Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Progressives Piss Off Just About Everybody | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

  1. I agree except its a little overly simplistic, but then in 3 short sentences you've summed up politics fairly well. The problem is humanity has such variety that to try and sum it up this simply is nigh impossible. Trying to be a bit more specific to politics and I only know about these things because a very good friend was involved in student politics for some time. What killed his political ambitions was how his mentor was felled. His mentor was a person with good intentions and even rarer for politics a person with ethics. Because of his ethics he was crushed. My friend realised that ethics in politics is not a knife you can use to cut through and make change, it is actually the knife others will snatch from your hand and stab you with. Here's how I'd add to your statement. The problem in politics are the differences between the 3 basic types of politicians those with good intentions, those with bad intentions and the rest with few intentions other than keeping their job. Surrounding politics is the media who have no other intention than getting attention. People with good intentions in politics want to change the system to be more equitable or at least better for the majority of people. Because its impossible to make everyone happy either one of 2 things happens. They compromise to the extent they cannot do anything of substance. Alternatively if they do take a stand then they get labelled as dismissive of other peoples concerns destroying their claim of good intentions. Either way they're doomed because in the end their compromises eat away at their core values or they are destroyed by enemies. People with bad intentions in politics will simply undermine or obstruct anything that does not specifically benefit them. Due to their narcissism they are willing to destroy any and every institution that society has developed even ones that in general help them. There is no such thing as a bad decision in their mind there are only decisions that don't help them as much as others. People who have no or few intentions in politics other than to keep their job are actually the worst because nobody can rely on them. They avoid attention and accountability at all costs, voting only on subjects where they can hide in the background. These are the worst of all politicians as they rarely support those with good intentions even when what's on offer benefits people because they fear one thing above all else, and that's the wrath of those with bad intentions. As for the media in politics they are either vile, compromised, heartless, mindless, ridiculous, hopeless, soulless, amoral, unethical or a combination of these things. They howl about the "publics right to know" as they filter out any detail that does not fit the narrative they are presenting. They will report that black is white and white is black as comfortably as they report that 1+1=3 is scientifically correct.
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