Comments by "H B" (@capitalb5889) on "Leeja Miller" channel.

@jimmymags6516 I don't like unfunded ta x cuts for the super rich. I don't like under-investment in infrastructure. I don't like high inflation, but respect the fact that it's lower in the US than other countries. I like economic growth. I like low unemployment. Which is why economically the current US administration has far out performed the Trump administration.
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@thehoneybadgerusmc "Europe" was used in the video. But as a European (one from London, a city in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), I can attest that (central and Western) European cities generally, from Krakow to Lisbon, from Stockholm to Rome, feel and work significantly better than cities in the US. It isn't lecturing - the host of this channel makes the point perfectly - it is just an observable fact. American cities are shit, with one redeeming feature - the middle classes can live in relatively vast properties
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@damenwhelan3236 you're right about Ireland - Dublin is a nightmare in rush hour (it's quicker to walk) and there's not even a train to the airport. At least it is compact and highly attractive.
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I think half of us need to be above average at spotting fake news. Any more is too many, and any less is too few.
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@petervizzini4006 communism and fascism are very different things. If you focus heavily on their similarities, then you could draw that conclusion, but there are material differences: Fascism has a heavy focus on nationalism and militarism. It tends to be highly socially conservative, racist, and pro-capitalist as the means of production, albeit under state direction. Socialism (what people think of has communism) has a focus on the means of production being owned by the people/state, egalitarianism, internationalism and some social liberalism (eg easier to get an abortion). Although you could argue that most communist countries have failed somewhat in achieving one or more of these. In both you have a concentration of power in the state and typically very little room for dissent. They are totalitarian. But totalitarianism does not mean that they are the same.
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 @alexwyatt2911 I think the evangelical churches are the ones that particularly spread the nonsense that is rotting the heart of the Republican Party.
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@franksmith16 I think you are right that there's a fairly even spread of religious faith across supporters of both parties, but the hardcore right-wing that Trump draws his support from is concentrated in the evangelical churches, which also disproportionately teach YEC. YEC by definition rejects science that teaches that the earth is 4.5bn years old. Therefore, they believe that the scientific establishment is lying to us. It is an important mindset that makes the deeply religious particularly prone to believing in conspiracy theories because they have a very low threshold to believing very unlikely things and also to distrust those in positions of authority.
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Very interesting, as a non-American, viewing from a constitutional monarchy, where we select our leaders by democratic elections.
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@Careless-sv6cf The amendments guaranteeing religious freedom were not put in to protect those fleeing religious persecution, but to protect Americans from the theocratic beliefs that the religious extremists were bringing to America and trying to implement. It wasn't so much that they were being persected back home, but rather they were unable to implement their extreme religious views on the societies they lived in, and they tried to implement their religious utopias in America. The original pilgrims had been safe in Holland for a decade, but then chose to move to English-ruled lands. That isn't escaping persecution. But very soon, most arrivals were economic dreamers, not religious fanatics, and were able to get the constitutional changes through to stop attempts at implementing local theocracies.
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@lenas6246 not sure of the point of your "LOL sure mate" post. I know central and Western Europe. I have never been to Russia and I wasn't old enough anyway to have visited the USSR anyway. But I will take your word for it that the USSR, from Ukraine to Kazakhstan had a far less car-based economy.
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 @ProductivelyAvoiding your comment both drips sarcasm and racism.
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The USA is a constitutional republic, like most countries. It is also a democracy. The two are not mutually exclusive. However, it was a line fed to the masses in order to undermine democracy.
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@petervizzini4006 I can't say I've ever really thought about it in-depth. I think that the nation state is the proper core building block of international relations and that cooperation between states is important. I know that globalism is also thrown around as a term by right -wing movements, but without a clear definition to my mind as to what it means.
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