Comments by "Al Loomis" (@alloomis1635) on "" video.

  1. the democratic party allowed bernie to run as a contender for the nomination, because otherwise clinton would have sailed un-opposed and ignored, or risked being beaten by an actual democrat who wasn't so hopelessly tarred by the goldmann, sachs brush. he double-crossed them by being popular. they hate him for it. he won't get any help from the machine. i think bernie should not run, his day is past. worse, he actually supported clinton, a democrat who despised the ex-working people of the mid-west. some socialist. a lot of mid-westerners might remember that. andy yang in particular is dealing with current reality in a very impressive way. he's actually running, in the mid-west, with concrete plans to get them back into american economy. there is no second choice, really. if you are not ready for ubi, many think gabbard, or buttigieg are at least presentable. but if you are not ready for ubi, there will be someone worse than trump along soon, because the bernies are just as out of touch as the clintons.
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  2. "we aren't going to..." who is this 'we.?' americans skip over this part. most have no answer. 'we' is the masters of usa, a group of politicians who direct the activity of the federation. there's only a few, so i classify the usa as an elective oligarchy. it is certainly not a democracy. the government commonly ignores the opinion of the people, frequently engages in activity that endangers the people. it is absurd to label such a society as any kind of democracy. but it happens often, because 'we elect them.' sorry, elections are not democracy. they are non-violent civil war between gangs who have agreed to count votes instead of warriors. ballots matter, not bullets. the resemblance is not accidental- both come from the same latin word, for the lead slug warriors used to sling at enemies. democracies are managed by referendum, under the control of citizen initiative. both are present in switzerland and california, and work well. neither is a feature of the usa. once you know who 'we' is, many awkward questions resolve themselves. that's why aristotle came to the conclusion that the defining feature of every society is: "who decides?" in the usa it's a group of defective humans who shouldn't be in charge of a zoo, much less a state. and the people that let them rule are defective too: self-respect dissolved out by education and custom. deserving of pity, i suppose.
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