Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Actually, Leftists aren't STUPID people" video.

  1. I've never been big on labels. I didn't know I was a conservative until I attended university. I knew I voted differently from most of my friends and family, but I just attributed it to liking a candidates record or disliking the record of his opponent. I always had this thing for voting for stuff that works. I grew up in a city dominated by unions and I was a long-haired club musician but I voted for Ronald Reagan, even though I was told he was out to destroy the working man. Well, I stood in the eight-hour unemployment line under Carter so I figured I may not know what Reagan will or won't do when it comes to the working class, but it didn't take a rocket scientist to see what Carter and his policies had done. Then again, I was the kid always sticking up for the cops in the 1960s. Even now, most of my family and friends are still left-wing and me, well I'm still in the camp of stuff that works versus stuff that doesn't. They are wrapped up around fairness, I know fair is a place where pigs get judged. I was a leadership facilitator and I used to challenge my students to find the word fair in our founding documents. It's not there because our founders knew it was unattainable. The real difference boils down to the social contract and which camp you fall in. The Hobbesian camp see's people as absolutely irremeable, in need of a strong hand to keep the unwashed masses in check. Right-wing police states in South and Central America during the Cold war were examples of that. If you believe Rousseau, you believe our nature is not fixed, that it is corrupted by the ruling class and with the right training we can return to our original state, which was basically a worldwide kumbaya moment where everyone got along. Of course, there is no evidence for this but feelings play a large role for people in this group. Socialists fall into this camp, but socialism is actually a stage of history to a true believer, not an ideology in and of itself. Communism is the natural end of history for this bunch, the dissolving away of government because it is no longer needed. A return to our proper nature, Heaven on Earth if you will, which why you can't be a Communist and believe in God. Communism only works if people are perfectible, a belief that runs contrary to most religions, at least the Abrahamic ones. The third group follows Locke's view of the social contract. Locke is the middle way. Yes, people are mean and brutish by nature, but if they have enough resources and are allowed to govern their own affairs they will figure it out and get along based on self-interest, which is how we are wired anyway. The American system is based on Locke, at least it used to be when people played by the rules set out in the Constitution. If you get the three interpretations of the social contract you get the left versus right argument. Feelings versus results, the belief in a better world to come after we die or while are alive, the need for God or the need for people to just be a bit better educated. Build a better man you get a better world. Years ago, after the Berlin Wall fell, the idea was floated that we had reached an end of history, that we had outgrown ideology and were about to enter a golden age. We all believe the lies we want at some point don't we.
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  2. I'm not a subscriber to your channel but I enjoy enough of your content to watch one if the title catches my attention. You seem sincere so here's some free advice learned through bitter tears, lose this desire to reach the unreachable. You used the term "I need" a lot. Maybe it's a bit of that old socialist gene at work. One aspect you didn't touch on is a lot of socialists are crusaders. They see saving people as part of their mission. I was embedded with a Canadian unit for a time when I was in the military and I remember having a cup of coffee one morning with a colleague. He was a good guy, best of intentions type, and this clip came on the TV showing this guy who was I imagine homeless, sitting on a grate trying to stay warm. My colleague said: "We have to help that man" and I asked him a simple question; why? Maybe he didn't want to be helped. Maybe he preferred being outside to being in a shelter. Maybe he just wanted to be left alone. It's the same way with the socialists you are trying to educate. Instead of using Genesis to make your point, I recommend Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I think it's more in-line with your worldview and it does a better job explaining why people prefer living a lie to knowing the truth. If you want a Biblical reference, think of yourself as John the Baptist or one of the earlier prophets who tried to warn Israel about their fate if they continued on the path they were on. They were all killed for their effort as well. I also think, based on what I heard in this video, that there is a not insignificant gulf between European and American ideas on socialism and left-wing politics in general. Britain has a longer history of being a nanny state so I imagine that explains some of it. American left-wing politics is less about economics and more about cultural issues. Where socialists in Britain may think it is the exploiting capitalists who are stealing from them, in the U.S., we see the state playing that role, taking what they haven't earned and giving it to people even less deserving to win votes and ensure political loyalty. We call it keeping people on the government plantation. Your description sounded more like a bad case of external locus of control resulting in a nihilistic outlook, more black than red-pilled. Here, the middle class is feeling that way but again, it is because of a sense that our government has become an oligarchy of elites who don't care what the voters want, they want to give our sovereignty away to globalist elites who they have more in common with. That is what that commenter meant when he said socialists want to control others. They largely have on your side of the pond for the past century, so perhaps you are more adapted to it. Here, it is a relatively new phenomena, at least to the level it has risen to since obama turned yes we can into yes we did. Government has been growing since FDR, but at a leisurely pace. Now the left has stepped on the accelerator and the governor has been switched off. It's full-speed ahead, damn the torpedo's kind of stuff. That has a lot of people freaked out over here, especially when you throw in the demonic element of the LGB storm troopers transing the kids and insisting that us religious bigots bake the cake and celebrate their abominations. When he talks about the desire to have power over others, that is what he is getting at. Like I say, this authoritarin approach is still fairly new to us. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to break it down. Most of my friends are left-wing but they are left-wing in the same sense that Kennedy and Truman were left-wing. They vote democrat out of habit and are largely in denial about what that party has devolved into. But us older coots are moving along, even though they cling to power in our legislature. We have left quite a mess for millennials and gen-z to clean up. God help us.
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