Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Jimmy Dore Reunited With Dave Rubin For Advanced Grifter Advice On Leaving The Left" video.
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@JoKo203 I know that Dore knobs don't grasp the words like "gaslighting" and "blackmail", but do you also not grasp the word "grifter"? Obviously, the grifter would claim to be for certain things, but the way they propose obtaining those things doesn't actually get you those things.
The 30 year old broader progressive caucus is about 15 seats away from becoming the majority of house Dems. Justive Dems are 4 years old and have filled about a dozen seats. AOC has been at it 2 years and helped fill a few more seats. The most popular third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence. The most popular progressive third party hasn't won a single seat in congress in its 20 year existence. In what reality would going third party get you what you want, quicker?
Even if you magically got the third party popular enough to get all the progressive votes, in the next 100 years, you'd split the Dem votes and let Republicans rule, for decades to come, after that. Trump, and Republicans, have been trying to toss 10m of the poorest Americans off of Medicaid expansion. They, literally, want to go in reverse. That moves you further away from ever getting M4A.
The directions Dore often proposes going move you further away from getting the things he claims he supports. That's the grift.
The grifter promoted Tulsi (public option) over Bernie (M4A), for months. Then he did an about face, and made out like not supporting a secondary tactic for a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote, on M4A, was enough to slander other progressives as "fakes", "frauds", "sellouts", and whatnot. Obviously, supporting a non-M4A candidate is worse than not supporting a secondary tactic, and moves votes away from the M4A candidate. Slandering M4A's most ardent congressional supporters, and getting people to follow some fantasy, moves you further away from ever getting M4A.
Then, after making out like simply disagreeing over a single secondary tactic, was enough to no longer consider other progressives allies, then did another about face, and promoted allying with psycho far right ancap Boogaloos, who want to start a civil war, and agree on next to nothing, aside from a handful of anti-authoritarian issues ... including disagreeing on M4A, which they want no part of. M4A and ancap are incompatible. Allying with loons, like that, is how "leftists" wind up on the wrong side of a Night of the Long Knives. Who does he think they're going to be shooting, in their civil war? Ancap is all about private ownership. They'll be shooting any leftist that want public ownership.
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@Daneelro Yeah, that's why I like the 2D political compass, for authoritarian vs anti-authoritarian takes. Being authoritarian, or anti-authoritarian, isn't necessarily left, or right. You can like someone's takes on some anti-authoritarian issues, but people shouldn't let that fool them, that they're on the same side, when it comes to a majority of political issues. Glenn's (and Dore's) recent "free speech" rantings have been very much the kind you hear from right wingers, even if they are seemingly anti-authoritarian. They never propose public ownership, which would give people free speech rights. They pretend like people are losing "free speech" righs, when nobody ever had such rights on someone else's private property, to begin with. They just seem to expect to be able to say whatever they want on someone else's private property, even expecting to dodge editors, whose jobs it is to literally edit your work before publication. And, if Glenn's take on Trump is similar to Dore's, Dore simply agreed with Tucker about how problematic it was for Trump to be removed from social media. Aside from what I mentioned above, Dore also never pointed out that incitement isn't even protected speech. If Glenn also doesn't point that out, then they're just defending far right wing insurrectionists, who wanted to overthrow the democratic process to install Dumpty as an unelected dictator.
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