Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "A Guide to American Liberalism" video.

So, the first thing you have to understand is that “liberalism” involves a specific state of freedom. Laws are the antithesis of freedom. Secondly, “conservatism” is a relative modifier. It requires a term to explicitly define what is to be conserved. You mentioned a couple, but a Constitutional Conservative seek to conserve the founding principles. Those founding principles were the progressive ideas in their time while the Tories were the conservatives because they wanted to conserve the supremacy of the Crown. Now, if it was PROGRESS to move away from a tyrannical centralized government, how is it progress to go BACK to one? A Constitutional Conservative seeks to conserve the Progress the Founders made by resisting the regression back to a centralized government. Centralization in a socioeconomic contexts is equivalent to tyranny. Everywhere else, it leads to instability, susceptibility to corruption, and exponentially increasing inefficiency. Centralization is regressive.
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@hektor6766 What a stunning rebuttal. You must get far in life with your use of unsubstantiated claims. Would you like to try again and explain what ideas I have a problem with, son?
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0:01 Already I love that you put ‘liberals’ in quotes. I hope you touch a little on etymology and explain that ‘liberal’ and ‘liberty’ have a common root for a reason. It’s the same reason tyrants appropriated the term in the first place. By evoking emotions of “freedom”, tyrants hide the fact that they are completely willing to force their ideas on those who disagree by passing laws to turn a diverse culture into a more monolithic one. 0:20 EXACTLY!! The Socratic method demands establishing mutually accepted definitions for terms BEFORE proceeding to the meat of the conversation. Rational discourse is hampered by words improperly used based on a common connotation applies to a word. Perhaps you can do another video on the difference between “capital” (individualism; free market) in capitalism versus “means of production” (collectivism; planned economy) in socialism. “Profit” and “surplus” follows the same methodology of applying a negative connotation to one of two terms with the same meaning and a positive connotation to the other so that the ideology associated with the former subconsciously biases participants into negative associations that are unjustified. Surplus implies good handling of finances by government which shows good stewardship of stolen wealth, while profit implies a successfully executed greed. 0:30 “…or a Progressive…” Another good one. The Founders revolted against a heavily centralized government because it was tyrannical. Centralization every where else leads to instability, susceptibility to corruption, and exponentially increasing inefficiency. It was actually progressive to move towards decentralization as every complex system does when it grows. People who argue for MORE federal laws are the antithesis of progress. Going BACK to what the Founders fought a bloody revolution to leave behind is the definition of regression. 2:30 “mutual respect backed by law” 😂 An oxymoronic turn of phrase I had never heard before. How is it a sign of mutual respect to codify what you mutually agree on? If you agree on it, then no law is necessary. All a “mutually agreed to” law does is say, “we agree, but I don’t trust that you mean it.” Otherwise a law says, “we don’t agree, but I’m going to force you to agree.” 12:45 Liberalism isn’t a government system because it isn’t FREEDOM if it’s GOVERNED. 1984 was happening long before book was written. So much double speak. So little time to undo it all…
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@ilovebeinggay6794 Fewr mongering? You mean like what caused all the death and destruction in 2020?
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@ilovebeinggay6794 “a small percentage…” Yeah, a small percentage of a million is 10,000, and 10,000 rioters can do a LOT of damage. Look. I get it. You people suck at math.
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@ilovebeinggay6794 Funny you should bring up “redlines.” House: Democrat Senate: Democrat President: Democrat Cities where redlining occurred: Democrat Who do you vote for, kid?
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@keropi193 A quick lesson for you: “Liberal” and “Liberty” have the same etymological roots for a reason: freedom. Explain to me how MORE laws equate to MORE freedom, then explain why America has a mass incarceration issue propagated by Biden in the ‘80s; attempted to be undone by President Trump; and protected by Kamala Harris. Once you finish that exercise in intellectual contortion, you can go into detail about non-violent minorities being incarcerated in California and “offered” jobs if putting out forest fires for TWO DOLLARS AN HOUR. Make sure you explain that that was the reason that Kamala fought against President Trump’s early release programs for NON-VIOLENT “criminals” because those programs would negatively impact California’s $2/hr slave labor force. I know going into specifics like that kneecaps the nebulous language you use to hide your ignorance and/or intellectual dishonesty, but that’s what appropriating the term ‘liberal’ was for, wasn’t it? To hide tyranny behind a term that implies freedom?
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So, your first problem was putting conflicting ideas into the same phrase: Liberal = freedom Democracy = tyranny
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@hektor6766 “Dogma interferes with finding a balance of juxtaposed individual/society and liberty/obligation…” You don’t have to look far to find that balance. Every large natural and man-made system follows the same pattern except human governments. There’s billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of innovation proving the same pattern over and over. You even have an example of it in your skull that you use to blab intelligent sounding propositions that only serve to underscore your complete ignorance on the matter.
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@MichaelOxlongerThanYours Proud to be a nerd rather than a mindless Neanderthal.
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@MichaelOxlongerThanYours I barely posted a page worth of words…hardly a college essay. But thanks for admitting you are unable to process a college essay. My comment was directed at people who can critically think. You should just keep scrolling until you find five word monosyllabic comments.
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@MichaelOxlongerThanYours I did say FIND them. You had MADE that one.
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