Comments by "Paddle Duck" (@paddleduck5328) on "The Establishment Brazenly Erases Left-Wing Voices" video.

  1. 🍫 here friend, have a Snickers
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  2. I dunno about debating people on a show, that can just be how persuasive one individual is over another. Some people who are good at explaining things are not necessarily good at debates. I used to be religious and a moderate conservative too and get what you're saying tho. Debate or just lay out the ideas and motivations behind them. Without too much bias, or at least an understanding attitude. That can't do anything but help. Honestly, for me it was evolving over a long time, broadening my worldview, expanding my experiences, and seeing the closed-minded nastiness on the right that pushed me away. I'd considered "democrat" as a nasty word for so many years, I didn't pull the trigger and finally change my party affiliation until Bernie came.
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  3. Yes, the implication somebody had to be the victor and the loser. I'd love to just listen to thoughtful commentators hash out ideas and perspectives while keeping it friendly. Or at least civil if it gets heated. If you start a channel, or get someone else to, I'll subscribe 😎 we do get that here and there with some voices and reporters, but there's always room for more. Be awesome to have a primer on basic platform issuers and people's thought processes on why certain policies are helpful or not helpful, and what they're ultimately trying to accomplish. I know there's much that we see eye-to-eye on. It's just the way we've chosen to get there that's different. I'm guilty of throwing out plenty of partisanship myself lately. 😝 Hopefully by next year it'll have gotten better, some things will have changed for the better, and I won't feel constantly gaslighted and frustrated by the relentless trolls and their dear leader.
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  4. Maybe not pres yet, but a state assemblyman would be awesome.
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  5. TheRedRaccoonDog I'm guessing you mean the overly vocal nasty trolls posting on YouTube. Thank the lord they're not representative of all the people on the right. They're pretty tough so deal with, cuz they're closed minded, outrageous, loud, shameless, and love to get people riled up. Individuals on the right who aren't trolls though are just people. With a variety of beliefs and life experiences. I'll bet a lot of them never even post anything, just lurk and read. It's easy to forget a lot of us are just members of the party our parents were, or we chose when we were kids straight outta high school. I'm not religious anymore myself, but honestly religious people gravitate toward the right. Even if they don't believe everything in their platform. I know the left is accepting of all beliefs (including no beliefs), but aggressive atheist types who attack people on their closely-held belief system are just good at winning arguments...and making people more closed minded. I understand it's hard to be patient with people when they have a belief system that requires a suspension of reality, but the approach can be off-putting and nobody's going to just give up being a member of their religion instantly one day because somebody made a good argument against theirs. This isn't about you or Kyle or anything. Just pointing out something on the left where I think we need to be building bridges. The right needs to stop being the home for the religious. They've stirred up this frenzy that the left is persecuting them and wants to take away their religious freedoms. People are honestly imagining themselves having secret bible meetings by candlelight in basements "if the left gets its way", like those missionaries in Russia who had to proselytize in secret or be arrested. Completely irrational, I know. But there's people in the pulpits putting this ridiculous stuff in their heads. There's someone in my family who hates cronyism, lobbying, war profiteering...and loves animals, the earth, cares about the environment, and our gay relatives. A natural fit for the left you'd think? All except...he's religious. So while he loves and supports his gay relatives 100% in the personal sense and even wants to be part of their gay wedding ceremony, he still is conflicted on the topic in general. And although he supports abortion as a right for everyone, that he'd never choose for himself, he has trouble wrapping his mind around "pro-choice" meaning exactly that, letting people choose. Instead of "who-hoo I think abortion is great and should be used like birth control" how others are framing it. But he worries about when "the soul" comes into the fetus...is it at conception? Some point in the middle, right before birth, at birth? Whether anyone else thinks the way he does, he agonizes internally over the ethical issue. He's empathetic that a woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy is agonizing over it too thankfully. But the question of whether he's right with God on the issues weighs heavily on him. He fell for the idea of Trump being a businessman could mean a good economy for us, smartly run instead of bureaucratic nonsense and waste. Ala Ross Perot. He saw out government as dysfunctional and throwing a Trump grenade into the works as shaking things up so we could get the parasitic vultures out and run the country eventually more efficiently. They were nice ideas and he's since not viewing Trump so favorably anymore. He's seeing through the facade Trump put up, the hypocrisy, and the serious risks Trump is exposing us to with his ego and his rashness. I don't know if I had a conclusion to end it with, I just got to talking and had some points I wanted to verbalize in real life examples. I guess mostly that there's people who'd be on our "side" if we didn't alienate them, and recognize their religious beliefs can be a huge factor in turning them against "us". So our approach can be important when talking to them. I worry the left is accidentally making enemies with people who are religious. And many of them don't need any help in that regard. The right is whispering in their ear that we're a people without ethics, who want to take their rights away. They're full of crap, but they're winning at this point so far. Ok ramble over. If you read this far, I thank you for your time. :)
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  6. I think Trump's word salad must be contagious
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  7. If Bernie runs tho it'll be great because he's already the most respected politician out there. And I live in California so personally I'm damn glad we don't hafta wait until the end of the primary to vote in June, when it's essentially already over!
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