Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "" video.

  1. Liberals know they're more enlightened, generous, and compassionate than conservatives in their heart of hearts. This is why liberals take extremely illiberal positions, because they know that the only way to build the utopia they see in their mind's eye is to FORCE them to conform to liberal standards and to donate against their will to liberal causes, beginning with the welfare state, but extending to authoritarian (and usually counterproductive) regulatory webs that constrain evil conservatives from their diabolical behaviors. Conservatives insist on pushing back, and when liberals get their way, and their top-down schemes are exposed as wasteful, corrupt, and actively counterproductive, they are in a perpetual state of frustration. "Don't trust 'The Man'" is juxtaposed with "We must BE The Man and impose our will on our inferiors." It's a strange form of "New Puritanism." Only progressives do the recycling, protest against pollution, and a million other conscious acts to make the world a better place. Only progressives compost their food waste. Only progressives think 'green.' I've known quite a few progressives who appear to live the life of a saint. I also know quite a few conservatives who fit many of the stereotypes progressives despise. Since the '80s, I've held the view that liberals frequently vote for the wrong thing for the right (on the surface) reasons and conservatives vote for the right things for the wrong reasons.
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