This video explains: 1. What the political left and right actually mean 2. Why elites don’t want us to know what they mean 3. How confusion about left and right is a major cause of growing inequality 4. How understanding what left and right mean is a key tool in the fight for the survival of democratic civilization. 5. How to vote in your own economic interest
BONUS: I finally explain why communism is on the left and fascism is on the right even though communist countries and fascist countries have similar features in terms of authoritarian political structure and nationalism, etc.
This video is a response to https://youtu.be/MYoA1R38cuc?si=BEjg3T5-m1_XsOq0 by @TheMarketExit
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Introduction
02:15 Context: 6000 years of exploitation civilization vs. 150 yrs of democratic civilization
09:06 The origin of left and right
12:00 What left and right actually mean
13:14 Why are Hitler and Mussolini on the far right?
14:03 Objections
15:25 The right disguised as the left: communists vs fascists
18:21 How and why elites destroyed the meaning of left and right
22:43 THREE TRICKS: how elites get us to vote against our own interests
27:13 How the “left” became authoritarian cancel culture gremlins
36:44 Left and Right: the antidote to the Three Tricks
37:32 Idiotic Shortcuts: how people vote in the real world
39:45 Left and Right: the only non-idiotic shortcuts for voting
44:48 What happens when we vote without understanding left and right
47:21 Canadian election example
49:24 US election example
51:34 Left and Right: the glasses from “They Live”