Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Joy Reid’s Positive Transformation: Progressive Is Now Pragmatic" video.

  1. As far as I’m concerned progressivism is being humanitarian.
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  2. Alex Smith yeah. Cause the “sane” people have no problem spending all the money of a “broke” nation for unnecessary wars, corporate welfare, tax cuts for the rich, and bailing out Wall Street; wow there truly is no money. Meanwhile they’re made to believe their only function is to work and die while the rich keep them in poverty and unheard in their own government. These are the sane folks that love serving corporate interests over their own.
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  3. Alex Smith You have a clear broad brush to view liberals, in fact you sound like you think SJWs are the liberal left. Careful there are some who think college kids high on liberalism are a threat to American society, like they’re a bigger issue than healthcare, wars, war on drugs, income inequality etc... I wouldn’t want you to go full on anti-SJW and forget the real issues. I’m sure conservatives thought the same of the hippies and psychedelics of the 60’s. And you know you have your faith, but this is a secular nation. Pro-life sentiment is completely based on religious beliefs and trying to force others to adhere to those beliefs is theocratic. Therefore government should not interfere on such personal matters merely cause it conflicts with some folks religion. Your faith is your own, not the nations. As for weed, it’s about time it became a prominent legal industry that boosts economies. Tobacco capitalists lobbied hard to get rid of marijuana as a rival industry to their tobacco and cigarette markets. Ever since the government made a non harmful drug a “moral” issue as excuses to keep it illegal. Truth is it would be a sprawling industry that would give cigarettes competition and take market shares, and they can’t have that. As for gender identities, social constructs are generated from millennia of conventional beliefs and some feel the need to challenge them. Well as someone who supports individualism what do I care what someone sees themselves as, they can believe they are who or whatever they want to be, as long as they do not seek the harm or taking of rights of others. SJWs have growing to do, but they aren’t the leaders or even main group of the left.
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