Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "THE GREATEST BRIEF EVER FILED" video.

  1.  @amoose136  Progress is generally forward over time, with inevitable setbacks. The trick is to let the good ideas flourish and the bad ideas wither, which they tend to, all on their own, if the power to coerce is more or less systematically weakened. Of course, the worst people always want to use coercion on others when rhetoric fails, and they will always seize on opportunities to wield power. De-centralize the power and limit the harm. That's the basic idea of the U.$. Constitution.
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  2.  @sally8708  Many conservatives get it right for the wrong reasons. Many liberals get it wrong for the right reasons. The problem with liberals is they're so good that they believe coercion (government force) is the best and only means of effecting positive change, everywhere all at once, when human progress takes place at the family, clan, and local community level. "Clean up your corner of the world before setting out to save everybody," or, as Jordan Peterson might say "Make your damn bed before worrying about your neighbor's furnishings." (Not a direct quote) In my younger days, I always partied with the lefties and enjoyed our wide-ranging discussions and debates, but I never voted as they did. I almost always vote with the conservatives, but it's because I'm a civil libertarian. There are very few on either side that I've been able to really sway to my way of thinking. Yes, help people. No, don't make it the government's job. About the only thing I agree with conservatives wholeheartedly is limiting the size, scope, and mandate of the federal government. It's hijacked many of the responsibilities of local and state governments, by use of force and by incurring debt and printing money, which no local community or state has the power to do. A sustainable community doesn't need federal help every year, forever. A nation of communities that can't stand on their own is a failed state. The conservatives understand this. A sustainable nation doesn't fight wars abroad and destabilize other nation-states at its whim. That's where I see eye-to-eye with the left (most of the time). But over the last 20 years, the dangers of the intolerant left that I warned about in the '80s and '90s have all come to pass. Now the politicians run health, education, and any industry that draws their attention, for whatever reason. We're slipping into a fascist version of socialism, and it looks much like the authoritarian regimes of the 1920s and 1930s, but not a single liberal seems to be aware of this. We're not ON the slippery slope. We need to pick ourselves off from our wipe-out at its foot.
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