Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Actually, Leftists aren't STUPID people" video.

  1. Left-wingers are group thinkers. As such, lefties support ideas on the basis of whether they're told the ideas are right or left-wing. Because the lefty hasn't worked the ideas out for themselves they can come across as stupid. A right winger, in contrast, does not need to understand ideas as the right basically go with 'what works'. So a right-winger only has to point to something working to say I agree with that! Many left-wing ideas are idealist, utopian or whatever. As such, the person who originated the ideas only has to promote a plausible sounding rationale to be taken seriously by the left. "The system is rigged against the poor" <- Evidently. The market system depends on money. Yet I don't see how this relates to many left wing policies such as climate scare, transing kids, trashing Western history, hating white people, ... "The right wing are full of racists and fascists" <- At this point, you've lost me. I'm pushing 70. During my life racism and fascism have never been so marginalized. The left have become an army of resentful, hateful people. This ressentiment and hate is justified as "critical theory".
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  2. Leftists actually are stupid people. I define stupid as both ignorant and afraid to learn the truth. Is that an OK definition? As an ex-leftist, I know this; my lived experience showed me it.
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  3. This endemic language of "you're all racists or facists" is a defense mechanism because socialism has never been shown to work. "As a right winger you must be trying to trick us" <- Yet you just spent ages meticulously explaining to us that the left are not stupid! To the right-winger who only sees failure to debate, group-think, foul insults, ... it must seem that lefties are stupid. Ressentiment and group think explain the left.
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