Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Lidia Thorpe doesn't think the rules 'apply to her'" video.

  1. Such people have ALWAYS pursued positions of power. But in the early days of democratic republics, we gave public officials less power. THEN some of us realized that currying favor with such people could translate into Free Stuff, and now those public officials have WAY more power than they had 50 or 100 years ago. Nobody seems to understand that anything the state does for you is something else the state can do TO you, later. How's that state-run medical going? How're those state-run schools doing? How's that state-affiliated news serving you? It all seems so marvelous that you're getting something for nothing, even though you end up paying double, in the end, and wind up with absolutely no authority or agency over your own life. Anyway, this character has all the attitudes of entitled elites. The trick is to quit asking them to do everything for us, and manage our OWN damn affairs. But I think Western Society is 90% socialist-indoctrinated, so we're seeing all the old forms of monarchy and aristocracy rear their heads. They use different terms/words for it, but "all good comes from the King, and all must bend the knee to the king, because we need the king to protect us from this scary world." The original hook was protection against foreign invaders, but now it's extended into every aspect of our HELPLESS LIVES. I remember when "liberal" meant you just wanted to be free to make your own life. Now it means "take care of poor little helpless me."
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