What Does Tucker Really Believe?

I look at Tucker Carlson's conspiracy theory-riddled mind, where it comes from, and why he does it. I draw from Richard Hofstadter's 1964 The Paranoid Style in American Politics, review Carlson's book, Ship of Fools, and look at his Fox News show, the Fedsurrection, Patriot Purge, and the Great Replacement.
0:00 - Trumpism without Trump
03:37 - Tucker Carlson’s History
08:11 - Immigration
25:06 - The Paranoid Style
32:51 - Carlson’s Conspiracies
40:54 - The Mechanics of a Paranoid Mind
46:34 - A Threat to Democracy?
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[@ThenNow]

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[@christianlima1993]

Every communist country that has ever exist has been nationalist. Mega communism is the future.

[@maelofohio6682]

Might I say the amount of spelling errors, makes little to none credibility to your claims in this video. For if you can't spell, let a lone use an auto correction for grammar. I can't take your video into an honest context without an underlying false narrative. Though nice attempt to be transparent, it has revealed your typos. Which once more brings your credibility into question.

[@dannydetonator]

@maelofohio6682 You haven't showed even one of them.. which in the first 10 minutes i haven't noticed either. Also the form over content and ideas criticism discredits any opinion of yours as dishonest, dumb or.. wait, you're one of them aren't you? This is not American space anyway, english is not my native language and this is not American content maker. That might be your problem, iff you really think like that (highly doubt it). You're might just not getting his accent and dialect.

[@Quader417]

I about bust a gut every time Tucker SWANSON Carlson, heir to the Swanson food dynasty, most popular cable news show in the country, has the audacity to speak about elitism as if he’s not a born, bred, and raised elitist

[@aturchomicz821]

for real...

[@RiffMasterMike]

Tucker Carlson isn’t the heir to Swanson. His Step-mother WAS at one point of her early life one of the heirs to Swanson, who was a self-made immigrant. But this was all before she met his Dad. Her brother’s were the ones in charge of the company and sold it to Campbell’s in 1955, and have had no ties to it since then. Sure, his stepmother had more money growing up than most. But let’s not over exaggerate to make moral points from repeating stories that even Snopes has claimed are false. So if you are busting a gut in laughter because you believe this, the joke is actually on you. Look it up yourself. 🙂

[@Quader417]

my guy read the snopes article again. Its says that its false that the swansons CURRENTLY own swanson foods. Snopes literally calls Patricia Swanson “is an heiress to the wealth generated by the Swanson TV dinner company her grandfather Carl Swanson founded.” Never did i say his family still owns the company. If by “more money than most” u mean his family had millions of dollars then yes that’s exactly what i mean by born bred and raised elitist. I did not over exaggerate a single thing he IS the heir to the wealth of that dynasty, even snopes agrees. He IS and ALWAYS HAS been part of the elite. I am not making a “moral point” i am stating the fact that Tucker will tear down the elite for publicity all day long when he himself knows he’s part of the elite. If u are under the impression that he somehow did not make money off the business transaction then u are in fact the one the joke is on. Look it up yourself.🙂

[@jamestcatcato7132]

@@RiffMasterMike so your claim is that somehow that fact displaces tucker from the linage? How patently absurd,? Of course tucker is stilll an heir presumptive!

[@wackabug]

@@RiffMasterMike obtuse as fuck take LOL

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

Carlson is stuck talking about that one town and that one food processing plant because his family owns the company that owns the factory, Swanson Foods. The company drove down wages and then told workers it was because of immigrants, not greed for ever greater profit margins

[@nelsonth]

Figures... He's an elite himself after all, with no actual real interest in upending the present order

[@RiffMasterMike]

That is false. Why do people believe this kind of stuff in 2022, when you can literally just look it up and see that whole story is complete bs?

[@RichardMcLamore]

@@nelsonth well .. . who did he ask to write a rec letter to get a son into elite uni?

[@Mark_zist_Anonoymous]

Right!, He's the ultimate elite and he messes with the public's mind he said something in an interview about hiding wealth because the poor are envious of it. (Paraphrase)

[@melanson210]

All you said is complete bs😂

[@jakemarciniak1877]

It's interesting how Tucker Carlson refers to the excessively wealthy as "they" as if he wasn't born in to excessive wealth and hasn't lived his entire life in excessive wealth.

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Biden does the same thing dude, it's all politics.

[@jakemarciniak1877]

@@fuzzypanda1684 I'm not saying he doesn't, it's just particularly rich coming from someone like Tucker who's career is built on slandering poor people and scapegoating racial minorities.

[@lukasbalestracci2567]

@@fuzzypanda1684 biden’s parents were car salesmen, not miltinational tycoons

[@janedoe1146]

Same with Trump. He pretends he's 'one of them', his supporters yet he's a silver spoon spoiled brat that whines and whines how he's suck a victim. Voters need to wise up.

[@janedoe1146]

@@fuzzypanda1684 It's not the same with Biden. Biden grew up blue collar....Tucker and Trump grew up 'blue blood' or so they think. They're raking in the money using and BS'ing the middle class.

[@peterhartwiger7235]

The fact that a guy who publicly articulates his disdain for democracy in his book is being discussed as a potential presidential candidate says it all about the state of the GOP.

[@jamestcatcato7132]

Vote blue!

[@stacie1595]

Half the GOP thinks the dems are undemocratic and turn a blind eye, the other half desperately WANT an anti-democracy candidate to win so they can finally "make democrats irrelevent" (wink wink nudge nudge).

[@DDL954]

@@jamestcatcato7132 never!

[@Manolara1]

Should be called GOT party, Grand Old Traitors.

[@ztimbo]

For example? We live in a Constitutional Republic, and democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner..Im sure you knew this but an example of what you mean would be nice.

[@UncleKeith567]

I can't get my head around hatred of rich powerful elites (of which he is one) controlling the country, and a call for a return to the hierarchies of olde. This one thing should be ringing all of the alarm bells.

[@billithekat2742]

It should, all the red flags are there, these people are promoting a christo-fascist dictatorship. Carlson and co are feeding their followers with fear and prejudice and give them permission to finally display their racism, xenophobia, misogyny after being unacceptable in society for a long time. That‘s apparently what many people want, they don‘t understand that they will also not belong to the winners in a rightwing dictatorship. It wont ring the alarm bells of conservatives. And the other side, the people who could still intervene, does not seem to see how big the threat really is. Right wingers, conspiracy theorists and proud boys are already occupying positions on local and state level, from school boards to town halls. And rational, normal people are just not as relentless and invested as those extremists and fundamentalists are.

[@BigHenFor]

It doesn't because people want to believe its true. It's far easier to beloeve that some other, some other stranger in your midst, the enemy within, is responsible, than people you've been bought up to see as being important, respected, and like you, or on your side. That's human bias at play, unfortunately. And Tucker Carlson is one of these vipers that have been nursed in your democracy's breast. He has benefitted from its bounty, but he nonetheless wants to destroy it, because he feels that those he thinks beneath him aren't deserving of having a say in how their country is run. That's the danger right there.

[@masescranton9630]

Tucker has always spoke of his angle of looking at things as a person who comes from that elite background. Doesn't hide it and isn't embarrassed by it. Nor he should be. He uses it to explore the thinking of elitism. He fairly pounces on it when he sees it as abusive and supports it when he sees it as beneficial. Tells me you don't really listen to people only others bumper sticker slogans thrown around at folks they can't understand.

[@LieutenantSteel]

@@masescranton9630 Nothing about what you've said/ Tucker has said about that point of view contradicts what @Keith Brown said though. If Tucker thinks 'elite's' are okay unless they are "bad elites" then he is a fool for wanting a return to a system of power/ authority that allows for the wrong people to obtain power and maintain it against the public interest. As we saw with Monarchies and Feudalism, if the system *can* produce people that have unchallenged power and it's a coinflip as to whether those people in power are benevolent rulers or malevolent tyrants, the answer is to stop anyone having that much power- not push for the "right people" to get power back. I.e. Break the roulette wheel, don't spin it.

[@UncleKeith567]

@@masescranton9630 I don't read bumper stickers (I don't drive, the world is dying), nor do I put my trust in people making money hand over fist to speak for me, or think for me. Don't for one minute think I'm in love with the 'we appear slightly better than the repubs, demos', Anyone who uses the term "legacy American" isn't worthy of my consideration, except to know they are dangerous, and Unamerican.

[@polickital6820]

I'm surprised by the bad like/dislike ratio on this video. The creator isn't really hating on Tucker; he's just discussing points that Tucker has made, quote for quote.

[@yourlogicalnightmare1014]

While doing nothing at all to explain what's happening in society and why... simply brush it off and dismiss TC as a loon. How am I, a taxpaying citizen, benefited by letting what will be 10 million+ non-english, low skilled illegals into the country, trampling over our homeless drug addicts and mentally ill, and ALL of whom will need government services.

[@eloc135]

Storm lake is such a strange example to use. They had some of the best rural school facilities I ever went to while in high school. This doesn't directly correlate but a good school generally means there is community wealth. The whole area is actually doing quite well compared to other parts of rural Iowa. This is compared to my hometown where it's the agricultural industry that's bringing imagrants in so they can get away with slave like conditions and low wages.

[@nelsonphillips]

It doesn't actually matter if the story is true. Its a story and he is selling the story. I've seen him do it "live" with another esoteric town. All the facts and conclusions were obviously wrong if you looked into it. Its the story he is selling that the population is the victim of external forces and "your town could be next". He doesn't actually care about the town and will use it as part of his "caring" narrative he wants to sell. If he can convince you he cares then that may give him the opportunity to take what ever he wants.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@nelsonphillips Exactly. His fans don't fact check, because if they did they would not stick around. Tucker is a master manipulator.

[@Para2normal]

@@nelsonphillips I have been saying this for some time now as my answer to the question "Why do the right keep winning elections" . The truth is that the right is very, very good at creating myths that appeal to archetypal world views. It's quite curious when we consider that the majority of creative people are at least Liberal in their outlook and many tend much further left. The left is foolish enough to believe that facts and figures will win elections, when what we actually need are powerful myths.

[@nelsonphillips]

@@Para2normal Promising the world and delivering excuses.

[@darrickmalloy6909]

@@nelsonphillips trump used a similar con. "I will speak for you" "it's the elites that's doing this to " us" I'm gonna clean up the swamp. My favorite🙄

[@skippycoulter]

"The problem is growing inequality to unsustainable levels. The solution is to redefine all political power to formalized rigid inequality!" How on earth does this work on Carlson's followers?

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

It's rooted in an 19th century ideology called "nationalism." Nationalism doesn't simply mean "I love my nation." It says that people of different national groups are inherently incompatible, & people of the same national group are like a family: inherently supportive of & nurturing towards each other. It's a tradition which explicitly rejects class analysis. A german worker & an Indian worker are not alike in their common struggle & class position -- to a nationalist, the german worker is actually more alike to the german capitalist who exploits them because they are both German. So, you see, a nationalist believes that their lords & masters have a comradery with them... They don't imagine being oppressed by their "own kind."

[@jeremy7372]

Rigid inequality is better than growing inequality. Isn't that kind of obvious?

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@jeremy7372 Inequality is the problem, not the solution.

[@Tsukiru]

@@jeremy7372 "Better" but both are still shit.

[@jeremy7372]

@@zacheryeckard3051 exactly, so if both options are inequality then the best way to handle that would be to the option that reigns in the inequality rather than the one that lets it go unchecked at unsustainable levels

[@commoneuropeanstarling]

This is one of the best ones Then and Now has done. Interresting stuff. Keep up the good work

[@thebandwagoneffect]

Damn imagine having an embarrassing bathroom accident as a child and now you’re in a Tucker Carlson book about why immigrants are bad.

[@powerpointnight3710]

I think calling Tucker Carlson paranoid still is being generous. Bcz I don't think he believes in what he says at all. It's purely profit driven.

[@Sheepdog1314]

too bad what he says is true...that must really hurt you

[@powerpointnight3710]

@@Sheepdog1314 awww no and no

[@vontrances4667]

I disagree on the idea that this is generous, though I agree that he is highly unlikely to believe in any of his own bullshit, and that at least since 2015. There is an important split to keep in mind when talking about Tucker Carlson the media personality and Tucker Carlson the corporate heir and obscenely wealthy member of the conservative elite class. In my opinion the best way to find the motivate is to observe the results of his advocacy while observing the way he has changed over time in line with those results. He has always been an open advocate for neoliberal economics marked by pushing for lower taxes for the wealthy, deregulation, and cutting all non-military federal spending (especially welfare for the poor). In this way it would seem he advocates primarily in the interest of his economic class. The change has come since he moved to FOX and especially in the past five years. And that is basically described in the video we all just watched, however what this video misses is the ramp up to this rhetoric which took over a decade on television for him to reach. Tucker Carlson knows his base, and his hosts do as well. They are not beholden to the truth and in fact would lose an enormous amount of support if they were. I'm sure he would prefer to advocate for his class interests with the truth, but with that no longer possible, he simply adapted to what the GOP wants more and more as time goes on. They, inspired by Trump, someone who I hope we agree is far more earnestly paranoid have become paranoid with him. Trump never valued the pursuit of truth as any democratic leader ought to, and obviously he doesn't as he has an open distain for democracy. Heres the point I took too long to arrive at. Tucker Carlson probably is not paranoid in good faith, however he is paranoid for a purpose and he will not back away from that framing. He needs that framing for the same reasons he was not paranoid fifteen years ago. He needs the support of the American right who by in large has not changed in terms of the economic policy that he values for himself as a member of the wealthy elite class. And the reason it isn't generous to just call him paranoid is because to the people who think a genius or honest political actor, explaining this split is hopeless. Your average fox viewer is a dinosaur, and will take him at face value because that's how it was when they were young enough to potentially consider that the man on the news might not be honestly expressing his mind. Wow nobody will read that lol. Whatever I enjoyed typing it 😂

[@Reboobed]

@@vontrances4667 Spot on

[@Magnulus76]

I think his politics is ultimately opportunistic, he doesn't have an ideology except power.

[@Spiritfba]

Carlson is no different than a television evangelist who is selling fear for self enrichment. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

[@billithekat2742]

At least to a certain point. I don‘t believe that Carlson or televangelists are rational, mentally healthy or reasonable when they are not on a stage or in a TV-studio .

[@andresdubon2608]

I have been studying Fascism and authoritarian regimes a bit, many if not most of them promote one thing over most, paranoid behavior and a constant sense of persecution. Now, every time I hear someone claiming imminent danger and X or Y simple solution, it makes me extremely angry because Regardless of how I interpret the situation there will be people believing the emergency status and behaving accordingly.

[@Mr.Crowley696]

Liberal-Leftists brains are SO diseased it's grossly repulsive.

[@carpo719]

@@billithekat2742 they know what they are doing

[@Zach.C1]

@@billithekat2742 I mean, there’s people out there who are mostly mentally healthy, and work for large criminal organizations like the cartel, being a bad person doesn’t necessarily mean that your are mentally ill

[@starmano34]

A lot of the people who's primary motivation to vote is the issue of immigration really want you to think, and want to believe, that it is about economics and not good old fashioned racism. Tucker Carlson, and people like him, make their fortune by confirming these peoples biases and giving them a seemingly reasonable justification for believing what they do.

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Yes. It’s all racism. The culture war is merely the most efficiently duplicitous method of delivering racially divisive talking points. It’s important to note that Religious Liberty in the minds of christian nationalists is nearly synonymous with White supremacy. Research has laid bare the public perception of “white” and “christian” as inextricably linked: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZickGR3q7dlaq8

[@sandshark2]

Even when immigration is, economically, the most efficient booster to any economy.

[@coolworx]

@@sandshark2 It drives down working class wages, and strains already failing school systems. But hey, at least the Coastal Liberals can get get their grass mowed cheaply.

[@channingdeadnight]

That's the thing about this particular A-hole, he has admittedly more money than he'll ever be able to spend. I think that he just enjoys the power, influence, and pure enjoyment that he gets from manipulating what he considers the ignorant masses. He has absolutely no need to ever work a day in his life. He just does this for fun. I don't think he believes almost anything that he himself claims 90% of the time. Every once in awhile he'll get a little too full of himself and admit that he's just bullshitting people. Just because his audience has been hoodwinked into all this nonsense, he is actually educated and been working in news organizations for decades. He totally knows better. If it wouldn't hit his ego negatively I bet he'd do this job for free. He's just having a good time fucking with people.

[@SuperJMichael]

Blah, blah blah, racism, blah, blah, blah. Everything is racist blah, blah, blah.

[@btarczy5067]

One point I really like about your videos is that the approach to the topic at hand is not sensationalist. They are criminally underviewed but I see this approach working more effectively when it comes to making people evaluate their position. In this case avoiding a partisan framing outright is obviously hard but as far as I know you characterized Tucker's talking points fairly. (They should be too terrible to exist outside of satire but here we are)

[@peteygonemadarts4765]

Immigration is not the problem . It's illegal immigration that actually drives down lower skill employment wages. I grew up in an area where illegal immigration was a problem . I'm the type of person that gives anyone an opportunity to be friends . When working at the Hotels in upstate New York I came to learn that once I knew who were legal immigrants or became citizens , I could tell who was there illegally because the legals shunned them . Since then when I moved to Florida I saw same mindset . I was working as a day staffer with electricians and the guy that was teaching me to prepare me as an electrician assistant would get angry around illegals . I asked him about and he told me how hard his parents worked to escape the drug cartels in Mexico . He told me horror stories about family members killed when the cartel found out they were leaving for America . He told me how both his parents worked for minimum wage here and sacrificed everything to put him through trade school . After he graduated he had to fight to get fair pay because businesses that looked for Mexicans wanted illegal immigrants because the could pay them minimum wage when he busted his ass to make well above minimum and parents worked themselves to the bone for minimum wage so he wouldn't have to . When it comes to construction , hospitality, farm work and landscaping there definitely is a problem . Worst is these groups in America that claim to be here to protect illegal immigrants trying to escape the horrors are bussing this poor people to these modern plantations knowing they'll be abused . I realize some people like Carlson is using this reality to create fear but the fact is he is telling the truth about how both the progressives and conservatives are using these victims and worst when it comes to abusing illegal immigrants or defending their abusers ... there is no difference between progressives or conservative elites in America. P.S I still would never vote Carlson... I'd vote Putin over him 🤣 What we really need is a Regan or Kennedy or Coolidge... Actually I really liked Andrew Yang . Unfortunately I think he'd be able to fix our tax code , abolish welfare , social security and even unemployment with his UBI plan . It would probably lead to a re-emergence of small business, in the end raise tax revenue and greatly increase the standard of living for everyone ... well the majority of the 99 % but there is no way Progressives will allow people to become independent of the state , and no way conservatives will allow because that would hurt wall street and neither will accept hurting their corporate donors and division warfare that they've created to distract people while they strip us all of our constitutional rights .

[@Doyourbest4245]

Agreed

[@sirerbse]

Why would you abolish welfare? At least in theory, it seems like a very nice idea to me, and if it doesn't work in real life, then we should try to change the welfare system, instead of abolishing it, no?

[@tomrees4812]

Considering the USA population is virtually entirely immigrant based anyone complaining about it is being hypocritical. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue but it is used by the right to scare people, and scared people tend to be attracted to them. If the Republicans in Congress were really interested in solving the problem they wouldn’t be blocking Biden’s $18 billion to manage immigration properly. It isn’t like the US doesn’t need a labour supply. The likes of Carlson, or at least the people he’s talking to, want an America which remains white and don’t want to relinquish power to people who at the moment are a minority. But it’s funny how the people who employ illegals because they are cheap are always politically on the right? The world is shrinking - literally- thanks to climate change so migration is becoming inevitable. Move or die. Yet who is it who denies climate change in order to maintain the wealth stream of the fossil fuel industry? There are so many logical inconsistencies on the right it’s hardly surprising their policies fail the majority of people but boost the wealth of the already wealthy to immoral levels. Immoral because they use their money to buy influence and wealth is created by working people or the natural resources which really belong to everyone. Our economic model results in money moving upwards. It does not have to be like this and I don’t see how it is sustainable. I’m lucky, I’m not likely to be around in 20 years time to have to participate in the looming catastrophe.

[@Kensho79]

Phenomenal analysis, mate! Subscribed.

[@arsenelupin123]

If you write an entire book about how the elites are out to get you, and then end the book by advocating for hierarchy and the abolition of democracy, then you're not worried about the elites. You just want the elites to be you, in a world you've imagined.

[@princessinmittens4783]

So happy I found your channel. THANK YOU!

[@YourMomsFavoriteCommenter]

It sure does feel good when someone affirms your belief and further enables your egoic perspective, doesn't it?

[@literallya442ndclonetroope5]

@@YourMomsFavoriteCommenter or maybe it’s just because he agrees with him? I’m not a part of this right or left conversation, but It sounds like you say it’s egoic because you disagree.

[@myrmepropagandist]

"Immigration" doesn't drive down wages. People working in a country without the full protections of a path to citizenship drives down wages. Undocumented labor is artificially underpriced. This is only possible by the contradictory American policy of depending on undocumented labor while still insisting that it's illegal. It's a astroturfed black market designed to serve the business owners and employers of servants who have become habituated to paying rock-bottom wages, even as these same people whip the documented working class and poor into a racist frenzy to justify keeping these people in the shadows.

[@vylbird8014]

It's really a great system: Low-cost undocumented immigrant labor, and a ready-made scapegoat when people get angry about it.

[@Mark_zist_Anonoymous]

This video is amazing I knew tucker was anti democratic but I didn't know he spelled it out in a book. It makes me think he's in cahoots with people like Steve Bannon that want to tear it all down. It pretty sick stuff.

[@RT710.]

Ya these people will endlessly accuse their enemies of the things that THEY ACTUALLY DO

[@LieutenantSteel]

@@RT710. The Right are masters of projection. They are afraid of everything - including the thought that other people will treat them the way they treat/ think of other people (i.e. badly) It's like watching them worry about minorities punishing White people if the former is given reparations; so instead of allowing the sharing of power, they excessively deny it and punish those who try to come to the country. They think they'll be mistreated, so they pre-emptively mistreat others.

[@lostintime8651]

So you actually watched this BS? Truth be told Tucker is actual a liberal. But he's disappointed and what a lot of liberals are up to these days. Those in power just want to keep making money off sucker taxpayers. And keeping their positions of power. The government is bloated by politicians and government workers. We don't need them all. But I'll make up lies in order to keep their jobs. I've actually talked to government workers and they agree with what I'm saying. If they don't make a crisis then they are not needed and they will lose their jobs. So they all run around like a bunch of chicken littles with their heads. No oh no we can't do our job. We need more funding more money from taxpayers. Will that help you solve the problem? Well sir, no.

[@Sheepdog1314]

@@RT710. hear hear....your Democrats blamed Trump for doing what THEY are actually doing right now....

[@vontrances4667]

@@RT710. The thing is all on the far right know on some level they are acting unethically. By which I mean they have sincerely held values which they act against every single day. Projection is a psychological coping mechanism basically. They cannot reckon with the disconnect between the values they hold and the way they behave, so they spend as much time lying as they do accusing without basis their political opponents of the very things they do. It's the same as when a cheating spouse is unusually suspicious of their partner for cheating. Projection helps people to feel better about their own actions. It is here that cognitive dissonance swoops in to maintain a full on delusion for the ordinary conservative dipshit who believes in the words of DJT as the only valid source of truth despite how unbelievably absurd that belief really is. There is some understanding that their advocacy for trump is immoral. Obviously right? A classical conservative who support an adulterous, casino owning, draft-dodging, daddies boy is about as ludicrous as a marxist in love with Richard Nixon

[@Recondite101]

"Inequality is bad, but also democracy is cringe because hierarchy is good" Fascist brainrot in a nutshell

[@jackeagleeye3453]

This poor soul, I couldn't imagine watching Tucker for more than 5 minutes, I got to imagine reading his book is an exercise in masochism. I also wanted to point out, I really love this channel. This host gives very detailed insight and comes from a unbias perspective where he will even point out good points with the people and things that he is critiquing.

[@aturchomicz821]

Wow wtf thats just sad💀

[@masescranton9630]

Jack I don't think by your own words you have the capacity to listen to anyone for 5 minutes.

[@trisham756]

That’s because you can’t possibly grasp more than 5 mins of the common sense that Tucker talks about. Your mind just can’t go there. You’ll be ok

[@jackeagleeye3453]

@@trisham756 So you're ok with Tucker despite all of the lies and conspiracies he puts out?

[@masescranton9630]

@Frank Farmer I don't know Frank. We haven't discussed a great many things only one point. So how do you derive we have different views about " a great many things" we may agree on many more things than disagree. I didn't slam you I slammed your comment about Tuckers reasoning. Have a little hide in taking a criticism. I do. That's how I rethink and learn from folks like yourself.

[@AlejandroSanchez-fl8jh]

Brilliant essay mate! been a fan of your channel for some time but, gawd damn these last two are remarkable! Best of lucks.

[@VincenzodeRomita]

Exceptionally equilibrated, well documented and superbly presented, as usual. This video should be boosted and watched again now, considering recent events regarding its subject matter.

[@rarecandy3445]

tucker carlson and fox news both stated that their programs were for entertainment, not to be taken seriously. tucker knows exactly what he is doing.

[@goofusmaximus1482]

His core demographic are unaware of this fact. (Which was argued in a court of law) The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[@waggish4999]

@@goofusmaximus1482 people both left and right think that way

[@leelee8d793]

didn't they legally have to infront of court to avoid millions in defamation lawsuits

[@3_pancakes767]

@@waggish4999 everyones right winged in the us, just some more than others.

[@desireeespinosa3954]

@@3_pancakes767 amen And fairly ignorant lol

[@desireeespinosa3954]

I appreciate you doing such a deep dive. I don't think Tuckers "friends" even know his actual views. Personally, I believe he cares about ratings and money more than anything or anyone else. We are all colateral

[@MrDanibombaTron]

Bro amazing content!! I just went to get a snack, and started to think about the world presenting itself to me. In the form of eating in a wierd symbiotic way. Thank you for this

[@soulmechanics7946]

Nice shot. 👊 Closer to the target than most. We can play this further.

[@5ivearrows]

It's a great day when there is a new Then and Now video

[@solanjedere]

Just discovered the channel and saw a lot of videos. I'm in love! It gives me a piece of hope on US 😂. Good job, hugs from Brazil! ✊🏽🚩🌴🇧🇷

[@2three362]

Whenever I hear TC talking about elitism, I can’t help but think that he’s snitching on himself.

[@AussieGriffin]

Conservatives always do. A.G.

[@qwertydog9795]

he is. he doesn't even realize that it's a criticism of capitalism more than anything to do with the "woke left".

[@joshmay2944]

He was born into wealth beyond what most of us can imagine, so it's pretty ridiculous how much he talks about the "elite" which he is very much a part of.

[@unsrescyldas9745]

@@joshmay2944 Doesn't mean he cannot criticize them, time will tell if he will turn out to be a hypocrite.

[@joshmay2944]

@Ūnsre Scyldas I agree with the first part of your statement, but with the second part I'd argue he's already done that. For me the issue is the tone of a lot of his broadcasts try to position him as one of the common people which is highly disingenuous.

[@enbyarchmage]

This video is simply wonderful! Because of it, I now see Tucker Carlson not as a bigot who randomly decided to hate on people, but as a a human being that is so freaking scared of change and otherness that he'd be willing to give up freedom just to feel that his life has some stability. I obvioulsly don't support his positions at all, and I find his overall paranoia a sign of grave emotional immaturity, but now I empathize more with people that express views similar to his (which include, to some degree, my own mom). I'll still express as much anger as needed when they do say something unethical, but I'll try harder to imagine bigoted people as bigoted by contingency, not by nature. Thanks, T&N!

[@ilianamarisolromero7816]

Right, we can understand how in their views they think the status quo should be maintained at all costs in order to thrive, but like you said, change is a constant, even a physics law, and the capital system will transform, when? It’s a matter of time as usual

[@Pensnmusic]

The book the authoritarians posits a similar view of people vulnerable to becoming fascists. They are scared and want a strong leader to protect them. They feel insecure about making decisions so they are happy to be told what to do if a would be authoritarian leader makes them feel good. I think Tucker is probably not this. I think he's the would be leader type and his rhetoric mirrors what he knows the folks vulnerable to fascism need to hear for him to gain power.

[@enbyarchmage]

@@Pensnmusic I've indirectely and partially based my opinion on said book, bc I watched a review of its ideas by the Anarchist youtuber Andrewism. Another key factor in my reasoning was personal experience: my close family, especially my mom, is protofascist, extremely conformist and afraid of MANY everyday things. It's a long, loooong story...

[@carolyntalbot947]

I've struggled to relate to my Trumpist family too, knowing they weren't always this paranoid and cultish. Trump exploited their once-latent bigotry and suspicion, promising to justify it and "lock up" the elites who viewed them as ignorant and backward.

[@katelynnehansen8115]

I mean, basically all bigotry is based on irrational fears or misplaced fear and anger. He is both a bigot and possibly fearful, but it seems more like he plays to his base, who is very fearful.

[@danielmeyer1248]

I’d love to see you do a full video on immigration.

[@johnnyamerica4336]

You forgot part of the proper term- ILLEGAL immigrants.

[@MakaveliIITheDonKilluminati]

He did one... check it out on his channel... I think its titled How Immigrants became bad

[@user-zy4wv7yx1z]

@@johnnyamerica4336 most of our ancestors immigrated here illegally too. Settle down, I'd rather 100 immigrants from Mexico than 1 die hard Trumptard. At least most Mexican immigrants want to work hard and actually make America better

[@rocketsummer]

@@johnnyamerica4336 this makes me disapopointed there's no laugh react on youtube

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@rocketsummer no no, he's got a good point that was purposefully ignored in the video.

[@gregoryedwards9097]

Yo, I listen to a lot of media, including Tucker, and though I do agree with certain stances of his, I absolutely loved how thorough, in depth, and critical this was about him. I’m in the category of suspicious about EVERYTHING, as everyone in power has their own agenda, but this was pretty mind blowing. It’s sad, I remember being 12 years old getting the internet for the first time in 2001, imagining how the future is going to be full of information and knowledge… yet the predicament we are in right now is an absolute nightmare. Let alone the prospect of WW3 looming over us, I would have never imagined we would have taken this route. Thank you for everything. These documentaries are addicting cause they’re so well done and paced.

[@desireeespinosa3954]

Stay critical 😊 Be a positive force in your community... we don't have to leave all of this in someone else's hands ❤

[@aichabelle267]

That last bit was brilliant!

[@TheEfpTV]

the thing that keeps wages down is low levels of unionization and low level of involvement in existing unions. That's it, nothing else.

[@TheEfpTV]

@@Curmudgeonist maybe in the UK after WWII, but present day? If unions are strong, union laws will be strong and it won't be possible to circumvent them. If a unionized company hires oversea it doesn't matter, the oversea employees will be union members and therfore will fall under the uniom contract.

[@TheEfpTV]

@@Curmudgeonist what is this union? Is it the union of the seafarers? How could new employees not be members of their unions? And how can the union not have contracted the salary of their members?

[@TheEfpTV]

@@Curmudgeonist sounds to me more like a union problem than an immigration problem. Any union should normally incorporate all new workers as members of the union, making it impossible for companies to pay them less than union wage. union 101.

[@a_level_70_elite_raccoon]

To answer your question at the end: I wouldn't think you're suffering from paranoia. I'm more concerned that there aren't more people concerned about what Tucker is up to.

[@charliemoll5435]

Hey, any idea if you will be uploading any of the recent videos as podcasts?

[@Ernestiqus]

Not surprising this is showing up on my front page now, 8 months later.

[@fahoconmet]

While watching this documentary now, I wonder what is still valid after came to light the internal messaging between Carlson, and other colleagues thanks to the Dominion defamation trial. Carlson was lying consciously, not elaborating paranoid theories...

[@rurikfinol368]

i find in you the understanding that gives peace of mind.

[@ec6621]

18:45 Yes! I'm interested in an in depth look of your findings!

[@michaelfischbacher3181]

I wonder if Londoners think that immigration reduces crime.

[@m.talley1660]

So glad and appreciative of this work and I do recognize the effort. I have wanted/needed a reference to McCarthyism for comparison to this present mess. I've wondered will there come a "Have you know sense of decency" moment? My worry is our present situation is larger and more insidious - possibly impervious to any event bending the arch of this present panic.

[@desireeespinosa3954]

Unfortunately, even if it does come.... it won't be widely covered by the news. Or will fall off immediately. Our leaders have become masters of directing our attention. Don't want you to look over there.... Smithers, set a house on fire in the opposite direction 😢

[@caramelgumdrop393]

BRO WHATS THE MUSIC NAME OF THE PARANOID STYLE PART PLS SOMEONE TELL MEEE

[@joshparrott8841]

The public "intellectual" is a classic grift. And a big problem

[@Daphfouna]

I’ve been looking for this for a long time. Brilliant

[@buriedghostlady]

That last bit at the end with the patreon name rolling, for some reason the audio kept switching back and forth between the left and right, side to side. I don't know if it's your mic or the way you edit it, but some of your older videos also have the same problem. For me though, i can't say if anyone else has this problem, but from all the yotuube content i consume your channel is the only one that does that. Just thought i'd let you know.

[@moiafro]

Do an analysis of Russel Brand’s worldview and how it’s evolved over time please!

[@funnynewsboy]

He broke out of his leftist elite echo chamber. There you go, that’s how it evolved.

[@literallya442ndclonetroope5]

@@funnynewsboy let’s go a little deeper than that.

[@mightyNosewings]

"Wealth disparity is bad, and we should reduce it. Also, hierarchy is good, and we should return to a more hierarchical system."

[@ninjabiatch101]

This essay is excellent!

[@johnphillips5993]

Virgin: an hour of pseudo-factual conservative outrage porn Chad: a boring 50-minute video full of actual facts and data that completely shatters the reactionary, resentment-ridden conservative worldview

[@ayemex5444]

😂😹😂😹😂😹💯🔥

[@eastcoast_red89]

Fantastic assessment and thank you for the great insightful content. Keep it up

[@fredspipa]

This is one of the best channels on KZbin when it comes to dissemination of complex and nuanced philosophical subjects. Just needed to preface my next statement with that: I wish we would stop using the word "content" when we describe videos like these. It just reeks of heavy commodification, of taking every piece of human interaction and expression, packaging it for consumption based on recorded metrics, into a format the models understand so they can place it in the right feeds for the most engagement. This is a technical word adopted from the industry that has been adopted as a cultural expression, which describes more the economical function of the work and not its actual merit. I blame CJ The X and Bo Burnham for making me aware of this. Now the picture that is conjured in my mind is just processed food dumped in a trough for the swine to feast on. We wouldn't call the Beatles catalog "content", or Lord of the Rings, or a Banksy sculpture, or a scientific paper, or Seven Psychopaths, or whatever human creative work you can imagine; it's only "content" once it's processed for use algorithmically online. It's almost like an artificial border between "real work" and "virtual work", as if these videos doesn't qualify as "real" and exist outside of the realm of these other, "legit" works. Even though I'm 100% sure that when you're looking back thirty years from now you will think of the essayists like Then & Now and see how pivotal of a role they played in shaping the public discourse. You will see that the REAL contemporary conversations happened through those, that these long form arguments took the role that café gatherings took in revolutionary movements in the past. It's always hard to see history when you're standing in the middle of it. It's easy to miss that what's happening here is so much bigger than mere "content".

[@eastcoast_red89]

@@fredspipa I largely agree with your take here but what I'm missing is your alternative. Especially since their technical job title (as you'd likely put on a resume for instance) would be content creator. Whether or not that is right, or the best description I guess is the question? I wonder if for instance poets would have gotten similar "criticism" at times as just being poets. I am thinking you'd prefer it to just be "great, insightful work"

[@fredspipa]

​@@eastcoast_red89 How about "video" or "video essay"? It's not about reverence or romanticizing it, it's not about the quality of the work, but the format. The use of this word isn't just a symptom of this commodification, it also plays a part in perpetuating it. It changes how we view media, which is evident by your choice of "content creator" as the technical title when it's arguably not. That title says nothing about the profession other than it being some sort of digital media. The creator of Then & Now identifies themselves as "Video producer" on LinkedIn, by the way. In your example of poets, it would just be the same. They're "content creators", performing their "content" on stage, selling "content" collections. (I hope you don't take this as me calling out your use of it specifically, it might as well have been me, I just had this thought when I read it)

[@eastcoast_red89]

@@fredspipa I do not feel personally attacked in the KZbin comment section of the interwebz, but I appreciate the thoughtfulness. I think we could have an interesting discussion about the topic, but it seems particularly semantic in the sense that content is the catch all for the wide amount of content that is being produced on KZbin, and social media as a whole. Like even us discussing this here is content, and I thank you for the content you have created. But I could be more specific and say words... maybe Then & Now will analyze the topic for us. I'm not sure if I personally see much difference in the idea that "content creator" becomes more commodified than "video producer", because at the end of the day the population that is mostly contributing to its commodification doesn't care what the "content" is called, they just want to consume it. I feel like at the core of what you are arguing for is that people are more mindful of what they are consuming, and how those pieces play into each other, which im totally on board with. AND I do agree that language is a massive part of that. "Daddy made you some content, now open wide"

[@megaperl]

Hello from Switzerland, which, after Germany, is the country with the highest rate of migrant population in the Schengen space (myself being in that statistic:). Crime? Low wages?. I'll repeat it: Hello from Switzerland. Thanks a lot for that super enlightening and necessary piece.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

And the no-go areas of France and Sweden? What's the deal with Germany anyway, besides them freezing this winter?

[@radient1943]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 lmao noone was freezing. As a Swiss/German aswell.

[@nickscurvy8635]

The background electro gnossiene is pretty dope.

[@brettvincenzini7089]

Excellent content as always. Keep it up man.

[@dark_mode]

Democracy is cringe

[@ohmhasmeaning7292]

we ever gonna talk about the fact the ONLY reason people are paying immigrants lower wages is because of predatory business practices and racism & Neo-liberal-globalism + clandestine intervention, destroying their home countries?

[@ryanb9526]

Oh, the unintended irony of Carlson saying you can't give the vote to irrational populations! That's his entire audience!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rarecandy3445]

similar to the founding fathers. USA was meant for wealthy, propertied men. nobody else.

[@richardwhiteley1688]

Ukraine Tucker is spot on ..also on covid and Faucci

[@philip47478]

Great video. More people should make more videos on this guy. Definitely something to draw awareness.

[@VotePaineJefferson]

Democrats: The Great Replacement is a conspiracy. We're not replacing whites. Also Democrats: Whites are projected to be a minority by 2030. This is a good thing.

[@TheBachelor916]

Great video. 👍

[@shannonm7565]

I lived in northwest Iowa from 2017-2020. Factories (egg plants, factory farms) had a hard time finding employees and were constantly understaffed. The area had very low unemployment. I worked at a college that mostly only hired people part-time (to avoid paying for their benefits) for less than what someone would make at the local gas station/convenience store. We had a high turnover rate. And the egg plant in town paid a dollar or two an hour less than we did. The locales wouldn't work in these factories (farms or plants) because it was an unlivable wage and they could find better work elsewhere. The owners of the egg plant were big Trump supporters and hated immigrants, but their business model was entirely built on undocumented workers.

[@WidespreadKnown]

Would love to see that video of immigration's affect on wages.

[@Ba-pb8ul]

I think Lewis was talking about a video on immigration, not a video on immigration effects on wages (since this is next to negligible - especially when considering the new demand on good and services and an aging population)

[@shelovinthecrew]

Absolutely love your channel

[@EaselCat]

How did you even watch his show lol

[@MrDanDant]

Tucker's ideology reminds me of the phrase "Le Socialisme des Imbéciles" which Auguste Bebel (and perhaps some others before him) used to describe chauvinistic anti-semitism. The problem is real, the solution is flawed.

[@crypticmedicine]

August Bebel was actually German, and the phrase "Anti-semitism is the socialism of fools" reads as "Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle" in the original German. But you're right in that the intent of Babel and other German socialists of the time (it is often attributed to him, but it was a common saying in German and Austrian political circles) was to mock how fascists were blaming problems on minorities and imaginary conspiracies-- and Babel did get arrested for being too sympathetic to the French once, so I'd imagine the phrase has made the rounds in that language as well.

[@Mr.Crowley696]

Liberal-Leftists brains are SO diseased it's grossly repulsive.

[@MrDanDant]

@@crypticmedicine Thank You. My bad. I know it from Sartre who translated it in the French form I used (and made it sort of a institution in French political culture). One disagreement though. Bebel did not argue with Fascists per say (he died 109 years and three days ago in the time Mussolini was still a prominent member of Socialist Party) but really with chauvinists (admittedly, one might argue they were proto-Fascists). In Bebel's era, anti-semitism was in fact one of the key aspects of anti-socialism (as Marx was, you know, a Jew, at least ethnically) and broader populist chauvinism, the unofficial movement standing on the side of absurd nationalism, anti-women voting rights (that is why misogyns are called chauvinists even today), anti-immigration, social conservative, and, of course, anti-semitic and anti-gypsyistic in nature. The chauvinism of the "fin de siècle" era paved the way to future Fascisms and Nazism and some elements of Russian communism as well. That's why I feel quite disturbed by the "Sozialismen der dummen Kerle" (to use the right citation) of today (we tried it a we know the result).

[@ultramarine40k65]

@@MrDanDant lmao so you do admit jews created socialism 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Marx Engels trostky Sartre all jews lmfao

[@MrDanDant]

@@ultramarine40k65 Nope. I argue the Jewish herritage of some (allegendly) important figures of socialism was weaponized to connect traditional antisemitism (coming from catholic, orthodox or other christian tradition; nobody spoke back then about judeo-christian values it is a recent thing) with anti-socialist ideas (which otherwise were basically panic of the elites that socialists can end up with a share of power) of the fin de siècle. Based on Your comment, it still works today.

[@ealing2009]

Not sure if you read the NYT series on Tucker but it's goes into the Fox News machine more, and how they used data very early on to increase their audience viewership

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

The New York Times was dishonest in indirectly insinuating they don't attempt to do that themselves with their opinion pieces, not to mention other cable news networks that crashed and burned.

[@dunar1005]

I like our culture and people. And i don’t like it to be changed. There is nothing wrong with that

[@speegee2202]

What constitutes culture? Our culture in the US used to be very homophobic, but that’s not normal anymore, culture is constantly changing. And who are “our people”? The US is a nation mostly of European immigrants, many of whom (Italians, Irish, Greeks) were considered separate races from white people 100 years ago. You can say there’s “nothing wrong with liking culture and people” but it’s when you “don’t like it to be changed” that you start to be hostile towards others. America can’t stay the same forever, can it?

[@dunar1005]

@@speegee2202 but it can stay the same for at least one generation, and not change by force. You just paint it black and white to make it sound right. Its clearly understood what defines a culture, and how much change is too much for the average person. I wont explain all of that in a comment

[@speegee2202]

@@dunar1005 it is definitely not clear “how much change is too much” or else everyone would agree. Something being “too much” is entirely an opinion. You CAN stay the same culturally for the rest of your life if you want, but you shouldn’t extend that to forcing young people and others to stay the same.

[@izzysykopth]

It’s easy to find oneself aligned with Tucker’s footing on many topics but an examination of his body language is startling…

[@sempressfi]

Don't know if I would say it's easy, at least not if you spend time really considering three idea of "okay let's say this is true, then what does it mean?" but I do understand how people can find themselves agreeing with some things, ESPECIALLY when one doesn't see a solid option of anyone speaking up for them. Definitely agree about the body language. Wish more people considered it because he's one whose gestures and expressions are so telling and performative

[@smonkedweed7414]

The problem with this analysis is that it’s a liberal one, so the focus is on how Tucker Carlson, the individual, is “mentally ill” or “paranoid” to explain his words and actions. A more sober analysis of Tucker Carlson is that he (based on everything you’ve argued in this video) is ideologically fascist, and is espousing a fascistic worldview. And no, I’m not the type to say the majority of Republicans or conservative liberals are fascist, but that Tucker Carlson and the emergent political movement people like him represent ideologically are. They will be responsible for a terrifying amount of violence in this century.

[@logangustavson]

Conservative liberals? Please explain. Do you mean Liberal Republicans, libertarians, or? Genuinely curious

[@notastone4832]

fascist? lmfao i hate commies and fascists.. the only fascists i see in north america are the left wing.

[@cartoonhippie6610]

@@logangustavson I believe they're using the word "Liberal" in the more technical way, to describing a person who (basically) supports representative democracy and the free market. A conservative liberal is a liberal with conservative social views (as opposed to a progressive liberal).

[@CalopsitaVanderbilt1911]

He’s a dangerous grifter

[@merbst]

"After reading his book, and watching many of his segments" Oh you poor unfortunate man! ❤

[@dpd420]

I'd love to see a video more in depth about immigration. Great video as usual, keep it up!

[@enlightenedanalysis1071]

This was an excellent video. Thank you for this.

[@harrywis2795]

exceptional work as always. Tucker's biggest problem is that he is critically lacking self awareness, and is singularly hubristic. He seems to believe that his lived/ curated experience must be reflective of the wider US experience. I often wonder how aware FOX and Carlson et al. are of their complicity in the degradation of US politics. Is this simply an example of his very own vulture capitalism? Producing and reproducing political content that attracts the most vitriolic politics simply because it is to the simple financial benefit of FOX??

[@zacheryeckard3051]

He's aware he's lying, at least.

[@consciouseffortmedia]

Precisely

[@desireeespinosa3954]

No one knows what he believes. I asume he prays to the god of ratings and power/ money

[@airshow406]

He's not paranoid. He's a fascist liar.

[@jonasmlgaard-asmussen9844]

Really interesting and informative to watch. Thank you for putting this together :)

[@coyotemadness]

Do you think he really believes in these ideas and is paranoid? Or does he understand how using fear and hate makes it easy to misdirect the working class, keeping their minds off the billionaire class bleeding them dry? This mindset makes it so a wealthy few can continue to exploit workers and undermine the government's ability to regulate them. I think he just knows whose side he wants to be on, and chooses the rich and powerful.

[@pierregibson6699]

Tucker Carlson is the air to the Swanson frozen food fortune He was literally born blue blood with a silver spoon in his mouth went to the best private schools most elite of EVERYTHING from birth to death he’s literally the elite of an elite where his job was there from the moment he finish fu(king up in college….he more than anyone Has a vested interest in His point of view

[@jeffengel2607]

Does it matter?

[@PossibleTango]

@@jeffengel2607 yes it does

[@mikeoveli1028]

I don't think he believes it. I think he understands that it gets him a large audience. It seems like he really wants the thing he is calling for. He rails against the ruling class yet he is one of them. He understands that his audience acts on emotion only. Tucker was one of the biggest anti-vax crowd in media yet he and his family took the vaccine. He is doing this for power and money. I don't think he likes democracy. It cramps his style. He wants a Russian style of government where he is at the top.

[@gm.Observer]

The rich and powerful are mostly democrats, eg. Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft and the list goes on. Tucker is well of but not nearly an elite unless your barr is very low.

[@hunnybadger442]

Bigotry brings hate… Apathy can’t be bothered… Pity feels sad yet superior… Sympathy shrugs and says “there’s nothing I can do”… But… Empathy rolls up its sleeves and gets to work to make the world a better place for everyone...

[@UnknownDino]

Not sure these figures are really paranoid. I think that's how that kind of game works.

[@blananaseed]

That’s Rodger Stone’s argument lol

[@AJX-2]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you

[@badylbadyl]

Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.

[@cgfreeandeasy]

Tucker Carlson, after all, is himself entangled in a dramatic comspiration. He has to do, as a television presenter, as I can see at present, almost every day a program of 20-30 minutes, and this destroys any honest thought with substance and sense on any subject. Because the pressure of production is so high that he can't follow the most important strategy for philosophers or political thinkers (sleep on it) nor has any sufficient time to reference his available information. It's all about getting the output together. The problem of quantity has always made quality dubious. Out comes a shift in effect from meaningful content to dramatizing and exacerbating content. This inevitably leads to an acceleration of every point of view, which also has less and less time to think through and illuminate the "eigendliche" problem - let alone to recognize it. Because mass-media fire rate of "news" and information becomes higher and higher, thinking about reality becomes less and less substantial and loses its depth and the quality of "evaluation" and classification into reality. In this respect: In such situations it is just not the most important thing that "free speech" must be given in any case. Especially not if organizational constraints (time pressure for broadcasting) are greater constraints than the topic itself. It is similar to Orwell, who assumes that everyone must be allowed to say that 2+2=4 - even or especially if he did not want to hear it at all (or the topic has nothing to do with it). That is just not the case. Free speech is in this sense only the profiling of the ego and no enlightenment or important information in a society-dir course. Why such (acceleration at all costs) is common practic in modern medial communication/Informations-structure? There must be some benefit. And it is not the free speech-thing....Thats only a plea. And its not the money (maybe for tucker Carlson, who is only one wheel in the gearbox or also as a plea for FoxNews, because Quotes are money).

[@modfus]

This was an extremely well put together commentary - and I really don't have any disagreements with the way it presents Carlson. I have long been irritated by the way Tucker riles up his blue-collar/middle-America audience each night - convincing them their lives are bleak and relatively meaningless - all while Carlson makes many millions of dollar pushing this very negative and despondent point-of-view. Having said that, I think it should be acknowledged that over the past couple of years a lot of information has come to light about corrupt dealings within the FBI and the Democrat Party which shows some of Donald Trump's "paranoia" was in fact based in fact. I also think it would be interesting to analyze the other side of the American political divide: there is an entire world of paranoid delusion on the Left of American political journalism that pretty much gets ignored. How about a deep-dive into the manipulative rantings of Rachel Maddow or the blatantly racist and divisive diatribes of Joy Reid.

[@chidy9699]

Ah yes, we all know how through history non democratic forms of government were the best system for rulers that cared and how much better they were for regular people lol. This was a pretty good video, tucker is a millionaire funded by billionaires, and wrong about almost everything.

[@MH-be6hr]

Is Tucker A secret communist? Well, he detests democracy and can't wait to overturn/suspend it. He wants the State to pick and choose who is eligible to vote, based upon extrapolating backwards from the general to the individual. He opposes the Bill of Rights, except for the Second Amendment. He disapproves of and wants to end all women's rights. He hates our political system and government. He demands dangerous, counterproductive radical-reactionary change. Tucker loves Russia's dictator/invader-in-chief and wasn't at all concerned about Trump's secret undocumented meetings with Russia's Vladimir Putin. These are but a few examples. Need I say more? Sounds pretty commie to me! 💔🇺🇸

[@SuperJMichael]

That’s your opinion and therefore wrong.

[@Binowhy]

@@SuperJMichael It’s quite literally a fact lol your opinion about this being an opinion is wrong tho

[@chidy9699]

@@SuperJMichael I didn't put any opinion in there, it was sarcasm about one of tucker comments, then 2 statements of fact.

[@marcriba7581]

@@chidy9699 Can I say something about my constitutional right to puke blatant lies about you guys, all on live TV, and not be held accountable for it?

[@keaganfarr4938]

I don't understand how someone could honestly say (and I personally don't know if Tucker is honest about it, but I know others who are) "the ruling elites, from corporations to politicians, are causing inequality and turmoil and hardship so therefore democracy is the problem". Like... clearly if the people are being ruled by an elite it isn't "democracy". Maybe liberal republicanism has serious flaws and allows for a ruling elite, but that it literally hierarchy. The problem you are describing is literally hierarchy, *not* democracy. I think some sort of anarchism would be best - at least something that moves away from ruling elites and empowers people through expanded democratic processes, and if you cite inequality and a ruling elite as the main problem today, then I don't see how you can possibly conclude that not enough hierarchy is the problem and instead democracy is.

[@houssembencheikh338]

Amazing detailed analysis!!! As precise and visceral as always.

[@youtubeisawebsite7484]

i'm personally interested in these in-depth breakdowns, but who knows what the greater youtube traffic wants

[@trufasuromeo2021]

Amazing analysis! He is more devious and more dangerous than Trump!

[@MH-be6hr]

T and T ate about the same on the devious evildoers scale.

[@samhhhhh]

Just a heads up that your chapter splits are at the wrong times for the chapters beginning with "The Paranoid Style"

[@christopherdainton4224]

I come for the great content and we'll thought out videos,, but I stay to hear "Le grand replacement" pronounced with a heavy British accent :-)

[@rileycritter9286]

he's like: The exploitation of immigrants is bad for most people in america, and thats why i support politics that marginalize immigrants further for more exploitation! ideology

[@BreakaOne9]

Tucker is the best thing on cable as far as news goes

[@jamestcatcato7132]

Tucker is a liar and a snake oil salesman ,news ,is not what he trades he trades in fear and hate!

[@DC-ek6ib]

This comment section is a prime example of how most if not many white people are racist. And they can't help it... They consider themselves the most educated yet the comments say otherwise

[@rohnamegatcher8685]

It would be interesting to see how much wage theft cases where filled in Storm Lake during the period TC references. If there was a spike, then under the table employment was up, thus depressing wages. I just don't think it would be more than 1% or 2%.

[@SteveJubs]

Remember kids, “mind” is a very strong word

[@johnalbert5786]

As always… personal attacks start when, you can not win the argument.

[@TesserId]

Tucker is his own conspiracy theory.

[@ryanscaggs1674]

Lmao the pot calling the kettle black

[@leanonme1065]

If the immigrants are ok with low paying jobs why we cannot see immigrant workers at McDonald's, Walmart or Subway?