Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "OtherBarak" channel.

  1. She is precisely right on the Left / Muslim 'alliance'. I'm not sure she described the "woke right" properly - I'd say they are antisemitic, Christian nationalists, and generally anti-Imperialist (they want less globalism - especially when it's not US-led). All 3 groups are also profoundly anti-democratic. [ meaning "democratic" in its wider, traditional meaning - not our hijacked 'democratic' institutions owned by political cynics.] All 3 groups: militant Muslims, their Leftist allies and the so-called woke right are driven by ressentiment. Nothing much there but ressentiment because they have little 'positive' sense of what they want (apart from control over the rest of us). I say 'nothing positive' because - their 'positive vision' is one of domination over others & submission to dogma and autocracy. My definition of 'positive vision' is pluralist in the sense that anyone and everyone should have an input to society ( except those with cluster A, or severe cluster B personality disorders and/or criminal intent ). I think these two themes - ressentiment + anti-democratic - combine with many people in the 3 groups above. They are anti-democratic because they have no trust in reason, nor their ability to persuade us. That distrust leads to an anti-humanism which fuels their ressentiment. In politics no alliance is possible with such groups; as any attempted alliance leads to your own suicide / subordination / defeat. PS: Woke right - a phrase invented by James Lindsay. ressentiment - in its Nietzchean definition & French spelling.
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