Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Why the Far-Right Is Fawning Over Strongmen | Breaking The Vote" video.

  1. How does it escape so many people's thought processes the similarities to what they are saying and asking for, to the beginning of the most brutal reviled regimes that ever passed human history... is just something I will never understand. If it was only a small group of total ignorants without any education and some sort of mental disability, then perhaps it'd be understandable... but almost half of an entire nation? Half of an entire nation that doesn't realize that the discourse about heightened pride in history, anti immigration and anti foreign culture stances, a complete failure to recognize the diversity on their own country, nationalist overtones with some fake idea of unity among people making them stronger, putting everything in black and white terms, strong men cult of personality tactics and discourses, this whole entire crap of saying and doing what they mean - all of those things are exactly how Nazi Germany came to be, how China operates, how North Korea got into the situation it's currently in, how socialist and communist ideal fails in practice, how military dictatorships corrupts and destroyed entire nations, what Putin is using right now to justify his crimes against humanity, how all those things are exactly what democracies were designed to avoid? I just don't get how so many people don't even get these very core aspects that make their supposedly oh so precious freedoms viable in the first place. Where did the US and several western societies failed to the point that so many people forgot or cannot understand what defines us in the first place, and what differentiates us from some of the worst nations to live in the world? Make things even worse, it's not only the nationalism mixed with racism that has a blindingly obvious past in Nazism, but also mixed up with religion absolutism, trying to eliminate the secular state of nations, on Christian hands, which has also produced some of the worst atrocities, worst wars, worst totalitarian nations in human history. All these Christians criticizing Islam and African religions conveniently forget how it was, through most of human history, Christian religions who did the most bloodshed and killed most innocent people than any other religion that humanity has ever known. Even now that we have so many cases of human rights abuses, crimes, and how these very same people keep chanting how they want to protect their kids, when they are part of the one religion that has systematically abused children, protected abusers, and swept crimes under the rug to protect it's image - how can these people not have even a bit of cognitive dissonance on what they are talking about? How can people become so convinced of such shallow discourses not seeing how incongruent their arguments are? It's either an incomprehensible level of ignorance is completely surreal to me, or selective ignorance which just makes me lose faith in humanity altogether. People will use the discourses and see only the side that favors them because they are as corrupt with power and falling into immorality as any other privileged class that got rich by trampling others. Immorality in the correct sense, not the ill disguised homophobia and prejudice they so often display. How can unlimited access to information, education, high life expectancy, a position of power well above that of the rest of the world, privileges that most of the world can only dream of, and so many advances in so many areas of science has led to this much ignorance and this much lack of recognition? Do we really need to throw the ignorant masses into a state where their dreams are realized so that they can understand what is wrong with their logic? I keep thinking if my own country needs to go back to a military dictatorship regime so that the ignorant portion of the population understands what the problem with it is. But we are drowning with so much evidence and so much information on the brutality of the military dictatorship that I feel these ignorants still wouldn't understand even while they were being illegally arrested, and then tortured to death... they'd still love the entire concept in their heads somehow. It's just insane.
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