Left but Really Right | 5 Minute Video

Successful liberals live by conservative values. It's true. The liberal musician, the liberal chef, the liberal writer--all swear by things conservatives love, like competition, earned reward, and, yes, profit and the bottom line. Greg Gutfeld, bestselling author of, "How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct", explains.
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Script:
Did you know that all success in life is based on conservative principles?
Well, it’s true. As I explain in my book, How to Be Right: the Art of Being Persuasively Correct, if liberals applied their no-score, no-winner, no-loser belief systems to their hobbies or professions, they would fail miserably.
Success relies on absolute truths, on supply and demand, on work and reward, on competition, and on achievement, not group identity. As the old saying goes, it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. Conservatives catch mice. Liberals buy them cheese -- with your money.
It's interesting that people who participate in professions that require conservative values are so often on the Left. Here are three examples you might not have thought of.
Example One: The Musician
You'd think all of them are liberals in their personal lives, but only a few can actually afford to be. Smart musicians are often the most conservative people on the planet. Someone has to pay for the gas, the guitar strings, and the antibiotics. When you see your favorite metal band, you can bet that the whole tour is mapped out not as some hippy-dippy road trip, but as a meticulously planned endeavor to wring every penny of profit out of it.
Maybe it’s not surprising then that the most successful rock band in history is headed by someone who studied finance and accounting at the London School of Economics -- Mick Jagger. (And, yes, it’s true "Satisfaction" was about the joy of capital gains).
Example Two: Fitness
As a former editor of a health magazine, I can attest: the government cannot give you six-pack abs (unless you get them to pay for the implants).
Exercise is perhaps the best example of conservative thinking at your disposal. For the amount of effort you put in, you reap the reward you deserve. If you pump iron for two hours, three times a week, your body will change as a direct result.
Fitness is one bank where you deposit effort and you build a portfolio of reward. There is no affirmative action in exercise. One muscle doesn’t get special dispensation because it’s smaller or weaker. There is no minimum wage safety net, or unemployed bennies for your glutes -- you’re either in shape or you’re not. No one is gonna redistribute my awesome pecs. As President Barack Obama famously once said, “You didn’t build that.” Sorry, but I did.
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[@TinRapper]

I still subscribe to this channel, even though I disagree with alot of the things they say. It's never a bad thing to listen into ideas that go agaisnt my own bias.

[@TinRapper]

+Terry G True, mate. :)) But I don't think I would try to change the opinions of a conservative.

[@russianbot2179]

+Terry G well start a discussion. what part of the video do you think is erroneous? what do you disagree with? his point is that advancement and wealth come from conservative/capitalistic systems, while socialism inhibits advancement and reduces the creation of wealth.

[@russianbot2179]

Terry G I did not say you had to argue every point. Profit is good for everyone. Profit means the consumers' goods and/or services will improve, advance, and ultimately become a better value over time. The PC you are typing on was created for profit, technologically advanced for profit, and mass produced for a cheap cost for profit. If the government dictated that the rich people must buy PCs for everyone else, the PC companies would lose incentive to improve, because they know their product is going to be bought by decree regardless of quality. Without Capitalism, we would still be using paper mail and landline phones, if not worse.

[@kevinwhalen8629]

+Max Đỗ Same.

[@terryg4589]

***** I did not mention anything about profit being bad. I said nothing about wealth distribution, or rich people buying things for poor people. Just, that if you look at things only from a capitalist perspective, you will always get a capitalist answers. Because this video sees 'success' in such a narrow thing there are not other arguments. For instance if I said the only true definition of success is to be great at chess, then the things you need to be successful are the same things you need to win at chess. And I do think there is a need to go through and argue individual points from the video, as so many of them are bad. So may jumps of logic, so many times words are put into 'the lefts' mouth.

[@nonmagicmike723]

"No one is gonna redistribute my awesome pecs." I HAVE to put this on my workout shirt

[@xpusostomos]

We need pec reparations

[@shanefallon9743]

I watch this video whenever I’m lacking at the gym

[@damianpolandusa934]

This is why people still Lobe and will Love and missing movies nd music from 80's 90's and early 2000 years. Dont you think 🙂 they just have Conservative values center values making men to women close to each other, not turning against.

[@jackalopeb9598]

I am leaning towards the middle between Conservatives and Liberals but after these videos I am going back to being Conservative. Dang, college messes you up.

[@smks8er]

Panda B same, I took an economics class and it wa like someone opened my eyes. i saw the light. im starting to believe that many colleges are in the business of indoctrinating our youth into being liberal. my children will go to conservative colleges and will learn conservative principles.

[@Atilla_the_Fun]

+Eli Mayen So its bad when "DEM LIBERULS" do propaganda in college but not when Conservatives do propaganda in college? Hypocrite much?

[@polypay_]

There's teaching fact and there's teaching lies about how the world works

[@ekmad]

I was a firm socialist from a working class background until I went to University. I'm now firmly on the far right

[@raphaelalexandreyensen6291]

Liberalism isn't necessarily different than conservatism, for example, let's say you bust your ass at work and make bank (conservatives approve) you come home and decide you really don't feel like going to church tomorrow and instead feel like hanging out and having some beers with good friends. well then you might a liberal If you feel you should have the LIBERTY to drink, not go to church, and argue with politics you disagree with like ones that demand you pay other peoples bills. Liberalism is about having liberty from society. Socialism, on the other hand, is about society having the rights to the fruits of your labor, and the right to dictate your life, which is closer to what he argues and I kinda don't like socialism.

[@jyessiterriaynt1131]

When I'm lifting my left arm gets affirmative action because it's too weak compared to my right arm

[@Indhra07]

Maybe its because of affirmative action its still weak.💁

[@evandouphrate9811]

"No one is gonna redistribute my awesome pecks" greatest. quote. ever!

[@bm-ub6zc]

pecs with only c. because "pectorals". maybe due to autocorrect, i dunno, I'm not from the us. still gave you a like.

[@shanefallon9743]

It really is!!!

[@connor107]

How did he say that without laughing? Like that is genuinely an amazing joke and he's saying it like it's just a normal thing to say

[@damianpolandusa934]

This is why people still Lobe and will Love and missing movies nd music from 80's 90's and early 2000 years. Dont you think 🙂 they just have Conservative values center values making men to women close to each other, not turning against.

[@grits011]

I didn't see ANY liberal principles criticized in this video.

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

+grits011 they're more progressive principles because classical liberalism isn't what hes addressing

[@BismarckDidNothingWrong]

+grits011 It's the new one.....

[@aw8897]

+Wayne Ekeh American liberalism is the same as progressive collectivism, American Conservatism/libertarianism is considered to be "classical liberalism"

[@BismarckDidNothingWrong]

Aldreth or nothing more than semantics.... he's (grits011) talking about classical liberalism, while the guy in the video talks about progressivism. How much this applies for american "liberals" i don't know, but i guess classical liberalism is considered conservative now a days....

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

Aldreth or you get it

[@B.D.B.]

This is child like over simplification of what it is to be a liberal / conservative.

[@STDrepository]

+B.D.B. He has a point. There is an underlying mindset that can be simplified to this extent.

[@troll00712]

+B.D.B. thank you, this is exactly what i was thinking, but couldn't put into words.

[@B.D.B.]

+STDrepository No, not really. Just because you think poor people shouldn't die of hunger or be denied medical treatment (a liberal view point) doesn't mean you think people should not be liable for their debts. Alternatively you can be a conservative and still think it's odd that corporate tax is lower than the higher brackets of the income tax.

[@hedleypanama]

+B.D.B. Indeed, a strawman!

[@jrc99us]

+B.D.B. And what's wrong with simplification?

[@TomHasVideo]

Workers are right wing now? Someone should've told Lenin.

[@neolweneht]

hah. like.

[@nandorblue]

+TomHasVideo I was born and raised in a communist country and I can tell you that workers in communism are not the same as in the USA No productivity and real motivation. Creates bad economy and everyone stays poor.

[@TomHasVideo]

nandorblue Shouldn't you be saying this to somebody who is communist?

[@waldoman7]

+TomHasVideo if they had then his system might not have failed

[@PsychoticSorcerer666]

Keep in mind that Liberalism and Conservatism change over time. Liberals of the past, are the conservatives of the present. This is because people are raised in certain times and some wish to still live in the past, which makes them traditionalist conservative. However, the thing that made them considered leftist was maybe there was an issue at the time that they wanted to change (like Jim Crow laws for example)

[@arikaaa69]

Even as a Social Democrat, I don't mind capitalism that much, as long as they don't shit on everyone lesser

[@macarila357]

Being capitalistic != being right-winged

[@BryanSheasby]

+David Schwartsman Only in your head.

[@macarila357]

Bryan Sheasby Only in my, and in every single logical person's head.

[@BryanSheasby]

Liberals, if left to their own devices, would destroy capitalism.

[@macarila357]

Bryan Sheasby Yeah, no they wouldn't. You just made that up. You're confusing progressive with marxist.

[@Sketchyowl]

+David Schwartsman L

[@TheLawnWanderer]

Too short, arrogant, simplistic to be taken seriously.

[@BTChanOSRS]

+TheLawnWanderer Complaining is not an argument. Probably you can't do better than that kek.

[@TheLawnWanderer]

A Moldes Not a argument, just a statement.

[@metalgrinch]

Short and simplistic is all you need when something is obvious. Unless of course youd rather be bullsh*tted endlessly with vague and meaningless rhetoric, which it seems liberals just adore bc it helps them to feel smart.

[@moselaw2]

I don't think he realizes that liberals are capitalists too. Liberals just think that we should help those in need.

[@TheLawnWanderer]

Republicans in damage control mode. I never said he was wrong or right, the video just comes off as too short, arrogant and simplistic. He also pretty much straight up insults liberals in the video, which alone proves that someone is incapable of having a discussion.

[@roykliffen9674]

0:37 ".... Liberals buy them cheese ... with your money" Well, you could also have said: "Corporations buy politicians ... with your money" ..... a bit hypocritical to imply liberals depend on government hand-outs as it is the corporations that receive the bulk of government hand-outs ... guess you forgot that in your little conservative rant.

[@Va11idus]

You think conservatives want/benefit from this corrupt government we have? With that mindset, I'm not surprised that this video completely went over your head.

[@IshayuG]

+Roy Kliffen Conservatives, and I don't mean that to imply Republicans ( although some of them are real and very good conservatives!), do not want massive corporations to control everything. That's a left-wing view, in fact. The left loves setting up giant corporations controlled or owned by the state, then forcing everybody to use it by stealing your money and putting it into the corporation (aka welfare) so you can't afford any alternatives, and then finally putting you in prison or even killing you if you don't like it this way by calling you a criminal. A liberal has no business calling anyone a hypocrite, especially when we talk about economics

[@BoyKagome]

+Roy Kliffen GE, Disney, Golden Sax... most big businesses are supported and protected by the left. They are all about Big Business, but unlike the right...they have to lie about it.

[@anthonynelson6249]

+Roy Kliffen Haha! Good point! I'd argue that corporations receiving government handouts is not a conservative policy though. A Republican policy maybe, but certainly not a conservative one. :)

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

+Roy Kliffen you do realize they made a video about how the government should stay out of corporations right?

[@franciselworthy9879]

I'm a musician and generally, I would say the musicians that I'm around are in the middle. These days we are seeing a lot more of being able to make a liveable income from music, yet not sell your life away all in the name of profits. Also, musicians are one group of people that truly come from all walks of life and generally speaking, are the most compassionate people. I don't really know what I'm talking about now but I would just like to say that on behalf of all musicians, we don't do it for money.

[@josephwheeler1]

To be clear I don't think that this video is saying that the main goal of conservatives is earning money. I don't know many if any conservatives who would be willing to do anything for money. You did get the part where he said that working hard and improving things is a conservative ideal right? Working for yourself, taking care of yourself and your family, working hard in general.. these are all conservative ideals. I've been told on numerous occasions that working hard or the idea of working hard is racist. No contacts. Just that. Obviously most liberals do also believe in working hard but when you listen to the politicians and the college professors and the activists they tell a very different story.

[@JemmaTheWitch]

liberal and conservative values are both beneficial to society. We need a balance between the two.

[@ArvMC]

Yet you seem to be talking about SJWs, who many wouldn't consider liberal at all

[@atlaspressed]

+ArvidiusMC SJWs and the word liberal are Leftwing, get over it.

[@ArvMC]

***** Yes, liberals usually have a lot of the same ideas, but the way they approach them is completely different.

[@Tuhljin]

+Lars Magnus Samuelsson Svenssonsenn Magnussvensamuelsson Thor - Name a SJW on the right.

[@ArvMC]

***** the way liberals approach ideas is completely different than the SJW's way

[@Tuhljin]

ArvidiusMC SJWs *are* liberals, unless you're using a different definition of the term (e.g. "classical liberals"), in which case your comment is pointless as you're just talking past others.

[@alexpernsteiner6117]

"Hard work is totally a conservative principle guys. So if you ever see a liberal working hard, that just means they're actually a conservative. It's a good thing I'm so good at being right that I literally cannot be wrong."

[@davidr8537]

STRAWMAN.

[@davidr8537]

He's saying that hard work is a conservative and capitalist principle, which in turns, makes a hard-working liberal at least somewhat conservative

[@mcdevitt815]

This is one of the rare lucid comments on this video.

[@InitialPC]

@@zacnieprawisz9171 character traits do equate to opinions, and not just political ones, also working hard is not 'communist' and its certainly not liberal, liberals believe in taxing the hell out of people who actually work for their money so that the lazy can get paid more money for less work

[@wdsadaddedsadsadfsaf4823]

Me: buys a pack of gum* PragerU: ah a closeted capitalist I see!

[@uncleruckus9670]

Yeah, some of their examples are dumb. Prager U doesn't give a shit about most people in poverty. They just want them to suffer to starvation to non existence, which is entirely un-american. They should at least have an institution that helps the homeless by giving them surviving essentials and helping them to get to work so people don't have to pay their welfare.

[@pleasestop104]

Uncle Ruckus Please give us evidence. Maybe a video by them proving your point or something?

[@joshuahadley776]

"If they don't agree with me, they want people to die"

[@PANZERFAUST90]

I think you're taking it a little too literally there, buddy.

[@paulp.l.4869]

Seems to me the examples given were of the "creating something"type. Purchasing something doesn't make you a capitalist. It's how you earn your purchasing power that might make you one.

[@FarelForever]

I feel like this is a good lesson, but mostly in how successful we can be, when we strike a balance between the 2 philosophies, and not focus on one, while demonizing the other.

[@Art1611]

The lack of any rebuttal, instead assertions of disagreement, lead me to see how truthful this video is.

[@LiamRomK]

This is a joke right?

[@Alon77G]

+Liam Keighley nope.

[@jrc99us]

+Liam Keighley The joke is on the left.

[@jrc99us]

+Salty Diarrhea Your username fits you.

[@josephang9927]

Libtards are perpetual jokes.

[@saltydiarrhea386]

+Ish about? The current state of the GOP? Hardly, but it is dissapointing the GOP takes advantage of the idiots that vote for them.

[@ESS982]

As a musician myself I can attest to this

[@tommylee9029]

Lie

[@D1scNStuff]

someone who studies finance is automatically conservative, remember kids

[@freethinkersgamingpolitics2023]

wulnoots Pretty much, unless you're brainwashed or just plain stupid, studying finance makes certain things clear about economics. (Such as, capitalism is a good thing, big government is bad for small businesses, etc.)

[@caseyb1346]

Not true. I studied Economics and Finance under a Austrian school professor. 10 years later, I'm now a hardcore communist. If anything, studying economics helped me understand just how amoral capitalism really is. The dividing line between people who study economics and become right wingers or leftists is not whether you can put a price on a human life or not. The line is drawn between those who think its OK and those who think it is not OK.

[@olivercuenca4109]

Yeah, it's not like the entire underlying basis of most left wing policies is economics is it? Whereas economics seems to take a back seat to wishy washy sentiments in half of the right wing ones.

[@pieterfischer9638]

You miss the point.

[@nathanpellerito7013]

Freethinkers Gaming/politics Summary of economics class: Trump is setting up the United States for a market crash.

[@Gitgudm9]

The absolute contempt for poor people in this video

[@DarkSlushie]

You know, I kind of agree with this. I was a pretty hardcore liberal all throughout highschool and college. But after I starting working and going to the gym, I found myself becoming more and more conservative. I saw my efforts directly translate into personal, financial and spiritual rewards. And I started to resent the people who demanded the same rewards but weren't willing to put the effort in.

[@swazzyjay]

basically, you cant be fully liberal or fully conservative. You have to be level headed and find balance

[@JW-do2wc]

Someone needs to take these to college campuses and teach the youth the truth.

[@nijanthanselvan4909]

[SERIOUS] Who are the dislikers?

[@TheAmbasador99]

-Triggered tumblers -Angry liberals -Most unlikely, Soros paid shills

[@tempy2440]

Or more likely those who appreciate facts and prefer logic and reason over ad hominem and straw man. The left isn't always tumblr , the right isn't always trump.

[@TheAmbasador99]

Eslayer Za You are right, I am blinded by anger towards leftism

[@theyellowbirdman]

Eh, I didn't like it. The film just isn't that good. He makes points that make sense, but the way he worded it made it sound propagandist, and even though that's not his intention, I can see why Liberals would scoff at this just because of how it's filmed and created. It's not inviting, like how more succesfull groups induct people into their ideologies, but it's played straight and harsh, which probably scares others. I think it was a good point, but the way the film was made was more of a "Speak to the choir" sense, than trying to convince others.

[@ryanotte6737]

I prefer statistics to back an argument, or possibly some sourced material of some sort or another. Gutfeld here is just listing some of his opinions and generalizations. Hence, dislike.

[@Sjrm126]

As a musician, this can’t be more true

[@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874]

3201 milksops got triggered by this video.

[@MilesHacker]

hey, not our fault Greg doesn't even try to make a compelling point and instead spends 3 minutes and 57 seconds shoveling simplistic "conservative = productive, liberal = lazy" garbage into the brains of uneducated rightists.

[@obviouslykaleb7998]

Miles Hacker It is a matter of reward. “Most musicians can’t afford to be liberal” is a statement towards the amount of private charity one can give before their other parts of their life (the tours/etc) become unaffordable. Conservatives believe that if one person puts in the work and gets money, they should be able to keep it. Whereas liberals (leftists as they’re called nowadays) want to “eat the rich,” regardless of who they are. Politicians exempt. It is a matter of who keeps the wealth. Not who earns it.

[@obviouslykaleb7998]

Miles Hacker Also it’s 3 minutes 58 seconds libtard Lol

[@jorgeferdenav]

This video has been incredibly constructive and enlightening. Now I fully understand the meaning of the straw man fallacy. I've seen Bill O'Reilly make better arguments against liberals.

[@raphaelkhan1668]

How to be right: Claim generic values of hard work and determination as being Conservative values, and claim that other, unrelated values and opinions, are related to those values, therefore if you have those generic values you are Conservative, and anyone who is not Conservative either does not have those values, or is a secret Conservative.

[@wilsonsilva2918]

1:30 actually the most successful bands in rock are The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin All three of which where part of the hippie movement

[@brianplank5905]

The Beatles crashed and burned within three years off their manager death, Pink Floyd almost went broke several times and was one of the most dysfunctional bands to come out of the 60s, and Led Zeppelin was in essence a flash in the pan and didn't have a chance to fail. The Rolling stones have been going strong now for half a century.

[@wilsonsilva2918]

+Brian Plank when I say sucessfull I don't mean financially, I mean as a band and as artists, so yes, they were sucessfull

[@Jcarte4308]

he mean't financially. Context is key bro. It was a piece of conservatism and economics.

[@wilsonsilva2918]

Jesse Carter Okay, lets annalise this finnancially then, the beatles, the band who sold the most singles in the world for a long time, led zeppelin, who have the biggest ammount of bought albums in rock, and pink floyd, who have one of , if not the most selled album of all time All of which are endorsers of the hippie movement

[@Jcarte4308]

And how much of that went into the band's pocket. How well did they utilize those funds for long term prosperity. I'm just saying there are more factors than just sales.

[@ronitnayak4408]

My friend sent me this, and the last message really hit me, you're not as liberal as you think. Great vid

[@abrahamlincoln4264]

Did you know, that over 210,000 Americans have died in this country (more than any other country in the world) due to this President's negligence, narcism, and just plain apathy? Did you know, that the GOP will, with shame, look back on this Presidency as the worst in history? Did you know that Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave as what the GOP has become? Did you know that the U.S. trade deficit is now the largest in history? Great job GOP & Trump

[@MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv]

People are just very doubtful. Numbers are getting that less than 10000 Americans died due to corona. the other people just died with corona without it having an influence. They also clasify poisening as corona or falling of a building as corona death. All shady stuff. This is perhaps anecdotal, but a family member of my father was hit by a truck and sadly passed away. The state clascified it as a corona death. Ps I apoligize for my English, I'm no native:)

[@abrahamlincoln4264]

@@MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv Honestly, if what you're saying is true, then it is both unethical and destructively misleading. That said, I don't see why "the state" would do such a thing (no seriously). What would be the benefit?

[@MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv]

@@abrahamlincoln4264 The elections of course. I don't want to sound like 'everything is a conspiracy by the Jews person' although I have been hearing by dems that this virus' consequences is Trump's fault. Let's also not forget the largest protests in Democratic and releasing prisoners who WORE masks in NYC. All this seems sus, Abe and Trump is not responsible for the chaos.

[@campar1043]

Why cant you hit the gym, eat a tasty meal, listen to great music and also enjoy helping others?

[@smks8er]

Cam Par sure help others with your own damn money. just dont try to steal mine. (social security, regressive taxes, Obamacare etc.)

[@campar1043]

Eli Mayen I dont mind universal healthcare, I live in Canada and it's fine here, better than paying a huge sum out of pocket. But I do agree if people want to help each other, they shouldn't wait for the government to do it.

[@Dallows65]

Just remember Camp, your country is only able to sustain its healthcare because the US covers their defense spending :P

[@campar1043]

Dallows65 Apparently not the arms were selling to saudi arabia lol

[@charlesfinley3234]

There has never been anything more effective in helping lift people out of poverty than capitalism. Conservatism *is* how you help others.

[@pauladams2445]

I love how the add before this was a buzfeed ad, probably the most liberal channel on KZbin.

[@badlydrawnturtle8484]

Congratulations, you really tore down that straw man. I'll be waiting for you to address actual liberal ideas.

[@wacawaca3]

Badly Drawn Turtle this video is in the context of USA politics. They call “liberals” at the progressives/left wing who want a bigger govt.

[@willraley1789]

Oh damn you absolutely leveled the playing field. Your genius is so incredibly and unimaginably immense that you are unable to grasp basic economics. Lemme spell it out. Liberals want more regulation, regulation hurts business, businesses don't like liberals. Now do you understand why liberals are unsuccessful?

[@s.marcus3669]

@@willraley1789 Will, you are only PARTLY correct. Small businesses are almost overwhelmingly conservative because they barely make a small profit, if at all in the first few years or even decade of existence. Once they become established and the money pours in, they almost always give money to liberal/leftist causes. Just take a look at General Electric, Ford, GM, Nike and the list goes on and on..

[@willraley1789]

@@s.marcus3669 I %100 agree with you there. Big businesses can afford to care about stuff like climate change. However, the main reason they do this is that if the economy does poorly, then they are established enough to not only survive, but to lower wages. When they lower wages, people will still work for them because there are no other jobs. This was rampant under the Obama administration, and it will be rampant under any Sanders or Warren administration as well.

[@doublebaconchaseburger]

Libertarian here. Not everybody knows this but being a libertarian is all about putting yourself last.

[@StefanTheCannon]

I am a Christian and I enjoy being conservative and giving in my daily life not selfish

[@studmcmillionaire8807]

This video is basically saying "If you make a plan of action, or care about getting what you want at all, you're a conservative. If you're not a conservative, you're a hippy-dippy weak liberal who feels entitled to other people's money", which is a gross oversimplification at best and downright wrong at worst.

[@42kang]

+Stud McMillionaire What nuance is missed?

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

+Stud McMillionaire sorry thats what liberalism has evolved to. neoprogressivism conservatives are quite alike to classical liberals

[@Y-Alephen]

+Wayne Ekeh You are thinking of Ultra Progressives.

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

George Young dont know what that is

[@josephang9927]

However, it is an accurate definition.

[@zachredner8]

Ecclesiastes 10 [NIV] [vs: 2] The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. [vs: 3] Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how stupid he is.

[@TrampConnoisseur]

I don’t think it was meant in that context but I still agree

[@zachredner8]

@@TrampConnoisseur I figure that "it says what it says, and it means what it says!" Whether people "like it" or not is their choice!

[@Meirstein]

@@zachredner8 Except the usage of left and right in the political sense started 2000 years after that verse was written. It dates back 18th century France, when conservative politicians in the National Assembly literally sat on the right side of the chamber and liberal politicians literally sat on the left side.

[@zachredner8]

@@Meirstein That's not at all surprising! Especially since the HOLY Bible says a LOT of factual things... thousands of years before mere human beings can even figure out that the Bible is RIGHT and has NEVER been proven to be wrong! ALL the prophecies about JESUS birth, life, ministry, betrayal, murder, and resurrection... and ALL of the end time prophecies... ALL were "written in the Bible" thousands of years before it happened! GOD forewarned us about the evil demons and filthy rodents (i.e., rats) that would destroy our planet, and life as we have known it.

[@bmeares]

Prager must have gotten a new editor with a distinctive style... I like it.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

I think you should have stayed in the fitness industry - cause there's certainly something you haven't the greatest understanding of and that's what it means to be on the left, or the right, in politics....

[@sjenner76]

I am a a classical liberal; a radical individualist; a capitalist; and a believer in the self. And I say do whatever makes you happy, but don't deny someone their own happiness. If you disagree with someone else's dream or business, then go build your own, rather than using the coercive force of government to meanly irradiate someone else's stake in the world.

[@awsomeabacus9674]

this guy has no idea what liberalism is

[@fresheyeball]

Uh, so conservatives have a monopoly on work ethic? or competitive spirit? What the hell was going on in the early days of the USSR? I guess they where just a bunch on conservatives. Work ethic may be an ideal conservatives identify with, but its certainly not a conservative idea. Work ethic spans political perspectives.

[@willraley1789]

They weren't conservative, they were just power-hungry. You would be surprised how much people will work in order to better their lives.

[@DaveEngland07]

All of the fairly poor drawn out conclusion are made on the assumption that success is limited to conservatism. He never explains why this is but gives poor examples of successful people who are perceived to be more liberal. He is claiming the success of these people due to their conservative attributes (which don't really exist as a concept). If McJagger planned a really thorough tour of the US but could not play music then his success is undone by lack of creativity and culture.

[@zdrux]

+DaveEngland07 And what could possibly prevent him from playing music?

[@Tuhljin]

+DaveEngland07 - Backward. Are you not following along? He doesn't say "success is limited to conservativism, so if there's success, then it must be due to conservativism". He points out the *fact* that these successful people used conservative principles to get where they are, principles they hypocritically attack in other contexts.

[@retrofilth1414]

5 seconds in and the first myth is that conservatism totally didn't cause the Great Depression and Great Recession.

[@AmericanMetalhead100]

Yet socialists claim the depression never happened.

[@presidentevil9768]

The great depression happened because america gave away too much money(to help others)

[@trumpetaa07]

Ok

[@felixlipski3956]

You know you can't appropriate virtues, right?

[@jasonschneijder2012]

2:31 I'm pretty sure Obama wasn't talking about your pecs when he said that... xD

[@josephang9927]

Many People here are angry... because it is true.

[@voidnovum7796]

"Everyone creates the thing they dred" - Ultron

[@murrayhowell2154]

Always makes me laugh when Americans confuse Liberals with Socialists

[@bazoinkadoink]

I'm a conservative, and I accede with all principles of conservatism, but this is depressing. If I go to sleep instead of studying all night for an exam because I feel really tired does that mean I'm a wimpy leftist? If I don't come in first place, does that mean I'm a loser? If I have a disadvantage that inhibits me from attaining something, does that mean I'm simply not worthy? I need answers.

[@skatesuperbaby]

Politics is not about left or right. It's about dominance.

[@jessicafoster1196]

The problem is that work very often does not translate to reward.

[@vmj255]

Jessica Foster No one ever said life would be fair, except socialists. And they lied.

[@pieterfischer9638]

Working in and of itself, does not guarantee a reward true.... but then you have to objectively view what type of work and towards what to get the reason why.

[@SMac-bq8sk]

True. However, if you work at something you do for the pure love of it, then no translation is required for the reward.

[@Wonsley100]

"the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" -Frederick nietzsche. im tired of left vs right if we are gonna fix world issues its together not just 1 group with one ideology.

[@mikitz]

It's due to the human nature to entrench ourselves. We've always consisted of small groups, not huge entities.

[@JinY-kd3el]

Are you getting along with all the people you have met so far? Maybe not, how about your family...siblings,spouse, parents, kids... Don’t act like you are above them...

[@paulp.l.4869]

Still, some things are absolute truths. You can't have an opinion without first having a life.

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

I am a Conservative, and strongly so. I score pretty far right on the moderate Libertarian side. But, we DO need to have some empathy. We do need some safety nets and we need some way to secure even the laziest among us with at least the most rudimentary standard of living, and we should take care of our elderly to a reasonable degree. But what we don't need to be doing is pretending like giving everyone free college, free advanced healthcare, and free virtually everything else. Who wins the election should not be the person who offers the most free stuff.

[@IamSalvatore]

Conservative values this, conservative values that... I wasn't aware that practicality was the sole domain of "conservatives".

[@josephang9927]

Most gym goers I know are conservative.

[@DinethCat]

+Joseph Ang Cause libs are in their parent's basement probably eating Cheetos.

[@dalord5933]

+Marshmallow920 And posting on Reddit's /r/politics.

[@cynic2201]

Question, where do you live? Because that would effect it MASSIVELY

[@laurieellenferreiraschuber9353]

And is he saying all change and positives of our country and lifestyle are based on conservative ideals?

[@sciencetube4574]

What is liberal to you? I consider myself a liberal and I endorse none of the things you mentioned - no-score, no-winner, no-loser. You are clearly falling for the black-and-white fallacy.

[@sciencetube4574]

***** I'm not American, but the rest is kind of true... and yet the video seems to suggest that there is the radical regressive left and the right, with nothing inbetween - the black-and-white fallacy.

[@sciencetube4574]

***** Yes, that election is going to be fun for you. Good luck with whoever wins.

[@Dallows65]

I wouldn't say it assumes there is nothing in between, but given the context he is being specific to the American Left and Right, where the left is extremely regressive.

[@sciencetube4574]

Dallows65 I learned this by now ;_; RIP 'murica-land

[@laurabunyard8562]

Did you see the report on a pizza restaurant that paid $15.00 an hour? It went broke less than two years later. It proved your point.

[@moderatedoomer2945]

I am a liberal but I respect the older Prager U videos because they actually had academics on those videos. Now they are mostly having trolls and shock jocks on these newer videos.

[@masonm1124]

Colin Keesee Well that’s strange. Dennis Prager is in old and new videos.

[@danielborie1986]

1:24 The Beatles? John Lennon was conservative too

[@Babytiguer]

I'm a conservative and even I find his argumentation flawed

[@joshuafogg6600]

The First Democrat, Cape Cod 1620 (Reclined against a boulder, while everyone else is working) "So, when's dinner?"

[@shadowsmustfall1]

Couldn't agree more. One of the direct consequences of my realization that the liberal worldview was less realistic than the conservative one was that I became MUCH more successful. When it comes to not all, but MANY, things, conservatives have it right. Generations have been led astray by the liberal philosophies, and then they wonder why everything is so fucked up.

[@cynic2201]

Wait... Well this is funny. Since I became liberal I have had a much happier life and have been able to help those around me, while at the same time taking away reliance on materialistic things and onto happiness. More money doesn't mean your life is better, happiness means your life is better. And I'll tell you this, rich people are much worse than the poor.

[@shadowsmustfall1]

Didn't say anything about money. I've become more successful in achieving my goals, whatever they may be. Also, happiness is relative and isn't the only measure of a good life. I'd rather live a very satisfying life, with all the difficulties on that path, than a happy one. It's the difference between A good life and THE good life. Both conservatives and liberals help people, so helping others isn't a by-product of your ideology but rather it is something you either want to do or not. Additionally, the help that liberals give tends to enable people rather than lift them up. Liberal help means well, but is pretty ineffective. Lastly, I was a liberal my entire life and you know how much help I got or how much acceptance I got from fellow liberals? Jack shit. Liberals talk a big talk about helping people but most don't walk the walk. Conservatives have been a little rougher around the edges or a little harder to earn their trust, but they have offered me much more help than I ever got from liberals. My observation is that conservatives are actually much less materialistic than liberals. Not many conservatives in Hollywood or your local hip dance club. On the contrary, conservatism places a higher value on family and strong, deep social relationships than liberalism. I don't like everything conservative, I'm pro-choice and fully agree with gay marriage, but overall, conservative principles are much better for living a highly satisfying life and are better for motivating people to be the best version of themselves.

[@fransy1117]

he was literally looking at the screen trying to read the whole script.

[@MichaelLynMusic]

Love love love it Greg..............Keep up the Great Work!

[@HitomiAyumu]

Actually, conservatives are very tribal. And looking at "the good of society" rather than protecting the individual.

[@marineninga]

+HitomiAyumu quite the opposite, conservatives are very individualists, that's why they believe success can't be given, it has to be earned. They believe in the American dream in which America is a rich fertile land full of opportunities where any American who works hard can find social and economic mobility upwards and achieve their dreams. That is pure individualism

[@HitomiAyumu]

Michael Nguyen Not pure. For instance, you believe in a collective identity. And you believe in protecting it through the use of laws. This is not very individualistic.

[@marineninga]

HitomiAyumu please elaborate

[@HitomiAyumu]

Michael Nguyen Conservatives believe in protecting their cultural identity through the use of force. Although I don't believe multiculturalism can work, the very notion of forcing others to comply with your culture is anti individualistic. Liberals do it as well.

[@marineninga]

so they shouldn't protect their culture? what let the progressives legislate and sue them out of existence?

[@wannabeasubscriber528]

Jim Crow was a PROUD LIBERAL!

[@davidmelgar1197]

This is such a painful reduction of everything to "left" or "right." It's so easy to do this however way one wants. Societies with a strong sense of community and charity are successful! Leftist values! People who accept and tolerate diverse peoples can reap the economic rewards of not discriminating against them! Liberal success! And so on and so forth.

[@hyronvalkinson1749]

3:30 Well, atheism isn't, and I've never accomplished more in my life after losing that baggage!

[@starofcctv94]

He seems to be confusing conservatism with doing things

[@TomekSw]

yeah all of them except JESUS. LOL

[@Dolphinjamez]

Except, metal bands aren't all about competition. They're all about music! Most metal musicians will tell you that, for one thing, they are friends with other metal musician, and the music, in many cases, IS ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS! "The demons that took you away were part of the deal all along, because it was the way you sang about them that made everyone fall in love with you." ~Linkin Park.

[@yefunehdavid1005]

"You're not as liberal as you might think." After Greg's excellent message, I'm thinking that I'm not as conservative as I had thought!

[@moselaw2]

I'm not conservative but I usually watch Prager to see the other side of the spectrum to understand their ideas and their vidros are usually good. However this video terrible since he thinks liberals arent capitalists........

[@itmcbhpbgf.6374]

did i hear a DOOMguy grunt at 1:46...?? :0

[@PANZERFAUST90]

what a *GOOD* *FIELD* of information 8D

[@ninjasamich120]

If you define all of the values required for success as conservative then yes conservative values are required for success, however most people would not define hard work and diligence as conservative and sloth as liberal to do so is highly disingenuous.

[@arnquin3953]

I have a friend on Facebook that posted a video of Bob Marley being interviewed. The interviewer asks Marley about money and riches. Marley responds by saying he has riches of the soul and spirit, not material riches that he says don't really matter in life. I didn't have the heart to leave a post on my friend's video telling her Bob Marley's net worth until his death was $30,000,000.00.

[@olivermorland5226]

That's guy has one cold view on life.

[@mikaelfalk6720]

The level of BS is through the roof...

[@maitiuofatharta1258]

I'm a moderate, some of my thinking is right and some left. What I definitely am is a liberal, which doe not mean on the left of the political spectrum! There's even a video here somewhere on Pager Uni saying that! And I think it was given by Mr. D. Pager himself!! Please can we stop describing those that lean too far to the left as liberal, because it's annoying and like describing an authoritarian as always being a conservative which of course, is not true.

[@jasonwintermyer8566]

I'm just glad I don't have to pay the police every time I call 911. I know I pay for it via taxes, but having to pay for their services would be a disaster. Would anyone here be in favor of a privatized police force?

[@freeman7079]

you can definitely tell he's been on tour....don't forget your antibiotics.....hahahaha

[@wwrite]

I can’t believe 4.7k leftist / socialist / anti-Americans are watching this? Every time you see one interviewed on the street the only thing they can talk about is feelings and no one ounce of fact. So why is it this video has 4.7k thumbs down? Is it an alphabet bot that thumbs down the conservative voice? I’m always so baffled to see thumbs down on the most innocuous, and happiest videos.

[@TheoHawk316]

I love how he just said, "I'm Greg Gutfeld" not, "I'm Greg Gutfeld, for Prager University"

[@bradleyjohnson6107]

If you are young and bright eyed and love these videos and think this is really how the world works that's fine. But trust me, if things don't change from he way they currently are, for most of you the day will come when you will look at your life situation and your bank account and say to yourself, "Wait, I did everything they said I should do. I worked hard, I got educated, I got a marketable skill, I took risks and made no excuses. I took ownership for myself and my own wellbeing and refused help and handouts along the way. So why, after all that, can't I afford a house I want to live in and a car I want to drive. Why can't I go on vacation like my parents did at this age? Why do medical bills threaten my entire financial life and why does sending my children to college one day or even just having children sound so impossible?" And that is when it will hit you. That is when you will realize that most of the wealth in America is inherited and most of the wealthiest Americans don't even follow these "conservative" principles themselves. You will realize that the rich have built a system that does not reward hard work, but rather, rewards and protects those who already have money and looks down on the hard workers like you who helped them get there. You will see many of your peers who are lazier, dumber, meaner, and less responsible than you move into nicer neighborhoods and live fancy lifestyles because Daddy gave them millions just for being born. You will meet clueless executives of large businesses who make 7 figures not because they were brilliant, but because they were roommates with the CEO in college back in the day. You will meet people your age with thriving businesses and think, "Oh look! they did it!" only to find out that their new millionaire stepdad gave them $300k in seed money to get started and paid for all their entire college tuition so they could graduate debt free. You don't have to agree with me right now and I get it, you enjoy believing that the country you live in is not rigged against you but...just wait. If things don't change, one day you will be sitting there in your overpriced house or apartment after a long day at your supposedly good job wondering how in the hell you will make ends meet and this random youtube comment will pop into your head.

[@RainMan221]

You despise your own existence clearly and you might wanna change it. If you do all what have been told to get success and ain't getting still.... simple solution...do more!...In today's world we strive to have an edge over others through cut throat competition...and all those millionaires and billionaires you are cribbing about are self made..85%of them are atleast. And those lazy turds you're complaining about won't have a good time for long unless daddy made them street smart, that's why rich kids are easy to fool, coz they never learned the hard way. The guy in the great depression did cry like whinny bitches. They looked for work...if they didn't got them ....they dug even more and made US the greatest. The things have changed....we gotta improvise , adapt and overcome. The mental labor is more these days so are the resources available to develop our brain like that and also many skills. You cannot go to the past and change how you're born but surely how you wanna die is in your hands. You're totally wrong that successful startups are just on given handouts by millionaire daddies. This clearly shows how envious your way thinking is. Bill gates , Mark Zuckerberg , didn't have handouts though they did come from financially well families. Jeff Bezos sold burgers. Starbuck guy sold coffee at local Barista. These are just a few famous to name. You wanna join them....hustle....hustle ...even if you're dead tired ...take a break for a while get refreshed...then hustle again. And you will make it one day and won't regret your hardwork. With all that said...all the best to you buddy! Edit- I just remembered that Mark Cuban once said that he doesn't have a work routine...he works whenever he likes, goes on vacation with his family whenever he wants, do whatever whenever he wants...coz he doesn't have to worry about time and money......but he said that when he started he was a mad workhorse who didn't took a day off for 7 years, not a single day....7 years paid him for his entire life as we all can see.

[@joyajomiwe9883]

"No one is going to redistribute my awesome packs" Lol

[@nelsonariza4075]

Lol "antibiotics" lmao I almost died

[@peterthepanda5191]

Why is prageru saying that a human mindset is a conservative mindset? Literally everyone wants to succeed, and they do this with hard work. Also that mice analogy is really, really terrible. By that logic, you are saying poor and unsuccessful people are pests to be rid of, instead of people who need assistance. Yes, we do want to give disadvantaged people government assistance, but is that a bad thing? Just because someone isn’t good with money doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to have 3 meals a day. Work -> reward isn’t conservative. It’s nature. Liberals aren’t trying to take that away.

[@DCBChump]

Take a liberal and give him/her/it everything he/she/it wants and see how quickly he/she/it becomes conservative.

[@shaun7096]

I don't agree with PragerU ideologically but I do like to watch many of their videos. It is good to see other opinions in a smart reasonable way however this guys videos aren't as intriguing. His points can basically be summed up as conservatives good, liberals bad.

[@TheDragonkiller56]

I really tried to be open-minded when I watch this video. But what he really just said was meritocracy, not conservatism, and being left does not mean you don't have to have to ignore the principles of working hard. Again it's called meritocracy and cooperation.

[@andreworam2844]

No, I didn't build that. But I paid those who did. Debt satisfied.

[@muhammedshefin3939]

Liberalism is not based on laziness. Liberals are generally more hardworking.