This is that fartknocker that wrote “American Marxism”, which surprise surprise didn’t contain any evidence that he even understood the basics of Marxism. I know because I scanned through it one afternoon because my dad had it lying around the house (his Sunday school men’s group was reading it….)
Edit: ok I watched some of the video. He’s doing the thing that goes back to at least Hayek. Specifically, that we can’t have nice things and the government is unable to do nice things because of LaWs oF eCoNoMiCs. So anyone who is pushing for like, paid family leave, is a dumdum who doesn’t understand bAsIc eCoNoMiCs.
I don’t think he’s even being as generous or sophisticated as “the government is unable to do nice things because of LaWs oF eCoNoMiCs”, really. The guy’s rhetoric sounds to me more like “these nice things may sound nice to you, but actually they are complete lies which those city-slicker commie liberals tell us honest god-fearing folks to get into power and once in office they’ll take do all the bad things that we don’t like (i.e. the same bipartisan neoliberal and neoimperial policies with a trendy new “progressive” veneer instead of good old-fashioned American flag aesthetics) instead of any of these good things which they promised”.
edit: Which isn’t better, I guess, but kinda interesting as an illustration of how while the two US ruling parties want effectively the same things policy-wise, Republicans operate with the assumption that Democrats are always acting in bad faith/with treasonous intent.
This is that fartknocker that wrote “American Marxism”, which surprise surprise didn’t contain any evidence that he even understood the basics of Marxism. I know because I scanned through it one afternoon because my dad had it lying around the house (his Sunday school men’s group was reading it….)
Edit: ok I watched some of the video. He’s doing the thing that goes back to at least Hayek. Specifically, that we can’t have nice things and the government is unable to do nice things because of LaWs oF eCoNoMiCs. So anyone who is pushing for like, paid family leave, is a dumdum who doesn’t understand bAsIc eCoNoMiCs.
I don’t think he’s even being as generous or sophisticated as “the government is unable to do nice things because of LaWs oF eCoNoMiCs”, really. The guy’s rhetoric sounds to me more like “these nice things may sound nice to you, but actually they are complete lies which those city-slicker commie liberals tell us honest god-fearing folks to get into power and once in office they’ll take do all the bad things that we don’t like (i.e. the same bipartisan neoliberal and neoimperial policies with a trendy new “progressive” veneer instead of good old-fashioned American flag aesthetics) instead of any of these good things which they promised”.
edit: Which isn’t better, I guess, but kinda interesting as an illustration of how while the two US ruling parties want effectively the same things policy-wise, Republicans operate with the assumption that Democrats are always acting in bad faith/with treasonous intent.
Down with Mark Levin, up with Marx/Lenin