My head hurts. Why are people using the word leftist to describe those people? The Democratic Party, first off, did that TO a leftist. The people that went along with the corrupt, out of touch candidate the Democrats chose don’t give a damn about the poor and don’t want to radically change policies that have increased inequality, de-industrialization, private debt, decades of stagnating wages, etc. The Democrats have moved to the right of where they used to be on economic issues and are corrupted by the rich and corporate money. A leftist opposes that. What Rubin is talking about has NOTHING to do with economics. I am on the left because of my views on economic issues and issues of power, and him critiquing annoying, relatively well-off PC “progressives” has nothing to do with economics. We have lowered taxes on the rich and corporations, deregulated finance, weakened unions, have multiple free trade deals, have cut, privatized or outright eliminated programs that the poor depended on (and Democrats helped to do that). The country is crumbling, all of that has been disastrous. What do the people Rubin is talking about have to say about that? Dick. I know this from personal experience. They haven’t challenged the Democrats while they have moved to the right on economic issues. I don’t quite understand what Rubin sees as “the left”, but it doesn’t describe me. I agree with some of his critiques, but try to get most of those people to discuss economic issues in depth. You’ll find that most of them haven’t put tons of thought into it or they’ll have platitudes. They are often relatively well off and don’t really focus on economic issues. I do, and that’s what makes me a leftist.

DAS RITE!

Okay, so what he is saying regarding the PC crowd has merit. What exactly does that have to do with economic issues or issues of class? Does some of the PC crowd being annoying and close minded change the fact that we have moved to the right on economic issues since Reagan and that a majority of the country is clearly worse off? When you say you are a leftist, what does the word mean? Some closed minded PC people don’t change the actual impact of “conservative” or right wing economics. It seems, since the Democrats and social democratic, labor and socialist parties in the developed world have moved to the right in recent decades, and since they no longer propose economic alternatives or an alternative economic vision, that people call themselves leftist without economics being the center of their political identity. It’s odd in the extreme. Some libertarians take “progressive” stances on foreign policy, drug laws, women’s rights and all that, but they aren’t on the left because of their stances on economic issues. I often find that those people are more libertarian than leftist and I wonder if they care that much about the actual record of the economic policies we have put in place since Reagan. If they are unmoved by the fact that we have lowered taxes on the rich (income taxes, estates, dividends, capital gains) and corporations, we have deregulated finance and put in place financial de-regulation, that unions are far weaker, and the country is clearly worse off, maybe they were never on the left. I agree with a number of his critiques, but his critiques have nothing to do with economics.

I think a lot of people might have issue with admitting something like “I’m a racist right now?!” .. perhaps it’s easier to simply disagree with the left and become a moral and logical person. No even need to agree with right, just admit that censorship and intimidation is morally wrong and you can no longer be a member of such ideology.

One of the best interviewers on YouTube. No loaded questions. No judgements. Just good, open rapport.

The human shrug. I do not give a dam who he loves! Rubin is a good MAN! Your right Daves program is awesome!

To a cliff.

Loading conservatives on boxcars and taking them to the camps.

Liberals used to be all about freedom, which is why Rubin calls himself a ‘classic liberal’; it’s what he’s still about. Nowadays, however, liberals and the whole left side of the spectrum seem to be all about liberating people from the constitution, their money, and their common sense.

Neither side is about true freedom. Libertarianism is about freedom. Both sides have their dictatorship traits.

cybertec69 yes I know you’re right about that cybertech unfortunately the KKK has been tied to the alt-right for years and while it maybe Democrat in origin it’s been blamed on conservatives and labeled alt-right by liberals

Chris Kopke no I didn’t know that any links you can share

Well, “hates the poor” is a behavior, not an identity. 😉

The part about trigger warnings wasn’t really flawless. There’s nothing wrong with giving a heads up on upsetting content. However, moves to get upsetting content removed from syllabuses isn’t progressive at all.

+Steve True A Democrat gets offends when a Republican made a joke, that the Democrat mother never took her abortion pills when she had was pregnant with the Democrat, as she mixed them up with pain killers (baby is a pain and Killers), hoping to rid of her unwanted baby and then calls the baby “special” when it was born. Years later, the Child comes of age and asks “Who is my daddy?” She does not know who is the father is as she was too drunk and high at the time, so she replies “Daddy Government”.

All the others get participation trophies !

The Democrats have drowned in their own hypocricy, not the Left.

The Left will cannibalize itself in the next round of the Elections

greencar500 It’s 12 where I am

Tomorrow We Live its 12:54 …. we are in the same time line

Jay Ferguson LOL

Try using the term regressive instead of libtard.

To be fair, name calling has one the left the elections for how many years? Trump didn’t exactly win the GOP nomination by playing by the right’s rules. He ran as a leftist candidate espousing more conservative values. The left’s tactics have won just about everything over the last decade – it’s their policies that s*ck. I don’t agree with the tactics, but it wouldn’t do anyone justice to ignore what w*rks.

And antifa acts like the KKK. What a time to be alive !

Liberal values were almost always on the right, like how Republicans were the ones giving minorities and women the rights to vote and civil liberties.

Adhiraj Gupte did u like what I wrote…it is happening right now in Columbia with FARC .. and in different stages in Indian states of Bengal,Kerala and Tripura… Tripura is lost forever..but somehow it is not messed up (may be killed all opponents forever)…it’s a scenario which shows current Russian style of communism…rest is barbaric horde communism in rest of the states. I think Indian government knows it both BJP and Congress didn’t make any deal but made them surrender…if a deal was made they would have used it as I said earlier to expand their party into tribal areas.

@c30f$p@d3z totally true

Fast RN .. yes i guess most of us do believe in God, thankfully, but its not like the tent isnt big enough.

Same with me, but I went more to a libertarian point of view

Steve True I don’t have all day, you know it’s hard to have a conversation if you’re the one doing all the talking

I used to vote for the left too. But not anymore.

NecroDancer He’s an absolute joke.  The whole show is.

+Chris Willsden It probably wouldn’t be so bad if Cenk and that other woman weren’t there.