Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dershowitz: Shame on Mueller, doesn't have the guts to make a decision" video.

  1. Yes, A cheater at cards is CERTAIN that YOU must be cheating, when you turn over a full house when they KNOW they dealt you a 10-high hand off the bottom of the deck.
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  2. CNN is DEFinitely over-the-top partisan, BUT they had PLENTY of high-placed sources giving them PLENTY of confirmation, according to so-called journalistic "standards," which were never EVER even considered by our Founding Fathers. Nobody insisted that Thomas Paine's pamphlets be fact-checked and second-sourced. It's FINE to grind your axe in the public square. What is NOT fine is this mythological "Fairness Doctrine" under which mainstream American media have supposedly operated for most of the 20th Century and is only now being revealed for what it is in the 21st: Just another way of packaging the narratives of select, powerful elites and dominating the public discourse with the opinions and self-interested propaganda of the handful of monied power elites with the ability to influence and control the top levels of media giants, with bribes and simply by BUYING those outlets or a large or majority stake in those outlets. I would much rather have a revolutionary like Thomas Paine saying HIS piece and some Tory loyalist saying HIS piece and let the American people decide for themselves which to believe in whole or in part, than this monolithic one-note media that PRETENDS fairness and diversity, while overwhelming by sheer size or even by specifically attacking alternate viewpoints. De-monetization is soft censorship (unless you're the independent content creator being shadow-banned or outright banned, like Alex Jones). Yes, nutcases will get their followings. But as long as there is a free and open public square, individual choices by individual Americans as to what holds up and what doesn't will lead us toward something that more closely approximates real truth. Not a single person can guess how many jelly beans are in the jar, but the AVERAGE of ALL the guesses is almost always very, very close to the actual number. Some people aren't OK with that much chaos, that much noise in the signal. But over time, a very small impetus in the direction of TRYING to get it right, creates a highly nuanced ORDER out of the chaos that no one person can fully grasp and anal-retentive so-called liberals just can't BEAR to leave to the good sense of the people, on average, to achieve. That's why we see rules on EVERYthing, including plastic straws in restaurants. You can't be trusted to exercise good sense. The sad thing is it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the more you run things by more and more ridiculously complicated Iand internally inconsistent and self-contradictory) rule sets, the less control anyone has and the less sense the vast majority actually exercise in their decision-making. You worry so much about poor decisions that you end up crippling everyone's ability to MAKE decisions, resulting in a society that NEEDS to be told EVERYthing. It's a spiral towards a deprived and oppressed population under totalitarian rule and it's all in the name of the greater good, which NONE of us fully understand, but we all march towards over time, given the freedom and autonomy to pursue our own best interests, subject to the best interests of those around us. More people need to read their Blackstone. More people need to read and understand their Adam Smith. More people need to understand the TRUE sweep of history, and grasp the explosion of freedom and prosperity that occur every time the people are given maximum authority over their OWN lives that is consistent with the authority everybody around them SHOULD have over THEIRS! We all should bow our heads and thank God for Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and that somebody like him was created and had the sense to write Wealth of Nations! We should CELEBRATE every bit of true progress and its roots in freedom, liberty and self-determination, but all we do is dwell on how backwards people were 100, 200, 300 or 1,000 years ago, and we now totally ignore the small victories and small Enlightenments along the way that got us to a much better place than we've ever been in human history.
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