Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "'The Five' weigh in on Susan Rice's newly declassified email" video.

  1. He's hard to listen to, but if you don't understand the arguments of your opposition, then you don't fully understand your own. The left-right principles have always and will always be in tension. I would argue that left and right have flipped. Being left USED to mean that you were sick and tired of being robbed and told what to do, with your very life in the hands of the aristocracy, to a left that has quietly anointed bureaucrats as the New Aristocracy, who will provide your every need in return for abject subservience, unswerving obedience, and gray conformity. The left BECAME the establishment, and it turns out that their form of self-rule is identical to the serfdom under monarchy (and its minions in the aristocracy) that we fought for millennia to defeat. Most leftists THINK they're the ones who understand "progress" better than anyone else, but really, whether they know it or not - and most seem not to - is dragging us back into serfdom. I say "seem," because whenever I drill a little deeper in debates with so-called liberals, the authoritarian measures they support in order to make it all work are horrific. "What if we breed up an entire generation of irresponsible welfare mothers, who make babies like rabbits? Is it OK to sterilize them?" It turns out it IS, if the "collective good" is threatened. "Do you realize what you're saying? Do you not see the iron fist in that velvet glove?" There's a mean-spirited contempt for "average people" that I find appalling. The whole REASON for nanny government is the deeply embedded notion that people are not fit to care for themselves and each other. And every program they create to solve the problem just makes more people who are a problem.
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  2. Good progressives DO see through a lot of the smoke, when it comes to the surveillance state and our nation's foreign policy. They're spot-on, on these matters. They're quick to see corruption. What they're SLOW to see is that their ideology builds up government institutions so much, that these abuses proliferate throughout our society. The corruption they can so clearly see in the stuffed-shirt career bureaucrats in the Dept of Defense or the State Dept, but they're oblivious to the FACT that this is the nature of large institutions with ANY kind of power. They don't want to limit the powers of the FDA, FCC, USDA, EPA. They just want THEIR PEOPLE to RUN them! It's the exact same thing as RussiaGate Hoax. Does the EPA really protect our environment, or is it a hammer to beat the little guy with, while protecting the BIG polluters? Is the USDA really protecting us or are they green-lighting GMO foods which are grown "organically," because they Put the Pesticide Inside the Crop's DNA, and feed the pesticides directly to humans? Is the FCC really doing its job or are the handful of people at the top ripe for being bribed, coerced, or propagandized/pressured by whichever party is in power at the moment? Is the welfare state really solving poverty or is it just enabling irresponsible behavior and creating a helpless and self-entitled citizenry? We've got the federal government doing everything except what the U.S. Constitution commands it to do. The federal government has refused to protect our national border, which is its Job #1. But it can sure fight wars all over the world, overthrow what IT considers to be tyrants, and drop bombs all over the world, without a single declaration of War since 1941! A lot of REAL, PRACTICAL green tech gets crushed by regulators who don't even understand the new tech, let alone know how to certify it, so a person can get homeowner's insurance when they put in a rocket-stove mass heater to save energy and heating costs. If you want a new home, you can't get a loan on it, unless you build the way the bureaucrats understand. And EVERY government-approved form of green tech and every government subsidy of green tech favors big business. The more bureaucratized we become, the more we inhibit REAL, SUSTAINABLE alternatives to the status quo. The bureaucracy is there to lock the status quo in place.
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