@@ajbridgewater How do you tell the “true believers” from the ones who are not? No one climbs to the top of the corporate ladder without pulling others down. That’s not very woke behavior.
@@itkojecockot Dude! CRT (corporate racism training) is literally deductible! So yeah... it's basically tax evasion with the added bonus of annihilating the workforce psyche.
Add philanthropy as marketing for tax evasion. Telling everyone how your spending millions on good deeds, while it only represents less than 1% of their wealth is not a fair exchange for what their billions of unpaid taxes could do for the country
Also woke extremist culture helps keep people divided and keep neoliberal elites in power. Ironic considering how many supposed leftists have fallen for it.
@Billy Denning Virtue signalling is essentially something people to for an exagerated chemical response in their brains.. I feel good. Because I think this is just. Half of the U.S. doesnt believe the U.S. is systemically racist. And those that do, explain it so in a fashion that feeds their ego and illicitd that exaggerated response. You support a party who would call a black conservative uncle tim. Thus. By affiliation. Since I am apparently a white supremacist because I love my country and happen to be white, you must be a racist.
Meh, it was war hawks - I guess that’s a corporate interest too.. the appeal to emotion was “for the soldiers” “how dare you question the wars” was a corporate cover story for Raytheon and Halliburton
@Billy Denning He is just pointing out how corporations are prioritizing progressive aesthetics not progressive policies and actions. They claim to support BLM and thus place Pro-BLM stickers and even decorations but pay their black workers low wages and poor workplace conditions. Some might even still back Republicans that want to keep militarized police
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains" - Thomas Jefferson
They do, not because they're charlatains (at least not all of them) but because our social system, economy, and toxic individualism robs people of real purpose. You go to the grind, sell your soul, feel dead, and search for meaning. I think we forgot the lessons the agitators of the latter 19th and early 20th century were trying to teach us. There is no society because it was murdered quite intentionally.
Individualism driven to the point where it becomes absurd. We share a country, language, culture to the extent that we have a clearly defined one, planet etc. and yet we persist in panning any kind of communal investment or any sort of policy that we dont see as directly improving our immediate situation despite how it might help the nation as a whole...to say nothing of working with other nations or pursuing diplomacy (presuming we even have a credible conflict in the first place) before bombing etc. The great irony is this short sightedness is robbing our nation collectively and leading to economic, social and moral decay. The sheer waste of human potential under mountains of economic exploitation, industrial divestment, educational underachievement, war profiteering, puritanical delusions etc. is tragic...in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world we "dont have the money" to feed our children and invest in their futures. The nation that sent a man to the moon...regardless of the rather dubious politics underlying that stunning achievement...is going to waste away in ignominy worshipping at the altar of the self. Thus toxic...poisoning what might be fine in context and in doses by its dogmatic absurdities.
@@pmr4123 Who might drive individualism to the absurd? That's right. An individual. You assume that people are bad left to their own devices - that's the leftist mentality.
Correct exactly my view with the United States, all politicians who should be arrested and locked up at Guantanamo forever. Then they have let down about 70% of you Americans.
Correct exactly my view with the United States, all politicians who should be arrested and locked up at Guantanamo forever. Then they have let down about 70% of you Americans.
"You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in . . . neighborhoods." ---James Carville 27 April 2021
Carville is pretty smart, he knows what turns off voters and he knows that in order to win any election you have to appeal to both sides and win those votes. Segregation, which is essentially was woke culture really is, is no way to unite anyone. Also, I have NEVER seen a Hispanic person I know refer to themselves as Latinx, they reject that word.
@@zugdarr You should blog! I love that line, "Segregation, which is essentially was woke culture really is, is no way to unite anyone." TERRIFIC! Best wishes to you and yours and enjoy the rest of the week.
Populism is the old boys club, from Europe. It's only for exploiting people. The baser instincts and heard mentality. Populism is very bad, and it works.
@@Homeschoolsw6 That's evil. What you just said is evil. I know you don't believe in good and evil, which is why leftists are so often vindictive and violent.
Left leaning politician wants to ban/tax/limit sodas in his community. As a response, soda company becomes woke and suddenly shares the same ideals that the politician shares. Then, said politician backs off the anti-soda rhetoric.
One of the key achievements of leftists in government and academia has been to lower admissions standards. There are now entire departments dedicated to pumping out nonsense degrees for indoctrinated dumb people.
They missed the fact that a pizza gate/ Qa "documentary" was the first place to use woke and it was in positive tone towards those who "knew truth" and wanted to save children from the Hollywood cAbLe. As miss Qrazy herself pronounces it
I don't think wokeness did emerge from liberalism though. I think it's roots are more in neo-Marxism. And Marxists were was always critical of liberals.
@@iAmTheSquidThing I think they hit a tipping point by converting a certain portion of liberals probably by convincing them that Wokeness is what good liberals must emulate.
@@iAmTheSquidThing Marxism is class-based. Identitarianism aims to obscure class consciousness. It is the politics of the upper middle class struggling for proportional representation in academia, corporate boardrooms, and the state.
Do yourself a big favor and don't call yourself a "progressive" or indeed any other of these silly meaningless labels. Just call yourself human, think like one and go from there.
A state college near me, located in a diverse big city neighborhood, used to have tons of excellent foreign language classes and a rich program for Spanish majors and minors with outstanding profs. It has "had to" grossly cut back on classes. But now they say "Latinx." (They also built a new luxury dorm, that is mostly empty. Coincidence?)
No, it's about crawling over people and getting to the top the easy way -- not by making yourself excellent, but by destroying everyone in your way. I saw that pattern well before the adoption of wokism. When wokism stops working, watch for the substitute.
I think using the word “care” in this piece can be substituted with “imposing your way on others or else”. It’s really just another form of control. Exactly what I DON’T want as a college educated conservative.
Donations and protest aren't signs that someone cares more. It means they have more free time and discretionary income. Most working class adults can't take a random Wednesday off to go protest statues.
This is actually an interesting point. I know a criticism of Occupy was that it was a middle class protest. I wonder how many of those same protestors are now super woke. I'm genuinely curious.
The only reason corporations went woke is because they monopolized or oligopolized their industry. I blame the Fed ultimately, they allowed money to be far too cheap for far too long, allowing for banks to facilitate 3-4 decades leveraged buyouts of competitors & consolidation of industry. Both parties to blame as well, destroying unions, deregulating banks, keeping tax rates low, but politicians had no reason to stop it. The Fed did, they’re the most important institution that needs to be dismantled.
@@fahimp3 and when no one in BLM tells him to GRIFTOFF you know BLM founders are grifter too. The board. Every corporate aspect of BLM is freaking grift my dude. They love grifter diamond
@@fahimp3 agree 100% the people are all concerned citizens at the end of the day. The grifters in charge are corporate rats selling anything and everything to benefit themselves. Any large organization gets corrupted. The only organization worth pursuing is decentralized
It's not just the US that is waking up. It's the whole world that has had enough of being denied the respect of being a human being. It's selflessness over selfishness.
This is not the whole story. You act as if these institutions are only superficially woke, but that isn't actually the case. Sure, when it comes to certain corporations, that might be mostly true, but when it comes to academic institutions, media, political institutions, it is most certainly not the case. Harvard isn't woke because it's popular, Harvard is in large part responsible for the creation of and perpetuation of identity politics. Most of these academic institutions are driving this. And even when it comes to the most disinterested of corporations, they're increasingly held hostage, at least do a degree, by their own woke human resources departments, as well as their own woke millennial/gen z work forces.
He keeps referring to 2016 as a turning point in term of activism without ever mentioning what happened that year: Trump got elected. Wouldn’t that explain the huge shifts he mentioned? And wouldn’t that mean that a lot of it might go back to its more even baseline?
What should be remembered in this conversation is that "woke" ideology at its heart is really about being kind, empathetic and inclusive. Once "wokeness" compells you to manipulate (as in the case of corporate advertising) reject (as in cancel culture) or disenfranchise (as in military/intelligence community) can we still call it "being woke"? We should be able to separate the baby from the bad water when it comes to progressive ideals such as democracy and freedom and even "woke ideology".
To the average American leftist, the world is 500 years old. 10x dumber than creationism. "On Monday, WHITE MAN created slavery - and he saw that it was bad but he did it anyway"
@@fuckamericanidiot To the average American conservative history does not matter and the world is less than 10,000 years old. Unlike the average American conservative the leftist would concede the earth is billions of years old...
I do NOT belong to either extreme, although there’s no place for Centrists or Republicrats, this population used to be called. There are more than 3 views in this world but parties seem to matter most, and they seem to see the world in black and white.
Institutions being or becoming more Liberal is the result of young Americans fearing their future. Working hard for so many years and then the risk of barely retiring is a fearsome thing. Thence the movement of creating policy for fast tracking to an easy life. This is the reason for the appearance of caring more by being politically involved. Unfortunately this is a blindside. Conservative views look at the longest road, because it keeps the ideology of Tyranny from taking hold of Liberalism. At this point in American history, the forming of a Arostocacy is enevitable. It is a shame the Liberal's are not seeing the class they are constructing that will eventually shut them out of a decent retirement. What good is their protesting going to do then, whilst the Elites are laughing at their pitiful burning cities.
anytime a phrase (normally originated by an oppressed group) becomes mainstream, you know the meaning and essence has been diluted. in the 60s or 70s, when someone was woke or invoked the phrase, it was powerful. when I heard it in Badu's song (New Amerykah album maybe? and probably Goodie Mob) in the early 2000s.... that was the signal that a change was coming. And now we are here. I am better than you bc I know these wiki facts about an issue. I dont really care but I totally tout myself as being socially aware bc it gives me access (even if its abstract) to power.
In comparison to BLM and the woman's march. Charlottesville had at most 5, 000 people and Jan 6th didn't even have close to a million, nor did the march for trump/ stop the steal.
What is interesting both frame it as freedoms or rights what they want. Some of it is odd to me like Tucker Carlson shouts about 'the dangers of kids wearing masks outside'. I don't even know what danger he's talking about. The use of the word danger seems over the top so let's ignore that. But what is the problem with other people's kids wearing a mask ? It doesn't block your freedom of letting your kids not wear a mask.
@@autohmae You're not wrong, but if you also consider other questionable things that parents do to their kids.....they don't impede on your freedoms either. It doesn't make it right. He went over the top, but wearing masks outside is worse than benign.
@@fuckamericanidiot what's bad about parents telling their kids to wear a mask ? Seems to me at worst they are overprotective parents (or possible worried about the grandparents or even themselves, their family, friends, neighbors, etc.).
Im a liberal but I have lost sight of what being woke is. I live with a conservative right leaning man that voted for Obama but then switch to Trump. Honestly the Internet got him, like it got so many others at the time. I don’t think Hillary Clinton was ever even on his radar before in his whole life, but overnight she became the worst villain that ever lived. He didn’t go as far as believing in things like Pizzagate but he did take weird twisted pleasure in stories like that and it thrilled him that there were people that believed all this craziness. But Instead of getting upset about all this sudden change I became fascinated and curious, and I know I had encounters something I had never experienced in my life, some kind of mass hysteria I had only read about in books (hysteria of the masses) and now a part of it lived in my house and I had to understand and study it. The relationship survived, it got contentious at times, but I kept my cool as much as I could, mainly because instead of resisting it, I used it as an opportunity to study this right wing person in the era of Trump. Strangely, conservatives are also very emotional when it comes to politics, they give the impression of being detached and levelheaded but they are the opposite, just like the woke people on the left are now. The problem is that these people are extremely narrow minded and myopic. They also have a considerable amount of fear and denial. I’ve come to know some of them the older ones on the far right, they seem to have an “innate” fear of some kind of abandonment which is much broader than in context of a personal relationship, as is often though of in these terms, but this kind of a fear that permeates much of their life, they also seem to be unaware of this in themselves. They see the world in black and white thinking. For example Democrats know that Democratic politicians are corrupt and lie to certain extent, but we usually don’t demonize them nor do we put them on a pedestal. We know just like the republican politicians, that they have been bought by people and corporations with extreme power that the politicians gave them and thus given their power away to those entities. We understand that in many cases they honestly do want to do for us what they are saying and promising, but then can’t do it because they sold their power and souls long time ago and often they are in fact decent well meaning people but, just helpless. It’s frustrating, no denial about that. But in the conservative mind these people are only liars. End of story. They don’t have abilities to ponder the complexities of politics nor the relationship that politicians as human beings have to navigate within the complex political realm they are in, be it outside the public and in front of the public. The sad thing is that these leftist woke people are getting to be just the same. This is extremely frustrating for a person like me, that likes to live in the middle of negotiations land. I love to negotiate, it’s just the way I operate in my daily life. For me life it self is a negotiation where various of things have to be taken into consideration. I love taking contradicting ideas and negotiate them in my head, just to see what I can come up with, but maybe it’s because I have a creative mind that likes to deconstruct concepts and ideas regardless of what I like or dislike, it doesn’t matter and then construct it without being bother of the outcome. I or it doesn’t have to be right and I’m not bothered if I’m wrong or if I have to adapt to a new idea or concept that I may not have considered before. I know other people like me, but there seem to be fewer of us in this world. Being wrong about something now, is equivalent of “Being Wrong” it now defines your whole life as “Wrong” and you as “Wrong” ad Infinitum and can even ruin your life these days. It’s bleak and frustrating when hardly no one wants to negotiate anymore. I think I’ve found out why it’s so hard to debate and negotiate with young woke people, they sound judgmental, but in my opinion I think they are suffering from alexithemia and they willingly resort to the victimhood of their own prison of limitations, which in turn makes them a bit tyrannical. They may not have the words to express their thoughts. I have wondered if these people are capable of thinking in words or abstraction or if all their thinking is composed of images. Many of these woke young people under 30 have a maturity leve of 5 year olds, I’m not kidding. Willingly shielding yourself from difficult experience, (even mild ones such as books that explore difficulties, that might trigger you) they are prone to, robs you from meaningful adventure seeking and development of imagination. I’m honestly worried about them. I’ve never been worried about young people before. But these late millennials and early gen Z are mentally and intellectually stunted. Kinda like stuck in Neverland forever.
Conservatives who support the status quo, don't get fired up as much about issues if things are already the way they want them to be. That's not hard to understand. Also, businesses have no problem supporting racial or gender politics as long as it doesn't affect their bottom line, like labor unions would.
This is because for liberals politics IS their religion. Conservatives don’t care as much. The pyramid of needs is god, family , country and then politics.
It’s almost like the millennial generation was pushed into colleges because we were told that was the only way to make money since labor was being outsourced. In college we learned critical thinking skills which are antithetical to conservatism. After we graduated we were welcomed by an economic crash, subsequently straddled with debt while being offered entry level wages at jobs well below our skill level. Who would’ve thought these people would become politically active...
LOUDEST CRIY BABIES get the most ATTENTION - THOSE WHO PRETEND TO CARE FROM HIGH CHAIRS - THOSE WHO ARE FOCUSSED ON THEIR LIFE and DO GOOD & even SERVICE, but DONT TALK LOUDLY ABOUT IT.
Yesterday I went to starbucks for the first time in over a year (im not a coffee guy) just wanted a vanilla bean cream cus it was hot, when i entered I was STUNNED to see all of them wearing BLM shirts made by STARBUCKS as a company shirt....I lost my craving tbh for my drink because of how much Ik and how much these kids dont know. This is why I love redbull they said were not getting political we sell redbull lol
The country is NOT divided equally between two parties. God, I hate this framing. A third of the electorate is neither Republican nor Democrat. ONE THIRD. We can't vote in many primaries, can't even work polls in certain states, yet our vote is chased every four years, and assumed it is owed. America is NOT a representative democracy. Krystal should know better.
I wish people would stop conflating Wokeness with liberalism. Wokism is the most illiberal ideology that is anywhere near popular in contemporary America. Conservatives who conflate Wokism with liberalism, makes it harder for liberals to see the illiberalism in Wokism.
Gosh. Maybe it's as simple as them being more concerned about their bottom lines. You can dress this up with a lot of statistics (all of which are no doubt accurate and meaningful), but corporations act in their own best interests. Always. And it's no secret that every H.R. department across the country has now to contend with and gird themselves against the onslaught and coming maelstrom of "woke" lawsuits. So all of this amounts to a kind of "smart" and preemptive response as they hedge against the tide.
Half the people are NOT either Democrat or Republican. Half of eligible voters DO NOT VOTE b/c they know both parties represent the rich and corporations. This guy is a propagandist.
@@waltergrace565 By design of the woke ideology? Yes, I'm not sure how it's taking people so long to realise. It's not just a few well-intentioned progressives getting a little overzealous. It's a radical ideology which uses hostile takeover tactics of other movements and organisations.
@@iAmTheSquidThing exactly. The ideology itself is irrelevant, only the means in which it plays itself out to achieve it's goals. I believe it's main goals are to manufacture consent for totalitarian authoritarianism and subvert a populist movement.
It’s just a question of demographics. As the power of capital increases, the psychological need for young people to rebel against it increases, and now capital has so much power over the psychic landscape of millennials and gen z, the key demo, through mass media. It’s capital capturing the revolution against it. Rebelling is hard work, consuming is easy and gives the same buzz.
@@fuckamericanidiot it’s the flavor of the product being consumed, if the product seems too much like a product, that produces a feeling of emptiness. If the consumer thinks they’re really making a difference, when all they’re really doing is consuming, they’ll prefer that experience. As soon as babies are born now they splash down into a bath of consumerism.
@@fuckamericanidiot hard to see how you would think I was saying rebelling makes you feel empty inside. It’s the emptiness that provokes a desire to rebel, prompting capital to capture the experience of rebellion in order to retain the consumer.
How bout this? All those little people who work at that corporation, be it Amazon, Tesla, Dole, whatever, pay all those people more MONEY. Instead of lets talk about every other possible issue EXCEPT MONEY all of the time. Thats how you can make this world a better place. For the marginalized, for everyone.
Liberals cover a wider demographic of gender, races, beliefs, etc. Meanwhile the right wing mostly just caters to one thing - conservatives. Companies want to appeal to the broadest demographic possible. Not because they are woke but because want to make as much money as possible.
@@johnchemist8628 There's a more elegant reason corporations are liberal. I have extensive experience at a top investment bank and it's primary employee donations went blue. I don't have the answer (someone like Stuart Hall would have thought it through in his day), but I don't think Hanania has it either.
@@TravisRiver The donations were "blue" because there's no difference between the Dems and the Republicans and donating to Trump would look a bit embarrassing. Both parties make sure the working class stays poor and desperate. If Bernie Sanders had won the nomination those donations would have been "red". Can't have a living wage and especially no free healthcare.
In what world is "everything explicitly liberal?" To the extent that corporations may seem liberal-leaning, it is absolutely performative to sell more sneakers. It is ridiculous, conservative paranoiac victimhood that says they are the injured party. This guy is such a mouth breather.
Interesting, I always thought it was because it's harder to hide ruthless business practices in an online world... and children are who populate most online spaces and drive up the numbers, so to placate to children, companies try to be "cool" and lie to the public about being "down for the cause", but continue to exploit behind a "woke" shield. we also have very, very short memories as a collective contiousness in this country.
i agree. this clown is so myopic. thinks the world started in 1990. it certainly feels wonderful in those first stages of the dunnig-kruger roller coaster.
Corporations are putting out “Don’t hurt us” messaging. It a CYA preemptive defense so they don’t get sued by their employee or face boycotts. That is the extent of their moral courage.
Look at where the money is. Who buys the corporation's product (or who could be swayed to do so)? Due to technological and economic changes over the past 40 years, you need more and more education to make a decent living. The blue-collar union jobs that you only need a HS education for are largely gone. This has created a sizable middle/upper middle professional class (doctors, lawyers, teachers, tech people, and other service industry people). With more education comes more social liberalism. There are exceptions in certain industries (like finance, the clergy). Thus, I don't see much benefit to pandering to socially conservative people (who have less and less money) if you are a corporation without a specific niche market. Also, social conservatism is heavily tied to religion, which is rapidly dying in the western world.
i'll be honest, at this point no truly educated person can fully sign on to the republican party. they just backed a conman as president and flirted with overriding our democracy. they've turned into an idiot's party
At 4:06 he says liberals tend to marry/hook up with other liberals. However, in the recent past, it was common that left-leaning wives had right-leaning husbands. The woman naturally had "caring" instincts while the man was financially conservative, thus providing the bedrock for a stable marriage. Looks like times have changed.
He makes some pretty big jumps in logic. If I donate to a candidate but the cashier at the gas station doesn't, is it because I care more or is it I make more money and can afford to? Also, every time a conservative group protest that are crucified by the media and labeled far right and racist. Remember the end the lock down protest? Meanwhile, CNN will literally have half a city on fire behind them in a shot and be explaining how peaceful the protest are.
Performative "wokeness" distracts from the fundamental economic problems plaguing many, while costing corporations nothing.
As long as a corporation looks woke, they won't be challenged for treating their employees poorly.
I don't think it's always performative. There are a sets of companies with a core of "true believers" at the helm.
@@ajbridgewater How do you tell the “true believers” from the ones who are not? No one climbs to the top of the corporate ladder without pulling others down. That’s not very woke behavior.
@@januarysson5633 Did you mean to use sarcasm font? The woke would NEVER use HR to assassinate someone else's career.
@DR Land And look what they did to Parler to preserve their own market share.
For corporations, going woke is a great smokescreen for not paying taxes.
not really...... it's just the safest PR for them, nothing else
@@itkojecockot Dude! CRT (corporate racism training) is literally deductible! So yeah...
it's basically tax evasion with the added bonus of annihilating the workforce psyche.
@@itkojecockot You literally agreed with him but said you don't....the safest thing for a corporation to do is anything that avoids losing profit.
Add philanthropy as marketing for tax evasion.
Telling everyone how your spending millions on good deeds, while it only represents less than 1% of their wealth is not a fair exchange for what their billions of unpaid taxes could do for the country
Also woke extremist culture helps keep people divided and keep neoliberal elites in power. Ironic considering how many supposed leftists have fallen for it.
Massive corporations will always only be virtue signaling at best.
@Billy Denning Virtue signalling is essentially something people to for an exagerated chemical response in their brains..
I feel good. Because I think this is just.
Half of the U.S. doesnt believe the U.S. is systemically racist. And those that do, explain it so in a fashion that feeds their ego and illicitd that exaggerated response.
You support a party who would call a black conservative uncle tim.
Thus. By affiliation. Since I am apparently a white supremacist because I love my country and happen to be white, you must be a racist.
Meh, it was war hawks - I guess that’s a corporate interest too.. the appeal to emotion was “for the soldiers” “how dare you question the wars” was a corporate cover story for Raytheon and Halliburton
@Billy Denning This is why Hollywood virtue signals,rubes like you will always buy their product.
Easy to look up the massive oil and gas industry investments that google , amazon and microsoft have....
@Billy Denning He is just pointing out how corporations are prioritizing progressive aesthetics not progressive policies and actions. They claim to support BLM and thus place Pro-BLM stickers and even decorations but pay their black workers low wages and poor workplace conditions.
Some might even still back Republicans that want to keep militarized police
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains"
- Thomas Jefferson
Yup, globalism
@@remyd8767
Or more accurately, global capitalism.
@@Supernautiloid Or more accurately, global corporatism.
@@CleverGirlAAH Same thing. There is no difference.
Legit quote? From what book? It’s spot on nonetheless...
People play woke to fill their empty lives or to vindicate their virtues....💯
This is an underappreciated comment, but speaks truth.
They do, not because they're charlatains (at least not all of them) but because our social system, economy, and toxic individualism robs people of real purpose. You go to the grind, sell your soul, feel dead, and search for meaning. I think we forgot the lessons the agitators of the latter 19th and early 20th century were trying to teach us. There is no society because it was murdered quite intentionally.
@Macon Love the basis of the American ideology
Individualism driven to the point where it becomes absurd. We share a country, language, culture to the extent that we have a clearly defined one, planet etc. and yet we persist in panning any kind of communal investment or any sort of policy that we dont see as directly improving our immediate situation despite how it might help the nation as a whole...to say nothing of working with other nations or pursuing diplomacy (presuming we even have a credible conflict in the first place) before bombing etc. The great irony is this short sightedness is robbing our nation collectively and leading to economic, social and moral decay. The sheer waste of human potential under mountains of economic exploitation, industrial divestment, educational underachievement, war profiteering, puritanical delusions etc. is tragic...in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world we "dont have the money" to feed our children and invest in their futures. The nation that sent a man to the moon...regardless of the rather dubious politics underlying that stunning achievement...is going to waste away in ignominy worshipping at the altar of the self. Thus toxic...poisoning what might be fine in context and in doses by its dogmatic absurdities.
@@pmr4123 Who might drive individualism to the absurd? That's right. An individual. You assume that people are bad left to their own devices - that's the leftist mentality.
Never trust corporations to stand for change
Correct exactly my view with the United States, all politicians who should be arrested and locked up at Guantanamo forever.
Then they have let down about 70% of you Americans.
Correct exactly my view with the United States, all politicians who should be arrested and locked up at Guantanamo forever.
Then they have let down about 70% of you Americans.
The only change they care about is from your pocket to theirs.
@@j-me6317 Somehow they always manage to get it, too. I wonder how that happens.
"You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in . . . neighborhoods."
---James Carville 27 April 2021
Carville is pretty smart, he knows what turns off voters and he knows that in order to win any election you have to appeal to both sides and win those votes. Segregation, which is essentially was woke culture really is, is no way to unite anyone. Also, I have NEVER seen a Hispanic person I know refer to themselves as Latinx, they reject that word.
@@zugdarr You should blog! I love that line, "Segregation, which is essentially was woke culture really is, is no way to unite anyone." TERRIFIC! Best wishes to you and yours and enjoy the rest of the week.
Identity politics became useful to corporations when populism threatened the status quo of exploitation.
Nice summary! And very accurate.
Populism is the old boys club, from Europe. It's only for exploiting people. The baser instincts and heard mentality. Populism is very bad, and it works.
@@Homeschoolsw6 Herd mentality - collectivism you mean? Mobs are mindless, I agree.
@@fuckamericanidiot Individuals in hostile terrain are vulnerable. Many of them cling to messed up ideas because their friends do.
@@Homeschoolsw6 That's evil. What you just said is evil. I know you don't believe in good and evil, which is why leftists are so often vindictive and violent.
Just a way to make cash.
as if conservatives aren't just as guilty
@@ATLKing404 At least the right is honest about their priorities, dude!
@@shanekeenaNYC I think conservatives as just as dishonest but the left is at least visibility worse
sounds like you didn't watch the video lol, embarrassing.
They should wake up be awake. Not woke. ;)
Left leaning politician wants to ban/tax/limit sodas in his community. As a response, soda company becomes woke and suddenly shares the same ideals that the politician shares. Then, said politician backs off the anti-soda rhetoric.
That’s a good way of putting it
'College educated' doesn't mean what it used to....
College education has nothing to with intelligence.
Yea it does
One of the key achievements of leftists in government and academia has been to lower admissions standards. There are now entire departments dedicated to pumping out nonsense degrees for indoctrinated dumb people.
@@marktrain9498 Colleges are now the indoctrination camps of the left which is why Democrats want to make it free.
Could be a side effect of capitalization of education?
As long we corporations look woke to the outside world, they can still treat their employees poorly.
They missed the fact that a pizza gate/ Qa "documentary" was the first place to use woke and it was in positive tone towards those who "knew truth" and wanted to save children from the Hollywood cAbLe. As miss Qrazy herself pronounces it
Literally been going on since the first churches. Not gonna change, people who need to see the truth most are the easiest to sell lies to.
So the Woke-apocalypse is the real Zombie Apocalypse that every zombie writer since George A Romero has warned about.
The Woke-ing Dead.
@C A P How old are you?
@C A P And old enough to know better. Embarrassing.
The Zombie Apocalypse is real.
@C A P You want my address or should I go to you?
When the woke wake up we will all sleep better
I wanna make a rap song out of that sentence lol
Woke is not liberal, although it did mutate from liberalism.
I don't think wokeness did emerge from liberalism though. I think it's roots are more in neo-Marxism. And Marxists were was always critical of liberals.
@@iAmTheSquidThing I think they hit a tipping point by converting a certain portion of liberals probably by convincing them that Wokeness is what good liberals must emulate.
@@iAmTheSquidThing Marxism is class-based. Identitarianism aims to obscure class consciousness. It is the politics of the upper middle class struggling for proportional representation in academia, corporate boardrooms, and the state.
@@iAmTheSquidThing someone gets it. Wokeness is just a super derivative of Frankfurt School Neo-Marxism.
@@UltimateDarknezz999 It is anti-Marxist.
I'm a progressive & I hate how 'woke' some of my old friends have become lately LOL
Should they wake up?
Do yourself a big favor and don't call yourself a "progressive" or indeed any other of these silly meaningless labels. Just call yourself human, think like one and go from there.
@@Mathguy363 traditional social views? Hahahah
@@JavierFernandez01 Why does that make you angry?
lol
“Yeah we’ll put up a Rainbow Flag up, can we have your money now?”
The flags still made in China...name one not made there ...
@@oscarwarren469 Dixie Flag company, based in San Antonio TX
A state college near me, located in a diverse big city neighborhood, used to have tons of excellent foreign language classes and a rich program for Spanish majors and minors with outstanding profs. It has "had to" grossly cut back on classes. But now they say "Latinx." (They also built a new luxury dorm, that is mostly empty. Coincidence?)
Colleges are indoctrinating instead of teaching.
Despite the fact that 80 of Hispanics hate the term "Latina". I guess their views don't matter
Proof of how successful public education has been at dumbing people down.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Social media has done this
The squeaky wheel also is the first to be replaced.
Majority of people on the right also have jobs and responsibilities that they just can’t take the day off to protest.
It's all about control, dumbing down the people and turning them into useful tools.
wdym? so they are being woke to make everyone else woke?
No, it's about crawling over people and getting to the top the easy way -- not by making yourself excellent, but by destroying everyone in your way.
I saw that pattern well before the adoption of wokism. When wokism stops working, watch for the substitute.
More like useless tools that don't even want to be a functioning part of society. 🤣😂
***Useful Idiots...... Search; The Bolsheviks
@@l.w.paradis2108 People are often corrupt and cheat their way to power. Have a biscuit.
I think using the word “care” in this piece can be substituted with “imposing your way on others or else”. It’s really just another form of control. Exactly what I DON’T want as a college educated conservative.
Donations and protest aren't signs that someone cares more. It means they have more free time and discretionary income. Most working class adults can't take a random Wednesday off to go protest statues.
Woke Capital is capital trying to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement and the movements it catalyzed.
This is actually an interesting point. I know a criticism of Occupy was that it was a middle class protest. I wonder how many of those same protestors are now super woke. I'm genuinely curious.
Interesting world we live in when "dumb enough to give politicians your money" means "cares more"
"Care more" is an interesting way to say "hate more"
All the hate comes from the right. To see this, compare Biden to Trump. Trump is little more than hate personified.
@@peterstafford4426 oh sweet Pete. Keep holding on.
@@peterstafford4426 🤡
@@aggravatedassociate8237 that’s a very good way to put it.
Questions overwhelm answers.
The only reason corporations went woke is because they monopolized or oligopolized their industry. I blame the Fed ultimately, they allowed money to be far too cheap for far too long, allowing for banks to facilitate 3-4 decades leveraged buyouts of competitors & consolidation of industry. Both parties to blame as well, destroying unions, deregulating banks, keeping tax rates low, but politicians had no reason to stop it. The Fed did, they’re the most important institution that needs to be dismantled.
When Jamie Diamond is down with your movement it’s time for some introspection
Not always
Not necessarily, Jamie Diamond is clearly a grifter...
@@fahimp3 and when no one in BLM tells him to GRIFTOFF you know BLM founders are grifter too. The board. Every corporate aspect of BLM is freaking grift my dude. They love grifter diamond
@@Travel_Channels The leadership may have grifters, for example Trump for the MAGA movement, but the people on the ground are true believers.
@@fahimp3 agree 100% the people are all concerned citizens at the end of the day. The grifters in charge are corporate rats selling anything and everything to benefit themselves. Any large organization gets corrupted. The only organization worth pursuing is decentralized
It's not just the US that is waking up. It's the whole world that has had enough of being denied the respect of being a human being. It's selflessness over selfishness.
This is not the whole story. You act as if these institutions are only superficially woke, but that isn't actually the case. Sure, when it comes to certain corporations, that might be mostly true, but when it comes to academic institutions, media, political institutions, it is most certainly not the case. Harvard isn't woke because it's popular, Harvard is in large part responsible for the creation of and perpetuation of identity politics. Most of these academic institutions are driving this. And even when it comes to the most disinterested of corporations, they're increasingly held hostage, at least do a degree, by their own woke human resources departments, as well as their own woke millennial/gen z work forces.
He keeps referring to 2016 as a turning point in term of activism without ever mentioning what happened that year: Trump got elected. Wouldn’t that explain the huge shifts he mentioned? And wouldn’t that mean that a lot of it might go back to its more even baseline?
By boycotting these woke corporations I'm saving A LOT of money. Thank you
Take that money and invest in yourself.
Yet here you are helping Google making billions.
There's a guy named Yuri who talk's about how to pull this exact point this guy is making!!
Yuri Bezmenov
@@user-vd2jk7dl3p X KGB AGENT
@@mountain_man1717 Very eye opening video from 1984! He was only a few decades off.
“The conscience of a conservative” Barry Goldwater 1960. Citizens know.
Protesting isn't a sign of caring more. It is a sign of people with nothing constructive to do.
I'd like to know the actual definition of what liberal and conservative is. Those words seem to be names of teams, not action plans.
What should be remembered in this conversation is that "woke" ideology at its heart is really about being kind, empathetic and inclusive. Once "wokeness" compells you to manipulate (as in the case of corporate advertising) reject (as in cancel culture) or disenfranchise (as in military/intelligence community) can we still call it "being woke"? We should be able to separate the baby from the bad water when it comes to progressive ideals such as democracy and freedom and even "woke ideology".
Historical amnesia. This guy's story starts in 1990, as if there is not history before that.
That's probably the year he was born.
To the average American leftist, the world is 500 years old. 10x dumber than creationism.
"On Monday, WHITE MAN created slavery - and he saw that it was bad but he did it anyway"
@@fuckamericanidiot To the average American conservative history does not matter and the world is less than 10,000 years old. Unlike the average American conservative the leftist would concede the earth is billions of years old...
@@fahimp3 inaccurate
@@kevinfoster2163 Please elaborate...
I do NOT belong to either extreme, although there’s no place for Centrists or Republicrats, this population used to be called. There are more than 3 views in this world but parties seem to matter most, and they seem to see the world in black and white.
The origin of woke is portland Orergon hipsters,I lived there and you wont convince me otherwise
don't know it's the origin but, it has definitely become the capital of woke.
Institutions being or becoming more Liberal is the result of young Americans fearing their future. Working hard for so many years and then the risk of barely retiring is a fearsome thing. Thence the movement of creating policy for fast tracking to an easy life. This is the reason for the appearance of caring more by being politically involved. Unfortunately this is a blindside. Conservative views look at the longest road, because it keeps the ideology of Tyranny from taking hold of Liberalism. At this point in American history, the forming of a Arostocacy is enevitable. It is a shame the Liberal's are not seeing the class they are constructing that will eventually shut them out of a decent retirement. What good is their protesting going to do then, whilst the Elites are laughing at their pitiful burning cities.
anytime a phrase (normally originated by an oppressed group) becomes mainstream, you know the meaning and essence has been diluted. in the 60s or 70s, when someone was woke or invoked the phrase, it was powerful. when I heard it in Badu's song (New Amerykah album maybe? and probably Goodie Mob) in the early 2000s.... that was the signal that a change was coming. And now we are here. I am better than you bc I know these wiki facts about an issue. I dont really care but I totally tout myself as being socially aware bc it gives me access (even if its abstract) to power.
"There hasn't been a big right wing protest in a decade"
I guess Charlottesville and Jan 6 dont count?
In comparison to BLM and the woman's march. Charlottesville had at most 5, 000 people and Jan 6th didn't even have close to a million, nor did the march for trump/ stop the steal.
'Cares more'
Translation: willing to impose upon others.
What is interesting both frame it as freedoms or rights what they want. Some of it is odd to me like Tucker Carlson shouts about 'the dangers of kids wearing masks outside'. I don't even know what danger he's talking about. The use of the word danger seems over the top so let's ignore that. But what is the problem with other people's kids wearing a mask ? It doesn't block your freedom of letting your kids not wear a mask.
@@autohmae You're not wrong, but if you also consider other questionable things that parents do to their kids.....they don't impede on your freedoms either. It doesn't make it right.
He went over the top, but wearing masks outside is worse than benign.
@@fuckamericanidiot what's bad about parents telling their kids to wear a mask ? Seems to me at worst they are overprotective parents (or possible worried about the grandparents or even themselves, their family, friends, neighbors, etc.).
Im a liberal but I have lost sight of what being woke is. I live with a conservative right leaning man that voted for Obama but then switch to Trump. Honestly the Internet got him, like it got so many others at the time. I don’t think Hillary Clinton was ever even on his radar before in his whole life, but overnight she became the worst villain that ever lived. He didn’t go as far as believing in things like Pizzagate but he did take weird twisted pleasure in stories like that and it thrilled him that there were people that believed all this craziness. But Instead of getting upset about all this sudden change I became fascinated and curious, and I know I had encounters something I had never experienced in my life, some kind of mass hysteria I had only read about in books (hysteria of the masses) and now a part of it lived in my house and I had to understand and study it. The relationship survived, it got contentious at times, but I kept my cool as much as I could, mainly because instead of resisting it, I used it as an opportunity to study this right wing person in the era of Trump. Strangely, conservatives are also very emotional when it comes to politics, they give the impression of being detached and levelheaded but they are the opposite, just like the woke people on the left are now. The problem is that these people are extremely narrow minded and myopic. They also have a considerable amount of fear and denial. I’ve come to know some of them the older ones on the far right, they seem to have an “innate” fear of some kind of abandonment which is much broader than in context of a personal relationship, as is often though of in these terms, but this kind of a fear that permeates much of their life, they also seem to be unaware of this in themselves. They see the world in black and white thinking. For example Democrats know that Democratic politicians are corrupt and lie to certain extent, but we usually don’t demonize them nor do we put them on a pedestal. We know just like the republican politicians, that they have been bought by people and corporations with extreme power that the politicians gave them and thus given their power away to those entities. We understand that in many cases they honestly do want to do for us what they are saying and promising, but then can’t do it because they sold their power and souls long time ago and often they are in fact decent well meaning people but, just helpless. It’s frustrating, no denial about that. But in the conservative mind these people are only liars. End of story. They don’t have abilities to ponder the complexities of politics nor the relationship that politicians as human beings have to navigate within the complex political realm they are in, be it outside the public and in front of the public. The sad thing is that these leftist woke people are getting to be just the same. This is extremely frustrating for a person like me, that likes to live in the middle of negotiations land. I love to negotiate, it’s just the way I operate in my daily life. For me life it self is a negotiation where various of things have to be taken into consideration. I love taking contradicting ideas and negotiate them in my head, just to see what I can come up with, but maybe it’s because I have a creative mind that likes to deconstruct concepts and ideas regardless of what I like or dislike, it doesn’t matter and then construct it without being bother of the outcome. I or it doesn’t have to be right and I’m not bothered if I’m wrong or if I have to adapt to a new idea or concept that I may not have considered before. I know other people like me, but there seem to be fewer of us in this world. Being wrong about something now, is equivalent of “Being Wrong” it now defines your whole life as “Wrong” and you as “Wrong” ad Infinitum and can even ruin your life these days. It’s bleak and frustrating when hardly no one wants to negotiate anymore. I think I’ve found out why it’s so hard to debate and negotiate with young woke people, they sound judgmental, but in my opinion I think they are suffering from alexithemia and they willingly resort to the victimhood of their own prison of limitations, which in turn makes them a bit tyrannical. They may not have the words to express their thoughts. I have wondered if these people are capable of thinking in words or abstraction or if all their thinking is composed of images. Many of these woke young people under 30 have a maturity leve of 5 year olds, I’m not kidding. Willingly shielding yourself from difficult experience, (even mild ones such as books that explore difficulties, that might trigger you) they are prone to, robs you from meaningful adventure seeking and development of imagination. I’m honestly worried about them. I’ve never been worried about young people before. But these late millennials and early gen Z are mentally and intellectually stunted. Kinda like stuck in Neverland forever.
I did a spit take when he said corporations are being forced
Conservatives who support the status quo, don't get fired up as much about issues if things are already the way they want them to be. That's not hard to understand. Also, businesses have no problem supporting racial or gender politics as long as it doesn't affect their bottom line, like labor unions would.
Woke is the new brain-washed
This is because for liberals politics IS their religion. Conservatives don’t care as much. The pyramid of needs is god, family , country and then politics.
It’s almost like the millennial generation was pushed into colleges because we were told that was the only way to make money since labor was being outsourced. In college we learned critical thinking skills which are antithetical to conservatism. After we graduated we were welcomed by an economic crash, subsequently straddled with debt while being offered entry level wages at jobs well below our skill level. Who would’ve thought these people would become politically active...
being from europe i just don't understand how someone can seriously discus two party system as some kind of democracy
I'm only woke when I'm not asleep.
LOUDEST CRIY BABIES get the most ATTENTION - THOSE WHO PRETEND TO CARE FROM HIGH CHAIRS - THOSE WHO ARE FOCUSSED ON THEIR LIFE and DO GOOD & even SERVICE, but DONT TALK LOUDLY ABOUT IT.
Yesterday I went to starbucks for the first time in over a year (im not a coffee guy) just wanted a vanilla bean cream cus it was hot, when i entered I was STUNNED to see all of them wearing BLM shirts made by STARBUCKS as a company shirt....I lost my craving tbh for my drink because of how much Ik and how much these kids dont know. This is why I love redbull they said were not getting political we sell redbull lol
Lol people who drink RedBull
Are losers change my mind
@@noirekuroraigami2270 people who post snide comments
Are mortally bankrupt morons who have an inflated sense of self-importance.
Prove me wrong.
That would put me off my usual caramel macchiato as well.
+Paul Huipio is this a new copypasta?
How much you know compared to how much they don't know?
How do you know what they don't know just by looking at them?
Seems like illusory superiority.
The country is NOT divided equally between two parties. God, I hate this framing. A third of the electorate is neither Republican nor Democrat. ONE THIRD. We can't vote in many primaries, can't even work polls in certain states, yet our vote is chased every four years, and assumed it is owed. America is NOT a representative democracy. Krystal should know better.
I have a feeling, Irami would call BS on all this.......
I wish people would stop conflating Wokeness with liberalism. Wokism is the most illiberal ideology that is anywhere near popular in contemporary America.
Conservatives who conflate Wokism with liberalism, makes it harder for liberals to see the illiberalism in Wokism.
@nateafcsouth I do condemn CRT. A lot. Stop pretending to know things you can't, possibly know.
@nateafcsouth I demonstrated I don't condemn CRT? Explain your logic . Try to do it without appealing to a false dichotomy..
Corporations are doing this to improve their ESG score.
You get it. This guy gets it.
Conservatives generally don't need to protest the status quo.
Yes yes remind them they're not virtue signaling narcissists and they "care more".. yess
Hahaha
Gosh. Maybe it's as simple as them being more concerned about their bottom lines. You can dress this up with a lot of statistics (all of which are no doubt accurate and meaningful), but corporations act in their own best interests. Always. And it's no secret that every H.R. department across the country has now to contend with and gird themselves against the onslaught and coming maelstrom of "woke" lawsuits. So all of this amounts to a kind of "smart" and preemptive response as they hedge against the tide.
What. This guy has 3 wrong statements in his first minute
That’s what his study concluded. What did your study show?
Half the people are NOT either Democrat or Republican. Half of eligible voters DO NOT VOTE b/c they know both parties represent the rich and corporations. This guy is a propagandist.
This is interesting, but its seems to reductively conflate liberal, neoliberal, progressive, left-wing, and woke.
That's because it's done a great job of corralling and encapsulating all of those
@@waltergrace565 That is (sadly) a good point.
@@iAmTheSquidThing what's even sadder, it's by design
@@waltergrace565 By design of the woke ideology? Yes, I'm not sure how it's taking people so long to realise. It's not just a few well-intentioned progressives getting a little overzealous. It's a radical ideology which uses hostile takeover tactics of other movements and organisations.
@@iAmTheSquidThing exactly. The ideology itself is irrelevant, only the means in which it plays itself out to achieve it's goals. I believe it's main goals are to manufacture consent for totalitarian authoritarianism and subvert a populist movement.
We usa Americans are not a democracy stop saying it. We are a constitutional republic.. period.
It’s just a question of demographics. As the power of capital increases, the psychological need for young people to rebel against it increases, and now capital has so much power over the psychic landscape of millennials and gen z, the key demo, through mass media. It’s capital capturing the revolution against it. Rebelling is hard work, consuming is easy and gives the same buzz.
Eew, you're dark. I like that.
Rebelling makes you feel shallow and empty inside? Or are you saying that consumerism makes people feel fulfilled? Pick one.
@@fuckamericanidiot it’s the flavor of the product being consumed, if the product seems too much like a product, that produces a feeling of emptiness. If the consumer thinks they’re really making a difference, when all they’re really doing is consuming, they’ll prefer that experience. As soon as babies are born now they splash down into a bath of consumerism.
@@fuckamericanidiot hard to see how you would think I was saying rebelling makes you feel empty inside. It’s the emptiness that provokes a desire to rebel, prompting capital to capture the experience of rebellion in order to retain the consumer.
Yuri Bezmenov 1984 interview.
brainwashed
How bout this? All those little people who work at that corporation, be it Amazon, Tesla, Dole, whatever, pay all those people more MONEY. Instead of lets talk about every other possible issue EXCEPT MONEY all of the time. Thats how you can make this world a better place. For the marginalized, for everyone.
"Research fellow at Defence Priorities"
"... Friend of the show..."
A perfect storm of glowing 'credentials'.
I mean 90% of their guests are just their twitter friends lol
And right wing trust fund babies .
I protest everyday!
When the alarm goes off at 5:15 !!!
So glad you guys are doing piecez on wokeness. Its so strange to see our society become this woke this fast
Liberals cover a wider demographic of gender, races, beliefs, etc. Meanwhile the right wing mostly just caters to one thing - conservatives. Companies want to appeal to the broadest demographic possible. Not because they are woke but because want to make as much money as possible.
I don't buy this. Big critic of woke neoliberalism, but this guy's data/conclusions seem off for some reason.
Perhaps because his conclusions are silly??
@@johnchemist8628 There's a more elegant reason corporations are liberal. I have extensive experience at a top investment bank and it's primary employee donations went blue. I don't have the answer (someone like Stuart Hall would have thought it through in his day), but I don't think Hanania has it either.
@@TravisRiver The donations were "blue" because there's no difference between the Dems and the Republicans and donating to Trump would look a bit embarrassing. Both parties make sure the working class stays poor and desperate. If Bernie Sanders had won the nomination those donations would have been "red". Can't have a living wage and especially no free healthcare.
In what world is "everything explicitly liberal?" To the extent that corporations may seem liberal-leaning, it is absolutely performative to sell more sneakers. It is ridiculous, conservative paranoiac victimhood that says they are the injured party. This guy is such a mouth breather.
Interesting, I always thought it was because it's harder to hide ruthless business practices in an online world... and children are who populate most online spaces and drive up the numbers, so to placate to children, companies try to be "cool" and lie to the public about being "down for the cause", but continue to exploit behind a "woke" shield. we also have very, very short memories as a collective contiousness in this country.
Get Woke, Go Broke. An absolute
So interesting. TY
This idea that corporations haven't been a part of culture is complete bs.
Just look at Disney.
When most mega corporations agree with the way you vote it's time to self reflect on if you really are the resistance.
In the general election or in the primary?
Great video.
People are in search of knowledge and truth. That is a good thing.
I just watched the cia recruitment vid and we are F*****d!
“All institutions are liberal”
Imagine being so objectively wrong and yet so confident lol
i agree. this clown is so myopic. thinks the world started in 1990. it certainly feels wonderful in those first stages of the dunnig-kruger roller coaster.
Democrats showed they are willing to shut your business down, or sue..
Excellent interview and questions :)
Corporations are putting out “Don’t hurt us” messaging. It a CYA preemptive defense so they don’t get sued by their employee or face boycotts. That is the extent of their moral courage.
This change has ignored the environment to promote less worthy causes. Sounds corporate to me.
Look at where the money is. Who buys the corporation's product (or who could be swayed to do so)? Due to technological and economic changes over the past 40 years, you need more and more education to make a decent living. The blue-collar union jobs that you only need a HS education for are largely gone. This has created a sizable middle/upper middle professional class (doctors, lawyers, teachers, tech people, and other service industry people). With more education comes more social liberalism. There are exceptions in certain industries (like finance, the clergy). Thus, I don't see much benefit to pandering to socially conservative people (who have less and less money) if you are a corporation without a specific niche market. Also, social conservatism is heavily tied to religion, which is rapidly dying in the western world.
Really interesting. Thanks for having him on.
We spend way too much money on studying stupidity. It’s a very lucrative career 🙄
Gee, what happened in 2016 that seems to be correlated with this change?
I think it begins with "T"...
Yeah, what could have triggered the women's march ?
Overthinking all this. Corporate growth is fueled by change. Conservatives are adverse to change.
Krystal - “Maybe it’s just the more successful/educated people are Democrat! Did you ever think of that?”
i'll be honest, at this point no truly educated person can fully sign on to the republican party. they just backed a conman as president and flirted with overriding our democracy. they've turned into an idiot's party
Large corporations supporting a ultra-authoritarian big government movement. Shocking.
This guy likes to talk fast and make a lot of fact free arguments/assumptions.
I'm pretty sure if he'd been from Fox or CNN he'd a been *flayed.* Lol. Srsly, really starting to question this channel.
At 4:06 he says liberals tend to marry/hook up with other liberals. However, in the recent past, it was common that left-leaning wives had right-leaning husbands. The woman naturally had "caring" instincts while the man was financially conservative, thus providing the bedrock for a stable marriage. Looks like times have changed.
Very good analysis. Great thesis by that kid
Are you serious?
He makes some pretty big jumps in logic. If I donate to a candidate but the cashier at the gas station doesn't, is it because I care more or is it I make more money and can afford to? Also, every time a conservative group protest that are crucified by the media and labeled far right and racist. Remember the end the lock down protest? Meanwhile, CNN will literally have half a city on fire behind them in a shot and be explaining how peaceful the protest are.
All institutions are liberal and yet we hear about institutional racism. Then who are the racists? The left or the right?