Comments by "" (@indonesiaamerica7050) on "Matt Taibbi: How the Left lost its mind" video.

@B1B904 The video already explained it.
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This is nonsense. Collectivists are the ones that conflate evil nations with evil occupants. That's the actual definition of fallacious collectivist thinking. Most Republicans are liberal minded even if they personally choose to vote for "socially conservative" policies from someone's biased point of view. Reason media has too many "Libertarian" collectivists. I know you're against "Collectivist" governance, you say. I get it. But "Individualism" isn't a special mutation. Lots of Libertarian identitarians are inherently collectivist in thought. Liberals and libertarians don't need to identify themselves with labels. First demonstrate ordinary critical thinking. Then demonstrate that you understand where "leftism" comes from and what the founding doctrines are. You can't explain "Reasoning" if you don't know where these societal schisms come from. I know what you think and a lot of times you're wrong. WRT Soviet Communism versus whatever Russia is doing, certainly the people have more "democratic" control over Putin than any other leader from Soviet Russia or Russian monarchy. It's externally imposed Manichean thinking to suggest that anyone has "flipped" on Russia. FDR was closer to Stalin than to Churchill all duing WWII until FDR's death. The Democratic Party has always been cheering for Communism since that time if not before. Period. Russia is no longer Communist like any other regime. They are the first post-Communist fascist regime. And because of all the baby talk that has taken place in all of our academies and big media 'news' and entertainment we can't say something like 'Russia is now more like Nazi Germany than Soviet Russia' without that be taken as "calling out 21st century Hitlerian fascism". Because aside from Hitler's Final Solution the Soviet Communist regime was always far worse than the German Nazi regime. Putin is like Hitler without the "Final Solution" and even Hitler reborn would not need to take all of those measures because the material conditions in Russia have never been anything like Hitler faced. Period. And because Putin the individual, even if he shares most of his thinking with Hitler, is never going to be trapped in to acting in that way unless he really believes that "NATO" wants to "genocide" the Russian people. Putin knows that "liberal democracies" don't support anything like genocide. Russia expansion in to Ukraine is meant to defend itself from creeping CCP hegemony. He wants to trade with the liberal democracies while showing fealty to China's CCP. China is the one expanding in to Asia in every direction and in every route of commercial and trying to corner the world's most valuable natural resources. Do you think Putin doesn't understand what threatens Russia? People rarely say the most obvious things out loud. The Democratic Party pivot against Russia/Putin is all about DNC fascists getting in to a tiff with Putin while Putin became more like the US Democrats than any Soviet Communist ever did. That means either Putin submits to the US Democrats as the new "Vanguard Party" (under Leninism) or at the very least starts to "cooperate" more with European and American leftism. They didn't make this an obvious fight until Hillary needed a distraction from her own CGI and related "email" scandals. She tried to use a political "neg" trope on Trump. And it just grew from there. The only people that took that accusation theory are morons like James Comey, who is also a liberal fascist that doesn't know where any of his own thoughts come from. The jingoistic Republicans are stupid careerist politicians are have become more ignorant with each week, month and year that they spend in DC.
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@tedmarley4341 What happened to both parties is that the "centrists" are getting called out. If one is a Marxist party and the other is a liberal Constitutionalist party then that is what needs to be supported going forward to avoid future fusterclucks. If you want Communism, vote left. If you want liberalism (meaning liberty until someone proves their right to restrain it) then that is classic republicanism that has never been more clearly defined than in the US Constitution before "liberals" destroyed the courts. You want moderation in exercise, eating and so forth. You don't want "moderation" between Communists that want to destroy the very notion of enforceable individual rights and Republicans that are defending a clearly written document ratified over 2 centuries ago. If you want Communism just admit it openly.
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@johnsmithers8913 I never took any party or politician seriously until after their promises are delivered and proven successful. Usually long after they are dead. What had me starting to identify evil actors while they're still around is when Jimmy Carter started calling people "racist" for objecting to Obama's socialized medicine magic economics. I knew that came straight from the stupidest economists to ever pick up a pen. It basically comes from the "magic" of central planning. Any central plan (and destruction of individual autonomy) will allow Brain Trusts to deliver "better value" to the People. That's the theory. It's a delusional reading of Marxist dogmas. Marx himself was also totally delusional so none of this should surprise anyone. Each scandal after that had me ramping up my "objective suspicions" and then Mitt Romney came along to give "another choice". What I said at the time is that they're both total morons but at least the Republican Party isn't half as corrupt as the Democratic Party Marxists and their permanent "Brain Trust" ruling bureaucrats. The thing is that if you're truly "leftist" in the sense of (the claim of) representing the disenfranchised you can't possibly support the US Democratic Party. They have never, ever done that. A few programs did help some of their constituents that could then be used as fallacious arguments for their intentions and overall results. Ask Thomas Sowell what he thinks of all of that. The Democratic Party has promoted fallacious and deadly harmful collectivism for its entire existence.
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