PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Rush on April 07, 2024, 06:09:58 AM
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Very interesting interview. I knew nothing about this guy til now, including the fact the Dear Abby was his grandmother.
He’s an unacceptable leftist, in that he wants Medicare for all, reparations for “oppressed groups” and probably hates guns although I can’t recall them talking about that.
But he is totally on board with the idea of the Uniparty that locks everyone out that isn’t part of the “family” and how the media has become a defacto arm of it. This of course because they didn’t give his campaign any kind of platform so he could be a viable alternative to Biden. The argument is made that they didn’t cover him because he wasn’t high enough in the polls, but the counter argument is that it’s a chicken and egg thing: How can you rise in the polls if the media doesn’t give you a voice?
Basically he’s kind of a leftist/populist. He understands the attraction of Trump which is that Trump listens to the “forgotten man”. His family is Jewish and that shaped his politics, he’s the traditional Jewish Democrat. Persecution of the Jews throughout history leads him to the leftist idea of reparations and “equality” needing to be codified in public policy.
But he and Jordan debate whether he means “equality of opportunity” or “equality of outcome”. Like Bernie Sanders did recently on the Bill Maher show, he claims equality of opportunity. Presumably that means he supports DEI programs. But isn’t a full on communist. And like all similar leftists, he fails to understand basic economics- socialism is communism lite and is unsustainable.
For example, he proposes giving every newborn in the country $5000 in an investment trust. When he reaches college age it will have grown to $25,000 and now can be used to launch the kid into life. He seems to have zero grasp of the multiple problems of a scheme like this. Which I won’t get into but if you’re not a leftie you already know.
They discuss the trans movement and surgeries in particular. He is libertarian when it comes to adults, let them do what they want to their bodies. Peterson then counters (surprise to me) that he now thinks transition surgery should be banned altogether, even for adults. His reasoning is how damaging they are and that it has become a huge profit making enterprise without acknowledging how bad the outcomes are.
They then discuss the difference between the left and the right. The right is against government becoming too rich and powerful and the left is against corporations becoming too rich and powerful but what they share is the problem of the elite becoming too rich and powerful to the detriment of the common man.
For some reason the way he talks reminds me of Ron DeSantis.