Comments by "jean-louis pech" (@jean-louispech4921) on "The Benefits of Conservatism | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. conservative live on the past that must not be changed. left look to a better future.
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  2. in fact turning conservative means : loosing the use of the more advanced cognitives process ( rationnal process, critic spirit from stereotypes, regulation of fear ) , using only fear, anger discust as main driving.
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  3. cr4yv3n yes , this is why people are more conservatives while they became older. In my country the main right party has as main voters elders peoples.
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  4. liberals look for good future. This is why they are called progressive, progress = better future. conservatives look past as good. This is why they want conserve the past, even with hierarchies, inequalities, injustices, limiting freedom and well being of people. This is the real difference.
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  5. Black smith what you are saying? that we must do nothing because we can't do all on the spot? not very smart, if you are conservative i can understand.
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  6. marius maier ... in the future. Now trump is doing "all CO2 open". well even 30-40 years there was climate change, but now it is very faster, the phenomenons are more importants, we can see with glaciers, ice cap on north pole, ocean rising, more extremes weather events, etc... Some american cities experiment with hurricane what could be hteir future is nothing is changed. The miami's citizens who voted for trump deserve to be flooded by the rising ocean ... but not the others.
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  7. Endmin1 calling Islamist right wing, is like calling nazis right wing, this is a fact. But irrational people seeing only identity oppositions can't understand the nature of ideology. well at a time the catholic church, when it was very conservative, was "convert or die" too. This is pure right wing policy. Islamism is religious fundamentalism, this is pure right wing, all about hierarchy, heteronomy, inequality , rigidity of the society, etc.... What define left wing and right wing, is not identity, or origin, but principles, values, logic of ideas, psychological drive and cognitive process, etc....
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  8. arthur lecomte conservatives defend rigid society, they are agaisnt individual freedoms, with sexism, racism, economic discrimination by money, religion influence on society. Conservatism is an authoritarian ideology, defending tradition, religious dogmas is authoritarian. Defending the freedom of women , racial minorities from stereotyped social categories,is defending freedom. Defending rights and protection of workers agaisnt the authority and power of the capitalists, is defending freedom. Defeinding freedom from authoritarains religiosity is defending freedom. The left defend the real freedoms. Gathering millions is not freedom as sign of personal succes , it is a question of social power.
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  9. For the sciences the main difference bewtween left and right is open mind ( left ) vs closed mind (right). It is not a problem of risk, the risk takers are on another line of antagonism independant from left vs right, this is egoism/selfcentred vs social link. On the first side the risk taker, there are libertarians and liberals in the european term, and they classify their antagonist as left. Then left are not liberals , even if they share some views, but on the other hand real liberals share some views with conservatives ( they don't like solidarity for exemple). There are many confusion, in the end the video look like a big strawman. But all of that is wrong. Just look at the countries that had left governement, with politics that have transformed the country : like nordics nations with lower economic inequalities, higher Human Developpement Index ( HDI ), more individiuals freedoms than in conservatives nations, less violence , etc... Conservatives politics means : great inequalities, leading to more violence, lower HDI, less social protection, more misery, less indivdual freedom. What you say about the economic is false, if there is no politic of solidarity for sharing wealth, the lower class can be taken away from the economic growth. In the 19th century, conservatives capitalists were very richs while their workers were kept in the state of misery. It was socailist movement and the more humanist liberal that made more human politics for giving rights and freedoms to the workers. If conservatives does not fear a socailist , communist or anything assimilated to this, revolution, revolt, they don't do anything for the middle and lower class. Yes conservative fear novelty, that is why they keep the system like it is, it defends the inequalities,the power of the elits, etc.... They odn't want a good society, they want a society they already know. In fact their happiness is at the cost of the social minorities well being and freedoms. It favor religious beliefs over scientific knowledge, because it feeds their rigid mind. Scientific knowledge brings a part of uncertainity that conservatives can't stand.
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  10. + s c There is a confusion between logic of ideas, and ideas of peoples. The positions about the variety of issues from liberals and conservatives label are not arbitrary, because each camp is related to a logic of ideas. And each logic of ideas, antagonists logic of ideas, leads to have a specific position about a specific issue, becasue they are related to psychological drives. In addition there are four logic of ideas, the other two can share positions from both side, or have a specific point of view about an issue. But real persons can be driven by different motivations , on different issues, becasue the psychology of people can be complex. This is why people can be not 100% in line with the theoric position of their camp. For example some politic positions are related to rigidity of mind, but net everybody is 100% rigid mind, in fact it must be rare to be 100% rigid mind and not pretty, then some people can be driven by their rigidity on some issues, but be more opened, using more their intelligence on some other issue.
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  11. +BurntBacon gun control reduce opportunity to wild use of gun , it reduce accidental death of member of families, etc.... Just look the crime rate from gun in the USA, and the crime rate in western countries with gun control. The propaganda from NRA is just propaganda. Wild guns do not reduce criminality. In fact wild guns + violent American culture = bloody mixture
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  12.  @junkim5853  Stop to be irrational and ignorant. Your introduction is a pure joke when you know the history of the Nazi party, when you know and UNDERSTAND the ideology. "Nazis are not a right wing faction they sought to take heavy control on social provisions." Pure ignorance of Nazism, and left versus right antagonism. Then it can't be an argument. Left versus right is about concentration of power, about equality of power ( real left wing, and democracy) versus hierarchic power (right wing). And nazism is all about hierarchic power! Nazism is against equality. Claiming and being is not the same thing. I guess that many criminal claim to be honest or innocent. Nazim is not socialism , but nationalism, and antagonist to socialism . The nazi hate socialism and communism. Nazi persecuted and killed socialists. Nazis were on the right wing side of the German assembly!!!!! All what you say is just plain wrong there is nothing progressive in nazism, it is anti progressive, anti modernist, it belongs in the reactionary family. Left give right and freedom to workers, nazism removed all right and power inside the enterprise.....
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  13. black smith look like you fear the truth. The non sense is saying that conservatives defend freedom while they are authoritarians. Conserative don't defend (social) equality because their polic has for main focus the preservation of the social inequalities. What conserve the conservatives ? the hierachy of social inequalities, the social oeder with its inequalities. They make even thing going worst by raising economic inequality, reducing help to people in need, etc... Conservatives favor higher rate death among youg children among the poors with their inequality's politic agaisnt the poor. Cuba get a better result than the USA while their are poorer. You are confusion gay with transexual, thisis not the same thing, gay are about sexual attractivity, transexual are about internal feeling about sexual identity. take a man if he is heterosexual he says : "i am a man and i love women" if he is gay he says : "i am a man and i love men" if he his transexual he could say : "i am identified as man with a body of a man but i feel deeply i am a woman and i want my body fit with my mind" It is another dimension, a medical dimension. This is nice many thing you say about you general view, but this is not the standard conservative mind, where labels are more important than the person. Women, blacks, poors, migrants, etc... are not viewed as person but before all as member of a social category, and the social order require that memeber of the categories stay at the place given to this category by the social order. This is why left is born : for making people being free from this categories.
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  14. The ninja nerd For the elits the there is an interest for making the confusion between progressives & liberal, with extremist, Orwell give the explanation : manipulating the word for manipulating the thinking. At the end if peoples believe that freedom is slavery, they are unable to think the freedom. In this case they try to forbid to think to an alternative to their domination by making believe that all alternative to their domination lead to dictatorships, millions of deads, etc...
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  15. Conservatives are The Center of the right, not center right, more right is far right, center right are more classical liberal than conservatives, with less rigid view on societal points.
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  16. There are four ideologic poles, antagonists two by two; the left and right classic ideologic opposition follows one of the two antagonisms, one of the other poles fits with anlo saxon liberalism, libertarianism, ancap, etc.... the last pole is called by specialist communautary. Stalinism, maoism , etc... are ditactorships communautary with some hierarchic level(not the true communautary), quakers, amishs etc... are better models for real communautary. The fundamental split between the "liberal" pole and communautary is the question of social bind. Communautary is all about social bond, while liberal pole is for reduce all social bind, and favor egoist mind (like stimer). There is a liberal left and a liberal right, but in the USA the word liberal fall for more progressive side of the liberals, while in europe the word liberal is more in line with classic liberal, anglo-saxon liberalism, the egist drift of our societies etc... Liberal left share the focus on social personnal freedoms with the left, some interest for solidarity, healthcare, etc, but less than the left, and are for less regulation of private economic power but against savage capitalism. The real democratic trend comes from the left pole, in France it was the left wing of the revolution that made the system more democratic than the monarchy where only the richs men could vote and being elected,with universal suffrage , and allowing vote for blacks (free and ex slaves). Then the more democratic philosophy set democratic power in all sides of the society, in politic with a democratic assembly elected by everyone, and economic democratic power in the enterprise. The philosophers and thinker that were holding this type of ideology got a specific name : socialists. The more radical being the socialists anarchists. And then their are the core of the left. Progressists are more moderates and don't expect a strong revolution, but instead reforms of the society, but the global purpose, the ideal , is the same than socialists.
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  17. nick nieheus nice exemple of totalitarian control over language with your strawman.
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  18. +Just a random guy wanting to study filmmaking and i think that behind my door there will be a box full of gold the next time i open it... we can think about many things...... The fact is that racism is far right ideology, not left or liberal. In fact nationalism like racism, make take poor decision because driven by fear, and fear is the enemy of the intelligence.
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  19. Racism is a far right ideology, it is stranger to liberal thinking. Helping peoples discriminated by racism is not racism.
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  20. +The Born Again Christian this is why the hotter years in the last century were in the last decade. this is why ice cap is melting like never before a far far time. this is why hurricane, tornadoes , etc... are stronger, more numerous, etc.... than before. this is why we will have wine in England soon. This is why in Mediterranean sea we can sea fish that live only under tropical seas or oceans before. You are the guy falling from the roof of the trump tower, and each time a guy look you at a windows you are saying "all is OK!".
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  21. ROFLOL generous and compationate the conseratives: health care for poors? nooooooo! people in social distress? go away from me!!!!!! solidarity from the richer with the poorer? noooooo! prenatal care for poor women (mostly black) ? noooo! and in addition they make this poor women hold the burden of the death of their baby. Yes compasionnate and generous!!!!! stupid conservatives want to save fetuse without feeling and thinking , but prefer want them dying once born with feeling and consciousness, because of their anti generous politic. the generosity toward the women : be a womb and a servant to your man. i guess that the list is far longuer.....
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  22. no political psychology show that this is right wing authoritarianism that is illness and self destructive. Liberal defend politic for a better and more peaceful society. People wanting gun everywhere are self destructive..
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  23. In America liberal = left progressive . But liberalism in itself just leads to destruction of social link, and then destroy the society. The left defend a better future for all, without the paranoiac views of the right wing. All progress in the society come from ideas from left wing philosophies like abolition of slavery and racism, democratic republic, equality between man and women, freedom of though, social protection, right and protections for workers, etc... A bunch of ideas where the first opponents were always right wing.
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