Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Bernie Sanders' Unwillingness to Change Makes Some Happy, But Is Strategically Disastrous" video.

  1. The reason "kicking the can down the road" is a thing is because it WORKS! The green new deal asks me to suffer NOW for an imagined future of lesser suffering! Guess who's imagination we're talking about? The real problem with the whole idea is the ignorance of trend dynamics, as in, NOTHING continues unchanged permanently. The GND ASSUMES NOTHING WILL CHANGE! That current projections will hold beyond ten years! That, in itself, is a tall order! But to assume no new tech, no inventions, no common sense social approaches, is...stupid...just plain stupid. Ooorrr, crazy like a fox: whip the the populace into a frenzy of fear for their lives and they will surrender their money and their minds to the instigators of the fear. The left thinks, "If we can get all the power, we can make everything perfect"; the right thinks (or should, or used to), "if the people are liberated from government constraint, they will be happy and productive with little need for government intervention". The severity of the difference between these attitudes may not be apparent at first glance...
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