Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "TED-Ed" channel.

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There is a wave of extremism in Europe, Brazil, India, Russia as well - Italy, Germany, France, Hungary are moving in that direction too. Soon Canada might do the same. Why? The right was culturally suppressed after WW2 and has always had to keep checks and balances after what happened in Germany and Japan with the right wing going absolutely crazy in wanting world domination and had a global effort to stop it. That calm on the right for 80 years is now wearing thin and so we as normal people need to once more put hard work to maintain power away from extremists. While I think Trump is a bad man I do not think he is as extreme as he makes himself out - but he is creating the next generation of real dangerous people who now have a hero and aspirations for power. You can see that play out by Musk. Right wing extremists in the USA were always around but they were ostracized from society after the 1960s when the anti-war movement took center stage in American culture and ideas and became the mainstream, that put an end to extreme right from 1960s to 2020s. Amazing amazing thing. Now however, that is over and so we have to do it all over again. American will get involved in global affairs - the American people will go out and protest against and set American back on it's path. One major twist in the story is that Trump himself is a product of the 1960s and he has a hate for war - in his last 4 years and after under Biden - the Trump anti war mentality is at play and influenced Biden's administration, avoiding conflict except for helping Ukraine indirectly. And only going after the Houthi after they attacked our allies - but not doing so while they were going after shipping. So Biden was stuck on Trump's anti-war ideology. The conflict inside Trump's mind about being an anti-war 1960s child to his modern day extreme right ideas are a very strange clash. But the real problem will be who runs for office after Trump's term and that could be someone much younger who is not bound by the 1960s anti-war movement and that is where danger really gets going.
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@jonathand.t.5051 It's not just America there is a wave of extremism in Europe, Brazil, India, Russia as well - Italy, Germany, France, Hungary are moving in that direction too. Soon Canada might do the same. Why? The right was culturally suppressed after WW2 and has always had to keep checks and balances after what happened in Germany and Japan with the right wing going absolutely crazy in wanting world domination and had a global effort to stop it. That calm on the right for 80 years is now wearing thin and so we as normal people need to once more put hard work to maintain power away from extremists. While I think Trump is a bad man I do not think he is as extreme as he makes himself out - but he is creating the next generation of real dangerous people who now have a hero and aspirations for power. You can see that play out by Musk. Right wing extremists in the USA were always around but they were ostracized from society after the 1960s when the anti-war movement took center stage in American culture and ideas and became the mainstream, that put an end to extreme right from 1960s to 2020s. Amazing amazing thing. Now however, that is over and so we have to do it all over again. American will get involved in global affairs - the American people will go out and protest against and set American back on it's path. One major twist in the story is that Trump himself is a product of the 1960s and he has a hate for war - in his last 4 years and after under Biden - the Trump anti war mentality is at play and influenced Biden's administration, avoiding conflict except for helping Ukraine indirectly. And only going after the Houthi after they attacked our allies - but not doing so while they were going after shipping. So Biden was stuck on Trump's anti-war ideology. The conflict inside Trump's mind about being an anti-war 1960s child to his modern day extreme right ideas are a very strange clash. But the real problem will be who runs for office after Trump's term and that could be someone much younger who is not bound by the 1960s anti-war movement and that is where danger really gets going.
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