This was my experience too in new Zealand. :( but in high school too, the popular kids were the ones who are social justice warriors now at uni, they preach racial fairness and equality..but wouldn't have anything to do with me..ie im half European and half maori and my family are working class.

U were

Nothing like being at dinner with a bunch of people my age, 20-21, and none of them but 1, except the girl I was with, knew I was in the US Navy as an aircraft mechanic. When they found out, they acted like I had Leprosy. My career path led to an extremely lucrative career in aviation, which I still do today at 70 years old.

@@Toledo_Doodee My Dad was in the Navy for 30 years and I did 20, so we are in that vast part of the population called "Middle America". Hated by one party (Liberals) to the core and forgotten about by the other the day after their election with our votes.

TOWNIES RISE UP!

loki2240 that proves colleges don’t do background checks

And Trump.

That is the greatest burn I’ve heard in ages :)

Think of old man Kennedy making money bringing booze down from Canada during prohibition.

Sums up the latte drinking, avocato toast eating, Brown graduate liberal elites

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Agreed

I agree, love your stuff as a Canadian who has a big heart for America.

I couldn't agree enough. A major problem with our culture is that Americans don't know their history. Operating on this deficit leads to many errors in judgment.

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker thx for this and every other post of yours!

@Kapt'n Peemainly a bubble

.... then gain a motherfucking skill

@@flamecranium7787 Yes. Even with 100k the ratio is way off. 100k means making more than most people and yet you would have to work more than double the time.

It's the same in Holland. Prices go up, saleries not in the same amount, or even stand sill. Tax goes up, Healthcare, on and on. Wait to the next financial crisis.

My Dad bought a 3BR Ranch with a larger detached garage (bonus work space/shop area) in '57 for $15k and he thought that was OUTRAGEOUS at the time. Now it's enough to buy a (hopefully) decent used car.

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Nihil novi sub sole.

the deeper you go the less change you see

I used to listen to NPR several hours a day. However, I completely stopped listening about 6 years ago. NPR has turned into a cesspool of out-of-touch elitist woke racist ideology.

Is it not?

@@lookbovine yes, NPR is no longer informative.

Ahh...good times...

The last time I listened was the very late 1990's.

Very well said

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This is how I sound in my own head, but it never comes out sounding as eloquent.

People talked that way a lot back then. It's astonishing how much people read books 50 years ago and now the average person doesn't.

As if the absolutely psychopathic and authoritarian views of the current right wing are better?

Thank you Chris. And I have to say, I do not disagree with your evaluation of what you are watching. I may not be the only person who can do it, but I am one of the few who can-that level of authenticity which is critical I believe to being successful in the KZfaq world. Inauthentic people I believe just don't work especially with the millennial audience. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker i think that is because ordinary people are tired of fake people. millennials have much more exposure to fake people than previous generations because of the internet and eventually everyone gets tired of it

@@loki2240 The true Vietnam generation is sitting in your classrooms. The US in my eyes has been in a permanent state of civil war since forever and likes to spread its madness all over the place. Exporting weapons, fighting and causing wars just for the sake of madness and productivity at the cost of human lifes.

That's why history is so important.

@@paulgoogol2652 is that why we also invent everything in the modern world cars computers rockets all us we made and invent everything

@@thewildcardperson it’s depressing that people thumbed up his absolute bullshyte

@@BlookbugIV yup exactly lol everything I said was true we invented all of it nuclear power to and electricity

*_LIBERALS AREN'T REPRESENTATIVE OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM._*@@loki2240

Secondhand Sampler I mean the “elitist social issue” he was talking about was the civil rights act soo...

dumb comment lol

@@wauliepalnuts6134 BINGO

Lol based on what? One election cycle? Such devotion to a Federal analysis avoids its obvious contradiction at the state and local levels. Show me where within the 88000 local govts where your point makes any sense

You want the masses to grasp complexity? Let me know how that goes. Nuance isn't dead, it's a figment of your imagination.

@@jasondashneyif the media wasn’t bought and sold then maybe we could form our own opinions more naturally.

at 4:00 , on McCarthy , he says that M was not a "serious man" and that "he did not know what was ar stake " M claimed that there was a communist infiltration into the US gov't . See the Venona Intercepts. Harry Dexter White was a spy for Uncle Joe Stalin

The same conservative who've been wrecking the NHS and killing disabled people in swathes by suicide for 10 years, what working class heroes they are.

Jordan Day that’s what happens when Labour the party of the working class, abandoned them completely and started to look down upon them.

Brexit is Britons version of the southern strategy, where people vote against their own economic interests due to their prejudice. Plus New labour was not a working class party, it was conservative lite.

@@yester9037 what prejudice when my whole family including myself is Black. And have family in Europe. People who backed Brexit included some non whites. It's not for the most part a prejudice thing but not having control or having our views listened to. Yes there's minorities but this is different here. Do u even live in the UK. If not u shouldn't making judgements.

@@ay613 Black and ethnic minorities can often be more xenophobic or racist than white people, as they have similar attitudes to yourself.

That is sage wisdom... Oh how the pendulum swings.

Excellent observation.

So you mean right and right

@@myratsalad Bush was a good example, if you truly believe in scaling back the government the Republican party isn't the one to jump on. Everyone touts Republicans as great for the economy but cutting back on taxes every time you take office is only half the equation no one ever cuts down spending. As a libertarian I can tell you our answer isn't to great either because it leads to lots of idiots killing eachother and that's cutting all the welfare and excess government agencies. (Historically proven to work in our country) but at a cost I remember when one of the states cut off its food stamps, for a week crime skyrocketed and there were riots for a couple days, but you're naive if you think someone in the government telling you they're cutting taxes means you're saving money isn't taking from elsewhere. The only exception to that from recent times was Trump he cut taxes and stopped our debt from climbing for his first 2 to 3 years and that's because he cut regulations across the board which is another part of the equation. Most issues in the American market stem from regulations

The -news- propaganda has been touting that money isn't real so printing what we "need" is not only expected, it's to be encouraged. I've read about the effects of this in history, but I've never seen it live.

Johnson might have had humble origins, but he wasn't working class. And true liberals saw him as disingenuous in his liberalism, it was just for political advantage, like the escalation of the Vietnam war. No person that truly wants to help the downtrodden sends thousands of their young sons to die in an unnecessary war.

The point he's trying to make is that after Kennedy, the liberals didn't care what Johnson's Democratic Party did -- they just didn't like it. Johnson doesn't get credit for making the Great Society happen because of how he handled the war. Combine that with the general disdain for his humble origins and his Southern background, and boom -- you get a liberal class that is unconcerned with matters of material wellbeing. Kennedy was the last period where they cared about that.

Johnson was a racist as it came, he has beeen quoted in saying many extremely racist things. Johnson realized he could get the minority vote at extremely high percantages by simply pretending to pander to them, which is a Democrat strategy to this day

@@kevinmahoney1995 I think they attempted it with Carter through Dukakis somewhat. Kept losing. Obama kind of came from nowhere and left a vacuum. And they thought that status quo crap was gonna win with Hillary. Biden would of lost if it wasn't for him not being Trump, big money put him in there. They can't get anything together.

The bottom line is that the Democratic Party lost southern whites to the Republican Party when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act. Those same Republicans today are the white nationalists supporting Trump and using “law and order” and cynical criticism of Black Lives Matter to beat back the brown demographic tide. MAGA is code for keeping America white. It’s always been about race in America and Republicans are still on the wrong side of it.

zzzzz cuck incel

They didn't think he was talking about Trump. They saw parallels to Trump. That is YOUR misunderstanding.

There's a flavor of editorializing in the hashtags.

herishmerish Showing that things change but remain the same. He could be talking about now.

It's still cherry picking.

Do you mean trump to Nixon because only then is there similarity( trump is not at all a liberal)

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and trump isn't?

@Deos He was a registered Democrat until he decided to make his Presidential run.

@Deos millionaires

@@ZeranZeran clearly you don't know anything about history, political philosophy, or the meaning of political designations. Your reality is infused with ideological propaganda that is invisible to you because you don't know anything beyond the tip of your nose.

@@ULTRAOutdoorsman I didn't say they were irrelevant, I said they're a ruse to genuflect toward the virtues of freedom, justice, and inequality, which have their real conditions in the substance of economic and political power. The left isn't the liberal parties that preach tolerance and identity. The left is that broad amalgam of political theory and practice that addresses these contradictions at the fundamental level of material life, labour, private property, war, environmental devastation. Identity politics and condescension towards the working class are liberal in brand, and the left is not liberalism.

zeranzeran No the old guard liberals viewed and were viewed as more centrist then anything. Even the progressive movement was a centrist movement. They slowly moved more left and adopted more socialist policies. The correct saying should have been liberal WERENT left. Now they are. In fact I would say true liberalism is dead.

As if that's a bad thing.

That's not even true but ok.

Unions ain't no good

The GOP hates unions and allows 1% to keep us from having them. Im in texas...republican as hell and hardly any union jobs.

@@xpxpe5645 who lied to you

@@xpxpe5645 only dems work for the railroad then...right. 🙄 You get an extra $10 a week but loose you home owner tax deduction. Miss me with the bs

Mickey yea a lot good that did with his so called trickle down theory

Reaganomics literally killed the middle class and led the economic crisis...

@@nick.4. Its not that simple.

@@soyboy3833 ...it kinda is

@@nick.4. Do you have proof of that? The biggest reason the middle class is dying is because the middle class is getting to rich to be middle class. www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/middleclass1.png

I wish I had a million potential viewers like you Laura. David Hoffman filmmaker

You’re too sweet, thank you! ❤️

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Thank you Ryne for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZfaq is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

Hey right now a trailer looks good to me! Boy my parents were snobs.

I think his (excellent) point goes deeper. The left became superstitious. Instead of framing ALL problems as material, which all problems are, the left descended into the abstract hell of searching in vain for solutions within immaterial/non-existent spheres. Whereas the old left was intellectual, scientific, and much concerned with solving problems logically and empirically, a typical modern college student with a "leftist" bent is more likely to own a healing crystal than organize for universal healthcare or be conscious of the need for President Obama's neuroscience "Manhattan Project" initiative, for example. The new left is a radical religion based mainly on ephemeral moralizing and the legitimization of demographics politics and contradictory cultural equality, not a serious political entity. Hence, only slow and anarchic progress being made by others for the suffering, and no effective leadership whatsoever.

@@johannpopper1493 The "left" is not monolithic any more than the "right" is. In fact, these aren't very helpful labels at all and conceal both real divisions and real commonalities. I would argue that the political class (which is comprised largely of elite professionals on both sides) like to keep the dialogue at that level because it makes for easy blood sport. 60s generation New Agers may have bought into healing crystals, but back then the idea of universal healthcare was so remote that, well, why not crystals? Anyway, your depiction of today's (Democrats? college students? BLM activists?) as serving a radical religion doesn't map anything I've seen the last few years. The only radical religion out there right now is Trump-inflected evangelicalism, which does indeed pose a serious threat to intellectual and scientific problem-solving.

@@TheRealGnolti Trumpism was a response to the far-left ideals that have propogated the mainstream. Definitions have been changed and the goal posts are perpetually shifted. Racism has a new definition, bigotry has a new definition, all struggles stem from class hierarchies. Post-modernism and cherry picked marxism have become mainstream, but half of the country doesn't beleive in it. Truthfully many on the left don't agree either. For extreme leftists it is progress, it is enlightenment. For conservatives/right-wing/centrists/old fashioned liberals it's gaslighting as they are told by the collective media and culture that they are bad people for holding beliefs that used to be the cutting edge of morality.

@@K0sm1cKid Morality is one of the most changeable things in any society, as shown by how enthusiastic many people are for Trumpism itself, which is by definition nihilistic, cynical, and not at all "moral" in any traditional sense. Once upon a time, "old fashioned" Americans would have been appalled at a person like Trump. Embracing Trumpism because you reject so-called post-modernism (an empty academic term that has had its day) is a classic case of overcorrection. You're just trading one set of dumb ideas for another.

@@TheRealGnolti "You're just trading one set of dumb ideas for another." - so you DO admit that your ideas are just as dumb. Got it. and you're not doing any better. You are the very type of person Mr. Beaty is referring to, and you are one of the reasons why bigotry will never cease: even if we ARE able to eradicate it you or someone like you will come along and change/redefine what it actually is. You are also the type of person that brought about the rise of Trump, and you will help bring about the rise of a Trump 2.0.....only the problem with that is that unlike the Orange Blossom Dufus this person(whoever Trump 2.0 may be) will more than likely know what they're doing.

What prompted your conversion?

Conversion is a strong word. Lets just say I was convinced that Trump was the more responsible and reasonable choice.

@@ktoth29 I’m with you on your reason but conversion is your word , not mine.

@@timbrady6473 I know, I edited myself

I can't but find your comment contradictory and wrong. Saying that the working class endorsed liberal political actions and policies and on the other they are against given minorities equal status in their fields, not against special treatment like "positive discrimination". That is a clear contradiction and actually an insult. A Democratic senator said literally: "Men need to shut up" and wasn't criticised by Democrats, and it is a controversy in the Democratic party now to have a white male as a candidate. What is your view? White male working class have to vote for this for not to be called against minorities? For me that would mean they don't have any self respect left.

@@mauherkan You're mixing time periods here. I was talking about early-to-mid-20th-Century, which is what this video is about. And I think history has shown my statement to be accurate to a large degree. The working class overall loved New Deal programs because they saved them from being devastated by The Great Depression, and the GI Bill and several post-War programs were very progressive in what kind of relief they gave. But that same working class didn't want African-Americans moving into their neighborhoods, working at their jobs, and voting in their elections. Other minorities--religious, ethnic, sexual, etc.--most especially WOMEN, were not welcome to share in these opportunities because--again, socially conservative workers--felt these people were below them and didn't want them placed on equal footing.

@@Theomite Okay, I understand want you mean now. Nevertheless, ultimately they decided to give equal rights to minorities. It's a democracy, they are the demos. I think you are right, they are socially conservative, but that doesn't mean anti-equality, it means family values, what you would expect in a situation where the opposite guarantees poverty. When man have the vote, they will be decisive in the matter of womens votes. When whites have the vote in blacks voting rights. I understand how you think. You think materially, for me that is just in terms of special interests. But social conservatives, like any group, should not be defined as *against* something, and actually believe in national or spiritual values.

@@mauherkan It could be argued that if your family values hold people in different worth because of gender, age, skin color, etc., that it *is* anti-equality because everybody's merits are placed on a scale with yourself at the top and everybody else somewhere beneath. And with that top position, the power to control their agency.

@@Theomite I just like to say that you're very polite. Family values in my view historically mean to priorities not the individual but the family, raising children, dependability, service. Yes, if you talk about specific gender roles, man are given a leadership position generally. But I really want to emphasize that genuinely duty and service are often prioritized, not rights. It makes me depressed to only think in terms of power and rights, who has it? how are we gonna get it? don't you?

I tagged both Trump and Biden. David Hoffman - filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Sir, I think you only tagged Trump2020. At least that's what appears on my phone.

They've no one to blame but themselves. That was yet another era for change. A challenge to be embraced not shirked. And it seems like finally they're weak enough that they will have to bend to public opinion, instead of serving the rich and powerful.

Thank you for what you have said Mike. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Its a mix of Vietnam (Cambodian/Laos bombing campaign especially) and Watergate.

@@YouCanCallMeReTro The attempt to leave South Vietnam as a 'viable' ally like South Korea, made the war drag on (with lots of casualties) to negotiate a 'peace with honor'; In addition Nixon launched major efforts against the North Viet sanctuaries in 'Neutral' Laos And Cambodia to buy more time of the South, so there was faux outrage at the 'spreading of the war'.

True too in Western Europe, where Social Democrats are on a historic low.

I call them leftists. I refuse to call authoritarian leftists (a.k.a. Neo-Stalinists, Neo-Maoists, Collectivists, Commies, etc.-- all different words for the same thing)-- I refuse to call them liberals. I'm a liberal. More specifically, I'm a libertarian that votes Republican, because I'm a pragmatist, not an idealist. I want Democrats to lose at all costs, because the fate of the country is at stake (with all that debt just sitting there, waiting to crash the economy in a way that would make Black Tuesday blush). And that means voting Republican until the foreseeable future. We're on life support. These morons are sitting there, complaining about trigger words and shit, and we're just a few mistakes away from turning the entire country into Detroit! Idiot fucking leftists with their head in the clouds! And for all the foreigners rooting for our collapse, our economy is yours, too. When our economy collapsed in 1929, it took down the rest of the world and became the flint to ignite WWII. The Versailles -Punishment- "Treaty" was the steel.

Thank you. There is more to it than meets the eye. I appreciate that you appreciate that. David Hoffman filmmaker

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I've watched many of your videos over the last 2 years, and the best summary I can offer is this: you're panning for human gold. Much of our history is just dust and junk, but we all know there are hidden gems there. Greetings from Australia.

remember after korea rep. have started all the wars.

@@croatiangambler8059 check out the libertarian socialism wiki page, i'm a fan of people like noam chomsky and murray bookchin, you could also call it anarcho-communism but communist/socialist is fine for me too, from my point of view when marx said communism is a classless/stateless/moneyless society in which the working class have democratic control over the economy this society is antithetical to the state (i mean he did say stateless), i'm opposed to marxism-leninism in that i think the state structure as well as single party states create another kind of ruling class of bureaucrats, my ideal society would be a democratic confederalist one like abdullah ocalan talks about in which we have councils made up of elected and immediately recallable delegates representing local areas, regional areas, continental areas, as well as other groups like unions where the delegates of which are controlled via direct democracy by every person in society, so for me the USSR was really state capitalism, they still had currency, they still had wage labor, they had commodities, they had a ruling elite made up of party members who of course became corrupt when given power and they certainly had a brutal and oppressive state, people still had the surplus value created by their labor extracted from them except instead of going to benefit a ceo or executive it went to the state which claimed to act on behalf of the people but really only existed to maintain, expand and perpetuate it's own power on behalf of the party leaders, i think it's a huge tragedy that the failings of the 20th century 'communist' revolutions have tainted the name so that people associate it with totalitarian state regimes when really marx talked about a society in which every person had power at their workplace and in politics and the individual freedom to do whatever they want unbound from struggling for basic material needs

Look what all these words have become very complex due to the want to fulfil political desires. you can never ever be libertarian and socialist at the same time. it is impossible. why? because libertarian means reducing the power of the government as much as possible socialism on the other hand are much reliant on the government hierachy. sorry i do not believe in so called intellectuals as they are now destryoing our education institutions.

@@lionkiller900 lenin is and was regarded at the time to be a right wing deviation, the original and true conception of communism has always been a stateless society, true socialism is democracy at every level, from your work to however you choose to organize society, workers councils, trade unions, communes etc, i'm a communist so i believe in a stateless society

@@Riotdrone what the bloody fuck? a right wing deviation? well these form of control on the socity needs a form of government power. so yes they are all socialism be it communism or democratic socialism, etc.

lionkiller900 yes within marxism lenin is considered to be a right wing deviation and frankly a conservative or a straight up counter revolutionary, lenin crushed the trade union movement, he stripped power from the worker’s councils and he destroyed the anarchist movement and concentrated power in the state which communist theorists back to marx have advocated for dissolving the term ‘libertarian’ means something completely different to americans today than it does or has in the rest of the world or the past i recommend watching the video on here called ‘noam chomsky on leninism’ if you want to understand a bit about what i’m talking about i’d interested to hear your thoughts communism is a society structured around the common ownership of the means of production and the direct participation of everyone in the political process as well as the abolition of social class, money and the state