Leo Gura

Art, engineering, programming, teaching, research. These are some options. Of course any of them can get corrupted.

1) Any popular person who claims to care about truth should be immediately doubted. 2) You don't make $100M by caring about truth. 3) Certainly no marketing person cares about truth.

Realistically the only way real progress happens in government is through massive suffering and disaster. Because voters are reactionary. They need some pain to react against. Because they cannot think ahead.

No. They are lost in culture wars, vibes, and ideology.

Most Americans have the attention span of squirrels.

You are never getting rid of lobbyists. If you insist on being too pure you will just lose elections and never get power. Power requires being dirty.

Dems lose, Repubs lose. That's the game. It's silly to expect to always beat Repubs because half the country is conservative. Going with a TYT progressive is a very risky strategy.

And you should expect that to continue. Any attempt to fix serious corruption will be sabotaged from every angle. That is the game.

Of course they think that. They don't know how to think anything else. If progressive ideas are so popular and strong, why isn't Cenk getting 60% of the vote? Contemplate that. If the progressive worldview was valid then a progressive like Cenk should easily get 60% of the vote. He supports all the policies which the people supposedly love. Why wouldn't he get 60%? His ideas are so popular and good.

Of course it's not all the progressives fault. The candidate matters a lot. But if you think progressives are gonna be more popular you are kidding yourself. Cenk ran for Congress. He got under 10% of the vote. Cenk's run for Congress is the prefect example of progressive delusions. It's easy to endlessly critcize the establishment Dems, but that doesn't mean you will win elections. Progressives are guilty of the very thing you accuse us of. They blame the center all the time for everything. And yet when they run, progressives lose elections handily. Bernie ran. He lost. Yet progressives take zero responsibility for this. Like it never even happened. I don't care to blame progressives, but they are delusional about how politics works. That much is clear and needs to be underscored because they still don't see it.

He's doing a lot more than that.

Yeah, that's what center left looks like. You really expect MSNBC to be TYT? If they were they'd be a tiny fringe channel with no mainstream cedibility. No major politicians would appear on their shows. What you want already exists. It's called TYT or Majority Report.

They do represent center left. Nothing says they have to represent far left. That is a totally different sort of channel. There are plenty of far left channels like TYT. MSNBC should not turn into TYT. Musk is a corrupt jackass.

Sam has good judgment on all the epistemic pervertry surrounding Trumpism. One of the few public intellectuals who hasn't fallen down the anti-mainstream rabbit hole. Musk has become completely unhinged. Full shameless douchebag oligarch mode.

Any day now. Lolz

Many Greens are foolish and ignorant and will fall for a conartist like Trump because they operate on group-think.

Despite not wanting to I resonate with the Devil.

It's just Blue. Has nothing to do with Turquoise. You seem to be forgetting that Blue does have valid healthy aspects to it. Rudyard was raised in a Quaker family. So that's where his spiritual intution/wisdom is coming from. Yes, there is validity to the Quaker ethos and value system. But it is all corrupted with right-wing racist, sexist, ethnocentric, nationalist, MAGA nonsense. Changes nothing I said.

That's just stage Blue. They have been saying those hollow platitudes for a thousand years. It can seems profound until you realize that in the end they end up supporting some buffoon like Bush or Trump. Whatever nuggets of truth you will find in Whatifalthist, they only deepen the self-deception and pervertry. It is truly hard to explain how delusional Whatifalthist is. That he mentions Ken Wilber just makes it worse. Because that you don't end up using the complexity of reality to fool yourself into giving credit where credit is not due. You are being way too charitable to Whatifalthist. Peterson is another great example of someone who you should be careful not to give too much credit too because in the end all his philosophy amounts to is delusional rationalization of Trump's moral and spiritual bankrupcy. You can't claim that society is going to hell from moral and spiritual bankrupcy and then vote for Trump as the solution. This is pure nonsense. It shows you the pervertedness of all these religious moralists. This is exactly why I talked about Whatifalthist at all. Because of how deeply it shows that self-deception runs. His ideas are so perverted that I didn't even want to share his videos with my audience. Just watching one of his videos is to risk perversion. So watch out. I am not going to detail all the errors of it for you.

Enjoy your time in hell.

No. Sit down and articulate your problem.

@QandC Again, it is unclear to us what your issue is. Try articulating it more precisely.

In a sense nothing about the Republicans has changed. They were delusional lunatics during the Bush years, Clinton years, Obama years, and now Trump years. The surface seems to change but the ideological reactionary delusional nature of it is fundamentally the same. They are incapable of coming up with anything truly new. Just reacting like sheep against X, Y, or Z flavor of the decade. It's important to see that Trump is not some special case, he is the logical extension of their last 30 years of reactionary antics, BS, and stupidity. The same stupidity that voted for Bush voted for Trump.

@QandC Sounds like you lack groundedness. I suggest you focus on earthly work and building discipline at work. This will ground you. It is hard to help you because your articulation of your issue is so vague. Do you have mental illness? Or is it something else? It's hard to know because there is not enough information. Try to be more clear and specific about what your issue is and what you need help with.

That assumes that someone else will do it better. Who will do governance better? One these New Age perverts?