Capitalism Hits Home: Why Did Trump Win?

[@Livoirienyvoitrien]

I‘m German, once loved the US and now am scared shitless. I have to admit that I understood nil about your culture. I could cry my eyes out to see where it’s all turning. God save America, and the world from it.

[@averayugen7802]

A traumatized nation votes for more trauma, healthy people want MORE health.

[@lucasm4299]

And healthcare!

[@skiphoffenflaven8004]

Indeed. In the Midwest, you see and hear this every day, from weak and non-participatory individuals. They may be braggarts, know-it-alls, patriots, and Christians, but they do not contribute anything positive nor compassionate to the nation. Only evil, blaming statements of fiction.

[@josephschaumberg4136]

Thank you for an enlightened lecture, in this time of fear and stress.

[@chrisdiver6224]

Revealing facts about why Europe bucked their anti progressive movements after WWll and why America didn't , American passivity, and the authoritarian character of the American family. Thank you!

[@markleonard653]

I'm a British citizen living in the UK. There are social similar conditions that led to Brexit and the rise of the Boris Johnson. One key difference is that the cohesion provided by the Church in any form. Of course there are other differences but there are, perhaps, more similarities than differences. But that's not the point of my comment which is: This is an excellent analysis and I have learnt some new things about US society and how it works - it's always rewarding to understand more. And yes, the left needs to unite. Yes, the French managed to do this recently for one election but it will take more than this to save "us" from the rise of far Right politics - we have only seen first waves of migration that will follow economic and political instability that is heading our way and you simply can't build a wall around Europe. How, realistically will the left unite when they are, in the main part, economically and educationally privileged and this gives them the resources to "move on" if things don't go their way. They are independent. They do not need "community" to survive. How will they react when they realise that social justice will mean they will have to sacrifice their pensions to redistribute wealth? The left, which is in the main part now educationally and economically privileged must work to build grassroots supportive and community building connections with those who are less privileged i.e. those who have voted for far right leaders and agendas and are legitimately angry. Just perhaps, things will get bad enough for the left to realise it's "unity or face devastation" and "reach out" to the most vulnerable in society to offer meaningful help to meet both their material and social needs.

[@jamessmith1785]

Very well said and you won't here it said here; Because we as a society suffer from intellectual depravity. My father once said that during the war when we had very little we were keen and aware of every need and the needs of others. Now that we have more than any generation before us in the way of material, we grow fat, dumb, and stupid. With this comes destructive boredom. What happens now is by our own hands.

[@karelriley2406]

What you are describing as 'the Left', to me sounds more like the Democratic Party. I have NO interest in uniting with the corrupt Democratic Party. The Left to me encompasses a very broad range of people fighting for justice, which includes many grassroots groups who represent people who are definitely NOT privileged. Also, the only people who are honestly talking about redistributing wealth to the impoverished are NOT the people who would reduce anyone's pension!! We have plenty in this country! We are awash in everything we need. We just don't control the distribution of it. No one in the working class needs to have a reduced standard of living if we had a just economy.

[@thegoodpimps]

The Left get their money from Corporations… people talk about Fox News, what about Hollywood? The Mainstream media of the Left is still Corporate Media, and far more reaching than the right wing media. Even Internet Leftist’s rely on Tech Corporations for their money. We have almost no publicly funded media. This is what keeps legitimate leftist movements out in America.

[@sydneymorey6059]

Good talk. Has all the elements. All the reasons why ordinary women & men have lost traction. So ask, what’s the next step. You beautiful people have been out foxed. From had it all to have nothing. Definitely not right. The Woking class, folk must regroup. This good lady has given the foundation from which to start. Sincerely, an Aussie battler.

[@GLN14659]

Some poor families are also more stressed imo. Not taking the time or knowing where or how. So they do the best they can and learn the same from those around them. Silence is a result also of abuse from systems and family. Much for all to deal with....

[@charles9126]

Excellent summary of the psychological causes of American decline. The problem is that once an individual or community becomes dysfunctional a sick sort of attachment to their condition sets in where if they perceive that they have more to lose than to gain by becoming healthy they will remain unhealthy. Good luck with this one.

[@JoseColomer-e9u]

Always love to hear your take 🩵

[@sl-lz3dw]

Regarding what Dr Fraad says at 7:14. Educate the children today that there are political and economic possibilities other than capitalism. Make up, adapt and teach them songs at their early ages with words that plant seeds for later thought. One could go something like... When You're Happy and You Know It, Set Life Free As We're Happy and We Know It, Anarchy 'Cause We're Happy and We Know It, Liberating Life We Show It Mors Omnibus Tyranni, LIBERTY!

[@g.m.8360]

In America capitalism and democracy have money laundering for elections when you look at the money and where it goes and the amount is insane at the end what was accomplished at the end of each term?

[@patricialongo5870]

Americans didn't try to have public funded elections. Americans hate us communists and socialists more than they think. And they're ready to admit they went to war to destroy Communism.

[@jamessmith1785]

Because we as a society suffer from intellectual depravity. My father once said that during the war when we had very little we were keen and aware of every need and the needs of others. Now that we have more than any generation before us in the way of material, we grow fat, dumb, and stupid. With this comes destructive boredom. What happens now is by our own hands.

[@donalvarez4006]

Then your father is not being truthful. War is hell and while the worker complacency certainly has a part to play, we did not ask for this degree of economic inequality. Rather, we inherited it

[@jamessmith1785]

@@donalvarez4006War is hell and it puts to the test the morality of THOSE WHO experience it. You need to 1st understand the culture of south Italy where my father comes from and where he experienced the post war social unity he correctly described. You may not have asked in america for this degree of economic inequality, and you inherit it because you don't know how to ask for anything else in a society that has grown fat, dumb, and stupid. We accept without question, a system of 2 party props without change. This continues even if both props bring you economic inequality (which is your 1st concern) or even graver problems like the unanimous 2 party genocidal practice now underway in the eyes of an opposing global forum. Ben Franklin once said you have a representative democracy only for as long as "you the people" can keep it. You have inherited only what YOU have allowed.

[@jamessmith1785]

@@donalvarez4006 You inherit what you allow, a 2 party puppet stage, and war also test human morals as it did in my fathers post war community of a culture you don't obviously understand.

[@etep878]

Corporal punishment is evil. Everyone must have bodily autonomy. No one can touch a kid without his or her permission!

[@mandarine1007]

Completely agree. BUT, we should be able to debate it openly and without prejudice

[@patricialongo5870]

When I was twelve in 1974 I wrote an essay entitled "We have an ownership style system of families where children are owned by their parents". It was not long before adults taught me how to write a different paper and correct that one.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

There is 16 political parties in Denmark , not a single millionaire among them

[@patricialongo5870]

And yet they're supporting NATO. Sounds like you folks are exactly as honest as Americans about who you really are and how deadly you chose to be.

[@jamessmith1785]

@@patricialongo5870 NATO and its socialized democracies are not a crime, genocide is and the US strong arms it to do its wishes like it did in Rwanda. The UN would be wise to dismiss the US vote in its assembly. At the same time 150 nations now vote against america to include NATO nations. Numerous political party parliaments are numerically more democratic than the 2 party dog and pony show which we americans are too dumbfounded to change.

[@patricialongo5870]

@jamessmith1785 having military bases all over, not a crime? It's definitely interfering in other nation's sovereignty. Illegal since the Peace of Westfalia in Europe.

[@uptick888]

@@jamessmith1785genocide in Gaza too

[@xelakram]

This is an excellent video. Full of common sense and great explanations of the insanity which has clearly enveloped Americans in voting for Trump. I think I need to add: God help America! God help Americans! They are about to learn exactly what they voted for. They won't know what's hit them!

[@comrade_brotato]

The problem with the election was harris was very clearly a plant that will do anything the masters wanted. Trump is a huge asshole but at least he admits that there are major issues that need to be addressed and the system is hijacked.

[@patricialongo5870]

I suspect that they know, that they understand they unanimously reelected genocide, war and ecological destruction.

[@b43xoit]

Democracy requires equality in the power of the vote, conforming to _Wesberry_ vs. _Sanders_. Defeating two-party dominance requires equality in the power of the vote, conforming to _Wesberry_ vs. _Sanders_. Make money ineffective via equality in the power of the vote.

[@patricialongo5870]

Americans traditionally oppose democracy. Sorry, but they voted to continue.

[@rjung_ch]

That they have to obey, so well said. I believe the religiosity is a huge problem, because nobody should questions anything, head down and obey.

[@mandarine1007]

Extraordinary analysis! Many of us have become aware of a kind of black-tape policy that we have tacitly agreed on over many topics. This is clearly a passive aggressive form towards freedom of speech and the need for debate, even if some proponent’s ideas are absurd, irrational, or discriminatory in nature. How should we create spaces for open discussion? Should they be profound or shallow? I belief we are falling “out” love in our solitude. Silenced by right and left

[@greendragonspirit1646]

Brilliant as always !

[@Timmy-y2w]

In my opinion if I had any say there should be consequences for politicians not just getting voted out or vetoed but something they can't control like for instance if you do not meet one of your campaign promises you go to jail and have to refund all the donations plus interest

[@patricialongo5870]

People didn't hold them accountable for any results. Did you know that only one side of the ideological divide in politics assumes that people should understand reality and refer to it when they govern? It's called being a dialectical materialist. Guess which side in the USA is never, ever included in politics or government? And then stop referring to reality. It's not going to help.

[@nameless-yd6ko]

"No one ever went broke underestimating the (rapidly shrinking) intellect of the American public." - Ronald Reagan Who's benefiting from that and who's going to dumb down schools even more?

[@monikakonrad1609]

Alles richtig. Aber wie anfangen. Bildung und Aufkrärung sind gefragt.

[@jamessmith1785]

the hour glass works against you

[@uptick888]

I’ve been on the run way in a plane when Italian union workers went on strike and wow It was over in a short time.. when will we learn ?

[@HolloMatlala1]

Why I Like Old people....When they get OLD they talk TRUTH and What is Right Only (All they see is the light at the end of the Tunnel). No theatrics or trying to impress your feelings just pure FACTS.

[@drewh3224]

She has out of context for why Trump won for the conditions we are in today!

[@jillfryer6699]

Today a drover's dog could win. Come on in Buster!

[@jillfryer6699]

Last time T won the line put out by bolder media was that US voted for him as a big FU to the Demos who had done nothing but screw them with a PC smiley face for a decade and a half, via Obama and Clinton; the prospect of the other Clinton was just too much to bear. Here we are again. It would appear to all except Blind Freddy that the people have got the message at last that the Demos are not their party. No more than the Reprobates are. At least T2 is a larf, as the English said, when they elected that bozo with the floppy white hair.

[@lucasm4299]

What’s the context then? Enlighten us Drew

[@C.c52]

great talk . thank you

[@homayounshirazi9550]

So, what do you think the future is like if you were correct in your assessment? Is there a bright future awaiting this AMERICAN society or there is more bad news we should expect. If it is the former, I doubt anyone could be happy with it, but if it is more of the same, who could go along with it ? Stating the problem is one part of the solution, offering the solution is the road to nirvana ! My personal opinion is that we have sadly reached our end of the road as a French THINKER last century called it In a play titled Huis Clos, No Exit.

[@lucasm4299]

We’re doomed but we’ll all be gone by then

[@jamessmith1785]

@@lucasm4299 you have no children

[@jamessmith1785]

@@lucasm4299 you have no children

[@ElPedo-g4q]

"We all have a policeman in our heads." William Burroughs, writer

[@ElainEmail-m7q]

Inflation is a word in a household's budget, a very stressful word... Inflation is a word to skip to people in politics to avoid unpopularity... So, does the same word have different feelings ? Investing in elites' stocks is a celebration of inflation with the silent billionaire clubs with lots of their cash positions to play the Games of BUY LOW, SELL HIGH AGAIN ? Ask those BIG Wall Street players and billionaire club members to make their dreams of profiting from the coming recession again .

[@patricialongo5870]

They'll only spend it on drugs. We didn't want to pay fifteen dollars for a burger. These people don't belong here. Did you see these addicts in open air tents in Philadelphia through a spotting scope? Everyone has. Because Americans hate Americans and see us through sites.

[@MasterKeeka]

This women is like living alone in the house and recording all kinds of things AGAINST XD

[@piku5637]

“Yep”.. “Yup”.. “Yup”.. “Mmmmmhmmmmm” 🍻

[@florianaubert9745]

Does anyone have the source to the CIA papers where they analyse (and praise) identity politics for having split the left? Other content creators did mention them as well

[@cev12]

I agree, I thought that just the other day-- That people are scared with so much instability around them (cultural and economic), and so they turn to authoritarians for seeming stability (little do they know...). But it doesn't just stem from personal histories with authoritarian parents, ministers or cultures... also the Old Testament God was a sh-tty authoritarian figure too, and much of the world prays to him. Which indicates he was only ever a figment of human minds needing safety. Anyway, turns out that humans are not mostly rational, logical or compassionate after all. As all the old classical texts tell us, the masses are excitable and irrational. And human nature has evidently not changed.

[@patricialongo5870]

Planning to protect individuals from precarity is socialism. Americans voted again to reject socialism.

[@cev12]

@@patricialongo5870 ...and then the 2nd part of what I wrote: "Anyway, turns out that humans are not mostly rational, logical or compassionate after all. As all the old classical texts tell us, the masses are excitable and irrational. And human nature has evidently not changed." Case closed. Because if you ask citizens whether they approve of "socialism" via individual policies (healthcare, taxing the rich), then they overwhelmingly support "socialism." So these voters are just able to demote/replace their beliefs/thoughts to/with their emotions. Trump plays to their emotions, emotions/excitability win, Trump wins: Trump voters are irrational.

[@tondarmb3947]

I love you ,like my mother. I was fan of your husband prof wolf, but now l am waiting impatiently for your analysis about u.s. society especially men and women and family conditions. deep,real and correct knowledge about u.s. society .from iran

[@CelestialWoodway]

I didn't realize she was married to Professor Wolf. I'm a dummy. 😅

[@HolloMatlala1]

They are about to cry come 2030.#4THIR

[@gutsymovies]

We're on a highway with a 65 mph speed limit. Democrats are driving a perfectly good car 2 mph in the right median. Republicans are in the far left lane in reverse backing into oncoming traffic. Voters got frustrated going 2 mph in the right median so they threw up their hands and voted for the 50 car pileup that is Trump.

[@dondonfrias3905]

Please can i ask for a title of the about Detroit Motor City why their are gone about their manufactiring by marxist author or any critical author please

[@yukonnoka]

My father was a fundamentalist evangelical Christian when I was growing up. He used to slap me in the face and spank me. He was a big Dobson fan. My mother ended up in the mental hospital. I have since forgiven him though. I can see now that he was simply heavily influenced by a violent and anti Christ movement.

[@bluewater454]

Your father obviously didn’t listen very closely to Dr Dobson.

[@matthewingerson]

Yup. Christ was anti-violence, and pro-love, and there is no love in the fear that is produced by violence.

[@philipsagalla7943]

True​@@matthewingersontrue

[@JudeRevolution-c1l]

Mutual aid and community building my leftie comrades

[@normalizedaudio2481]

America wants a purple painted Patriarch.

[@JohnWilliams-wz9vk]

10 million..stayed home...smart folks have dropped out of any thing ..American Landfill

[@richdiana3663]

The results are terrifying, even to this Doomalist.

[@StateOfPurgatory]

Is it surprising?

[@a.randomjack6661]

Because he was the uniparty's selection 🤷‍♂

[@coyotecowboy5503]

u r talking about the 1970s

[@G0ldbl4e]

The Democrats lost on purpose. That simple.

[@comrade_brotato]

It sure seems that way when kamala had nothing to say about the rights of innocent people being exterminated.

[@marclawson2536]

The DNC manipulated the primary process to eliminate Bernie Sanders. Kamala never won a single primary State, not one!

[@magehouse]

Am i the only one that was expecting Richard Wolff

[@jillfryer6699]

That is likely. This has been running regularly for years.

[@luisurbanoduarte3857]

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[@veganpundit1]

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[@bernardheathaway9146]

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[@PeterMaranci]

Excuse me, but this seems to me to be great foolishness. An unnecessary complication to a very simple question. Over the last 4 years, costs have doubled. My rent has doubled. The cost of groceries has doubled. Pretty much all expenses have gone up by somewhere between 50 and 100%. This is true for pretty much everyone I know. Over the same time, my income has gone up less than 8%. So like everyone else, I am faced with trying to survive on what is effectively half the income that I had before COVID and bidenomics. Kamala Harris effectively promised no changes. Meanwhile she and Biden sent billions of our tax dollars to drag the world closer to World War III in Ukraine, and to continue the mass murder of children in Gaza. Under those circumstances, who WOULDN'T vote for a change? And I can't speak for anyone else particularly, but this whole idea of women as old fashioned slave housewives really dates you. That's not how things are anymore, and hasn't been for generations. I'm not saying there's perfect oarity between the sexes, but It has been more than 40 years since women's lib burst onto the scene. I don't know anyone who has a marriage such as you describe.

[@JudeRevolution-c1l]

U are a white dude without a clue mate

[@WillyBluefield]

Wow! It's like living in Trump-America. I know, we'll rename this dazzling country: The Fascist States of TrumMerica. There's a new dance in town, it's called the Goose-step Boogie!

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

All this did not start with Trump

[@WillyBluefield]

@@jacobjorgenson9285 You are correct, it began with Reagan. Trump is just the malignancy is has grown into.

[@cev12]

I watch virtually all of the Fraad/Wolff videos on this channel. And I find it tremendously disappointing that there was barely any kind of distinction made between Trump and Harris. Wolff repeatedly said things like, "they're pretty much the same." When in fact, they may be both on the spectrum of capitalism, but there are huge distinctions. Distinctions that will be made acutely over the next four years of this unfolding Trump nightmare. And then, only AFTER the election was over, did Wolff say that "it was a defeat." That should have been said before the election-- that Kamala would be more helpful to the left than Trump. And Fraad made only two passing suggestions that Kamala was better than Trump. But today she calls him "authoritarian" and ponders why he won. The leftist leaders create the left culture. And Democracy at Work only encouraged the idea that Trump and Kamala were the same, and thereby depressed the Democrats' vote. The left, including Fraad and especially Wolff, is to blame too.

[@jackshultz2024]

I wrote a number of times in my comments here and there that Trump was not just another neo-con grifter. This is a very dangerous demagogue, and just as the left in Germany equating the Social Democrats and the National Socialists in 1933 turned out to be a fatal error, this time too the failure of the left to unite against the Fascist may come to the same sad end. I’m sorry if I seem so despondent, but the future looks extremely bleak to me.

[@cev12]

To be fair, other leftist leaders were even worse; the blame for Trump's win falls on many leftists too: Nader only criticized Kamala for months up to the election. As soon as the election was over, he started criticizing Trump. Hedges thinks it's his moral crusade to not vote Kamala because of Gaza. But apparently it's not his moral crusade to protect all the innocent wildlife and nature of this planet from the widescale and massive destruction from the worsening and unchecked climate crisis, or women from dying because of lack of access to abortions, etc. Cornel West and Jill Stein stayed in the race til the end, even with the authoritarian, far-rightwing Trump looming large. (Just before the election, the EU Green Party said that Stein should drop out because the electoral margins were too close.) Democracy Now, where Juan Gonzalez was the only anchor to speak up and say we need to vote, even if we don't like Kamala much. But otherwise, Dem Now attacked Democrats/Biden/Kamala on Gaza for over a year for half of each Headlines. And she/they let Trump skirt by without much criticism. Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper and Jordan Chariton all highlighted how bad Kamala was, even as they said next to nothing about Trump. And some even encouraged a Green Party vote. (Versus TYT and Kyle Kulinski who are appreciated for supporting Kamala, even though she wasn't everything we want.) The pro-Palestine groups and the climate groups (Sunrise) who refused to endorse Kamala because she wasn't ideal, even as Trump was infinitely worse. (Climate Defiance gets kudos for "reluctantly endorsing Kamala," knowing she was better than Trump, and identifying that we were "choosing our opponent.") Etc.

[@malaikasmith3949]

People need to use their brains. I don't need Fraad/Wolf to show me how to want the best for all of us. They enhance knowledge and give me new avenues to do more of my own education, that's all.

[@cev12]

@@malaikasmith3949​​⁠ Nobody’s asking for them to give orders. As I said, they create the left culture- and the culture leftist leaders gave us this election was complete dissatisfaction with the Democrats/Kamala, a false narrative that the two parties/candidates are the same, and the false belief that nothing would change (positive/negative) with either. Obviously these things are all proven untrue, when Wolff states that trump’s win was a “defeat” for the left- after it’s too late to change it.

[@cev12]

@@jackshultz2024 You're not wrong. My German grandfather, a youth during WW2, died shortly before the 2016 election but warned my family that Trump reminded him very much of Hitler.

[@SchkuenteQoostewin]

USA DAF

[@dannymeske3821]

What is passive about the violent video games, and cartoons they watch!

[@malaikasmith3949]

I think you are confusing passive with pacific.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

They never risk anything playing games

[@aswestos]

i feel insane making the same connections the amazing dr. harriet fraad makes as a low educated minimum wage worker for 10 years of my 28 years of life. i feel insane being the only neurodivergent person in a room hyper aware of whats going on... maybe its the only thing keeping me from a psych ward though, because i understand what i'm up against ..

[@aswestos]

my family ignored me and shunned me as a neurodivergent ~ ! i was unable to speak for much of my early development so my thoughts were developed as a rebel and defiant but i was able to show i can test as well and even better than non neurodivergent, though i grew up being sent to mission trips in a southern Baptist household, i feel like an insane person! i feel like i must help others like me, i feel like i can help, i swear i will help you all one day.

[@NathanielJack-b4l]

I remember giving her my first savings $20,000, and she opened a brokerage account for me, it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

[@Richardcory3963]

Assets that can make one successful in life

[@Richardcory3963]

1. Crypto 2. Stocks 3. forex

[@NathanielJack-b4l]

You're so right, Investing in bitcoin now is the best thing to do especially with the current rise in the market

[@cev12]

Yes, there's still a large, reasonable, lingering "IF" about whether Trump actually legitimately won the election, or IF he cheated... Would be nice if the Democrats did something, smh.

[@DanFeldman-Edge]

14 to 15 million fewer people voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2024 than did in 2024. Harris ran a pathetic campaign anchored to abortion and continued genocide, and nothing else. People stayed home, or voted 3rd party.

[@cev12]

@@DanFeldman-Edge She ran a pretty good campaign, but with a few missteps. But what? Are you saying Trump ran such a stellar campaign that everyone flocked to him?

[@DanFeldman-Edge]

@@cev12 the significance of this election is far greater than any given candidate from the Democratic Party. The working class rejected the ruling class neoliberal austerity consensus since Reagan and Clinton. As former MP George Galloway put it, “[The U.S. working class] voted for the human Molotov Cocktail that is Donald Trump.” Some 15 million fewer voters selected Harris than Biden in 2020. A few million may have voted Trump and a few voted 3rd party due to the genocide in Gaza, but my estimate would be that the vast majority could not be motivated to vote for any candidate as the system has only made their lives more precarious over the past 20 to 40 plus years. Both major candidates and their parties represent eternal war and Wall Street profits for the ruling class. Even NYT columnist David Brooks about a week ago lamented that the Democratic Party should have supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, even though he prefers the ruling class candidates. And even taking into consideration Harris’s antidemocratic anointment without a primary, Harris was an awful candidate who garnered no support in the 2020 presidential primary and has managed to develop zero strategic vision of her own for the country since as VP. She spent a billion dollars on celebrity endorsements that the working class couldn’t care less about and is now attempting to recoup its financial losses. This is not the sign of a campaign that addressed the serious legitimate grievances of the working class. Trump largely won by default. A Sanders type campaign would have obliterated Trump. Those former Democratic voters who voted for Trump were likely looking for something different, anything different, even if it triggered chaos, because the status quo ruling class consensus only means more pain for them and their families. Did you even listen to Dr. Farad here?

[@DanFeldman-Edge]

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[@StateOfPurgatory]

Corporate media

[@lucasm4299]

Corporate media Loss of intellectual discourse Politics turned into sports Only two options in a democracy Private dark money in politics Loss of family structure Loss of stable morals Isolationism Addiction to technology and loss of attention

[@tanujSE]

How many want to be communist family?

[@tanujSE]

Because all want to be Trump family'

[@kennethedwards1677]

This is a good discussion. We need to start paying attention to the problems of American men, and stop denigrating them in either subtle or overt ways. It's true that many men in the wealthy and elite class abuse women, but the majority of us do NOT. We, as men, are not just utilities for the benefit of woman, who are often given a pass for their wrongdoing. We sometimes feel there is a double standard. Some may are may not agree, but 'sexism' can go both ways. The one alarming fact is that male suicide rate is as much as 4.5 times greater than that of women, as well as a much higher rate of homelessness and incarceration. I think we'd better find out why and address that because it indicates mental illness/ maladaption is at play here. Both male/female issues are equally important. By the way, I did not vote for Trump, who is an utter embarrassment to this country.

[@donalvarez4006]

Only people denigrating American men are capitalists, the vast majority of whom are men as well. Plus, all the problems you listed are rooted in misogyny. Your inability to see that is in itself sexist

[@mr.knownothing33]

Gotta love ChatGPT. In 1990 the white non Hispanic population was 75% and is 59% now. But you do make great points nonetheless

[@lucasm4299]

I agree with those reasons but I unfortunately can’t help but see “gender equality” as an additional reason for the loss of family structure. “Women do you really wanna work? Ok then, now both the man and woman of the household can work! Have at it!” And capitalists can get away with this for the most part.

[@matthewingerson]

Capitalists raising prices without restriction was one of the reasons that women had to go into the labor force. Another reason that women had to go into the labor force was because Capitalists stifled the wages of men without restriction. Those two things, when coupled together, meant that in order to maintain a similar household-income, similar buying-power, and a similar standard-of-living, both men and women had to work. But if women want to work, they should be able to work. And as far as the "family structure" goes, those designs should be left up to the individual adults, or groups of adults, who choose to be in a family together.

[@ciararespect4296]

Economy economy and economy. Dems just talking about lgbtq++

[@brianarmstrong6215]

If unions are so strong and caring, why are they continually being bailed out with our tax dollars! The teamsters recently got a multi million dollar bailout for their pensions! .63 cents on every dollar I pay in personal property taxes goes straight to the teachers union! If I pay $3000 a year in personal property taxes, that would put gas in my car for 2 years easily! Or $3000 worth of food! Why am I paying for garbage pickup? Where is all this lottery and casino money going? We live in a country that has no respect for the working class! This is why people have quit! Gods grace leads to repentance. Trump is not the answer. Repentance is the answer! God will judge this greedy, lazy society! Our government has been extorting the working class for to long. Now they are raising our property values so they can take more money from us!

[@jillfryer6699]

You are right about many things. You don't need to drag God into it. He has enough to do and he has grown you here with a brain good enough to work this out and the job of fixing it, or sorting it out a bit better.

[@imperson7005]

Many of the strong unions and large unions in the US are ran by people who, at the very least, are unwilling or unable to create programs or movements to increase worker conditions. My personal belief is either these people are so indoctrinated they literally are unable to think of socialist programs or they know the political climate and purposely are defective to hold their union spot, which are highly paid in my said framework.

[@donalvarez4006]

You mean the teachers who educate the laborers that keep society functioning? Oh no…

[@matthewingerson]

Wealthy-class RWers caused that. It's NOT the fault of the working-class Teamsters; it IS the fault of the corrupt authoritarians from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics. And you're too ignorant to comprehend the facts. All the biggest problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics. That is what wealthy-class authoritarians, with the help of working-class dupes (like you) are who caused the problems with the Teamster's pension-fund. The wealthy-RWers connived & lied. They took the money out of the Teamsters pension-fund and moved it FROM a safe, savings-account system, TO a risky stock-market, ponzi-sceme system. The wealthy-RW stockholders made out like bandits, and the working-class laborers suffered. And working-class dupes, like you, supported the wealthy-RWers. The wealthy-RWers have been very successful at decimating education for working-class people. The wealthy-class has rendered so many working-class dupes, like you, into a condition of such ignorance, that you are incapable of comprehending the truth. You're so ignorant, you have been led to blame other working-class people for things they had no control over. If I were as dumb as you, I would wonder what else you're capable of doing to innocent working-class people -- but I'm not as dumb as you -- I already know exactly what you'll do when your wealthy-RW masters tell you to. You'll do ANYTHING that you're told to do, like a good, little working-class dupe. You're just like the working-class dupes who volunteered to be soldiers in the RW-Confedrate & RW-Nat-C militaries, both of which were funded by the wealthy-RWers. So, congratulations...🥳 ...you're exactly as dumb as the wealthy-class has designed you to be, with their corrupt, RW-politics.🙄

[@jamessmith1785]

God helps those who help themselves, we must judge and act on this lazy society intelligently. At this time we are the the providers and supporters and slaves of the big money power elites, we must change this. Unions are good until they like all other powers become greedy and inconsiderate of the whole of society. Control is key and caps on everything from costs to extravagant union entitlements are necessary. There is one pie and how it is carved equally is important but we are too numb to get involved in the details of working government.

[@jimbranaghan1228]

Absolute rubbish.

[@vivalaleta]

What is?

[@greendragonspirit1646]

The only " rubbish " is your statement!

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Easily threatened aren’t you

[@darrenbeutel6849]

Nonsense

[@domatthew1666]

Why does she keep saying white males? She should get out often. Go travel the other parts of the world.

[@lucasm4299]

She’s focusing on the mess in the U.S but I guess she can look at other messes too

[@matthewingerson]

She's in the US, talking about US culture, critiquing US problems. Put your ego aside and admit that you're, at worst, part of the problem, or, at the very least, affected by those who are part of the problem. If you're not a toxic white male living in the US, then you can calm down -- she's not talking to you.

[@darrenbeutel6849]

Haha, just keep talking

[@missk1697]

cry more

[@Jumpertj]

Do have a mental issue? The same comment on every other video.

[@nohaydeque334]

​@@missk1697who cried? she didn't cry.

[@lucasm4299]

Darren, you’re very insecure