Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "PragerU"
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This is the first time I have ever downvoted a Prager U video. As a conservative and a history teacher, I'm embarassed that they produced this nonsense. Nixon was a criminal and a lout. "He was the most dishonest individual I ever met in my life", wrote the man known as "Mr. Conservative", Senator
Barry Goldwater. Nixon was forced out after lying to everyone about Watergate, then erasing incriminating tapes to cover it up. Before that, Nixon had been involved in numerous other scandals, thus earning the name "Tricky Dick".
Neither was Nixon a conservative president. He implemeneted wage- and price- controls, which led to high inflation and high unemployment, and turned a surplus into a deficit. He started the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, all of which have been abused by the federal government. He gave in to the anti-war protesters, leading to a shameful US withdrawal - and perceived loss - in Vietnam. He sold out Taiwan in order to make nice to China. He made arms agreements with the Soviet Union which we kept and they broke, and even tried to confer MFN status on the USSR.
In short, Nixon was a criminal and a leftist, and not someone we have any business supporting. I like Hugh Hewitt, and I like Prager U, but this is nuts.
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I dislike radical Islamists and leftists as much as Ayaan does, but this video is a mess:
1. The Flight 93 passengers were bigger heroes than the hundreds of firefighters and police who ran into the towers? Why? What other choice did the Flight 93 passengers have besides rushing the cockpit? Were they going to sit back and watch a movie, knowing that the hijackers were going to crash the plane?
2. Ayaan would have us believe that large numbers of Americans back in 2001 believed that poverty was the motivation for the attacks, and those same people wanted to respond by nation building. Nice story, but without factual basis.
3. I don't like jihadists, and I don't like leftist radicals, but it is kind of hard to seriously compare the two. Jihadists attempt to murder innocent people every day of the year, mostly in countries thousands of miles away from the US. Can the same claim be made about leftists? Furthermore, a large percentage of followers of the leftist leaders are dupes who actually believe that they are fighting for freedom and equality, and who would never commit a violent act themselves, or even support someone else's. Would any reasonable person say the same about jihadis?
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