Comments by "Stephen Brookes" (@stephenbrookes7268) on "Schools Don't Teach Evils of Communism, So We Must. Many Ignorant Young Are Worryingly Pro-Communist" video.

I do not really understand the pronouns issue. Mr. Mrs. Ms and Miss are not pronouns. They are nouns! They are also honourifics, in that they honour a person with a title bestowed on them by another. Whilst I agree Miss and Mrs. are un-necessary and presumptuous. I would favour Ms when addressing a female person I wish to address with respect, and Mr for a male. They are not chosen nor specified by the person being addressed. If a person looks a certain way that is a hint as to how to address them. This is subject to error, and that error i not meant to offend and should not be a source of offence. As for those that wish you to use specific pronouns. The simplest way to end this nonsense is to not talk to them, about them nor refer to them. A pronoun only has meaning in a follow on sentence if we are aware of the noun to which it refers. Statements of preferred pronouns are meaningless unless we know the nouns, but we probably don't need to know the nouns anyway, as the conversation is already over.
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@maryhaddock9145 Any sentence that begins with, democracy should be limited, is an oxymoron. You just lack oxy.
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@philiprufus4427 We have to understand our near ancestors, that followed radical political ideologies that we now know to be oppressive. At the time they did not know about that. If you look at communism in the morning it looks idealistic, by mid day it starts to show a few cracks by evening even the most loyal followers will be seeing the nightmare to come that night. No ideology will be sustainable long term without exploitation and oppression. (including our own) There is no political system to fit with human beings' innate beliefs. Just like any oppressive or excessive prohibitions within a free society (like the Volstead Act in US and recently the stupid, pointless lock downs) will conflict with our natural desire to have freedom. We also have innate hardwired rules that most of us just follow. Humans do not need laws other than the obvious ones, nor politics. We have natural leaders which we just follow because they do what is reqired, and an instinctive sense of fairness. We know when an action is wrong. I very much doubt that most people understood what Mikhail Gorbachev was saying when he said reforms had to be planned and change would be slow. Our desire for a silver bullet cure to social injustice, often leads to a worse situation. Gorbachev knew that an instant revolution away from communism could only lead to Fascism. The state owned dinosaur industries were suddenly in the hands of a very small political elite, and the smaller less politically interesting things were taken over by organised crime. It is similar in China. We look at these extremist ideilogies with disdain. However it is entirely false to equate extremism with centrist political movements, you claim to have read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, your extremist opinions display that you did not understand much of what he wrote. You do not prevent the oppression of one political movement by running to the opposite extreme. The Gulag Archipelago explores the theory that. the power of the state is given to it by a 3rd of the population, rules over a third and oppresses a third. Although only 1/3 of any population is ever entirely onside with its political government, the entire population has to suffer. You are exactly the sort of person that totalitarianism dreams of. You want to abandon pluralism and have everyone follow whatever you want. You clearly have learnt nothing from reading and even less from observation.
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@maryhaddock9145 Was this said without irony. So you advocate a return to the feudal system? There was a time when women, regardless of the ownership of property, could not vote. What say you to a return to that?
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@maryhaddock9145 Mary Haddock 8 hours ago Democracy should be limited to one vote per home owner household.
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@B123-s4j That then ceases to be a democracy. No democracy is considerably worse that poor democracy. What you have written is an extreme form of authoritarianism, which specifically discriminates against women, young adults. The idea of excluding immigrants from the democratic process is strange. If they have chosen a new country and need requirements for citizenship this is a very flawed argument. If a working man has difficulty for whatever reason, other than disability, in finding a job I agree that there should be questions asked. I do not think withdrawing suffrage is one of the possible solutions. Perhaps reforms to the state benefits system would be a possible and more effective solution. School leavers should have guidance on obtaining work, t prevent them becoming, long term unemployed. This should be fairly strict on time scale. Get a job within 6 months or engage in training to get a job or lose benefits. Same goes for anyone that finds themselves unemployed. The dole is paid by the workers for the temporary benefit f a fellow worker that has fallen on hard times. It is not a career option. What we need is a return to having a societal ethos, instilled by parents and teachers upon young minds. Draconian ideologies can only work in the short term until they oppress us all. Whereas belief in doing the right thing, is a life long voluntary code of conduct.
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