Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Can You Find Middle Ground with Lunatic Republicans?" video.

It doesn't matter what color, what creed, what tribe, what religion or what ANYTHING. You can't argue or reason with a fanatic. They're not driven by reason, logic or the general well being of others or society. They are driven by ideology. Jordan Peterson (who David's commented on) said that they can tell when radicals on the right have gone too far - its when they become racist. He then said we can't do the same for radicals on the left because there's no simple indicator. I think he was dead wrong. Its fairly simple to see when anyone has taken any idea too far. Radical Left, Radical Right or Radical anything else. Its when they have their ideology take precedence over the welfare of other human beings. Look at the NRA. What comes first their ideology of "their security" or the security and welfare of anyone else?
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@Ringside Rebel Mark Twain said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".
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@Ringside Rebel Mark Twain said, “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
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@joostdriesens3984 It wasn't so much that he was being disingenuous he was just SIIMPLY WRONG. I'd heard him say it a couple of times IN THE PAST (before COVID) but not lately. I did look but couldn't find a vid to show you. He was never implying the left were being secretly "anything" he was comparing what people know about people going too far in EITHER direction. FYI - I'm very neutral and have no time for either the radicals on the right or the left. I think it was Jonathan Haidt that said "There's a cacophony of noise where the radical left and radical right just scream at each other and the rest of us trapped in the middle are exhausted." I'm one of those in the middle who's had enough of BOTH of both the radical left and radical right and all their crappy ideologies. What JBP was saying is that there's a really clear marker for people radicalised on the right (racism) and there is NOT a similar marker on the radical left. I think he's just wrong because the marker isn't specifically racism its when people let their ideology override common sense, ethics, morality, reality or a combination of those things. I grew up in the 1970s when there were BOTH right and left wing terrorists hijacking planes and blowing stuff up each week. Does it matter if they are right or left when they hijack a plane or blow something up? NO because for the rest of us they are both people with no morals, ethics or sense of reality. BTW - I don't follow JBP much. From what I have seen these days he's clearly still suffering the after effects of his drug issue.
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