Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "Ben Shapiro on the decline of American patriotism" video.

  1. Actually anyone with a background in finance or economics does not oppose raising taxes on the rich based on emotional factors like individualism. It is opposed on the basis that redistribution of wealth just doesn't work. You could take every penny from every millionaire in the country and it would not fund our government for more than a few days. And it's not just economics, it sociological as well. Time and time again it has been proven that people value what they earn more dearly than what is given to them. So giving away more money to people who don't earn it doesn't work. The city I live near found this out for themselves. Their school district gave $300 to every poor family (below a particular income level) for them to buy school supplies for their kids. It was reported that more than half these people spent the $300 on things like X-boxes, PlayStations, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.
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  2. Nobody respects anything when they don't have to earn it. They just complain more and more that what they are given for free isn't enough. They expect equal results over equal opportunity, which is exactly why many in this younger generation cry about free college and loan forgiveness because their $100K degrees didn't get them the dream job they expected would automatically be handed to them. The participation trophy generation (PTG) hasn't had to earn anything. So why would they respect anything? Including their own country. No, instead, their country is evil because they don't provide enough free things and guaranteed outcomes for them. Government is an extension of mom and dad. When mom and dad make you earn your way in life, you respect them, and yourself, and others. When mom and dad give you everything, you expect more and complain when you don't get it. The PTG wants a government that is just an extension of mom and dad. Cradle to grave coddling. They see countries like Denmark and Sweden and others with big social welfare systems...but choose to ignore all the other problems those countries have (many created by the system itself), and ignore the difference in demographics and just plain way of life there. No, the United States is not Sweden. It never will be, and it never should be.
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