Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "This Was My Wake-Up Call About the Dangers of the Left | Jillian Michaels" video.

  1. Konstantin Kisin nailed it. Triggernometry. "The Cobra Effect. Why Good Intentions Don't Solve Problems." Just like the old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson figured out same thing, different angle: JP said compassion doesn't scale well. Ben said he's a communist, locally. Explanation: Ben like me, doesn't like to use gov't money for social problems. Problematic. But the thing is, communism is about compassion. That's why it appeals to so many women especially, they are higher in some forms of compassion, they are also dependent on men. So it makes sense in a family setting for males to share resources with females, who have offspring, need help. So Ben is "communist" locally like me: happy to share resources with family, particularly wife. Sensible, compassionate, based on family, based on reciprocity. But Dr. Peterson noticed something about this compassion, which is at the heart of leftism: it doesn't scale well. That's an odd, counter-intuitive thing to notice, but quite true. It means, that's the problem with communism: it has good intentions, it is based on sharing and compassion, but when the government redistributes your money for you, this is highly highly problematic, often simply screws up society. It interferes with normal pattern of inter-dependence of men and women in a committed marriage, with family. It replaces the man in the home with the gov't, as Thomas Sowell has pointed out, for decades. This misguided compassion of the political left actively destroys the natural family, by replacing men in the home with the Substitute Husband: Government. The reason people don't usually notice is that this leftist impulse seems good at first, because it's based on compassion. All normal humans want compassion, particularly helping women with children is natural and good. So at first glance, leftism & it's emphasis on compassion hit the right notes in the song. But on closer examination, as Dr. Peterson pointed out, this just doesn't scale well. But as Ben Shapiro points out, it actually scales just fine, with proper rules, within a committed marriage and family, where the role of the dad is respected. And that's the problem with Kamala Harris & DEI: it uses government to actively discriminate against men, discriminate in favor of women. This idea has been tested. It mostly failed. Thomas Sowell talks a lot about why the left's "compassion" failed black America. This worked for a long time in black America. But the problematic thing: In the 1960s black Americans had a higher rate of family formation, than white Americans. Then the government stepped in, forgot the wisdom of Ronald Reagan: "The most terrifying sentence in the English language is, I'm from the government, I'm here to help." President Johnson in the 1960s wanted the black American vote for Democrats. Black Americans historically were always Republican voters, since the time of Lincoln. In the 1960s the American black vote flipped to Democrat, because they bribed black voters with gov't money: "The Great Society" forerunner to DEI. The problem with this compassion is it focussed on helping single women....regardless of their marital status....just like DEI. This incentivized black women to stay single, make poor choices, not get married, not keep dad around. The results of that social experiment were disastrous. Compassion doesn't scale well. And now Kamala Harris wants to use DEI to do to White Americans, what Johnson did to Black Americans. No thanks. Curious thing from Wall Street Journal recently: For the first time since the 1960s, young black men are starting to vote Republican, just like young white men are starting to vote Republican...while young white women & young black women are voting Democrat. What's going on? I think you can figure it out....
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