Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Ukraine's Kursk Collapse \u0026 Washington's Rush to Freeze Conflict Under \"Minsk 3\"" video.

  1. Trump admin: "We want to neocon better than the last admin." That's not what I was looking for. But at the same time, maybe we get closer to something better. Color me skeptical.
    6
  2. Pretty base-level common sense, for anyone who knows history and can tell when one number is bigger than another number.
    3
  3. @ The Tea Party rejected many base assumptions held by both major parties, and rightly so. That's why it had to be destroyed. Any movement is going to attract total nutters. The total nutter's advantage is enthusiasm and a willingness to weaponize ANYthing to their advantage. All institutions are under constant assault by total nutters. Once you understand this, you start getting a bit of a filter, and analyzing world affairs becomes a lot easier, and general principles are easier to derive. My basic rule is "de-centralize the power." Keep the institutions small and nimble. You know corruption is inevitable, so you need to minimize the harm that the institution can do. COVID should have taught everyone this, but still everybody just argues over who should wield entirely too much power rather than fighting to keep too much power from falling into the hands of too few people.
    1
  4.  @BroonParker  To admit they were wrong would undermine their entire world view, and force them to repudiate decades of wrong-headed ideas. This is not something many people are capable of doing. It's easier to continue believing in the faith healer on stage is God's Chosen, than to listen or look at ANY evidence of how they're pulling off their many apparent miracles. You can put the evidence right in front of them and people will conclude you're an Agent of Satan, twisting things for evil ends. It's just like with any religion. People would rather die than disavow their faith in The Word, and their spiritual leaders, even - and especially - when their spiritual leaders are PROVEN to be charlatans. With the decay of organized religion in the West, people still yearn for meaning in their lives, and political ideology has swooped in to fill the vacuum. What "progressives" should do is split the party in two. Start a new party that's unswervingly left. Re-brand the original party as "centrist." That's a very broad tent. Even if Republicans continued to win a plurality, the newly constituted 2 parties would easily form a coalition to dominate both houses of Congress. At the moment, Republicans enjoy the support of the broad middle. But it's a grudging support, made possible only by the Democrat Party's absurd policies and beliefs.
    1