Divide and Conquer
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TL;DR : The left and right have a common enemy: Those at the top trying to divide us. Let's fight them together!
So, the reason I'm posting this is because as the time has gone by in my life I've seen the division and toxicity between the left and the right increase dramatically.
When I saw this video I instantly thought how much I agree with this message. Do I have different ideas than most of you guys about how things should be? Sure. The left and the right have always had different ideas about how things should be. But why are we so much more polarized now?
My belief is that it's the sociopaths at the top of everything, who are doing all they can to try to divide us so they can keep us fighting each other instead of them. That's one of the reasons as a leftie that I came here. To have a dialogue with my fellow citizens and see if you all were really as horrible as the powers that be would have you believe. For my part I hope that the few of you who have interacted with me have seen that not every leftie is a cuck.
I'm old enough to remember a time when the left and the right could have disagreements without attacking each other personally. I miss those times. There was a time when the left and the right were able to work together on the things that we agreed with. For example I'm not a big fan of Libertarianism on fiscal matters, but we agree on freedom of speech, not sticking our nose into other countries' business, drug policy, etc. Back in the day we could work together on those things.
I don't know if there's a particular community on reddit or wherever that this community sees as its opposite. OnGuardForThee perhaps? But whatever it is let me know and I'll post this video with a similar sentiment on there. Because I feel like we can work together against our real, common enemy. And once we beat them we can go back to fighting each other. ?
"The powers that be" call conservatives names because they can't counter conservative arguments with logical positions of their own.
They fill the normies heads with lies about 'systemic racism' 'patriarchy', and 'unconscious bias'. None of this is quantifiable or based in evidence.
Its religious dogma that they themselves don't believe. They want government intervention to be the solution for everything.
Thomas Sowell taught me that government is not a personification of the will of the people, it has its own interests and agenda that has proven to hurt the people long term in many cases.
Government is like cancer, if it isnt controlled it will metastasize and grow until it has destroyed the host.
This isnt a left/right issue either. There are plenty of neocons that also benefit from this, the left is more prominent simply because leftist philosophy has been prevalent in most public institutions for decades now.
The root problem is society has allowed government to centralize and micromanage complex systems such as healthcare, education and even economic activity. They have no reason to do so, government is expensive, inefficient and incompetent.
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