Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Is This the Issue That Finally Causes Bill Maher to Break with the Left? | DM CLIPS | Rubin Report" video.

  1.  @TheSophisticatedSavage  His audiences are really left and really low-information. It's annoying. Imagine a crowd that clapped every time someone said "And God Said..." Same thing.
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  2. You appartly weren't listening very closely to Jordan Peterson. He's not against helping the poor. He's just against federal anti-poverty programs imposed nation-wide in one-size-fits-all fashion by a HUGE, out-of-touch and arrogant bureaucracy. Charity starts at home and filters out from there. If you want a kinder nation, you act locally and pray that the feds never get involved, because they will pervert it or they will be perverted by the most powerful special interests. It's not about not being compassionate towards the weak and underprivileged. It's about saying "No" to huge, centralized institutions "corporatizing" the act of human generosity. If all the liberals who VOTE for big spending would just open up their wallets and help as many people as they CAN, and be SATISFIED with that, and maybe influence others to be similarly kind and generous, the world would be a much better place. Instead, they vote to MAKE everyone pay for whatever charity some stuffed-shirts in Washington, in collaboration with the Bill Gateses of the world decide should take over. Even that wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that those institutions encroach more and more into everyone's lives and make less and less sensible decisions, with the only end-game in sight being the kind of authoritarianism that even assholes like Bill Maher can see. He's an asshole because he doesn't see his own hand in the creation of these authoritarian structures, ripe for the takeover by a very small number of people, affecting policies across the nation and across the world. We need to be more DECENTRALIZED so that the corruption and incompetence only reach so far and last so long before they're stopped. But at the national level, where they even control the money supply, they can make promises they can't really keep and muddle on for GENERATIONS. You try that shit at the state or local level and you run out of money in a couple years and people throw out the idiots and can recover in a couple years. When it goes on for decades, the hole is just too deep. The feds argue not over whether we should go DEEPER into debt, but by how much more. Every year.
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  3. National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance are some made-up shit having NOTHING to do with the U.S. Constitution. Think about when they came about. Just a bunch of people decided we should have an anthem and a pledge. I don't want my kids pledging to the Rainbow Flag, but I don't think they should be pledging allegiance to ANY flag every freaking morning, nor do I feel like we need to sing the National Anthem before every stinking sporting event. Whose idea was that? That's what you do when you're trying to manufacture consent for yet another (undeclared) war!
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