Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "My Message to Jordan Peterson Regarding the Kavanaugh Matter (THE SAAD TRUTH_741)" video.
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Yeah. I'm with you, Gad. But he's a Canadian, and maybe he doesn't GET the balance of power between Judiciary, Executive and Legislative branches, which has protected the U.S. from the worst of the shit going on in Canada. Maybe he doesn't understand how FDR packed the court and started us on the path to fascism, with revisionist Supreme (and Circuit and Appeals) Court interpreters of the literal sense and safeguards against tyranny built into the U.S. Constitution.
He's from a more European sort of parliamentary system, where the power of the state is relatively unchecked, and protected against only by the good sense and popular opinions of her people. In the U.S., a slim majority can try to run roughshod over everyone else, but the rule of law stands in their way. There are fundamental principles that may NOT be overridden by anything less than a super-majority. In Canada, a plurality is all that's needed in order to forge a coalition that can take things down some rabbit holes that would make Alice slit her wrists. The same kinds of people and ideas get their PLAY in the public square, but can not impose their will on the majority (or the minority).
In Canada and Europe, there's much more of a "go along to get along" mentality. In the U.S., there's SOME go-along-to-get-along, but a very strong "Screw you. I'm not buying it" streak in many of us, including and especially our best and brightest.
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Our "conservative intelligentsia" - our "Dark Web" representatives, such as you, Dr. Saad, are the DEFINITION of "liberal," if you get past the twisting of the meaning of the term by statists-cum-globalists and collectivists of every stripe. Progressivism got its start as the new "Noblesse Oblige" by the powerful, willing to set aside the Constitution to use POWER to do GOOD by FORCE. An "end justifies the means" mentality is pretty widespread, nowadays. And of course, the "aristocracy" quickly learned that posing as champion of the poor is a way to take and hold power, and use it for whatever pleases them.
And that's fine, unless what pleases them is ultimately destructive and bad-precedent setting. Human nature being what it is, once you cross that Rubicon of using force and power to impose your "enlightened" will on people, it just becomes OK to impose your will on people, which is something the founding fathers anticipated, if studying history and seeing how it has operated in the past means you're prescient. You're really not. You just know what the laboratory of history teaches...
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