It's a matter of dominance.
Some people are guided by reason. They feel emotions but don't let them override their thinking — leading to clearer, more rational outcomes. They also see humor and irony without losing perspective.
Others are ruled by emotion. Feelings steamroll logic and cognitive dissonance, producing bad decisions time after time.
This is one reason why there are scarcely few humorous comedians on the left anymore and formerly popular talk shows are just televised progressive sermons.
@ItsLulu_7 No system alleviates poverty.
The empirical and historical evidence show capitalism is the system that dramatically reduces poverty compared to all others. It's not even close.
The government charges fees to harvest game under tight restrictions. In many places, it bans the collection of rainwater on one's own private property. In most places one must pay rent (property taxes) and we all pay for other essentials with ever-devalued currency.
Free trade is not the problem. Government is everything that progressives THINK they hate about capitalism.
As easily as MAGA was brainwashed into thinking Massie is an anti-Israel Democrat, they can be just as easily manipulated into liking him again if he won the primary. Remember how based Republicans thought Lindsey Graham was during the Kavanaugh bullshit?
That being said, Massie is as likely to win a primary as Ron & Rand because Republicans aren't actually small-government conservatives. They're just suckers for politicians who claim to be.
@WesternLensman The purge has been ongoing for well over half a century in academia, Hollywood, the media, and corporate America. But we have resisted.
This is the part that should scare everyone: If they consider their small(er) government opposition to be Nazis, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE THEM?
I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.
Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.
Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.
I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.
I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.
Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.
Another, raped by 700 men over three years.
Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.
This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.
I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.
The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?
They can piss off.
I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.
Our report will be out very soon.
When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.
I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.
In communism, you don't own anything. The public owns it, which means the government really owns it.
And since you are a means of production, the government owns you.
On a scale of authoritarianism, communism, fascism, and socialism are very close together on the same end - opposite of anarchy, libertarianism, and America's early Constitutional republic.