(Don't) Show This Video To Conservatives

[@NewTroll]

Tip: Don't show this to a conservative. Everything he is saying is true, but it is not rhetorically designed for them.

[@synthstatic9889]

A fascist has no use for an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker. I’m aware of the irony that the above can fit on a bumper sticker so don’t bother pointing that out.

[@jeremyn4397]

@NewTroll True

[@NervinJ]

@@synthstatic9889 "Black Lives Matter", "Trans Rights", "My Body, My Choice". Every political group uses slogans for their dumb people to follow. "Don't be a prick". Should be simple enough for ya.

[@Eibarwoman]

There's no video short enough for conservative's inability to absorb anything that can't fit on a bumper sticker. This is the problem with the left. We need bumper sticker slogans.

[@redlunatic2224]

This. I wonder if this is indicative of an echo chamber. Sure he debates some conservatives, but they're often so extreme that even your average right wing voter would find them disagreeable. Most of them are much more centrist than he seems to think.

[@MadeInHistory]

When you also pretend to be a Conservative, you can get them to reveal a LOT of how they actually feel. I do this with some of my own friends. They are usually just people who go through the same experiences we all do, but process them differently. A lot of men say they are against abortion because life begins at conception. Get them comfortable and they'll say they don't care, they are just enraged women get to sleep around with no consequences. Some even admit it outright. Lots of women too are against abortion. Usually again because of life experiences, where they set rules on themselves not to sleep around, so when they see their friends do it and get away with a couple of pregnancies with no consequences, it creates a deep hatred. It's also why we see a lot of Conservatives being gay in secret. They set the rules on themselves that it's not right, so either keep it inside, or do it in secret, and when they see others freely doing it with no consequences, that's where the hatred comes from. "No I was taught all my life they are supposed to be below everyone! Why don't they have to suffer like me??" Conservatives' issue with the trans community as well. They most likely see a trans person, and their body reacts automatically, either with disgust or lust, or a mix of the 2, and they literally don't know how to deal with it. This one is great to pretend to be a conservative with, because if you ask them for a solution and push them, they'll reveal they ultimately just want all trans people deleted. Same with a lot of Conservatives accusing people of grooming. It's always internal struggles they have to project. They don't want virgins because of some inherent purity. They want virgins because they are usually young enough to groom and brainwash. Growing up in a Conservative household, I was always taught that drugs destroy your life, marijuana, coke, meth are the same etc... So growing up avoiding a lot of it, but seeing friends do drugs and not just face no consequences, but still succeed more than me, I do understand how conservatives feel, but thankfully I broke out of Conservatism in University. Education does help, but you really do also need a lot of introspection.

[@rodneythundercock]

Literally every line of this is false

[@bengoose2031]

@@rodneythundercock seems like he hit close to home

[@gabec9646]

I was insecure and jealous of many leftists and i can see how being a conservative feels like you’re being left out. but i broke out of it too

[@TechnoLion1]

This is the most unhinged "and then everybody clapped" comment ive read.

[@Matt-ov1qp]

@@rodneythundercock cope

[@RockPile_]

“SHOW THIS VIDEO TO CONSERVATIVES” 10 minutes later… “Yeah I think that’s what you people are, mass murderers. Republicans, I mean” Lmfao I love this

[@kaisarion6668]

Ay es true tho

[@jonathanwilliams9665]

@@kaisarion6668 we know that. But if you show this to a moderate conservative you were hoping to pull out of the rabbit hole they will just get pissed and turn it off as soon as they hear that

[@kaisarion6668]

@@jonathanwilliams9665 I know. I never said this was going to work

[@RockPile_]

@@jonathanwilliams9665 probably true, but there is a timbre you can have in the conversation to overcome that I think.

[@trashrabbit69]

I mean, conservatives often talk about their candidates as "telling it like it is," so why not follow through on it? Gottem

[@LaBlueSkuld]

The trickiest thing about talking to Conservatives nowadays is that you have to get them into this very narrow sweet spot where they're open to talking BUT they haven't raised their shields of their dozens if not hundreds of simple, easy to process talking points. The more indoctrinated they are the quicker they'll raise those shields and the moment they do every argument will be given and taken in bad faith.

[@utubepunk]

Yup. It's like navigating through a field of landmines.

[@donniesaunders6422]

ok, I'm conservative - talk to me...

[@connorpeppermint8635]

@@donniesaunders6422 Hi whats on your mind?

[@redlunatic2224]

@@donniesaunders6422 OK. What's on your mind?

[@lebronisbetterthanjordan9]

@@donniesaunders6422 Donald Trump tried to literally overthrow our democracy. Stop being a conservative. Come to the light Donnie

[@dorkmoonblade4315]

This video is way too unfocused to be shown to conservatives. If Vaush wants to actually show his content to conservative audiences then he needs to redo this.

[@TheLapisLord]

Yea I don’t know how much the tangent on bald-faced lie vs bold-faced lie is gonna change the minds of conservatives

[@goodpol5022]

@@TheLapisLord lmao

[@kw8295]

If conservitards are incapable of focusing enough on a single video that is barely longer than a TV episode, yet they are able to recite Alex Jones and Cucker Tarlson religiously verbatim. If that sounded rude or targeted it wasn't it's just a general response to the mindset, they can sit at work or in class at school and focus in that but they can't focus on a video that's done in good faith in an attempt to reason with conservitards but I've tried to reason with many and most are unable to change their thoughts same as liberals, it is what it is and i agree with vaush there is a lot of cognitive bias and it's tough to overcome that, even for me personally.

[@brotherpumpwell9527]

@@TheLapisLord Just got to that part while reading your comment. Agreed.

[@Greasyspleen]

Make it into a cartoon with a homoerotic Adonis-like Trump character to serve as a Trojan horse.

[@hitthegoat]

As a former conservative the thing that pulled me out of conservatism was friends refusing to let me get away with my bullshit. They would force me to back up any claims I made with verifiable facts. Over time it became too difficult for me to justify the things I believed. But not everyone can be convinced, no matter what you do

[@philliesphan334]

I try to do this but I feel it drives them further in their beliefs

[@williamallcorn1605]

Same. I got out of the conservative mind prison around 2014-ish? Honestly what we believed then seems *tame* now and even then it was insane stuff about Obama’s birth certificate. My friends fortunately stuck with me and when I finally tried to actually find substantial proof I couldn’t, and began changing my mind. Not everyone will try to actually look though. It takes an openness to being wrong and curiosity - which many just don’t have.

[@andreabenton7798]

Exactly bruh Legit all it took was looking up the actual things that the people I watched were saying to get out of it. 💀 And having my common sense kick in

[@hydrogen3266]

@@philliesphan334 if they give you a source that has right-wing bias try to call it out. If they fail to source what they’re saying, bring up a reliable source from Pew Research or other primary or scholarly sources. If they say that source is biased, ask how. Keep pushing them on their beliefs. Eventually they will be backed into a corner. Some of them will just be angry that you’re challenging their beliefs, and the cognitive dissonance will spur their pride to want to be right, and they will hardline. Sometimes, they will think and actually change their mind. This provided that you and the person you are talking to is good faith. Being bad faith (like my parents) will almost certainly cause you to be shut down, or the first outcome I described will happen

[@philliesphan334]

@@hydrogen3266 I think they view any source as biased if it goes against what they believe, case in point climate change denial

[@someidiot4570]

no conservative (especially a young one) would ever have their mind changed by this video. it's preaching to the choir.

[@WiloPolis03]

If anything younger conservatives would be easier to convince I know irl at least one person with very conservative parents who is now way less conservative than he used to be (to the point where he doesn't like discussing politics around them), change happens Edit- Let's freaking go I got the ratio

[@someidiot4570]

@@WiloPolis03 younger conservatives are more savvy and understand their own arguments way better than boomers.

[@brotherpumpwell9527]

@@someidiot4570 Like we're supposed to just accept the opinion of some idiot.

[@jaymum23]

Right. I’m not interested in changing their minds. Neither Vaush nor anyone else should be. They never had minds to begin with. I’m interested in destroying them.

[@WiloPolis03]

@@someidiot4570 There are still those with more flexible or uncertain mindsets than others

[@ArbyOne]

I think a video addressed to conservatives is a great idea!! This ain’t it, though. Any conservative watching this is practically guaranteed to just dig in their heels when faced with the rhetoric here. I think it would be a good idea to take another shot at this, maybe with a set of talking points in mind.

[@Nyquiltips1]

I’m a conservative and I would rather hear what he thinks of us without sugarcoating it. Vaush is ridiculous.

[@Jartran72]

rather modern conservative odeologies are ridicolous, you are very close to 1940 Germany conservatism again and thats is hard to defend even if Bob here wishes it were otherwise.

[@brandons9027]

​@@Nyquiltips1lol. You types are so broken inside😊

[@deismaccountant]

I hope he does something like this for Liberals. Specifically how putting trust in the wrong people to take action is what’s costing them their rights.

[@TheKarret]

True, but this might as well be for the libs, I don't think this'll reach the conservatives.

[@jrock71]

He is a lib what do you mean

[@infinitedm5396]

@@jrock71 vaush?? A lib??????? This is what the kids call a joke yes?

[@fatuousinnovatorofsadness4640]

Who'd they put trust in that was wrong?

[@t00bgazer]

@@infinitedm5396 why does vaush argue like a lib when he gets in debates with conservatives? Why does vaush simp so hard for nato? Seriously go read some marx and lenin. Vaush is far from a leftist lol. He literallyade a video saying marx and engels would have voted for biden lmao. Stop trying to label things as leftist if you havent read any books written by leftists.

[@goodpol5022]

I’m surprised that no one talks about this, but there were actually Monarchists at the Jan 6th riot. I have trouble finding it but there is actually a photo of someone carrying a flag of the Union Jack in the corner of a blank red canvas. I recognized this from a Hamilton animatic (yeah I had bad taste a few years back) and realized it was the original British flag for the 13 colonies. I double checked by looking up “American colonial flag (English)” and found that yes, this was in fact the flag of British ruled America. Meaning there were actual British monarchists at the Jan 6th riot. So much for “conserving American democrocy”.

[@andrewsmith8715]

Monarchism is the end goal for conservatives

[@j0hnicide]

i doubt they actually want monarchy, they want dictatorship but just fetishize "great men" of the past

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

Monarchism is a great thing. It is a shame that we dont have an Habsburg Emperor anymore here in Austria.

[@goodpol5022]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 ok troll

[@dumsaint]

@@andrewsmith8715 yes. Monarchies are stagnant cesspools. Conservativism too

[@specialknees6798]

I’m gonna have to agree with the majority here and say that this won’t change any minds. Honestly, a pre written, persuasive, video essay style format is probably better for these types of things. V is really good off the cuff, and that’s great for addressing opposing arguments, but if you’re trying to persuade someone, this style is much more likely to breed animosity. This feels like it’s essentially aimed at non-conservatives.

[@miwiarts]

I agree. Vaush's "Enlightened Centrists" video (2016 I think) was the one which got me to question my encreasingly far right leanings. It was scripted and incredibly succinct.

[@heiress.]

This video was rhetorical. Republicans treat political like a religion. Their arguments fall apart under the tiniest of scrutiny, their beliefs have no thought or consistent logic, just feelings and a delusions. They take pride in fact they reject science and imperial evidence dating back decades. They were gullible pawns to treason. Proud of it too. There’s no point in convincing a republican because it’s impossible. It’s time to start treating republicans like the danger they really are.

[@xbabu142x]

If stuff collapses everyone that is good at running critical infrastructure will leave with their families. If they don't understand how sanitation through weather monitoring works and they're sane they should come to the realization. If they think some one will save guess they're ready to be dead. Also dollar won't be reserve currency obviously and the US bonds will l be worthless.

[@saulelcrack8177]

This video will do nothing to change the minds of conservatives. Vaush needs to understand that most conservatives don’t like being told what they believe. Their beliefs are mostly rooted in knee jerk emotional reactions, facts don’t matter when you go off of first impressions and not take the time to analyze as to why you are having said reactions and feelings about a subject matter. I can say this because I used to be a reactionary, I would just never listen to others and never take the time to analyze my opinions.

[@delos2279]

How did you change then? I don't know if you're correct or not but just wondering what the best process would be. I have a conservative friend and I know I've changed his mind on a number of issues but I don't know what exactly caused that. In general I'm skeptical of, well, generalizations that there's only one way (or no way) that people change. Because it seems like different things work for different people though everyone wants to generalize themselves.

[@saulelcrack8177]

@@delos2279 I changed by becoming a conspiracy theorist believe it or not. I fell deep into the field of conspiracies to the point where I began to think like a typical centrist class reductionists, “both sides should unite and abandon this gender and race theory” kind of guy. Being into conspiracies made me begin to question everything, which is how I realized that the left was right on basically every issue, and that the right just serves the establishment by conserving the systemic problems this country was founded on that oppress us all. I still believe that reptilians rule the world though.

[@at5203]

@@saulelcrack8177 Lmao, love that final sentence.

[@TheKarret]

Yep, exactly.

[@saturationstation1446]

best way to change anyones minds about politics is to show them, in person, the suffering their policies cause imo. a lot of people get caught up in defending things they dont really see the damage of. most people are human and can feel empathy. this is why we exported slavery out of the country but still use it all the time

[@aqwthetroop]

What pulled me over from the "liberal" camp to the "left" camp was Legaleagle's video about all of Trump's crimes prior to the election. It was relatively short, to the point, and demonstrated the facts of Trump's crimes without commenting on his voter base all while naturally conveying the urgency of the situation. Additionally, the blasé attitude of my fellow conservative friends regarding this absolute fascist creep into our government solidified my transition. Now this is an incomplete story, because my transition fully started when COVID hit and the abysmal response to the pandemic, followed by the equally abysmal reaction to the 2020 Floyd protests. All of these were the seeds of doubt that started the push from an apolitical lib to a proper lefty. I think that if you're a politically conscious conservative (and have been for the last couple of years) you're well aware of what's going on and don't care/support it. I think the broader issue I see with people is that they're very politically conscious and aware of *their* intersectional issues (real or not) but turn a complete blind eye to everyone else's. Think TERFs, men's rights activists, or Zionists for example. If there's a good way of breaking through that and convincing people to understand, care, and support issues that aren't theirs we could have a real solid push towards the left. EDIT: clarity

[@t00bgazer]

We will never have a genuine solid push to the left because people are watching imbeciles like vaush who speak with authority but hardly know a thing about leftism. Vaush only exists to create radlibs who will not actually move to any meaningful solution. Go read state and revolution by lenin. Even if you think his vanguard party is beauracratic you will still see vaush is an opportunist who seeks to make sure power never enters the hands of the working class.

[@colekavanaugh4559]

Based LegalEagle

[@rockfire1669]

Quick side note, no such thing as a-political/non-political lib in this land scape. Especially if you recognize that we have a two party system.

[@QosmicVoid]

Two points that are true at the same time: 1 - Leftists need to understand that they need to be willing to engage and argue and fight and do everything they can to pull conservatives out of their indoctrination. Just sitting back and whining about it isn't going to do anything, and we're in 'All hands on deck' mode right now. 2 - Not all of them can be, and we also need to learn when to cut our losses and be ready for whatever comes next. That doesn't mean you get to ignore point 1 though.

[@William1w1]

Don't forget about the liberals. Vaush has made good points about getting them on board before. We don't need to make them leftists, but we should work to convince them that Republicans are not playing by the rules and that enough Republicans in positions of power will cause a breakdown of the institutions that they think are so robust. Pointedly drawing attention to what's happening with the Supreme Court might be helpful.

[@delos2279]

Finally a good take. It's so boring seeing the doomers who probably don't know a single conservative person trying to essentialize and generalize every conservative as impossible to change on any and every issue.

[@QosmicVoid]

@@delos2279 Even if it were impossible - I'd rather try Something - *Anything* - than sit around and just wait to die. Complacency and stagnation is the death of leftism.

[@RustOnWheels]

Talk with in stead of to. Listen and reply. Talk about observable facts and not grand and vague concepts.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Not a single conservative watched this and was changed

[@butterscotchwm]

Halfway through this video he's no longer talking to the conservatives, he's talking to his chat. But there was no clear distinction.

[@josevonbuergenwader2]

Seriously though this is really really bizarre

[@TheKarret]

I'm gonna ♫BLAME IT ON HIS A-D-D, babbyy~♪

[@halfalligator6518]

What does not "talking to conservatives" mean? Are there some topics they can't hear with their ears? All that fascist stuff is pretty relevant for anybody on earth.

[@Beelzeboogie]

The Bible does NOT describe The Rapture. The idea comes almost entirely from the Left Behind novel series.

[@BigaloMax]

Kind of reminds me how most of what we know off hell comes from dantes inferno and not the bible . (Fun fact according to dantes inferno the greek gods are real but they are all locked in hell)

[@MusicMissionary]

No it's older than that. I & a lot of other kids got the pants scared off us at summer camp by a preacher who laid out a scenario almost exactly like the Left Behind series. I literally expected to be Raptured at the stroke of midnight 1984. Felt like a fool... People in my church talked about it, especially when some scary world event happened. At least one Baptist hymn referred to the Rapture. I think it goes back to some preacher in the 1800s.

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

Its popularity comes from Left Behind, but Rapture mythology is still younger than America.

[@MusicMissionary]

@@RedShocktrooperRST yeah I think late 1800s maybe?

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

@@MusicMissionary I think it was early 1800s, with the Mormons being an early case of it.

[@Wh40kk]

Imagine being conservative in this economy

[@unslaadkrosis3489]

Imagine being a conservative after 40 years of conservative economic and social policy

[@Occam31]

Imagine just being a conservative

[@NoNo-fr2ev]

ima ju b con

[@Wh40kk]

@@unslaadkrosis3489 A conservative knowing about history and having a understanding of the economy. Now that’s hard to imagine

[@SK-gb2ts]

@@Occam31 I'd rather not bro

[@almosthelpless9374]

Yeah rights are being stripped from women, LGBTQ+ people, black people, and Muslims but I could really use a 3% tax cut.

[@bryankowalczyk3982]

U believe there's no such thing as a "women" so wtf are u even talking ?

[@124085]

(For billionaires)

[@pi172]

The tragic thing is that most conservatives dont even profit from these tax cuts, coz these are usually policies for the top 0,1%-5% if you analyze them. But your overall sentiment is true nonetheless. This ignorance/indifference towards the discrimination and genocide of minorities is a huge problem and ultimately supports the lunatics who are just out there to terrorize people.

[@kennythawsh]

Which is crazy because they’re the ones always fearmongering about the deficit and inflation

[@dragonslair951167]

You just described my conservative father. And now he's started watching Paul Joseph Watson.

[@stephennootens916]

While working at the election polls as a judge I met two women who were Republicans and they have given up on the party. One was an old lady who said she had been voting Republican since Eisenhower but she would not vote for Trump and the other woman had been watching the hearing that day and said while she knew he behaved poorly hearing it out loud and in detail made her give up on the party and swore of Trump. While they were only two in a sea of Republicans it does give me some hope. I know that sounds foolish put when one is drowning they trap on to even the smalls thing.

[@StyxTBuferd]

There's a solid chance unfortunately that they'll be voting for DeSantis in 2024. Trump without the baggage basically. I hope it at least makes them question what their party actually stands for. Hell, Nixon at least implemented the EPA, and Eisenhower got us highways. When's the last time a Republican has done any decent public works or infrastructure project? At best they've thrown some money around, which is hardly enough.

[@gigachad3925]

In the older days the Republican Party was centered more around right-leaning neoliberalism with (charitably) a libertarian view of social issues. With Trump it has bordered on full-on populism with concerning fashy undertones.

[@TrentonF505]

@@StyxTBuferd I’m actually not sure who’s worse. I don’t think Trump is genuinely a conservative. He’s a coastal elite completely driven by ego. He not a Christian, but if appealing to the Christians gets him the votes, that’s what he’ll do. DeSantis on the other hand, is an actual conservative with an agenda. Policy wise he’d fuck our country up just as much as Trump, but the only difference is he’s not as rhetorically effective as Trump.

[@RustOnWheels]

@@gigachad3925 right wing libertarianism is basically authoritarianism as well, and capitalism without restraints (neoliberalism) naturally culminates to the same. So without Reagan we wouldn’t be here today.

[@redacted3074]

Vaush, I have to be honest here, this video wont convince any conservatives to jump ship. You called them dumb way too many times. Especially with the religion stuff. Believe me, I've tried, arguing that a very religious person's thinking is bad because it's religiously motivated is not going to work on a very religious person.

[@TheFifthBanana01]

As if conservatives act in good faith

[@iultimatecartoon]

I agree they don't

[@angelantayhua3096]

A lot do but all the ones that do are incredibly stupid and incredibly sheltered

[@abdulachik]

they dont, indeed

[@Wh40kk]

Arguing with a con feels like shadow boxing the charioteer they have of someone they disagree with

[@kendonfahr8337]

Some of us do.

[@Rhombiis]

Anyone else have conservative parents that would never give you the time of day for a 26 minute youtube video?

[@Slavic_Socialist]

Nor would they be able to fully digest all the points being talked about, they need to be talked to like toddlers for them to understand. And forget about analogies lol swoosh

[@delos2279]

Yes don't tell them to watch a video. But do use some of the points in the video when talking to them. I've noticed a lot of conservatives just haven't been exposed to criticism or implications of their own ideas. So they need to be exposed to that and introspect and make the connections in their own minds. They might not explicitly tell you they agree or changed their minds (I think most people don't) but their ideas may start to change.

[@titaniawallace4223]

Yes and this was exactly my thought lol. I think we all want a video we can show to our disconnected boomer parents that gets them to start challenging their beliefs a little bit but there's no shot that that video can be half an hour long or use the kind of rhetoric that Vaush does. Any 55 year old empty nest mom who clicks on this video will IMMEDIATELY feel impatient and condescended to. This really needs to be a heavily scripted PragerU type video where he stares directly at the camera in front of a green screen and talks in baby talk for 6 or 8 minutes. There's no other way the target audience listens to or absorbs any of these points

[@TheKarret]

Yup, right here.

[@Slavic_Socialist]

@@titaniawallace4223 Agreed, the left needs to hijack Prager’s outline and fill it in with their style but with leftist talking points in words they can understand. Not to say anything Vaush said was wrong necessarily but it needs to be organized and use pictures/green screen

[@alexorhuxley]

Honestly, the best way to convince conservatives of lefty ideas is to do so economically. These people have morally reprehensible beliefs but will tell you that they’re just fiscally conservative, so they vote Red. I’ve worked some pretty good magic on my deep-Red brother and dad by addressing economic points and weaning them off the teat of Elon Musk. When I pointed out that my brother could have been protected from wrongful termination at a job he loved if a union were around to provide representation and protect him, he gave serious pause. It’s gotta start somewhere, and you can usually engage their intellect rather than their emotions by using Econ as a gateway.

[@Nyquiltips1]

The current economy is the result of leftists. I’m conservative and you guys don’t have good points across the board.

[@alexorhuxley]

@@Nyquiltips1 Can you identify the leftist economic policies that are at fault and specify which aspects of the economy that have suffered as a consequence?

[@Nyquiltips1]

@@alexorhuxley the trillions of dollars added to the economy to pay for all the Covid lockdowns that were pushed by the left was a major cause of inflation

[@alexorhuxley]

@@Nyquiltips1 You're aware that the CARES Act, arguably the most reactionary bit of spending, was passed unanimously with a Republican Senate and Presidency in 2020? And that relief payments of $1,000 were Trump's idea (resisted and ultimately passed by GOP Senate)? The PPP was likewise passed with bipartisan efforts under a GOP Senate and White House. The American Rescue Plan had nothing to do with paying for lockdowns since most major lockdowns had ended almost 12 months prior to its passage. You can't really blame the left for COVID response spending when the GOP, famous for its obstructive strategies, passed all of it with flying colors. There's a lot to say about the artificial inflation (i.e. price gouging) as well, but this is already long enough. Anything else?

[@Nyquiltips1]

@@alexorhuxley lmao why did those relief payments need to go out? Relief from what? Relief from democrats locking everything down causing tens of millions of people to lose their jobs. Republicans were the ones that didn’t want to lock down. Republicans were the ones that kept wanting to open back up but they “didn’t care about human lives” according to you guys. Was Trump supposed to just let them all starve because their leftist governor caused them to lose their jobs? Republicans were the ones talking about the economy the whole entire time and all we heard was “trump cares more about the stock market than human lives”. We were the ones talking about this since the very beginning. And now it all finally comes back to bite us like we were talking about the whole time and now it’s republicans fault because they had to cut checks to people to keep them from starving because of what DEMOCRATS decided to do? I swear you guys never take accountability for anything and all you guys are is a giant circle jerk of people that only care about feeling good about yourselves and getting to call other people a-holes. We aren’t taking any of the blame for how you guys acted throughout Covid. Maybe if you guys stopped jerking yourselves off for how good of people you think you are then you could stop and remember what actually happened and realize that you guys were wrong just like you’re wrong about virtually everything. So don’t hit me with “anything else?”. You can’t even address this issue without kicking blame to republicans like all of you people do.

[@unitymomentum]

I don't think this could actually be shown to conservative friends without them completely turning me away :(

[@ToxicJ12]

if they do they weren't ur friends to begin with

[@dploi]

@@ToxicJ12 yeah you have to watch this Steven crowder video or we can't be friends

[@ToxicJ12]

@@dploi I would unironically watch it just to make fun of them for it

[@delos2279]

Yea TBH I would use some of the arguments in this video but wouldn't show the video itself to my friend.

[@omnissiah7247]

Yeah if you are actively trying to change the world view of your "friends" just so you would be more comfortable, then they ain't your friends. What happened with "we can disagree and still be friends"?

[@jamesstone6582]

Goddamn, Vaush used to be SO GOOD before he started screaming about why "THAT MAN'S CUFF LINKS ARE BAD! LOOK AT HIS COLLAR, IT'S WHY HUMANITY IS DOOMED"

[@lanagomisc.6005]

Last time I showed my mom a video about critiquing Republicans, she physically backed me into a corner and threatened to disown me. So yeah, I'm not showing this video to her.

[@bombyx2447]

Most emotionally stable conservative

[@lanagomisc.6005]

@@bombyx2447 she still calls herself a liberal too

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@lanagomisc.6005 How're things going now? She sounds pretty shit based on that.

[@Toozenator]

I got an ad on this video for a new Jordan Peterson show where he says that young men should learn how to become monsters and then learn how to control themselves.

[@psychicbyinternet]

Yeah and if you skip it stops at "monster." Great thing for a shit ton of young men to be listening to.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

... you don't know what he means by that but yeah definitely would've worded the attention capturer different

[@psychicbyinternet]

@@blastphantomgames6369 I used to be a fan and read 12 Rules for Life so I know what he means and it's not as extreme as that one sentence suggests of course, especially because he's always really vague about everything. But yeah, that was not a great sentence to just have repeated over and over in your ads.

[@aquilabird]

This isn't going to change any minds, it's just a raw and bloody tongue screaming into the void

[@Dmarc317]

This definitely is not a video for conservatives. But content is content

[@andrewgutierrez4841]

Idk why it's titled this "Show This Video to Conservatives" the dialogue was intended for his leftist audience as an example of how to talk to conservatives. It's interesting as a stream-of-consciousness, but that's all. If taken literally, this would be one of his worst examples of rhetoric to date - It's shallow, unfocused, & aggressive. I think he was just venting after all the SCOTUS news. Understandable, given the circumstances.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

Don't know about understandable

[@llpolluxll]

My super religious Republican parents have literally told me "we have our opinions and they're not going to change" which is something that I'm glad they just told me flat out instead of denying it and constantly getting in the same political arguments. They are literally incapable of listening and now I have something to throw at them when they try to tell me what I should believe.

[@purgatorypoptart]

The only way to genuinely change the mind of someone takes time, patience, and understanding. No insults either, even if the insult is fact somehow. You listen and question them. You don't argue but you speak your mind. So basically, person has to not be impulsive and be very manipulative kind of.

[@sleepyyspectre]

Denial is a strong force for conservatives. Speaking from experience, they deny any wrong doing or that anything happened.

[@Slavic_Socialist]

That’s one of their strongly held religious practices

[@Slavic_Socialist]

@So Mad They also just listen without questions. I just talked to a black guy on Facebook who doesn’t like Bernie because of “dumping radioactive waste on Latino community in Texas” when that didn’t even happen and this propaganda was funded by dark money. Also called him corrupt and trump lite. All of this is easily debunked information I just hope he’s able to change his mind

[@ArdenJ]

Whatever Vaush's intentions, this isn't for conservatives it's for chat. The video should be redone or deleted.

[@CassieAngelica]

I changed my conservative parents’ views on Julian Assange. Now they agree with me that he’s a hero.

[@xXRickTrolledXx]

I wouldn’t use the word “hero”, per se.

[@bryankowalczyk3982]

But vaush believes Julian Assange should stay locked up.

[@CassieAngelica]

@@xXRickTrolledXx go on then, why isn’t he?

[@saintsfearful]

@@xXRickTrolledXx Don't be lib brained. Assange didn't make Hillary cheat in the 2016 primary.

[@1draigon]

@@CassieAngelica I would agree that Edward Snowden is a hero for sure! But I (personally) disagree with aussange just publishing everything. Because while the people need to know these things, he did publish imagery and videos I think could ‚be harmful to the US‘ for example (I’m just using US as an example I’m European) Snowden gave the material to journalists that (mostly) were able to be careful about what they published and showed!

[@Smarackto]

lefties need to understand that talking to conservatives is super important

[@124085]

If there's one thing that unites Lefties and Conservatives is their hatred of Liberals. At least that's what I got out of the ending of of Metal Gear Rising.

[@Smarackto]

@@124085 talking to liberals is also really fucking important. we shit on liberals all the time but if we want to convert them we need to make the space more friendly towards libs who are curious as to why "bidens is just not getting shit done"

[@lilben4184]

As a conservative, I agree. Because the more we talk with you the more we realize how much worse the world is as long as you still live in it. Conversation doesn't alleviate polarization, it stimulates it.

[@Smarackto]

@@lilben4184 👍

[@unslaadkrosis3489]

@@lilben4184 most scientists, academics, people in higher education and civil rights activists are liberals and leftists. So good luck running a society on your own. We’ve seen what happens when people like you get into power. Its a few decades of pointless misery and suffering followed by your regime collapsing because of your own stupidity and ineptitude. Anti-intellectualism and sociopathy are your weakness.

[@walterl322]

I showed this to my conservative mom, she was extremely confused She doesn't speak english

[@Westwoodchronic]

How does the quote go: "You can't reason someone out of a belief that they haven't been reasoned into"

[@heiress.]

Mark Twain?

[@Westwoodchronic]

@@heiress. Johnathan Swift

[@yvancluet8146]

"show this video to conservatives". This video is 26 minutes long and makes multiple points. It's not gonna work

[@Nyquiltips1]

I’m conservative. You think we don’t have the attention span for this? Or to understand your points? You guys aren’t as complex as you think.

[@yvancluet8146]

@@Nyquiltips1 To be fair, as much as I like Vaush, this video isn't very well made and is very dispersed into a lot of barely related points. At least, the title "show this to conservatives" is misleading cause it's not making a concise point, so it's probably not gonna change any mind. But to answer your questions, yes, that's exactly what I think

[@Nyquiltips1]

@@yvancluet8146 What is an example of a point you think we’re unable to grasp?

[@yvancluet8146]

@@Nyquiltips1 that you have consistently been on the wrong side of history throughout the ages and the things that you're against today are no exception. For instance then anti trans rights / trans acceptance movement relies on the exact same flawed logic of "the other things were ok but now you're pushing it too far" that has been used to discriminate against black people, women or homosexuals before

[@somedudeok1451]

Rethorically this video wasn't very good. But everything in it is true.

[@jloiben12]

Vaush still does the “basically conflating necessary and sufficient conditions” thing. It is a small detail beginning around 3:00 that doesn’t really matter to the larger conversation being had this time but it is still infuriating

[@jamesmcpherson8599]

Explain what you mean plz

[@johnwatters3431]

If you're wondering, it's "bald-faced," but over time, we've accepted the colloquial "bold-faced" as well--maybe more so.

[@ModernDayDebate]

Amazin'!

[@TheAutisticBrewer]

I wish Vaush would sit down and do more reading on the fall of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. It mirrors what’s happening so much. From the Gracchi brothers throwing out those unwritten norms (reminded me of the house under the republic) to Caesar marching on Rome. I see Trump as more of a Pompey than a Caesar or a Crassus. Mitch could easily by Crassus.

[@Hession0Drasha]

None of the conservative brass would actually be able to lead a battle on the front lines, they're slimy chicken shit.

[@mrxmgs3768]

Vaush would benefit enormously from getting more into history.

[@goodpol5022]

Honestly, anything is better than the constant Nazi parallels. It’s getting tired. Also Trump is incredibly like Caesar. Imperialist authoritarian populist that tries to take over the most powerful democracy in the world and reverse the progress it made within the past centuries.

[@dylan6386]

Yeah these patterns of history, used to blow my mind, now it’s sadly repetitive in a general sense and that’s what really motivates me for change, with how consistently stagnant a lot of societies are I just see conservatives as boring people who are mainly scared of change

[@TheAutisticBrewer]

@@goodpol5022 Solid point for Caesar, and yes the constant focus on Nazi Germany for every political analyses is tiring. I just remember Pompey being a blithering idiot and Caesar being an intelligent plutocrat.

[@Jorge-np3tq]

Video addressed to conservatives *Unprepared rant stuck in secondary channel* Not the most effective thing in the world.

[@skelly1004]

I’d send my family *almost any Vaush video if I really wanted to prove a point, but there’s something about this one that just makes me think “I know my conservative family would tear this apart and laugh at me” For me, this video is sound is reasonable. Thing is, there’s a certain quality to it that causes me to know conservatives wouldn’t put up with it at all.

[@skorne159]

got an "elect state republicans" ad in front of your vid

[@jonathanwilliams9665]

You want me to show this to conservatives and half way through it you call the target audience mass murderers? Not a great way to get them to agree to this point

[@pixelcount350]

It's all true though.

[@kx7500]

@@pixelcount350 not relevant to the right.

[@pixelcount350]

@@kx7500 It is

[@kx7500]

@@pixelcount350 then they wouldn’t be right wing lol

[@pixelcount350]

@@kx7500 How so?

[@comradefreedom8275]

I wouldn't really say that authoritarianism is "natural". It's more like, an easy mindset to default to through force of habit. Like, humans have been living under authoritarian rule for so long that we've practically become trauma-bonded to it.

[@robertmorales7812]

If this is a video to show to conservatives, I can show any Vaush video to conservatives.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I'd start with the one where the audio makes him lithp (The above is just a joke, but I suspect they'd stick around for a bit to laugh and the facts would start to leak through the reality shields)

[@ОлегВысоков-л8й]

"Show this video to your conservative. 🥺 Save a life."

[@nighthawk6281]

I mean it was a pretty poor video cause he just rambled for half of it on some random tangent

[@Finnboy-ml5jv]

Здравствуйте, русский Ваушит.

[@ОлегВысоков-л8й]

@@Finnboy-ml5jv Йоу.

[@ОлегВысоков-л8й]

@@nighthawk6281 Do you think I watched the video? :) It's not for me, remember? It's for conservatives.)

[@roberteriksen6434]

Vaush's attempt to be sympathic towards republicans in his 'show this to your conservative friends': - 13:55-14:03 Very nice, well done. Really ehmm...those were indeed words.

[@op-physics]

Probably not him who choose the title

[@crabohato4954]

Tough love, tough luck. Blunt truth like a hammer.

[@cacho707]

Regarding the part of being oblivious to the consequences of what they support, i.e.: labeling all LGBTQI+ people as groomers, and such, I think a strong factor is just the in group bias. "I believe what others in my group believe, and I rather delusion myself out acknowledging the logical conclusions of those paths of thoughts, than to question the in group line and make myself an outcast of my social group". It's a normal human response that we see in all political leanings. It just happens to be stronger in conservatives, which are born out of ignorance and very unhelpful social contexts that make them weak thinkers.

[@theocho]

I'm not sure I would ever show this to a conservative. It'd probably push them way further right.

[@GhostOnTheHalfShell]

If conservatives are not willing to sent to jail insurrectionists, then the debate is over really. If we had more parties that represented the distinct views in the US instead of this coerced limit of two it might be different. McCarthyism’s destruction of political liberty and destruction of parties critical of capitalism has quite stripped the nation’s democratic strength. Proportional representation is an existentially necessary change.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

The problem is at this point most of them know it's being hyped up or at the very least they being mislead about the events

[@vitaminluke5597]

Vaush needs to get on discord with fans who were once conservative and work on a proper video script that would live up to the title. These talking points are good, but all the criticism in the comments are spot on.

[@heiress.]

How are the criticisms spot on? They completely missed the point if this video. Republicans are beyond saving.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

Anyone on the left is also beyond saving should be how republicans veiw it Write them off as people with a savior complex that don't actually care Cause let's face it if this how all of them feel in these comments they probably gonna use force eventually

[@zackwolf4625]

I love the point about unfalsifiable political beliefs are just religion by another name and that they aren’t actual participants in politics.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

Considering his veiw He is also guilty

[@joon3035]

all the people in the comments that are saying shit like "imagine talking to conservatives" please for the the love of god go outside.

[@maroonkennedy6213]

I've tried talking to conservatives. It's awful and only radicalized me further.

[@saintsfearful]

I have conservative family and I'm from a conservative community. They are incredibly hard to talk to about politics because they immediately go on the defensive if you even suggest they're being misled, sometimes violently. They're in a cult and you can't rationalize a person out of a cult. There was a quote on 30 Rock of all shows that said "Irrational people don't react to logic, they react to fear.". We need to figure out what they are individually afraid of and press those points to show that Republicans are the real source of their fears. Obviously if those things are racist or bigoted it's harder to sell because it requires significant reframing but that's the most practical approach.

[@AbledGladiator]

The last time I talked to a conservative about Healthcare, gas prices, economy, and Jan 6 insurrection the response I got was "You're fucking stupid", "You can't be this fucking dumb", "I cant believe you can belive this shit", and my personal favorite, "I thought I raised you smarter than this". That was talking to my extremely conservative father. I'm convinced there's no way of actually talking with these kinds of people in a way that will actually change their minds.

[@josevonbuergenwader2]

I mean even the video above is purporting to talk to conservatives and then halfway through calls them mass murderers. It’s not serious.

[@toataile6450]

Only caught the last half of this in the livestream, glad to have caught the whole thing now

[@constantine6202]

I guess I'm kind of conservative (center-right?), and I've been watching Vaush for a while. I disagree with nearly everything he says, but he's obviously intelligent and it's fun to step out of your own echo chamber

[@3MolesInATrenchCoat]

Did Vaush forget he was making this for conservatives? Love you, Vaush but this won't convince anyone. Even I watched this live and couldn't figure out what you were trying to get at. It's all tangents and unimportant chat banter.

[@Delby5]

I could never show this to a conservative. I’d have to strap em down and use something to hold their eyes open. Mostly because this video isn’t 2 min long and you used too many big words. But also you need to go point by point by point you were kinda all over the place.

[@Gimodon]

"A lot of them can't put 2 and 2 together" THIS. It never ceases to amaze me how people so rarely "connect the dots" with regards to their beliefs, i.e they don't think about what belief A means for belief B, and/or they believe things that are blatantly contradictory without seeing anything wrong until someone points it out.

[@michaelmoore7975]

The problem is you need to slap them with the bible as a follow-up to logical truth. For instance the issue when they said it was ANTIFA that caused Jan. 6, but they later dropped the accusation needs to be confronted with "Bearing false witness."

[@unslaadkrosis3489]

Conservatives Christian’s don’t give a fuck what the bible says. They start from their conclusions. They don’t end with them.

[@sagev__v]

Love that i get a Daily Wire JP ad on a vaush vid XD

[@titaniawallace4223]

This video needs to be about 21 minutes shorter and be scripted for people at an 8th grade reading level for any conservative to give it the time of day. If I sent this to anyone in my family they would instalock on the 26 minute video length and just say "I'm not watching this." Or if they clicked on it they would say the same after hearing any verbiage that's even slightly challenging. I think Vaush drastically overestimates the patience of the target audience for this video lmao

[@IgN5P]

My very first Daily Wire ad. Thank you very much Vaush ...

[@Slavic_Socialist]

If you were able to make this less of a long tangent, use smaller words, and use some pictures I think that would be more effective. Not to say anything Vaush said was wrong, it’s just you need to make this shorter and somehow grab people’s attention. Kind of like how they teach in school nowadays, with pictures and videos lol

[@dftfire]

Like a PragerU video 😉

[@Slavic_Socialist]

@@dftfire Exactly, just copy its format and put the ads in every corner of the internet. We’re onto something here

[@sorrelk6926]

My mom just told me that if I get sex reassignment surgery she’ll never speak to me again. Conservatives in this nation are bonkers

[@justsomeguy6336]

Why did she tell you that? Did you tell her you want it?

[@sorrelk6926]

@@justsomeguy6336 someone that I thought I trusted told her behind my back. She just randomly approached me and she just said ‘I know about your “”made-up name””.

[@justsomeguy6336]

@@sorrelk6926 So you want sex reassignment surgery but your mother is bonkers???? Ok then.

[@NightDocs]

Usually like your content but this was an unintelligible incoherent manic screed with no point whatsoever. It’s like listening to the crazy guy hanging out at the gas station near Berkley

[@jrock71]

True

[@sidtodd1220]

I’ve been a fan of Vaush ever since the JLP interview. This is probably his worst video to date. It’s completely unfocused, there wasn’t any tact or forethought put into how he approached this video. This isn’t a video for conservatives we know, it’s a video for us. I feel like Vaush has gotten...arrogant. More so than before and him thinking he can just get on here and shoot from the hip a video that we’re supposed to expose our conservative friends or family to is emblematic of that.

[@backthrust1116]

this isn't really a video, its a clip from one of his streams, which is why it feels unfocused

[@Juhz0r]

@@backthrust1116 Well, there is an intro that specifies what this is about, so it was intended to be a segment. It's not supposed to be just random rambling.

[@TheKarret]

@@backthrust1116 Live, he spoke to his editors to start and end the segment, so he definitely intended for this to be a video.... and it's real bad.

[@Beavs_POV]

its democracy as long as my guy/girl wins.

[@justsomeguy6336]

Literally all political parties

[@FightNChickN]

Jeeeeezus, Vaush has gone full tilt mode

[@woodendice2258]

Show this video to no one. Don’t embarrass yourself

[@mikayelhakobyan1653]

showed this video to Trump, he loved it

[@doelroarpa3489]

How is this embarrassing?

[@Bruh-fr9js]

objectively correct, ontologically good

[@chrisabella2780]

I’d highly recommend changing the title and thumbnail, I don’t think a single conservative that watches this will be swayed in any way. The whole thing feels very unfocused and rambly, plus I don’t think it’s a very good idea halfway into the video of people you’re trying to sway that they’re actually all mass murders. Even though that may be correct it’s terrible rhetoric that will convince no one.

[@schnoz2372]

This is for people teetering on the edge of admitting they’re wrong not actual conservatives

[@s.sg5]

Amazin'

[@akumasdeception]

15:35, I think you hit the nail on the head there. I’ve tended to notice that conservatives lack the ability to care or understand anything that doesn’t directly affect them or the people in their lives. Basically they have little to no empathy for “others”. Instead they try use view all issues from a self centered point if view, aka “personal responsibility, pick yourself up by the bootstrap”, as if everyone is born with same opportunities and circumstances in life. Lastly, aside from romanticizing the past( where most of them would be nothing more serfs working for an overlord), they love simplifying complex societal problems that they end up ignoring current challenges. As a result, these challenges end blowing up in their face, which is why they tend to do substantial harm when given power.

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

Vaush you should do a deep dive on Lula de Silva, I'm sure you could agree with him on a lot and maybe even offer criticism on the topic of firearm regulations without having to mimic Bolsanaro's talking points

[@SilvaFelipe12347]

R you a fellow hue bê eri vaushite?

[@Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate]

@@SilvaFelipe12347 idk what that means but yes

[@catwaffles9960]

1:26 Bold you of you to assume modern conservatives believe in democracy.

[@wrv341]

As a conservative (usually republican voter) that enjoys Vaush vastly, I have a couple recommendations when speaking to "us". Don't talk about democracy and then immediately undermine it by describing tyranny of majority and describing a constitutional republic, then go on to describe republicans as mass murderers. Side note, I'm an atheist, so the assumption that the person on the right somehow permits manmade global warming because of God's will is far better posed if talking to that group (evangelical Christians). Same thing for the Jan 6 nonsense. That should be posed to Trump supporters. I mean, you think Dick Cheney's daughter needs to hear this? She's head of the Jan 6th committee! Appreciate the efforts here Vaush, but I think you'll have to wait a bit longer to bring the right over to worker co-ops.

[@testest12344]

I'm curious what your political positions are exactly? Like your positions on worker co ops, climate change, reparations and so on. And why you enjoy Vaush.

[@William1w1]

Are you actually a social conservative, or do you just mean you think capitalism is good? Despite my stances, I can see some reasonable arguments in favour of capitalism in some forms, but I cannot fathom any reason why someone without faith as a cornerstone of his or her ideology would be socially conservative. Like... are you against LGBTQ stuff? I've just always been able to sort of rationalize that conservatives have the stances they do because they blindly follow ancient texts and believe in all-powerful gods who care what we do with what's between our legs. If you've (very reasonably) rejected all that, how can you possibly still hold conservative values?

[@wrv341]

@@testest12344 Vaush is awesome. He's got some great articulation for the left, plus he seems like a cool guy. I'm all for worker co-ops, particularly because many don't care for "waterfall" type hierarchy. I think so long as government incentives exist, we should use them to help grow co-ops. That said, I would want those to be localized decisions based on the region, economic situation, cost of living, etc. and not top down, eh, like "waterfall" project management. Edit: Oh, and climate change is just a matter if what impacts it will have and, again, what role the government should play. I can't say for sure what I agree with or disagree with Vaush in that regard because he seems to just be upset about those that don't think it exists and tends not to go much further. Even his reparations argument literally is structural and not handing out money from, let's say, whites to blacks, so I think there is a lot of discussion to be had there.

[@alicedeligny9240]

I think he means "republicans" like "the republican representatives", not all of the republican voter base... In what sense are you a conservative, in fact ?

[@wrv341]

@@William1w1 Ha, that's funny about the old text (written by far less educated people btw) so yeah, those people have some hurdles to overcome, particularly when complaining about other old texts. So good question. I'd say I'm fiscally conservative mostly but you'd have to ask a specific question about LGBT stuff to see how socially conservative I'd go. That said, I definitely have no moral issue with it. So I fall under almost exactly Vaush's description of his beliefs: do what you please as long as it doesn't hurt others and I gather my preferences based upon axioms from experiences, knowledge, empathy, and what I call natural law (although that term is highjacked a lot).

[@123piecrustJR]

I just got an ad for dailywire+ lmfao

[@SEESBoy-hy8jz]

Same

[@dftfire]

Yeah, they are REALLY pushing the fact J0rdan Peter5on has joined their company

[@yuseonahya]

I'm gonna watch it anyway

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

8:50 Both are acceptable according to Merriam-Webster. So y'all good using "Bald-Faced Lie" instead of "Bold-Faced Lie". They're basically the same thing, just connotated differently.

[@admirallove6180]

Pretty disappointing video, really. I thought this would be something convincing to show conservative friends, instead it's moral grandstanding that would only belittle them.

[@K-politic]

Why is there always an ad for the daylywire on vaush's videos?

[@neb5503]

hopin for the best .. 🤞

[@RayRaeNonbinary1]

I used to be a conservative only because I'd get yelled at if I questioned it...

[@mykotron]

I appreciate this. Maybe at least one conservative listened.

[@blastphantomgames6369]

Even so this video is trash

[@joezahn1725]

Well shit, I just wanted to do some fireworks and now I have to prepare for actual civil war…

[@cryb0rg]

If you really want to move over conservatives, you should try changing up your rhetorical strategy. Showing this video to a conservative would accomplish nothing, as is the case with most of your videos. You preach to the choir too much.

[@josiahferrell5022]

The phrase is "bald-faced lie". It means you have nothing disguising your face/lie; no facial hair, in other words. Bold-faced lie doesn't really make sense if you think about it. What is a bold face? Bold isn't an expression, it is a level of conviction. You could say "it's a bold lie" but that doesn't quite have the same connotation.

[@freezingdart]

I agree with everything here, but no conservative will agree with any of it. They aren’t even operating on the same basic premises. They are in a different reality. This video would need to be 9 hours long to get the points across to someone that far gone. And they wouldn’t watch that.

[@kingshark9057]

The KZbin algorithm was keen to show me this video

[@VoiceUnder]

Conservative here. I like listening to people like Vaush to gain perspective, though I disagree with 99% of what he says. This video however was one of the most narrow minded, one-sided, incoherent rants I've heard from him. I was ready to unsub but I appreciate everyone in the comments calling this out, that this rhetoric is not something that would be productive towards a conservative. With that I'll continue to stick around :) Happy to talk through differences with anyone on here. As a conservative I simply believe in constitutional, human rights, personal liberty, and a limited government with checks and balances. I believe strongly in the rights of every individual, and oppose any collective group who imposes on any one individual. This is typically my problem with 'democracy' and possibly where Vaush and I can find no common ground. But please don't let this dude define conservatives for you. Love you all

[@heiress.]

This video was rhetorical. He wasn’t exactly hiding his complete and total contempt for republicans like you. He doesn’t believe pawns who believe in a magic sky god can be persuaded. He even said he believes the Republican Party should be dissolved due to being accomplices to treason lol.

[@FernandoTorrera]

Conservatives got rid of abortion and are attacking gay people this isn’t bush era republicans you’re party is out of control

[@blastphantomgames6369]

Democracy is nice but also weak this conservatives are this that and the other facilities that weakness Hell we all know anyone in the Democrat party don't actually care about democracy because of the amount of things that were allowed to happen but didn't care because it helped them It also doesn't help Democrats did the indefinite imprisonment without trial thing either

[@MarginalSC]

It is bald faced lie. Bold faced lie is considered equivalent and also correct these days.

[@Krustenkaese92]

I appreciate the effort, Vaush, but zero Republicans you wish to reach with this have the mental capacity to understand complex language. Limit your vocabulary to elementary school level and you might get somewhere.

[@Eibarwoman]

I don't think even speaking at elementary school level cuts through most Republicans brains as they've been brainwashed by fundamentalists since they were in diapers.

[@aristizle8797]

I am not the target demographic for this video.