Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Julia Hartley-Brewer - Bringing Common Sense to the Culture Wars | So What You're Saying Is..." video.

  1. Sadly, my experience growing up and formulating my political views was that the people voting for the right things did so for the wrong reasons, and people voting for the wrong things did so for the right reasons. I respect the intention of MOST left-wingers, although whenever I drill down to their real motivations, I find a certain bloody mindedness and absolute contempt for regular people. They project all their OWN worst tendencies on everyone else, and see government force as the only way to MAKE people behave responsibly. They don't believe in people making their own choices for their own lives, but somehow believe that a select group (oligarchs!) are sinless, all-knowing and compassionate, when really they're just slobs working for a pay check like the rest of us! If liberals really understood the world, they would apply their distrust of humanity to the proposition that this is why wiser heads see the danger in giving small groups of individuals the power of life, death and everything in between over every body else. If you don't trust human nature, then why insist on concentrating more power into the hands of fewer people? Yes, humans muck things up. That's why you never give any of us too much power. The NHS strips you of making your own health-care choices. So if you're a fat alcoholic and lazy slob, you receive MORE from the system. If you work hard and act prudently, then you're a net payer INTO the system. These upside-down incentives are insane, especially coming from people who hold the average person in such contempt. I see the flaws in people. People aren't perfect. But they're pretty wonderful. And I prefer to live in a system that rewards hard work and prudence. We used to find virtue in selfless acts and personal sacrifice on behalf of others. If 50% of virtue-signaling leftists were more worried about what THEY were doing to help, rather than trying to get government to force people to help in precisely the ways that the libtard directs, poverty would be eliminated.
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  2.  @stephenhamer1702  : You don't get it. Unlike all humans in all history, THESE people actually ARE all-wise and only act for the greater good.
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  3.  @ronwebb5839  : Yes. Much the same in the USA. You wouldn't believe how many friendships were destroyed when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. The lefties were SHOCKED that people they thought were their friends were such evil troglodytes. As for those who voted for Trump, they learned how small-minded and petty those who voted for Clinton really were. As an essentially libertarian individual, elections NEVER go the way that I want. This never stopped me from being friends with people who voted "wrong" by MY lights. Lots of good and smart people get things wrong. The REEEEEEEEEEE! that took place after Trump won taught me that a lot of people are hopelessly brain-washed by legacy media.
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  4. "You're a right-winger!" "Apparently, yes. Thank God."
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