How Power Corrupts the Left

As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs, all the conditions are perfect for the left to be overwhelmingly dominant as a social and electoral force around the world.  Yet instead the left flounders as the far right is on the rise.

Why is this happening, and what can we do to stop the decline of civilization?

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0:00 How do you do fellow kids!

2:57 Four reasons why the left is weak and unpopular

5:10 What does the left even stand for?

7:16 The left becomes the right, the right pretends to be the left

9:46 Equality as synonymous with democracy

10:10 Bureaucratic, urban and anti-rural socialism

11:52 Why can’t the left deliver anymore?

13:17 The crises of the 1970s and the birth of neoliberalism

16:42 Why socialists gut the welfare state

18:16 What it will take to implement serious left wing policies in the neoliberal era

20:14 How D.E.I. spells D.I.E. for the left

21:31 Discrimination as a tool for competition over resources

23:35 Racism and american unions in the 1930s vs 1950s

25:09 Why left wing parties abandoned class for identity politics

26:47 How class-first politics fights discrimination

31:03 How identity-first politics creates discrimination

39:33 Identity-first politics as right wing politics in left wing disguise

40:14 Racial imperialism: buying off minority elites

43:01 Cancel culture: burning witches is right wing religious politics

43:33 Free speech as inseparable from democracy

44:42 Censorship of the Nazis in Weimar Germany

45:20 Cancel goblins accomplished more for the right than anyone since WW2

47:07 Cancel culture is the greatest right wing election campaign ever invented

49:48 How cancel Chucky-dolls benefit when the right to wins

51:34 Moving forward: flushing the toilet of the left

52:40 Cooperating with cancel gremlins, Stalinists, DEIdiots and other right wingers

54:05 Looking outside the bubble: Charlie Kirk viewers

55:08 Ditching a majority of the fake “left” in order to gain the majority of the population