He brought an important conversation to a mainstream audience. The average person who hasn't been on a university campus in the past 20 years or so might be surprised that Marxism is the de facto ideology there, and that this ideology has been slowly creeping into every single institution in society. That's not surprising to me because I am young enough to have been a university student recently.
Other than that, I think he is actually politically clueless. He is certainly not "right wing" nor is he any kind of friend or ally to even mainstream conservative parties. He seems to have the naive idea that liberalism can actually be reformed, but it obviously cannot be. Liberalism will inevitably lead to Marxism, and that is what has happened, almost by stealth, in America and other western countries. As a Canadian, it is absolutely astonishing for me to see the Democrats in America moving to the far left in the past few years. When I was growing up, we always thought the DNC was even more right wing than the conservatives in Canada, but now they are a hard left party. This has taken a lot of people by surprise, and in other cases many old timers are not really aware of the change and are just going to vote as they usually do.
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brux (14724)
4 years ago
> so might be surprised that Marxism is the de facto ideology there
First that is untrue.
Second, so you admit you want to brainwash students and censor them because you do not like what you think they believe in?
Third, Marxism is not even a thing. It is another name that Republicans call people who disagree and want to bring them to justice for their crimes. Marxism is a huge lifelong study by Karl Marx about the problems with capitalism ... capitalism, a word that Marx even invented.
If you do not like your own country's health care system I guess you would call it Marxist to try to scare or confuse people. Why the numbers you have better health care than the US, so I guess Marxism or Socialism works.
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TreeShaman (806)
4 years ago
First you guys were saying "cultural Marxism" was not a thing, and now you're saying even just Marxism is not a thing. That's a joke. It's very real. The Marxists are the ones who are brainwashing students, not the way other way around. I would go as far as saying that Marxism, its teachings, iconography and everything associated with it should be banned in our society, and should be treated as a terrorist group would be. It's not a study or critique of capitalism, it is a revolutionary movement that seeks to mass murder innocent people on an industrial scale, and that is well documented throughout history.
I didn't say anything about healthcare, but since you brought it up, the public system in Canada is not financially sustainable and will likely cease to exist in a few years. There are no numbers to suggest our system here is better than in the US, and in fact all of the data I have seen suggests otherwise.
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brux (14724)
4 years ago
Sorry, I don't bother to respond to people who do not read or operate in good faith. Go ahead and rant all you want about Marxism which you know nothing about, I won't be seeing it because you will be on ignore.
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TreeShaman (806)
4 years ago
Marxists operate in good faith? They put bullets in the back of people's heads and then let their bodies fall into a mass grave. That's good faith.
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