It's amazing the basic lack of intellectual curiosity that almost all statists have
Because if somebody is even if they're like a full-fledged like self-described socialist
I want government to give everybody free stuff. Okay
Do you have any idea why
The Soviet Union turned into a violent authoritarian murderous
Disaster do you have any idea why I read China under Mao to turn into a giant violent
oppressive authoritarian disaster
Because if you like I tried to fix my car and something went horribly wrong
I'm gonna do the exact same thing again, or would you go? Why did something go wrong? What actually happened?
Wouldn't you kind of want to know?
Notice the complete absence especially among people who call themselves communists or socialists
Well, that wasn't real communism. Okay, but why wasn't it not even just let's argue over the term and whether it really was
But they very much said you know Mao said it Stalin and Lenin said it it was based on the work of Karl Marx
They were trying for communism and it turned into giant murderous regimes and you could say well
That's not real communism. Okay, whether or not that's true
Why did it turn into that over and over and over again? Why does it keep turning into that and if you don't have the curiosity to go?
Huh, I heard this cool-sounding idea this philosophy and then some people tried it and then
Nasty ruling class murdered tens of millions of their own people
And then somebody else tried it and then they murdered tens of millions of their own people
And then somebody else tried it and millions of people died and then somebody else tried it and millions of people died
But it's a great idea
I can't even fathom if you're trying something and every time it doesn't just not work it gets millions of people murdered
How many of them have the honesty to back up and go okay, why did that happen now?
This is true of all statuses not just socialists and communists
So the people like yeah, we support the police we support law enforcement, and we need to deal with those illegal aliens
I mean whatever you want the state to do
Historically if you look whether it's right wing or left-wing or whatever it is if you look at the historical tyrannies
I'm like, oh, that's horrible. We got to watch out for that. How did that happen?
Like do you have any idea how and why that happened?
Because in all those tyrannies it started with lots of excited happy people cheering for a new person to be in power all of them
That's how they all start
So it wasn't that well the people all got together and decided to be evil and then it went badly
And then they decided to be good again. No, they all thought they were cheering for something good and then millions people died
Do you even have enough intellectual curiosity to wonder why that happened?
Or do you advocate something that whether it's
Statism in general or
Republican
constitutional Republican
can't talk
constitutional Republic
Just like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China and
The People's Republic of Democratic People's Republic of North Korea
All of those were constitutional Republics democratically elected constitutional Republics each with a bill of rights saying the things that
Individuals have the right to do and they turned into heinous murderous
Reams, do you wonder why?
Or do you just got no, that's just I was in another place another time it can't happen here
I'm advocating the exact same thing that did exactly that. No, this is different because this is the country
I'm in or something some reason
If you don't even show curiosity to go wow, it'd be nice for that to not happen. So why did that happen?
Okay, then at least you can
Claim honesty
On top of your crappy political beliefs
But almost nobody does that like the beat the people cheering for mango Mussolini
How could you compare him to Hitler because I'm familiar with Hitler speeches and I've read a history book and
I understand what the national socialists
Wanted and what they did and how they scared people and how they divided people and how they used people's righteous anger at certain things
To rile them up for an authoritarian solution, which then turned into a disaster. I can compare
Trump to Mussolini
Because there are a zillion parallels and the only people like that's ridiculous
Are the people who know nothing about history and nothing about politics and nothing about philosophy and nothing about how these things turn out
Or why they turn out that way and
They don't care because they are so much in their stupid little cult of this guy will save us all
If they don't bother to pause and go well, what is it about?
Those regimes that made it turn painlessly violent horrible because we should probably like make sure we don't do that
They don't even do that. No our guy cuz our guy is great. That's the extent of their thought
You know that every single one of those tyrants had million millions of people who thought they were the savior
They were great. They were awesome. They were gonna fix everything. They were gonna write all the wrongs
So if you go rah rah rah for mango Mussolini without going wait, what is the actual fundamental difference?
Is there a philosophical difference between what I'm supporting and
What happened in fascist Italy and Spain and
Nazi Germany and all the nasty right wing right and left don't actually mean anything. They're all authoritarian collectivism
But what is different between this and that and the answer is absolutely fucking nothing
You are cheering for another dictator and too stupid to know it
Just like the supporters of Obama Obama were and too stupid to know it
But the fact that people can know these things went horribly awry and not have the curiosity to go
Okay, let's make sure that doesn't happen
Let's look into it and study it
So so many people, you know, so many people have the cartoon view of Nazi Germany
And they've never bothered to like look up what actually happened
By the way, I highly recommend the movie the final days of Sophie Shull
Which was based heavily on the actual transcripts of her trial and the bureaucratic records back and forth
Because rather than the cartoon version it shows the as Hannah Aaron called it the banality of evil
It was mostly just idiot bureaucrats doing their job
Just like the people who exist under Obama and exist under Trump and exist under any psycho at the top and
Ruin people's lives because they're just following orders and just doing their jobs and lots of you people cheer for it
I support those in law enforcement
Then you're a well-trained idiot because the job of people in law enforcement is to violently make you
Obey and pay tribute to the political ruling class. That is their job
That is what law enforcement means. They don't serve you. They don't answer to you
They answer to the people who give them their paycheck
The fact that the people who give them their paycheck robbed you first and then use some of the stolen money
To pay them to be thugs doesn't mean they give a crap what you want. They don't
But when people have no idea how those things happen and don't even have the curiosity to wonder about it and go
What does make this place special? I'm gonna put a link below to a video. I made years back called it can't happen here
Which is very thorough. It's if you have
Well grown-ups to
Teenage kids. It's it's nothing too gruesome as shown in it even though it talks about the mass murder of various regimes
It explores the idea of the people who say well tyranny can't happen in Merca. Why not and it actually looks at that question
And you'll find out. Yeah, there's no reason to think that
There's obviously no reason to think it it already is happening. It already has happened on many occasions
But I will put the link to that
In the description below because I'm pretty dang proud of how that that huge documentary came out and it goes into lots of
Detail and has lots of fun quotes and stuff like that
But the lack of curiosity and so many people who will cheer for their own enslavement and be completely oblivious of
How could this possibly go badly?
Read a history book and find out or watch my video called it can't happen here linked in the description below yee-haw