I think you totally missed the policies that many would consider “socialist” that was required to address the land concerns in the rehabilitation of Japan’s land after the nuclear bombs were dropped on them. There are large swaths of Chicago and other urban cities that most civilized countries would consider unfit for humans to live near due to contamination and the long term health effects they cause. These areas remain poisoning the most vulnerable and least able to withstand the negative impacts thanks in large part to GoP policies restricting EPA and other regulatory bodies from holding polluters accountable. It’s also worth pointing out that charity donations relative to income has reached historic lows at the same time Republican legislators have cut programs that these programs supplement. This is at the same time in the Post Roe world in which those programs are needed even more so. The rates of middle income taxation have been exacerbated by the Trump Administration’s tax cuts, placing a larger financial burden on end user while cutting taxes for the top 1% and corporations. You spend time arguing about the current administration’s Education Policy, yet the Trump Administration’s Secretary Betsy DeVos used her position to directly enrich herself by using her policies to force schools to pay for services from companies she and her immediate family own or are Primary Stakeholders in, despite there being Zero 3rd party research showing the efficacy of the programs that DeVos forced upon Public Schools and wasting tax payer dollars. There is a clear trend in the post-Trump GoP (though many would argue it’s existed much longer) that has pushed back against government transparency and engaged in directly enriching themselves using their position. None of this is to say Democrats are somehow immune from such corruption, but when these individual incidents come to light the Democrats are not attacking these investigations and their legitimacy, unlike the GoP. There is ZERO place for political violence, and you’re attempts to hand-wave away the actions of January 6th while pointing at a handful of actions of those on the left is hypocritical. I could point at just as many random examples of those from the MAGA movement utilizing violence against others they disagree with. The difference is that January 6th included a stated goal of subverting the results of a free and fair election. The actions of January 6th were the type of thing that only occurs in 3rd World Countries. It is the type of action in direct opposition to Democracy. And even now almost 4 years later, we have people on the right falsely claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, despite more fraudulent votes for Trump in 2016 being identified by December of 2016 than fraudulent votes for Biden have been found to this day from the 2020 election. I am a christian white cis het male, and the idea of there being a culture war against me is laughable. It is not a zero sum game. Offering Black, Gay, Trans, or any other group the same rights as me doesn’t take away my rights. Any your final call to “vote 3rd party” feels foolish at best considering how our current political landscape in the wake of Citizen’s United has made 3rd party candidates even less viable than they had been prior. We need to implement ranked choice voting nation wide if we want to give any room for 3rd parties to rise. We need to get money out of politics. Sorry if that got a little rambly, as I started typing this on my phone as I watched the video, and it’s not exactly easy to pause without losing my whole comment’s worth of writing. I ended up here as I wanted to watch the fencing videos with my son who has recently taken up the sport, but this was the next video of yours RU-vid fed me. Based on the handful of other comments I saw on this video, perhaps it would have been a better idea to make a second channel for this type of political commentary with a short announcement video on your main channel pointing to the other channel for the unrelated content.
Education is multi faceted. Athletes also need information about the current issues which effect all of us. I think every channel should engage in some work like this to defeat the knowledge gap in our society. There are just too many people without any knowledge of common issues and recent history. I don't intend to make many video like this. But I think I'll do a few to balance the education aspect of this channel. If I do end up doing more I'll set up a separate channel for it. You might be more interested in my latest video premiering tonight on 6 foods you shouldn't be eating. All the best.
