Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "Omicron causes record-breaking COVID cases in US l ABCNL" video.
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@stpierreorama Wait a minute, did you just call Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher "neoliberals"? LMAO. They were hardcore conservatives, both socially and economically. Reagan was largely responsible for dramatically ramping up the massive failure that has been the War on Drugs, and signed a law that punished crack users (who were mostly black) 100 times more harshly than powder cocaine users (who were majority white). That is just one of the long list of socially conservative disasters Reagan implemented during his tenure as President. (He also screened Bernard Nathanson's propaganda film "The Silent Scream" in the White House, the major claims of which were thoroughly debunked by Planned Parenthood and numerous embryologists, but that's neither here nor there.) You call yourself a "classical liberal," which I know quite a bit about --- I used to be one. My guess is that you lean more right-libertarian, and that your favorite politician is perhaps someone like Senator Rand Paul, but I don't want to make too many assumptions about you from the get-go. I could go on and talk about Dave Rubin, but I'll leave it there... The fact of the matter is that I used to think as you do, until I discovered that the most prosperous societies on the planet are socialist (the Scandinavian countries), and that the U.S. doesn't rank very highly in any statistic worth measuring by developed standards except military budget and incarceration (we rank 37th in healthcare, 27th in upward social mobility, 96th in violent crime, 46th in life expectancy, 19th in the World Happiness Report, should I really belabor the point?), and the "socialist" (really the economies are mixed, much more so than ours) Western European countries (as well as a few East Asian ones like Japan) all rank at the top. How do they do it? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they all have universal healthcare, paid vacation/family leave/sick time by law, free or reduced college tuition, a completely secular democracy, widespread unionization and collective bargaining, a fair criminal justice system, high taxes to fund public infrastructure, and low overall poverty as a result of their generous welfare state. In other words, they are kicking our @ss in every possible way except military might. And I don't know about you, but investing billions more of our tax money into the military-industrial complex to line the pockets of the CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell is not materially improving the lives of any (ordinary) American. But there still exist countless ways of doing just that. And yes, because this question has no doubt crossed your mind, I am an unabashed Bernie supporter.
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