Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Yang Gives Horrible Answer To Budget/Infrastructure Question" video.

  1. The only people actually getting fooled by the flowery phrased "human-centered capitalism" are the ones who don't understand the full scope of its damage. Our system of governance, Democracy, is a modern construct, whereas Capitalism is the equivalent of Feudalism, a system that has been obsolete for nearly 300 years. The fact that there is such an infinite gap between the wealthy & countless homeless in the streets just shows that the same symptoms of Feudalism (lords, peasants, & serfdom) is still alive and well through Capitalism even in the year 2021. If Yang wanted to call it Social Democracy, it'd be different, but by using the phrase & corresponding language/explanations of "his version" of Capitalism, it's clear he wants to keep the worst parts of the system in play & make tweaks around the edges so the serfs stop complaining so much..
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  2. I always thought it was incredible Yang got so many fools to argue against the simple idea of a higher minimum wage, but this is just a whole other level of corporate bootlicking
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  3. Yeah, that type of economic Libertarianism takes people down some extremely absurd & dark paths. Remember when Rand Paul was the only person in the Senate voting against (and actively obstructing/blocking) the 9/11 responder's health insurance renewal. Yang's got some ridiculous policies like that too, like sunsetting all gov't regulations, which would have a disastrous result.
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  4.  @eworldRick  Except he's mainly pulling people from the left side of the spectrum. Yes, he still gets some right-wingers from time to time, but remember Yang ran in the Democratic Party's primary and most of his existing supporters were on that side of the spectrum. He's not quitting the Republican Party, he's making a big show of quitting the Democratic Party, which is why Tucker Carlson is thrilled to have him on so he can do the whole "Why I Left the Left" line of questioning, even if it's not technically accurate (or maybe it is, I really have no idea anymore what Yang believes). Add to the fact that his party is just going to be another corporatist party that still accepts PAC money & is basically slowly rotted from the inside out whether it gets popular or not, you know, cause that's what big money does. I don't see this as being a win for working families one way or the other; at best, I see it as being impartial & irrelevant to the public or the Left-wing. I guess time will tell, but so far, not a good start.
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  5.  @Hydr0matic  It's so bizarre talking to people who support Yang because the guy above you is literally arguing about how Yang could potentially get half the Republican Party to sign onto his agenda, while you're arguing "he supported and voted for Bernie". It's stuff like this that makes me wonder whether Yang's own supporters even understand where he truly stands on the issues. What I see as the objective reality from looking at Yang's policies though is that he is far more of a Libertarian on a lot, if not most, issues - his UBI is the Libertarian version where it's slashing ("replacing") social programs, he wants to place sunset clauses on all gov't regulations (which is some big L libertarian stuff), & then he has the general cultural libertarian ideals that line up with Leftists such as drug decriminalization & so on. Then I would say he's a standard neoliberal on foreign policy, where he's basically said he would imprison Julian Assange and whistleblowers because they're "criminals", & then his problematic views on Israel & US allies that are human-rights violators; aside from that, he barely even comments on foreign policy. Also, the fact that he doesn't support the incredibly popular spending bill, but defends the bipartisan infrastructure bill that's just a huge giveaway to private special interests tends to, at least partially, land him in the category of a neoliberal corporatist (most of whom ARE actually supporting the spending bill minus Manchin and Sinema). I can guarantee, there's no way Yang still supports Bernie's version of Social Democracy (if he ever did), considering 1. as I just said, he doesn't even support the $3.5 Trillion spending bill, 2. he endorsed Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders in the Dem Primary, 3. he took an adversarial stance against Bernie on most issues in the 2020 Democratic Primary, even on Medicare for All where he waffled & backpedaled halfway through his campaign & 4. he's essentially called his economic approach "human-centered capitalism", which is the exact opposite to Bernie who calls himself a Democratic Socialist but employs a more Social Democratic form of economics as a current (maybe temporary) compromise to our current hyper-capitalist system and body of government. At this point in 2021, it's pretty senseless to even try to correlate him to Bernie Sanders.
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  6.  @luigipiraino3528  I do own a small business and it's not, or at the very least it's a false dichotomy. If you can't pay your employees a decent wage, then you shouldn't have them. I employee programmers and designers, who sit at a desk all day or even work from home, & I wouldn't ever pay them a wage that's not equal to or better than a living wage. Why should someone not receive a living wage when they're doing back-breaking labor & arguably much harder work.
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  7. Watching both Yang and Tulsi devolve like this is reminding me a lot of how Elizabeth Warren ran her campaign into the ground by becoming utter trash.
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  8.  @luigipiraino3528  Or it's incredibly vague and doesn't actually mean anything, just like the statement you just quoted. It's like saying, "Yang doesn't exist anywhere on the political spectrum" as in, he has no real true ideology or beliefs that can be analyzed or measured. This is the same as simply having no principles and no ideology, not really something you want in a political leader. However, as I said before, Yang is on the political spectrum and is a Libertarian & a neoliberal on foreign and other issues. Saying he's "not left or right, but forward" is just pure nonsense.
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  9. Yang's 2 "bipartisan" Democrats blocking the spending bill just conveniently happen to be the most corrupt ghouls in the Democratic Party. This is seriously the hill he wants to die on?
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  10. It's become incredibly clear by now that Yang is in no way a populist or even has the public's interests in mind. He's just an empty "bipartisanship" obsessed corporate tool. He's literally on the level of Manchin and Sinema now defending this garbage.
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