You can't do that if you don't want to sound like a crazy person...the best economists and lawyers have a good sense of humor

Yes. I see what you mean. Imagine having to live life harboring that much insight

He is absolutely the best on anything to do with politics, war and the dacrs of them all.

Good you like his big brain. Trump knew President xi loved trumps big big brain!

@@oscarrlee18 more Marxist Communist Propaganda and indoctrination, is not working anymore, your time is up!

The rich own the law; the poor ignore it and try to hide from it; the middle class rely on the law as a guarantor of freedom. Hanson is always on target.

That's why it's hard ti get to work .they just hire mexucans to slow traffic ever experienced that???

This is nothing new. In every century, in every country, the Top has always hated the Middle. The Middle is a near peer competitor for power in a way the Bottom never can be. In all times and places, the formula for politics is the Top manipulating the Bottom to keep the Middle in its place. When the Top slips, as it occasionally does, the Middle gains enough control over the Bottom to topple the Top. This state of affairs is called "Revolution".

It was the middle class who organized and drove the French Revolution not the poor as many think! 🤔

@@oliveoil7642 Right! The intellectuals, pampered people. Karl Marx followed their example. In the name of the poor, they take the money from the rich and keep it!

+1

Love the UK. Worked in Hull and Milton Keynes areas off and on over 10 years. Wish that people recognized how much the Magna Carta, John Locke, helped shape our Republic

if he believes Republicans and Democrats are different in their actions ( speech is obviously different) ...then you hero sucks

they are totally diff...YOU are baby killers....vile, vicious people @@sea2959

And why does that matter?

@@sea2959 and as always , ya show no examples or data

Excellent quote

It describes the government of Venezuela and it is not a joke.

@pipper donnie you forgot to write “young WHITE tech millionaires” if you want to bring race into it be consistent

Wow. Just wow.

Fantastic quote ! Thank you

Walter Williams

@@goosecouple thanks for that, amazing how we only seem to learn about these brilliant people as we get older.

Add in Niall Ferguson, Douglas Murray and Malcolm Gladwell

@@GreenStarTech and Jordan Peterson

I remember back in the mid 80's Someone I knew ...sort of, whining about being a 'citizen of the world' when they encountered red tape at an international border and didn't have their ducks in order.

This was the case for me as well; it was easy to initially buy into this mentality due to the inexperience of youth and the grand assumption that there is some sort of all encompassing culture and mentality that supercedes nationality. I'm glad I came out of this Utopian fallacy and came to appreciate the uniqueness of my country and people and the realities of peoples differences.

@@onetwo5155 - the weird thing is, although in New Zealand education is generally left-leaning (I’d stop short of claiming that it was ‘far left’ in my day, ‘cos it wasn’t - it was left-of-center), I don’t think that it was my schooling / NZ education - primary, secondary or tertiary - that engendered this attitude in me. It’s actually scary to try to consider _where exactly_ this conception of being a ‘citizen of the world’ on my part came from, and to realize that I cannot easily come up with a concrete answer to this question sort of freaks me out . . . Possibly a mixture of television / TV shows, movies and schooling, but I cannot really attribute any portion of blame to any one of those things on its own . . . But your description of the fallacy that there is some ‘all-encompassing human “default” mentality that supersedes nation states’ is an excellent definition. I think a lot of of that would be to do with the West’s latter-twentieth century abandonment of Christianity, which I think now a lot of people are beginning to realize was a very important lynchpin, if not _the_ most fundamental one, in the wheel of European society and culture. The assumption that in ‘unshackling’ ourselves from religion and thus affording ourselves a greater ability to ‘connect’ to a ‘wider world’ was / is utterly flawed. I’d say that was a lot of it, on my part certainly. I was quite a Dawkins + (Christopher) Hitchens acolyte from eighteen ~ thirty-five, as one might expect, and I hung off of their every word . . . 😅 But yep - having lived in Asia for over ten years now I definitely rediscovered just how awesome and unique a place New Zealand really is (as consistently hard as Jokecinda Ardumb and the Kiwi Left is / are working to make it _not_ awesome) . . .

I would think it's the overall corruption within treasonous governments that play a major part in it. Especially with the young. Alongside the fact that most adults don't seem to want to take responsibility in dealing with them.

So do you understand that at some degree of wealth the idle rich travel the world to see friends or events as casually as you drive to the nearest city?

If you got money you are a world citizen and can live everywhere ,if you dont have money you cant.

@@huphuppie8818 Not necessarily so, if you have no dependents, a good set of life skills & tools. You can live anywhere you are willing to work with what you actauly have. This is Independence . . . .

@@stevenroth4215In your own country perhaps.

Bingo. Good call.

It's tricky, but I think it's less about optimism than it is about Gratitude. I am one who has studied much of the same kinds of things as Dr. Hanson although my achievements are not academic and I am no farmer, but rather an American warrior and leader of warriors, a dying breed btw. Anyway the simple truth about American exceptionalism is that human nature takes over. We have had the greatest run, but the entropy of decadent corruption was never something preventable, only something to resist as long as possible. However, the legacy of our exceptionalism lives on. It lives on in free nations (imperfect and struggling though they may be) around the world. Nations that would still be subjugated under despotism were it not for the US either passively or actively. So there actually is a reason for optimism. 100 years ago there were few free and independent nations in the world. Two hundred years ago when the US was young and growing strong there were almost none.

Once someone has the power to guarantee an election win....will he give it up for the sake of fairness ?

The power is in the ignored local precincts. Volunteer if you care.

Unfortunately true. I do not have confidence in elections, the FBI the IRS. American institutions have lost credibility. Very sad. Never questioned our institution’s loyalty before.

Klaatu , I hate to say it but I tend to agree with you.

Absolutely true. We are no different than serfs in feudal England toiling for a small piece of ground which we may never own.

Virtually means almost. Almost is not 100% We are fighting the Big Boys, the count is nine but not 10. Time to watch the original Rocky.

America's federal government has purged right we eng thinking workers for years & just look what it has now become. It's more like an Aligarchy than a Republic.

The majority of Republicans would rather play second sister to the DemocRats than allow any America First candidate to hold an ounce of power, and actually use that power.

On the nail and exactly what we are seeing.

Fascism is a gun stuck into the faces of corporations. Only facism has political power. You rationalize the evasion of individual rights, ie, capitalism.

We've been under fascism in America for many decades.. We've moved openly into socialism, and we're secretly under Communist control...

@@virgilpalmer2427 > secretly under Communist control. Secretly?! You dont watch TV news, do you? And socialism is as old as town schools before the Revolution, the Constitution's Postal Service and money coining; 1830s canals and harbors; national parks, 1900?; Federal Reserve, 1914. Ive probably missed a lot New Fascism: Rule By Consensus-Ayn Rand

Here the national (formerly federal) government calls it the "public-private partnership."

From what I remember the Democrats used illegal immigrants to take over California. When the Republicans started cracking down on the flow of illegal immigrants into the states. It started when the Republicans started cracking down and forcing people to prove citizenship or green cards to send their children to school. I don't necessarily agree with how they tried to deny kids education but I do understand why they were doing it. People have been sending their children across the border for free education and Healthcare on our taxpayers dime for many decades and the Republicans were trying to stop people from taking advantage of us. I've got a lot of Hispanic friends and family and seen them using every loophole they could. We've got the " Lidman's " the largest broom factory in the United States where I live which is the reason why we are known locally as little Mexico. The vast majority of the Hispanics in my area are all from the same state in Mexico.

Interesting analysis. The only thing I would suggest is that Democratic policies lead to poverty while Republican policies lead to success. But the case of the south between the Civil War and the 1970s has probably different explanations because the economic policies weren't all that different between north and south.

@@anonygent Republicans had actual influence in the north. In fact, just go back and look at historical voting in the north compared to the south. The north has a long history of voting Republican prior to recent decades. The south didn't see Republicans win anything pushing a century after the civil war. There is just denying historically two things. The Republicans are far better with building economies, and the Democrats are far better with social policy(until recently).

Because the democrat party was formed to defend slavery and after the civil war to in-statueJim Crow and segregation!!!

me too...wow.

They write books thinking it will somehow solve the issue however the people who consume them are supporters of them already, not the left who would just burn the book. This is why I start to resent the constant book writers who keep talking and writing about the issues. Okay writer a book make some money but once you are established start solution building.

Ok, so what’s the plan then.

@William Davies Maybe if you ‘hit me up’ on a better night. I do have ideas but a lot of people believe them to be too Pollyanna! And at 82 and major back problems at the moment...I can offer little right now. But I do know that ‘killing’ each other won’t solve a single problem! Just lays ground work for long range heartache and more pain.

@William Davies Maybe if you ‘hit me up’ on a better night. I do have ideas but a lot of people believe them to be too Pollyanna! And at 82 and major back problems at the moment...I can offer little right now. But I do know that ‘killing’ each other won’t solve a single problem! Just lays ground work for long range heartache and more pain.

@William Davies Maybe if you ‘hit me up’ on a better night. I do have ideas but a lot of people believe them to be too Pollyanna! And at 82 and major back problems at the moment...I can offer little right now. But I do know that ‘killing’ each other won’t solve a single problem! Just lays ground work for long range heartache and more pain.