Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Democrats Are Preemptively Attacking Bernie Sanders" video.

@ericlinz4626 : Yes. In Soviet Russia, they called them "apparatchiks" or "apparatchiki." The ruling political class with their dachas outside of town, and their luxury limousines, when most Soviet citizens didn't even have cars. We see these patterns wherever government gets too big. We see it in Al Gore, who preaches reducing carbon emissions, but who singlehandedly consumes as much electricity as a small city. What's good for the people isn't what's good for the political class. They NEED their private planes to travel around the world preaching to the rest of us about "necessary belt-tightening" and "living green."
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@jamesmartini4332 : Yes. That's the progressive, anti-establishment stance on such matters. And there may be broad agreement between Progressives and conservatives on the welfare state if they would pass the welfare state down to the individual states to manage, and get the federal gov't out of it. That's the compromise I can see between the two (sincere) sides. Unfortunately, the so-called right is dominated by establishment hacks and the so-called left is, as well. Demublicans and Republicrats is what I call those neolibs/neocons, the distinction between which being as artificially manufactured as the distinctions idiots make between fascism, socialism and communism, which are all just different brand names for the same gray tyranny in the long run.
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@jamesmartini4332 : Truth hurts, doesn't it? It was un-wise of him to provoke you. I agree.
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@Hans : You're hopelessly stuck in semantics, effortlessly deflecting the conversation by making a mish-mash of language.
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@WilliamAngell96 : Progressives tend to be in line with conservatives and libertarians on foreign policy and the deep state beast. But they feel like government should be just as meddlesome at home as they complain about it being on the foreign-policy front. Big government at home is the flip side of imperialism abroad . It all flows from an irrational faith in government.
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@Censurba270 : You make false distinctions between fascism and communism. They're just different brand names for the same state-centric world view that is absolutely toxic to individual rights.
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@Censurba270 : Sweden is more laissez-faire capitalist than the United States, when it comes to business. Its nanny government is failing you on housing, especially now that it puts refugees at the front of the line. Oh, and nanny government seems to turn all too quickly into evil stepfather government if you speak out. And stay the hell out of Malmo, which is now a Somali frontier city.
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@Censurba270 : Your ignorance of history and human nature is astounding. Dwight gets it. You do not. It'd be depressing as hell to live in such conformist societies, but as long as they're essentially homogeneous and the people are indoctrinated into paying their fair share, as determined by politicians and bureaucrats, and keep your heads down, it can work for a country with a smaller population than many individual metro areas in our country.
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@everythingisaywillgiveyouc435 : Social democracy is just a difference in degree, but no significant philosophical differences, when you consider the role and scope of government embraced by both. And all it takes to see the ugly underbelly of collectivist utopia is a couple bad years, and ALL the resentments and parasite-hating racism will emerge. You're already seeing it, with the upsurgence of so-called right-wing parties. It's funny how Europe distinguishes between right and left. The "right" are the fascists who are intolerant of other races. The "left" are the fascists who are all unicorns and rainbows. Hitler considered state-run health care to be an essential precondition for the rise of such as he. Anyone who studies history with an open mind sees these patterns, and wonder at Europe's embrace of most of the forms of fascism, while publicly standing against it. Self-denial. Utterly un-self-aware.
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@Tonixxy : Well stated! People insist on making artificial distinctions, because it gives them a rationale for their ignorance and stupidity of the nature of government and the nature of Man.
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@ECP90 : Yes. Statist from its inception. Statist to this day, under the Free Stuff! banner. Progressives are pretty anti-war, which I like, even though the first famous progressive (Teddy Roosevelt) really wanted to throw his weight around, so he could stand with the Kings and Queens of history.
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@redwhitebluedude2180 : Progressive point of view: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. So, let's give government more power." Logic.
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@Tonixxy : Nah. They're just two sides of the "same shit-stained coin," as another commenter just pointed out.
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@jamesmartini4332 : Attacking the rich never turns out the way the resentful twits like you think it will. EVERY time you think you're going after the fat cats with government, you forget that the fat cats' influence over government is near total, and they cry all the way to the bank. Also, they stop investing money in anything that will create jobs, when you go after them, so when you hold up the rich as the big bogeyman, you strengthen all the worst in what you see from the rich. Tax the corporations! Right? They just pass the cost on to the consumer and the only result is higher prices on goods and more money in the hands of bureaucrats who produce NOTHING. The more perfectly you divide up the pie, the smaller the pie gets. That's because you redistributionist assholes are so preoccupied with deciding who gets what that you lose sight of who MADE that pie: the working men and women. Progressives are pawns of the corporate-globalist elites and only by lying to themselves can they preserve their sense of righteousness.
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WinMore : Reminds me of the pot dealer down the block when I was in high school.
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@Lieutenant_Dude : Progressives and neoliberals disagree on the proper role and scope of government, abroad. Unfortunately, they're equally collectivist on the proper role and scope of government, domestically. And they're in denial that big government, abroad is any more fucked-up than big government at home. They insist on putting too much power into the hands of too few people, and then act all shocked and offended when government doesn't behave as they expect with the power they keep giving them. Progressives are people who throw gasoline on a fire, thinking it's water.
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