@@HarryF-tz5fo also; milk is racist
@@HarryF-tz5foHow are all of the things that you noted "racist", or were you just being sarcastic?
17:20 - You clearly do not understand Americsn politics whatsoever. The 'infrastructure bill' was nothing but a grift for certain 'green energy' companies (crony capitalism) and didn't address inftastructure. Just like the 'inflation reduction act' actually INCREASED INFLATION.
Its called double-speak you know about it and I respect your views there. Why cant you see it here?
Obamacare reduced the overall quality of our health insurance and medicine in general. Just because something has 'become popular' doesnt make it good. The most popular aspect of Obamacare was no refusal for prior conditions and that could have been passed seperately into law without the Obamacare Debacle but the democrat majority refused.
Every single infrastructure project in the last decade under any leftwing gov in the west has just been embezzlement and nothing got built.
Most of the 'popularity' came from decisions made after it was clear it couldn't be removed wholesale to make it into something that could function in the interim.
@Triaxx2 Very well said
Agreed. I could have forgiven Obama much, but never Obamacare. That’s money out of every single one of my paychecks that I will never get back.
ACA doubled my insurance premium overnight. In exchange I, as a male, was now eligible for free abortions. 🤔
As a Classic Liberal/Libertarian Mexican the issues with progressivism from a Latino perspective, Democrats have embraced the Racial Theory and identity politics that create a collective identity according to someone's skin color. Still, with Latinos, there is a problem we are not a race but an ethnolinguistic group that encompasses white mixed Amerindians and black people. It also bases on historical racial issues that Anglo countries endured, LATAM had a different colonial history from The US. In contrast, we still had racial issues. Still, they were different and not as big as the US or the other English-speaking countries and this allowed the flourishing of mixed races like the mestizos and mullatos , who acknowledged we wouldn't exist without the Spanish and Portuguese whites, so the whole White people bad "logic" of democrats can feel foreign and only exclusive to Europeans and anglo countries to Latin-Americans.
Besides Latinos know Corruption and Political incompetency very well, with Neo-Liberal progressives or Lefies Socialists that make the whole identity political and social justice issues their whole ordeal when their country's economy is exploding or being at the edge of civil war and pretending that everything is alright, like what happened with Argentina with the Peronists before milei that makes women eights when their inflation was reaching the moon, or like what is happening right now here in Mexico when our congress was arguing over the rights of animals when cartels we're using car bombs against or police.
So when Kamala showed that was making the whole Wokeness and SJW stuff his Prioty over the Economy and security a lot of us knew it was just a smoke curtain to hide the problems democrats had created and had no intention to fix it.
The New York governor right now is sending out $500 to families and $300 to single people to stop inflation.
That's just how removed from reality the Governor is.
Brilliant!
Might as well give everyone a free pony while they're at it.
@InciniumVGC If she thought it would get her re-elected, she would.
Wow.
Nah, let them keep digging. Their ideas are nasty and destructive.
Not only nasty and destructive, they are downright evil.
This video implies that the Dems are somewhat naive, even benevolent, in their acceptance of the extreme behavior, but fails to mention the appalling censorship operation that came to light with the 'Twitter Files' investigation, and the subsequent vindictiveness targeted at Musk, that is still ongoing.
Then there's the lawfare aimed at Trump, and some of his associates, gleefully cheered on at all times by the 'left'.
Then there's the fake 'russian collusion' propaganda scheme, which, as far as coups go, made Jan 6 look like a disorganised picnic.
I see people from the 'left' here, stating that the 'woke' stuff is turning them off, that should be the least of it.
That last bit about the economics being set up for Trump to succeed is pretty laughable. No one is hiring anywhere near where I am, and this is the Christmas season when it's usually extremely busy. While inflation might be under control in terms of percentage year over year, what's actually needed is a deflationary cycle. People are beyond stretched thin at this point, and slower rises in prices aren't the fix. What may help Trump is if the regulation can finally be brought under control, and the economy itself can be unleashed from its pent-up state. The reality is in my entire lifetime there has not been a single good Democrat president on the economy except Clinton, and that had a lot to do with the tech boom he just happened to be around for and trade agreements that on future observation weren't nearly as helpful as once thought. Plus after the first two years he was essentially neutered by the 94 Republican wave that took over American politics. Anything he wanted to get done had to be done on their terms. So yeah, Democrats and Rinos have been proven to be good at one thing: spending as much money as possible...
The trick of course to the rampant over regulation, is to ensure you don't swing too hard back in the other direction. You have to strip away the onerous regulations that make it difficult for new companies to flourish in competition while making sure not to strip out the ones that actually keep those industries honest. IE food must be made of food, good regulation. Your food must be hand inspected per piece to ensure it is food, or run through this machine worth 8 times your entire business that the large corporation can afford and you can't, bad regulation.
Clinton was another degenerate liberal hack and a damn rapist and child molester.
As a "true liberal" living in the US (I'm not even sure if that makes me a "moderate" at this point by US definitions), who formerly organized in liberal-turned progressive political spaces, this is the most honest, precise, balanced nuance take on why the Democrats are collapsing that I have encountered.
It is better than any political pundits on television right now. It has clarity of self-reflection the Democrats and Progressives do not, and lacks the smugness of the conservative pundits over the recent presidential win.
Thank God there are still people making videos like this.
Thanks.
Let's not pretend the democrats/liberals weren't smug themselves.....🤣
@@philobeddoe8342 Oh yeah, it's just two different flavors. The Dems (not Leftists) have that "I'm Smarter Than You" type of academic smugness draped over fundamental insecurity, and the conservatives have more of the "Schoolyard Bully Wins and Rubs It in Your Face" proto-sadist way. lol. Leftists have "Moral Id Pol Superiority" smugness. It's fatiguing at times bc it makes you not want to listen to anyone.
Nonsense, it's a puff piece, that fails to mention the appalling censorship operation that was set up by the Democrats, revealed during the 'Twitter files' investigation, and the subsequent, childishly vindictive, ongoing smear campaign that has been levelled at Musk for exposing it.
Then there's the unprecedented, 'novel' lawsuits directed at Trump and his Associates, which even some Democrat Pundits are now admitting are completely politically motivated.
Yes, the 'woke' stuff is bad, but their other activities are borderline evil. .
Mass immigration depresses wages, this I think the populist left and populist right agree on. Where the disagreements arise are in socio-cultural areas. As someone who highly values cultural homogeneity and societal cohesion as well as an ordered society, the lefts cultural outlook on drugs, marriage, and race is not something I can get behind.
The results of liberalism speak for themselves. Turns out the conservatives were right the whole time. Unfortunately there's no going back so enjoy the progress.
As conservatives lead us down the road to fascism and unlimited corporate and governmental control over the citizenry.
@@Nicksonian Rtrd.
@Nicksonian hate to break it to you but we crossed that line years ago.
@@Nicksonian You sound brainwashed to all hell "Governmental control over the citizenry" , all the while liberals propose the ban on weapons, the expansion of the government, and the state emforced ban on freedom of expression, as long its the opposite party!
@@Nicksonian You don't even know what fascism is and your ilk are the biggest champions of corporate ideology.
The biggest issue I have with this video is that you're not necessarily dealing with liberals. Liberalism is its own unique school of thought. There are names in faces that go along with liberal ideological theory like Locke and Rousseau. A liberal concept that even conservatives agree with is the concept of a universal principle. For example, theft is wrong no matter who is doing it. A universal principle that theft is wrong, end of discussion. The universal principle is a liberal idea.
What is happening with American Democrats and left-wing parties in other western nations is that they have been infiltrated in influenced by communist theory and power politics.
For a real and true liberal it may be confusing to see people on the left side of the aisle supporting Palestine, but if you understand communist power politics principles it makes perfect sense. They are judging the world through the ethics and processes of communism. That anything that happens to the powerful, especially at the hands of the less powerful, is right and righteous. That the proletariat is always morally justified in whatever they do, especially if it's against the bourgeoisie. Under their power politics framework the Palestinians have less power than the israelism the Israelis have more power.
I know the general reaction to that sort of information and criticism is to shriek right wing talking point and shut down any and all thought and conversation, but actually look into communist theory and tell me I'm wrong. If liberals in Western nation want to win again they have to deal with the communists
American "liberalism" isn't the same as classical liberalism. It's actually left-leaning social democracy but they call it liberalism because the American public don't like left-wing poltitics and a party calling themselves the Social Democrats or Labour party (like they do in the UK, Australia and NZ) would never get elected
I was too young to pay attention to Obama’s 2008 campaign, but from what people say, it was a very unifying campaign. He was for the little man against the big machine of government and Wall Street. It didn’t turn out that way, he wasn’t much different than Bush except superficially. By the end of his time as president, my impression was that he thought he was better than us. The little people needed lording over. They stole the nomination from Bernie and got Trump elected because he was giving them the middle finger.
I don’t pretend to be smart enough to know how the economy works, but why is it that it started really going under Trump and not the 8 years of Obama? You say he inherited it and got to reap the benefits Maybe so, but I think you can argue that Democrat policies hinder economic growth. Maybe that hindrance is meant to pay out later with better returns, but that’s not how the electorate thinks. Both times in my life a democrat has been elected president, the price of my gas went up. That’s a huge deal to most people.
I seriously considered voting against Trump after 2020, but the democrats had gotten even worse on freedom of speech, gun rights, and covid made them into fledgling authoritarians. I could not vote for that party this time around. Trump’s messages really resonate with people. He’s working with Elon who let me say what I want on twitter and is actually trying to explore space. He partnered with RFK. Maybe he’s a bit eccentric, but he points out a lot of good things wrong with the health of our nation. Trump 2024 was Obama 2008. He is basically Bill Clinton from 1992. The left went insane and I won’t vote for them until they figure their problems out. I want individual freedoms. Neither party is very good at working for those, but the republicans (unfortunately) are better right now.
Which is ironic because under Obama race relations degraded the most they had in 80 years.
You wanna know what? Your uncertainty about cause and effect in regard to economic policies makes you a lot smarter than the people who confidently diagnose who deserves credit and blame for certain outcomes.
I was a financial adviser for close to a decade and got completely smoked in the 2008 financial crisis, before eventually washing out. The more informed I got, the more I questioned my previous beliefs. The gas price thingvis unbelievably complicated, but it can be traced back to Bush 1 and Clinton. They both lifted restrictions on the commodities market. Investment in oil futures was heavily restricted up until the 2000s. Allowing big banks to create a speculative futures market in oil created wild instability. It completely undermined the supply and demand standard that we have always applied to raw natural resources.
Bush 2 deserves his share of the blame for the financial crisis, but he is also the last president that allowed the doj to prosecute corporations and executives for their egregious crimes. Obama and Eric Holder set the precedent of non-prosecution aggreements that were supposedly meant to minimize economic harm. Believing you don't know the correct answer makes you smarter than most ppl.
@RustCole01 I don’t see how any of them know what they’re doing on the economy. They’re probably just trying to short term benefit their donors and lobbyists.
Post iraq, I think people wanted to feel clean again. In the lead up to Obama 08, I read articles that described him as a souffle (as in, short on substance). I think there were a raft of politicians globally who were unserious. Trudeau. Clown. Ardern. Clown. Kevin Rudd. Utter clown. He had his throat slit so Julia Gillard could be installed. The UK has descended into getting a new PM every two weeks. If the public wants a new toy, then maybe you get people who aren't principled and serious. Who don't have the intellectual seriousness to not slide into corruption or authoritarianism.
Obama was a bit of an accident. The establishment DNC were all tarred by Iraq and I think he rose after the fall of republican Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan was married to Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine in Star Trek). She divorced him after he tired to get her to do stuff in public. So Obama rose to power due to one of his opponents being a pervert. I think that shows. When he hectored Black men for not feeling Kamala, you thought "this guy is a politician. How are his instincts so bad?". If Obama just got lucky, then it would explain why he could get his messaging horribly wrong.
(we live in a stupid era. Mayor Pete ran for president. Beto O'Rourke tried. He was comical enough to climb on top of tables at bars and try to deliver speeches)
The real issue was the economy was imploding while the US was bogged down in a nasty war in Iraq. The real issues in modern America go back to 2007-8. It was then that the Colledge campuses shifted further to the left for the first time since Vietnam. while Iraq was never as large scale as Vietnam culturally Bush unpopularity helped to solidify the normalcy of overtly bias against Republicans and Conservatives in the "elite" prior to that there was an expected level of "neutrality"
The acceptance of overt bias is demonstrated that the sponsored personality cult of Obama. Like him getting a Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after being elected and having literally done nothing to get it.
"Splashy tax-cuts." Hah. I'd happily take those from either party--much, much more happily than nanny-state, non-optional health insurance. Stop telling me how I should be taken care of and leave me the resources to do it myself.
The main problem of Liberal parties all over the world is that they are not only incredibly illiberal but that they are also indistinguishable from the Left/Green/Progressive parties. The Liberal party in my country (The Netherlands) fits this description and their only aim seems to be to take away freedoms away for the indigenous people (including the old (often historical) migrant groups (in our case Surinames, Antillians, Indonesians, Chinese, refugees from Eastern Europe and so on) while opening to border to the dark Middle Ages.
I despise Liberal parties (and I consider myself to be a liberal on most (social) issues (live and let live and all that) but I fear these insufferable self-righteous nihilists and zealots lost me aeons ago).
There is no difference. There never has been a difference. Leftwing equals degeneracy and godlessness.
One thing the Right under Trump is doing well is promoting big picture ideas that appeal to most everyone - ex. security and economic prosperity. The left has to balance so many disparate, sometimes conflicting coalitions and concepts that messaging becomes confused, contradictory or (as exemplified by Harris' messaging during her presidential run) so vague as to be virtually meaningless. Much harder to unite a coalition with those headwinds.
Perhaps it is because they don't like facing real issues.
@@flowermeerkat6827 Define real issues? Because when you're constantly worried where your next meal is coming from, you don't have time to think about 'real issues' like how someone else in another part of the world is feeling.
The Left is essentially only united in the hatred and urge of destroying White, Christian Western Civilization. Without that “Big Bad” they turn on each other. The Dems tried to appeal to both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict as to not to lose the Jewish vote/donors and not lose the Muslim and their aloes vote. When you try to please everyone you please no one and that was one of the reasons Kamala lost Michigan because the Muslim population around Detroit turned on her and the Dems by going third party.
@@Triaxx2border and food insecurity are precisely the real issues that the career politicians want to ignore, and so use made up problems like transgenderism to distract people from. If the voters are fighting over who uses what bathroom, they’re not agreeing we need to close the border and bring back factory jobs.
@@Triaxx2 according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, food, water, and shelter are the most base issues one can get, hence they are 'real issues'. Safety and security goes next, then love and belonging, before going to self-esteem and self-actualization. The Right is focusing on the bottom three layers, which a lot of people are struggling with if votes are anything to go by, while the Left only focuses on the top two. This divide is exactly why a lot of these 'real issues' around DEI are getting throw to the wayside and people move right: they don't matter while the base layers aren't being met.
They failed to account for integration because they don't believe in integration, they believe that cultures should stay separate, and that's why they get all upset about "cultural appropriation".
It's not only that men don't want to be part of the literature scene, the scene is actively hostile towards them. When you are told that your point of view is no longer marketable, and we are going to go with someone more diverse. Why would you continue down that path?
This is pretty common in a lot of liberal spaces, if your told over and over that your viewpoint has no worth, your going to find someplace else where your opinion does matter.
I think the issue with the girl boss is that the people who write them don't seem to understand what makes their OG counterparts like Luke for instance in Star Wars, or Aragorn in the LotR interesting.
They see the trappings of the sci-fi and fantasy universes and don't understand that magic/"space wizards" doesn't mean you can just do whatever you like with the characters. That there has to be a verisimilitude, that Rey needed to actually go on a journey. Maybe they didn't have to ruin Luke in order to make Rey great it wasn't necessary etc.
Echo, don't call them liberals, they are not liberal. Call them what they are: Progressive socialists
Finally someone else gets it. They are very illiberal people following an illiberal ideology while wearing a liberal skin suit.
where's the socialism tho
They aren't progressive, or socialist.
@@BufusTurbo92 Socialism doesn't exist if ever existed at all.
@@dramaticwords and you're in luck. Otherwise you'd envy Venezuelans and Cubans
I’m very impressed. This video is a cogent critique of American progressivism, created by a Kiwi. Most Americans couldn’t find New Zealand on a map.
HEY!!! That hurt.
I know where New Zealand is. Tom Brady and his Patriots made us all proud of that place!
You mean Middle Earth? 😂
It's the little hangy offy bit over by Australia. No, not that one, the other one.
It's not on any map. Not any real ones anyway :)
What's a "map"? 😏
I have long considered myself a Lockean classical liberal. I endorse this video.
Liberalism lost me 8 years ago and during 2020, the summer of love and those 'peaceful', non-flammable protests reminded me of my wise decision. Trump is the future and let's see that kind of common sense worldwide.
As a leftist anarchist living in Portland, Oregon in 2020, I'm with you. I am now a conservative leftugee who started a family in Oklahoma. I saw riots firsthand that the media said weren't happening. It made me grow a brain real fast.
@christopherkelley1664 God Bless you and your like-minded kin. It takes dedication to build and weakness and ego to destroy. Keep on building. Thanks for the uplifting comment! 🙏🏽 It gives me hope.
@@christopherkelley1664 I grew up on the Island of Guam, but have lived first in Alaska, and now in Oklahoma for years. Go back 40 years ago, and I dreamed of living in California. That has all changed, and I feel privileged to live in Oklahoma now. It is a place of refuge and sanity compared to other areas of the country. And I raised a great family here who are happy, well-adjusted, and rational adults. The modern left loves to trash Oklahoma...I still see it often in the comments sections. It pleases me greatly when I hear a leftist say they'd never live here. No tearing down of traditions, no attempt to put down or emasculate men, no divisive agendas designed to separate us into groups. Oklahoma City is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country...yet we get along just fine. I wish more places were like this.
@@MarcusBP The city is sensibly segregated - people like to live among their own, but that doesn't mean there isn't also harmony
@@christopherkelley1664 well said!
My whole extended family voted Republican in 1980....after 100 years voting Democrat. The party left us.
Not just you. They left the whole country behind.
You are not alone.
The democrats were sane until about 2008. Eversince they started preaching hate against white males (around 2015), I knew the dem party was in trouble.
Personal, individual rights is a Liberal concept. The problem isn't Liberalism, the problem is that the Left has moved left of Liberal values. Classic Western Liberalism is now right of the Left. The Left's concept of Diversity is demonstrably exclusive and divisive, contemptuous of Liberalism. Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic community values are downright right-wing conservative reactionary. Save Liberalism, give up on Progressiveness.
I think this was a well thought out video. Gave me some things to think about. Good job.
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.”
Proverbs 16:18-19 NIV
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The woke movement has destroyed the democratic party.
I'm an old conserva-dem of the Blue Dog persuasion. You've made an excellent list, and I will refer others here to help illustrate much of what I saw leading into this election. I didn't vote for trump, though once upon a time, I was a republican. But while I really dislike a lot of what the far left has become, I will always choose sanity over idiocy and dementia. But as a latino man, I can say that this attack on men in general, and the smug condescension of so many in "liberal bastions" like Hollywood, I can say with all honesty, that this line of attack is not only not helpful in the least, but its also extremely hurtful.
I've spent my whole life as a man who will never be ashamed of that fact, and in fact, am proud of the man I became. I work in a women dominated field, and most of my friends are women because of that. I've been the guy who they call when they need a designated driver (I don't drink myself), needed a guy they can trust implicitly to ensure they can escape an unsafe situation, and of course... the guy they call when they need heavy boxes lifted for moving (maybe not quite as much prestige there, but hey, I do what I can). I'm the guy who they know they can call at any hour, and have, knowing I'll head out into the dead of night to come help. That's my honor as a man. And I will never apologize for it, and will never be spoken down to about it. Yet, that's what the far left has become. It truly is more destructive than anything. And it really cripples a key element of the general left wing coalition, to which I am a hair left of center.
And I'm sorry... but I am not on board with gender ideology and never will be. I have been a historic ally of the LGBT community, and remember fighting against prop 8 down in California. I am totally down for any man or woman to love who they love so long as everyone is an adult and is consenting. I remember my own epiphany way back when, "oh... gays and lesbians are just normal people who happen to love people of the same sex! What's wrong with that? I can't really think of a thing..." It seems so simple now, but in hindsight, it was like a flash of wisdom that I was proud to have unlocked. But what scares me, and the three gay friends I have, is the explosion of "gender ideology" that pushes basic biology aside, has no real core tenets, as the "rules" are always in flux, and has this new "queer" element, that I at first thought was satire... I thought that because to my gay friends and me, "queer" was a cruel slur a la "smear the queer" at recess... It was NOT something they wanted to be called. And beyond that, the people who identify that way now, are often not same-sex attracted in the first place. To an older guy like me, it sure looks like a hairstyle and a fashion statement that goes out of its way to spit in the face of "we in the LGBT community are just normal people!" The Q element seems to be hellbent on destroying that image, and as it has, support for the community as a whole has been DROPPING!
I've known only two transsexual women in my life. They both transitioned in the early 2000's out of country. And with the one I knew before and after her surgery, I knew something was different. At first, I thought he was gay and closeted. But I remember when he came out, thinking "ohhhh! Okay, she makes sense to me now!" Even before the explosion of people as identifying as trans-GENDER, which to me, is utterly different as so many state that they don't need "dysphoria" which to me and the two trans women I know, both suffered from extremely. But I do remember watching the effect it had on the one trans woman's family. I had worked with his wife, and had met his two daughters. I learned that life can be pretty cruel to everyone, and that sometimes, even despite our best intentions, to live as our "authentic selves," other people are hurt. That doesn't make anyone in the equation a bad person. Not for living in pain with the condition, or being hurt that the marriage and life that she thought she'd have, and their daughters as well, was now gone in a way she never anticipated. I'm recalling this story, because I don't believe that this far left mindset of living as your authentic self somehow transcends everything and everyone else, including your loved ones, is healthy. And I really do not like this rash of selfishness that decrees, "I may be married and have kids, but I'm going to be a woman now, and if my family doesn't understand and support me, I'm leaving them because they're the bigots." It's a celebration of self, which is okay to a point. But to me, when you make a vow to your spouse, it means that your life becomes "our lives," and when your children are born, should you have them, it really becomes "their lives." I'm over simplifying it, but only a little. My point is, one person's "authentic life" should not be paid for in broken promises and hurting children.
And when it comes to those who decide that their sense of "self" means that they are no longer part of the actual human experience by claiming they are somehow neither male or female, or use those with rare genetic disorders as sword and shield to justify their own extreme behaviors, I can only roll my eyes with disappointment. Man or woman, you can live your life how you like, do what you do, and hopefully have some fun and some love along the way. But the second you start trying to dictate how I need to perceive you, under threat of accusing me of things that I am not, you've lost me, and honestly, most other people. You do you. But I'm gonna do me. So please don't think that placing a semantic minefield around yourself is going to make me want to navigate it for you, when I have my own problems.
I can see I'm really just rambling, and only using more words than you did to sum up what you did so much better than what I am capable of... but I'll end it with this. I worry the far left has gone so far, that its rejected skepticism, credulity, and has gone beyond the "for the good of all of us," full circle into "celebration of self above all." Which is quite the trick. The far left needs to maybe listen to people towards the center, and people towards the center right. Because like it or not, there are so many normal people who don't actually want to fight or put you through purity tests to be their friend. No matter what, we're all on this slab of rock between two oceans and two nations. So maybe we should shake off the far left and the far right lunacy, and see what we can do together. But hey, what do I know? I'm a random yak on the internet...
Appreciated the thoughts!
Thank you for that!! You've made my experience clearer for me.
I have family members who have become wokist drones and because I love them and don't want to lose them I just nod and say: "uh-huh, right."
There's not much room for a 60's 'classic lib.' in 2000's Portland.
Except Trump is not "far right" nor are like 99% of his supporters. Trump's positions on almost everything are in line with what a Democrat in 1990 would agree with. There effectively is no "far right" in this country, this is just a strawman fabrication created by the far left wackos that you claim to be against.
Very interesting and well done, thanks.
They've been incapable of grasping the concepts of projection and irony for years now, to the point that it's at dangerously high levels of pure, unfiltered cringe.
Inflation is going down like a snail running a marathon
@@dillancartmel9074 You don't expect deflation, do you? Inflation is already down to about 2% in the US, just as it was before the pandemic. Unless we get another great depression, prices won't be going down
Sounds like you want to conserve the values of classical liberalism. Therefore vote conservative 😊
7:25 there’s a meme that goes around right wing circles that’s something along the line of “girls want a man that reads but all the men that read are frighteningly right wing”
If Obamacare is so great why are we still talking about the high cost of health insurance. As predicted it wasn’t a solution but rather made private insurance more expensive.
Tax cuts are like sugar rushes? Are you serious?!
Say what you want, it's an entertaining time to be alive.
Ain't it always?
Classic Liberal here. The Democrats of today are strongly at odds with the values and political ideology of Classical Liberal thought. There are very few people left who are actually Liberal remaining in the party, mostly older who have stuck around mostly because of inertia, and every year more of them are becoming Independents. Something is seriously wrong when Conservatives are far more tolerant of people they disagree with than the party of "Liberals". An actual Liberal is willing to fight (at least to the extent of voting) for peoples right to do things they disagree with. I might be personally Pro Life, but I will your right to Pro Choice. I might be an atheist, but will support your right to follow your creed. I support your right to say things I disagree with, but will not accept restrictions on what I say because you disagree with them. Yes I have limits on the extent, but those limits are mostly around causing non-consensual harm or limiting someones right to choose.
I was a liberal but that was a long time ago
A liberal is someone who believes in liberal values, such as freedom of speech, rule of law and capitalism.
@@earlofdoncaster5018yes I know and I am not one anymore
@@earlofdoncaster5018freedom of speech was destroyed in my native country of the United states which still is the best in the world while liberals stood by and watched that’s why im not a liberal anymore classical or otherwise
@@Jaco059 In history, abandoning those values for arbitrary authoritarianism has not gone well.
@@earlofdoncaster5018 that was true maybe in the 90s. Not today.
I come from an immigrant family that came here legally and assimilated.
cheap Gas , cheap Eggs, cheap Guns !
Mass Deportations!
I love It ❤
I voted for Trump 3x 😊
The problem with “liberalism”, and I here use that to mean what it is commonly taken to in the modern US, is it seeks remove all responsibility from everyone and therefore all agency and legitimacy. Authority without responsibility is tyranny, responsibility without authority is slavery. To be a citizen means freely accepting both for yourself at least. Not blaming others or expecting the state to do everything for you.
7:21 I have friends in these spaces and friends who are not. With my friends who are not, I can have an actual discussion on politics where we both disagree. With my friends who are, any hint of straying from progressive thought instantly makes them angry and they call me a bigot.
None of what you’re describing is Liberalism, neither the classical liberalism that gave the word its name and meaning, nor even the more recent American liberalism which was the rebranding of the first phase of American progressivism that still believed in things like free speech, a basic free market, etc.. What you’re describing as liberalism is better described as modern progressivism, or leftism, or even socialism lite. Do you think Elon Musk considers himself a conservative? Or RFK, Jr, or Joe Rogan? No, what brought them all to join Donald Trump was individual liberty, whether economic, political, religious, etc., as well as the idea that people should be judged as individuals, not members of a group. Indeed, if you actually read writings of the American Left, you’ll find them attacking “liberals” as much as they attack anyone else, because they too recognize liberalism as antithetical to their purposes.
I think your essay would have been more compelling if you had picked a better name for the group you were describing. It got jarring enough that I had to stop at 12:00. I’m going to assume from your other essays that you actually don’t see yourself as a progressive, so I don’t think the title actually works, since you, a “Liberal” are trying to talk to progressives, who believe in fundamentally different things than you do.
It is good to see that you are learning and trying to spread this knowledge to your fellows, mostly because we don't want the conservatives to gain total power, otherwise they will become just as corrupt as your party has become recently.
Ideological competition and the ideological free market. Are important to the freedom of all of humanity. It is best that we remember. That is the best idea that wins. And the best ideas can come from anywhere. So, I hope that in the coming years, liberals and the democratic party will regain a sense of having better ideas.
Fascinating and entertaining video as always, Echo!❤
Seeing how the left has devolved and how the right slowly cedes ground to them has made me go full conservative (separate from right wing) and want to install a monarchy
Do you mean the left cedes ground to the right?
@ not even close. The right is to conserve culture. The left is a gradient of change. One conservative is a static force and any yielding to left ideas is a loss. Whereas the left can operate on a gradient of change
@@anival9576 no, I mean the right cedes ground to the left. Example, if you were to ask anyone from the early 2000's how many genders there are, they'd say two. Now we have a large portion of the population what a woman is they can't answer.
Toxic masculinity is not stale. It's both very rare and important to deal with on a personal level, not at a societal level. Same goes for toxic femininity.
It is not, but as with many other labels, watering it down by applying it without forethought causes it to become stale.
We need MORE toxic masculinity
I love your quote...[they were unable to build the house so they micromanaged moving the furniture]. Yeah! What they thought was important was the only thing that mattered.
Somewhat amusing that, while the video was surprisingly objective, you still had to lay the groundwork for crediting Biden with the pending boom economy. The only "natural upswing" in an economy is when policies change and confidence rises. There would be no upswing if Biden remained or Kamala took over.
In 2003/2004 former US Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) wrote a book called, 'A National Party No More,' and what he wrote about the Democrat Party then was true then and is still true today.
Thank you Chamberlain. I thought I was a liberal, if centrist, but I might be a Libertarian.
I used to vote Democrat. I moved away from the party because it has become clear that they are now the Military Industrial Complex. I have a ton of different complaints, but that mighr be the biggest.
It's wild anyone would even need to be told any of this. It's common sense.
I admire your integrity. This is a wonderful analysis of liberalism’s current woes.
The ACA might be doing ok in the polls now, but only because people don't connect the current insurance problems to the ACA that worsened them. The pollsters shouldn't ask people how they feel about the ACA that was passed 11 years ago. They should ask if they like the insurance plan they have purchased from the insurance marketplace/exchanges. I bet the answer to *that* question will be a resounding, if not universal, NO.
You could always have the 'true' socialised healthcare. I've been waiting for a physiotherapy appointment for ten months, that's how good that is.
@@pippip8744We have similar wait times here too, except in addition to waiting for months, we then have to pay hundreds of dollars for a 15 minute visit.
I hope you can solve your medical issue soon!
@@pippip8744Yeah but that wasn't what was being pushed by the Obama administration.
LINO: Liberal In Name Only
Here you spent the time giving the liberal cause the answer. What will liberals say? They’ll call you a bigot and double down.
I feel like me and a lot of other people regardless of upbringing before 2008 were pretty in the middle. A lot of us just simply held firm to the belief of live and let live, and other normal values like treat each other well and if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything etc, but the left put it in first, dumped the clutch and peeled out so far left we all ended up red before we realized it. We all miss jokes. We miss not feeling like we're walking on eggshells. We miss all being needed in one role or another, and appreciated for it be it in society or physically like just a tall guy helping a shorter guy reach something and vice versa.
And though you are more in touch than most liberals, you still have things to learn to biridge the disconnect.
Not at all sanctimonious
@EchoChamberlain not at all.
Literally.
3:51 I have not heard a single good joke from Colbert.
I'm sorry about your condition. Hopefully, you'll be cured during the next 4 years.
Remember: Liberalism is in direct contradiction to progressivism.
You are part of the problem. Immigrants are not assimilating into Liberalism (it will work this time, trust me). It's just that the politics within a multicultural country are plural, shifting and complex. The Liberals you criticize were wrong to think immigrants would mostly vote for them and you are wrong that there is some unifying liberalism to assimilate into. Both are nice and simple delusions and both are dangerous.
I guess pro choice wasn't enough
punishing an innocent 3rd party for the mistakes of 2 others was always a bad idea and wrong.
well, it seems to be a true Democrat now you must perform ab0rtions yourself or you're an Austrian artist's fan
Pro Choice seems fine enough. However, most European countries allow abortion, but most will only allow up to about 12-20 weeks. This is typically informed by debate and viability balanced against moral concerns.
Ask a US 'liberal' where they think that line should be. They generally won't say, even when pushed for an answer.
I don't like the practice but I also appreciate that the 94% that are purely elective are typically the result of immature people making bad decisions and ideally they shouldn't be parents to begin with.
Those who think it's all good right up till birth are disturbed. That's what they mean when they 'won't say'. Such is the fear of the liberal that they might say a perfectly arguable 20 weeks and be burned at the stake for being off message.
Don’t confuse liberalism with democrats or leftists.
Orange man is the most 'liberal' candidate on the national field, with perhaps some exceptions with RFK or Tulsi or others that have been forced to flee their party.
According to the media, black people are still victims of American society. Meanwhile, whether it's the VA or civilian medical facilities, I get care from black medical staff that range from the least accredited nurses to physicians and surgeons.
All are pleasant and highly competent.
It all seems like a giant disconnect from the rhetoric.
Once again, pure brilliance. Mr IQ
Not a single liberal will pay attention to this.
For being so racist, sexist and homophobic, it's interesting how the Republicans are getting more diverse with poc, gays, and women voting red. Kinda makes you think that bashing white straight men didn't just bother them, but everyone else was too, and Liberals just do not care.
Not quite in the case of gays they got alienated by being associated with trans and for the lgbtq+ movement accepting and defending child predators openly.
This lead many, not all gays to leave and move towards the right.