Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hillsdale College" channel.

  1. We keep hearing "unintended consequences," but after decades of the same failures, you have to be willfully ignorant to call the consequences "unintended."
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  2. Good to hear some of the scholarship behind some of my gut intuitions about how government intervention destroys community and community support systems. Yes, some towns will always do a better job than others. But it's organic and self-sustaining. And the overall quality of those LOCAL "Tocqueville" institutions rises with the general prosperity, as the people see to actualize higher values.
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  3. I respect those kinds of Democrats, but I still think their ideology is fundamentally flawed. They sure can see when the government is overstepping, but they always vote for the government to hold more power over more aspects of our lives. So they create, feed and groom the tiger that will kill them by accident or on purpose, when it's full-grown. They put too much power in the hands of too few, and then they're all pissed-off, when the wrong people get ahold of that power. Democrat VOTERS don't seem to understand that such power is a MAGNET to the wrong kinds of people and corrosive to the BEST people.
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  4. That's pretty hard-hitting stuff. It's a nasty business. Civilized societies need to come up with something better. Medical science is far beyond the science of the early '70s, when Roe V Wade was decided. I've hunted and fished, and I know how the sausage is made. I'm not squeamish. I like meat and I know where it comes from. But this is pretty bad. Think about that baby that would command the affection and protective spirit of every loving and kind person on the planet, if it survived. And people are snuffing it out before it breathes air. I know it's a no-no, but I'm pretty situational ethics about it. And my understanding is that K-Cl (Potassium chloride) without any kind of go-to-sleep drug before it, is not a good way to go. And I think that the better we get at saving the lives of pre-mature babies, the closer to conception the line on abortion ought to move, but libs have been moving it in the opposite direction. That's regressive. Progress is catching pregnancies, earlier and earlier, and keeping babies alive earlier and earlier. As a hack historian, I think that infanticide is a reflection of how harsh the times are, how close to the bone the society is, and how fecund the society is. It might be that the survival of the tribe is helped by being able to choose not to have babies, now, and be able to make them in a hurry when times are better. Get through the crisis. But decades of upward-trending numbers of abortions is not a tribe on the verge of extinction saying it can't raise babies that year.
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  5. Hi! I'm from the government and I'm here to help!
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  6. It's not the federal government's business. We don't need centralized control and regulation of agriculture. One bad idea in one powerful head is propagated across the entire system.
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  7. Even those who are not consciously Marxist hold to many or even most of the main tenets, whether they know it or not. They're not consciously fascist, and yet they slowly, year by year, fashion an all-knowing, all-controlling government system that would make Adolf Hitler proud. Free Medical? Check. Welfare for single moms and plenty of gov't programs to indoctrinate the kids? Check. Control of the media? Check. We became a lot like the Nazis in most outward forms. And it only takes some hard times for all the ugly to come out.
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  8. It can cost you a lot of friendships, unnecessarily, if you follow that too closely in all situations. Sometimes, your girlfriend doesn't need to be told that that's not the most flattering dress she's ever worn, especially if she FEELS beautiful wearing it, and her eyes twinkle and she's full of joy when she wears it.
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  9. "No one makes a fool of a liberal." Liberals do that just fine, by themselves.
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  10. Gender medicine is a growth industry just like DEI.
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  11. fl6stringer: Hey don't knock it. Such mindless methods have worked for the Dumbocrats for decades. The internet and social media are upsetting the applecart, and it's like the sky is falling for them.
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  12. Actually, fear is often used against the citizenry so they will GIVE authority to the state. Maybe that's taking, in a sense.
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  13. Are you including all the dead people and illegal immigrants who voted Democrat? Surely the numbers are much bigger than that.
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  14. The pernicious cancer of bureaucracy.
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  15. You know Democrats are gonna pull some $hit in '24 to justify circumventing the rule of law to rig the vote.
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  16. "And so, the real deniers, today are the climaeers who refuse to consider that their case for catastrophe has wakened, while promoting completely unserious solutions that do little or nothing to stimlate the energy transition they say they want."
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  17. Most normal boys could easily be classified as ADHD. Sitting still when you're bored out of your mind is crazy.
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  18. Liberal: How can we control this? Conservative: How can we help this flourish without us?
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  19. DOJ is still going strong, abusing its power to an even greater degree than before, under Joe Biden and his cronies.
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  20. He DOES talk fast! Great mind. Right around 10:50, he reminds us of history. Government-imposed minimum wage laws deprived hundreds of thousands of their jobs. Leftists see themselves throwing a rope to people below them. Conservatives want to make sure there's always a ladder for people to climb. Pulling people up is not self-sustaining. Only the most helpless and weak need that, and provision has always been made, with the government being the "You are absolutely friendless" last and worst resort, and a healthy and vibrant system of volunteer charity organizations, built on families and based in community. The left want it built on career technocrats, who profit on misery, and they're based in Washington.
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  21. On the other hand, 40 years ago, everybody paid lip service to the then-dominant religion of Christianity.
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  22. Plandemic brought it to your attention, because it was in everybody's face, but this $hit has been going on since the first 3-letter federal agencies. Why do you think we only had 3 major broadcasting networks for 50 years? Why did we go from hundreds of passenger airlines to 3 and a token 4th or 5th here or there? When the government steps in, consolidations happen. You get it down to a 3-headed oligopoly to preserve the appearance of free-market competition, but really, the fix is in and the system is set up to favor the biggest, which of course, the biggest favor. Much easier to get all your donations in one or two places than to actually try to tackle problems the PEOPLE face. And the biggest problem the people face is the "public-private partnerships" they're so proud of, for all the 'good' they do.
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  23. Knocked it outta the park.
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  24. Defense of Establishment Republicans is, at best, lukewarm across the board.
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  25. He got a 'D' in the one climate science class he ever took, had a come-to-Jesus moment, and became a world leader on the subject. This is how politicians do.
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  26. When the central government legislates on everything under the sun, the lobbyists are ESSENTIAL. They're also major corrupters. The mistake is legislating on everything under the sun, which means you either pass laws out of ignorance or you consult with the captains of industry. It's bad enough when all we ask the feds to do is protect our borders. That's the one thing the feds don't WANT to do, but they want to get involved in everything else, where I don't want them.
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  27. I would've loved Canada 100 years ago. I would hate to live there, now.
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  28. These people's biggest problem is they think there are just too many people. Of course, as soon as they find the birth rate falling in Western societies, they can't import foreigners fast eough. Here we're on our own path to sustainability (Deal with population decline when and if it becomes a serious problem, but underpopulation is definitely not a problem.). But no sooner do we turn the corner than they want us to import people who breed like rabbits.
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  29. The Iraq war(s) were scary in that regard, with all the major networks in lock-step, pro war, and the way people who watched the networks waving flags and hanging on stories from "embedded reporters."
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  30. The intersectionalist project, when it has run its full course, will have atomized the nation down the level of the individual, which is where the rest of us STARTED. But the damage they do catching up, busily re-inventing the wheel, and "discovering" yet another subset of a subset of a subset of an oppressed group...
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  31. It's all out in the open, and nobody in authority is pursuing it. Our institutions are broken. The rot starts at the head. The criminals run free. The truth speakers are harassed to death.
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  32. Small-plot farming. Land stewardship. Local sourcing of food. Organic methods.
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  33. I don't know how tight a guy wears his jeans matters, NebukedNezzer. Tighter or looser, it shouldn't matter, although why you'd want to wear tight clothing is beyond me.
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  34. Only solution is to reduce the size and scope of centralized government. Congress creates bodies that grow beyond Congress's ability to oversee. They create these huge engines, the workings of which they haven't the foggiest notion, and even if they did, it's too big a job to oversee. They're a bunch of lawyers who take turning words into reality very lightly. It's enough to write the words, and utopia must follow.
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  35. The press has always been slanted. We used to know that. We forgot that in the 20th Century, and are starting to remember it, again. The whole point of the 1st Amendment was to ALLOW propaganda of ALL kinds, because government couldn't possibly be the arbiter of truth.
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  36. I'm no huge fan of Zinn, but part of why his message resonates is because our government has a long history of manufacturing consent, and a long history of embroiling us in wars, to the detriment of all but the few who thrive and garner glory during such times. And I'm not talking about fighting men lucky enough to survive the meat grinder of enemy fire. The main flaw I see in the progressive history is that they think it was government that led to the high standards of today. Growth of government isn't a leading indicator of human progress. It's a lagging indicator, made possible by prosperity created without any input from government, causing culture shifts that are always ahead of authorities who pretend to run everything. I'm only chiming in because rejecting the progressive/cultural-marxist cant isn't a blind acceptance of clearly fascist features of our own system. Of course the ones calling themselves anti-fascist aren't concerned about the things I am, except for some intersection with regard to foreign wars of intervention and regime change.
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  37. It goes back beyond the 1920s in Italy/Germany. Bismarck nationalized health care, as the public drifted away from blind subservience to the aristocracy, due to the industrial revolution and new means of acquiring and retaining personal wealth. Socialism was basically invented to trick the working class back into serfdom of their own accord, and it's been working for over 100 years. No matter how many human catastrophes it creates, it always finds somewhere new to plant its mind virus, with the ultimate Ponzi scheme.
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  38. 21:30: Selective reporting on the news is as old as the news. "Objective reporting" is a myth they've been pushing since the government got cozy with the major networks, which was about 5 minutes after ABC, CBS and NBC got started. The big outfits have been buddy-buddy with government since Day 1. The press become insiders and in return for reporting what the power players want, they get special access, and get to rub shoulders with the Main Actors.
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  39. "Journalistic integrity" is sort of an oxymoron, by definition of the press, and the curmudgeonly role it plays.
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  40. I would argue that we DID adopt many fascist features in our in our system, in our war on fascism, which continued (albeit at a lower temperature) to a war on communism. War-time relationships between government and industry didn't go away after the original enemy was vanquished. They strengthened, and matured into higher forms of corruption. Government's definitions of "the greater good" were often detrimental to the rights of individuals. Progressives are so right about the machinations of a small number of inordinately rich and powerful individuals and institutions. But they don't want the powers taken away. They just want their guys in charge. They want to give government unlimited powers and believe that the NEXT batch of leaders - the ones THEY put in power - will all be saintly geniuses, in it for the good of all, and unconquerably potent and brave in all matters, large and small. Of course, they never get that, so they're always indignant.
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  41. Yes. Ground-based data are very quirky. A site that was once out in a field is now in the middle of a parking lot. A site that was once a weather station is no longer, so they PROJECT what they THINK the temperatures are at the now-missing site. A significant percentage of so-called data are actually back-filled projections of this sort. Nobody really has a handle on tracking climate change at ground level. Regardless of whether climate is changing one way or another, I haven't heard one single policy proposal that could reasonably be implemented planet-wide, that would affect any projected increase in any significant way. Time and time again - for instance carbon taxes on British coal-fired electrical generation - the proposal means more power for the elites, and more wealth extracted from the economy, and little net benefit, since the biggest coal burners get a free pass, because they scoff at the idea of bending the knee. But Britain bends the knee. The most likely thing to get us out of pollution crisis is for government to get out of the way and let competent people in business and smart consumers evolve the society to healthier norms. These guys always want to solve problems by force, through the use of central power. Always a mechanistic world view. Always giving control to bureaucrats over people who actually do things and know things out in the real world. Al Gore went straight from making documentaries to brokering carbon credits. Nothing fishy about that... Nothing fishy about having the carbon footprint of 100 average citizens, combined... Nothing fishy about the beachfront property he bought.... Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't think it won't be flooded. Maybe it just means he's confident he can get a fat check when the day comes. People like him seem to thrive on crisis at others' expense.
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  42. I'm more of a Jordan Peterson kind of guy, even though I have Christian archetypes hammered deep into my psyche, and I think like a Christian. I just don't think I need to rely on the Authority of God - as communicated to me by Bronze-Age shepherds - to back up my arguments. You lose half of the people you're trying to win over when your fall-back position is a faith-based "God Said." The example Klavan brings up is incest. He argues that a pure scientist would say it was OK, if you just make sure there're no accidental pregnancies. I'm pretty scientific, but I still would argue against brother-sister pairings on evolutionary biology grounds, and I wouldn't have to turn off every agnostic/atheist in the crowd by just saying "It's a sin." Having sex with a sibling changes that relationship forever, and there are evolutionary reasons for the taboo. There are consequences to breaking the taboo, including the fact that it IS taboo. But that isn't the only reason. It will affect all future relationships by the incestuous couple in ways that are not completely understood. If you want to have a real debate with someone who does NOT accept the authority of YOUR God, you can't have your religion as the main source of the authority of your arguments. Your religious faith can guide you without being your only tool for disputing/refuting the arguments of others. I think Peterson (and Jung, apparently) are closer to where I'm at, intellectually, although my lizard brain is provided its superego by archetypes and lessons handed down to me in the Meshoppen United Methodist Sunday School. Heh. I agree with most Christians on most things, except for the "everlasting life" hook that seems to come more from MEN seeking to control MEN in this world than any evidence it came from God. The teachings of Jesus seem more like doing our best to create the closest thing to a just and loving society on THIS Earth (God's Kingdom), but I don't think it means that Satan is winning, just because millions (billions) haven't accepted Jesus as their Savior, and believe the whole Father, Son and Holy Ghost (even though I think they're pretty wonderful archetypes to guide a person in this world).
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  43. Facts + Evidence < Muh Narrative.
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  44. Heh. "Weakened."
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  45.  @fensterrose1585  Walking a mile or so to school and back helped in those days. And yes. There were all kinds of ways to knock the piss out of the boys who needed it, with Phys Ed (we called it) early in the day. I knew a home-schooling rancher wife who didn't start her son in 1st grade until he was 7, because he just had too much energy and couldn't sit still. And she eased him into it, by letting him go outside after an hour or two straight. When he found that he didn't like how this was cutting into his free time after his studies, he got real serious about learning, and he quickly exceeded his grade level in every category.
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