Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Gutfeld: Where did Howard Stern go?" video.

  1. Liberals are supposed to criticize the establishment from the outside, and argue for a devolution of centralized power and control systems. But that's not what "liberal" means, any more. It used to mean "Leave us alone. We know that all of your 'help' is an urge to power on your part." But nowadays, "liberal" means "Govern me harder, Daddy!" I've been arguing with "liberals" since the 1980s, and every time I dug into the philosophical underpinnings with a few "What if?"s they always showed their authoritarian side. There was no end to the rules and regulations they were willing to endorse, if their big giveaway programs created NEW problems with the system. Too many babies born to poverty? Maybe welfare moms with 4 children should be sterilized. Stuff like that. I'd argue that that kind of intrusion into the reproductive decisions of a human being by the state was just WRONG, and that was why the big giveaway program was wrong in the first place. Now the government dominates health care (while pretending there's still a free market), and it's locking us down and mandating experimental medical procedures on the entire populace. Is Fauci a crumb bum? Yes. But he or somebody like him is ALWAYS going to rise to the top in a big, bureaucratic hierarchy. The problem isn't Fauci, or at least not entirely. The problem is a public medical system that puts guys like Fauci in charge of medical decisions for EVERYbody. If he gets one thing wrong, for whatever reason, it's a national catastrophe! But people still clamor for their Med-4-All, which for all intents and purposes, it's already HERE. It's just a little less efficient than it might otherwise be, due to all the circumlocutions necessary to preserve the illusion of a free market. But it will never be as affordable and ethical with government running it as it will be in a true free market. But they have the perfect grift going. The illusion of free markets justifies more government intervention, when systemic problems become glaringly apparent. Yes, the insurance companies are expletive deleteds. But what makes them REALLY toxic is the government intervention that tries to keep them afloat, so it can pretend we're still free-market. Nothing about medical care is free market, except a small but growing number of cash-for-services clinics. The government and medical establishment that profits most from government intervention don't like those clinics. But if you go to one that doesn't take insurance or medicare/medicaid, you can get treatments for about 20 cents on the dollar (based on very little research, but suffice it to say, MUCH CHEAPER). My knee surgery with great group insurance? $70,000. Shoulder surgery for cash for my nephew? $3,000.
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  2. He's always been a big-government liberal, and where he is, now, is where it logically leads. I liked his irreverence, and watched a few of his shows back in the '90s. They usually made me cringe, but he was all about free speech, and I was with him on that. "The urge to save the world is invariably the urge to rule." I think that's Mencken.
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  3. He's a big-government liberal. Of course he's an authoritarian lunatic. All that free love and free speech stuff was for when he was younger and wanted to kick up his heels. Now, he's old and terrified of dying.
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