Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Would Bill Maher Turn on Democrats If He Knew This? (Pt. 2) | Bill O’Reilly | MEDIA | Rubin Report" video.

If Jimmy Dore applied the same disdain for government intervention, domestically, that he feels for our foreign policy, he'd be a libertarian. He KNOWS they're screwing things up around the world, based on lies and misinformation, but he can't see that the same exact people are screwing things up at home in the same way and for pretty much the same reasons. Jimmy's half-smart. He sees through the military- and media-industrial complexes, but what he doesn't see is the reason things are screwed up is because of too MUCH intervening by the state. He wants MORE intervention. Totally wrong-headed, there. Is there some diverse Space Jesus who knows all, sees all, and will run everything by diktat? No. But when you believe there is (like a religion), you're just setting yourself up for tyranny and social and economic ruin.
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Back when everybody believed the Earth was the center of the universe, smart people like Bill Maher constructed no end of complicated theories for the observed motions of the stars and planets, because a simple explanation based on their theory didn't exist. Rather than questioning the original assumptions, they just came up with more and more fanciful explanations. This is where Bill Maher is at. He has all these deep-seated beliefs about the proper role and scope of central government that are simply wrong. So when government intervention proves toxic - as it always does, eventually - people like Maher scramble to find explanations that align with their world view, and they just end up giving more power to the same clowns who messed things up to begin with.
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"Woke" is the natural consequence of "moderate liberalism." Bill Maher doesn't see his own hand in creating this mess, but he led the charge on so many "The government needs to save us!" issues in the past, and the madness he can finally see is the result. This is what happens when you sign your life over to bureaucrats. It's not the bureaucrats' fault. It's the nature of bureaucracy and enormous and powerful hierarchies answerable to no one, with growth and expansion imperatives common to ALL life, but which have nothing to do with the original mandate or purpose of the institution. I just want to tell all the half-smart people like Bill Maher that the "slippery slope" crowd, who warned about this, should be taken seriously. and that the false premise leading to the absurdities they can finally see is their faith and trust in massively expanded government. "Who put guys like Fauci in charge?" YOU did. You gave 'em an inch and they took a mile. But liberals never see the intrinsic flaws in concentrating power. For them, it's always "We just need the right guy to have all the power." No. It's the concentration of power that means it only takes one or two bad eggs to screw things up for EVERYbody.
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"Moderate" liberals are what brought us to this point, where institutions of government wield far too much power. The predictable occupation of top spots by ideologues, power-trippers and corrupt/corruptible people is why we're being oppressed by government institutions at darn near every turn. The proper attitude toward government is "They fix nothing and break everything." It's bad enough when it's restricted to its constitutionally delineated role. But at least then, there's less for the people to keep track of, Congress to oversee, and much harder to hide the pay-to-play schemes that crop up in EVERY arena in which the federal government weighs in. I hope Bill's right about "big-corporate" failing. When a nation slides into socialism/fascism, things have usually gone too far for recovery by the time the "private-public partnerships" reveal the full measure of their toxicity and turn the corporations into powerless pawns of the state. So far, it's been of mutual benefit. Money to politicians --> rules that favor big over small. But due partly to the Internet and partly to traditional values that STILL permeate the vast majority of a hard-working populace, the USA has a good chance of righting the ship. But I'm not sure there's any hope for "social democracies" of Europe.
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