Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Americafest Horror: Proof These People Are Dangerous" video.
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@bryanhill1406 Sorry if this is a very long reply but you have asked a very valid point.
First off America does NOT have a Left party it has 2 Right Wing Parties its just that one is further to the right and going even further to the right. Remember when Obama said his economic policies where in line with Reagan's.
In Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other nations the Labor Parties were started inside the Union Movements. Its why they are called Labor parties. In Europe the Communist and Socialist parties were started by Commies and Socialists. The French Republicans (Girondists and Jacobins) emerged out of the Paris Commune. In the rest of the world the Left Wing parties DID NOT start among a group of self righteous slave owners that later flipped decided to court the union movement, which is exactly what the Democrats did.
So there is the first thing to understand. America does NOT have a Left.
It has a Right wing party party that is slightly to the Left of a hard core Right Wing party.
Second (and I had to think about this) the best way to describe radicals of any sort is:
Radicals are people who allow their ideology to take precedence over reality allowing them to justify anything in the defense of that ideology. Further they see anyone who does NOT comply with their narrative based on their ideology as their mortal enemy. They are notably vicious towards dissent from within their power base.
Think about the French Revolutionaries. They told France we will free you from the oppression of the aristocrats and then promptly fed anyone who even slightly questioned anything to Madame Guillotine. When the Girodin's began to question them they were purged and exterminated.
Westerners tend to think of Radical Islam in terms of Al Qaeda, but take a look at Isis. Their cruelty towards other Muslims was next level. They just simply held mass executions of people they even suspected of dissent.
Think about Communist Russia, Marx was an economist who said workers should equally share the profits of business through collective (as in community or communal) ownership. When did the Russian people share in any of the wealth for all those decades and what happened to any dissenters. When Stalin held purges they killed 1000s while 1000s more were sent to their deaths in Siberian Gulags.
For examples of the radical Left in America it takes a bit of explaining. Go look up Henry Wallace's quote on American fascists where he said American fascists wont do Fascism the same way as Europeans. They'll do it in an American way. America's radical left are similar they don't do thing's like other radical leftists do but do it in a very American way. If you know what to look for they aren't too hard to spot, but they are adept at hiding in crowds.
One of the things George Orwell wrote about was the hijacking of language for political reasons. In his book "1984" he coined the term "doublespeak." In a nutshell its where you hijack language through changing the definitions of words. The aim was very simple - confuse the language so that certain topics were impossible to discuss. There are 2 words that have been hijacked in America in recent years "woke" and "progressive."
Woke - is a word first used by African Americans as street slang for "Are you awake to the reality of our situation." It was mainly a reference to wealth, but also included justice, education, public services and health care. There's a City of Boston study that showed the average white Bostonian has a combined wealth (assets less liabilities) of over $240,000 while Black Bostonians are worth $8.00 (yes as in 10 minus 2).
Right now that term is almost exclusively associated with sexual identity. I'm not saying that the LGBT community didn't deserve fairness, justice or their turn at the public microphone, but a section of their community did hijack a word. Plus anyone who dares question their narrative is trolled to the hilt.
Progressive - was for over 100 years the label used to describe people in the center of politics and it simply meant they were people who didn't care if an idea came from the Left or Right so long as it helped MAKE PROGRESS. Up until a few years ago it had almost dropped out of the public discussion. Then it started being used by anyone wanting to see PROGRESS on things like the economy, job stability, wages, health care, education, the environment, infrastructure, government services and military spending, to name just a few subjects.
Then like "woke" the word "progressive" was hijacked by certain elements to mean very specific things like LGBT rights. One of the consequences has been the radical right media to jump on anyone they can and label them as "woke" or "progressive" as radical leftists hell bent on the destruction of society. Go watch some of David's vids on Right Wing media hawks like Tucker Carlson.
The result has been that for anyone to even start talking publicly about things like wealth inequality, education costs, health care services the discussion immediately goes into a Right versus Left culture war screamfest AND anyone who tries to keep the discussion sensible is dealt with ruthlessly. Sam Harris is a person who has copped some of that nonsense. He's been labelled a radical right winger by some on the left and a radical leftist by some on the right.
If you go and listen to Mark Blyth the political economist from Brown U. He wrote a book with Eric Lonergan who's a hedge fund manager called "Angrynomics" and part of that book is about the subject of anger and how its expressed both privately and publicly. Go listen to what they say about "tribal anger" and once you understand what tribal anger is and how it gets manipulated you'll understand a lot.
Again sorry for the length of this.
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