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I get called a liberal snowflake, a commie, or a traitor to my country at least once a day, mainly because I'm very vocal about social issues..
And then I tell them that I'm a dual service vet.. My father was as well before he went to work for Lockheed.
I was months old living in Thailand at the end if Vietnam
I was 6 in Tehran, watching the military gun down protesters from the roof of my villa (still have the audio recording my dad made narrating the scene).
I've been to Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil, Panama, Australia, and Hong Kong.. Before turning 16.
I've seen things most people would NEVER see. Before turning 16.
And I then joined the Army at 17 right before the 1st Gulf War.. Transferred to the Navy 2 years later and was back in the gulf 6 months later.
Most of these pearl clutching Republicans have no clue the depravity inflicted upon people in other countries around the world, and it shows.
I have severe PTSD and a medical retirement because of what I've seen done to others, and what I've done in service to and for my country.
I think that if more people would travel outside of North America, they would understand better the plight of people better. Living in a 1st world developed country is a blessing that the majority of people in the world do not get to enjoy.
Thank you Beau for your videos. Outside of the knowledge that you impart, it is refreshing to see someone who stands for (Excuse the tired trope) "Truth, Justice, and the American way"..
And I, for one, am greatful for the voice of reason you impart.
May you amd yours have an outstanding day..
Some of the older insults like tanky are making a come back.
Many thanks for your service & sacrifice. Gr8 comment.
Friendship, love and truth. Keep at it brother.
Wow, you could probably start your own channel with the stories you could tell. Thank you sir.
We could all save a lot of travel if folks like you told some of those stories. I'm guessing "national security" is the reason you don't. Is it all some big secret, concealing what is done in our name? If it is, I'd like to fix that. Please forgive me if I offend, I think your silence is deafening.
Peace, hope, and an outstanding day to you as well.
As smart as I am, I still cannot feature how people so, so consistently fail to see that people taking care of each other isn't just right, but way cheaper than letting them get hurt.
Utopia For Realists is an amazing book that showcases real world examples throughout history. It is an amazing book that I can't recommend highly enough
www.amazon.com/Utopia-Realists-How-Can-There/dp/1408890267/
Jim A By the Dutch historian who made a big splash a few weeks ago, Rutger Bregman! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try to check it out.
@@Dorian_sapiens I watched that clip with Carlson while I was visiting Amsterdam without realizing who he was at first. The irony isn't lost on me lol
I'm pretty sure taking care of half of the 3rd world isn't cheaper than letting them get hurt. Especially not in the long run. Now if we were just taking care of our own people. Then I could agree with you.
@@dbojangles1597 'Factfullness' by Hans Rosling is another great book that dispels that myth with hard data, as well. If you don't have time to read, he has done TedTalks and there are quite a few CZcams videos of his lectures that are definitely worth watching. Just search his name.
www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814
My grandfather was one of those men on the beaches in Normandy. I asked him once, before he succumbed to Alzheimers: "Grandpa. You were on those beaches with a bunch of white guys, some black guys, some hispanic guys, staring down a whole lot of German guys. Which ones do you think were the problem?"
His answer will stick with me for the rest of my life: "Why do you think I moved from Alabama to New York after the war?"
My parents met in New York. I am alive today because he made that decision. Because a southern man learned on a beach in France that segregation was wrong.
That’s a scary story though...took that much to tear that out of him and the vast majority of southern men haven’t, and won’t, experience anything close to what your grandfather did. Not to mention there are plenty of shitty northern folks too.
@@scoobertmcruppert2915 WW2 is what ripped a lot of those men out of their beliefs. It is hard to justify hate against someone who is responsible for you being alive. It is even harder when you remember that face and see it everywhere getting hurt by hate.
Damn, Brashnir. Damn!
"They'd vote him into office for a fourth term"
^The most magnificent bait and switch I have ever observed, followed by taking that same sledgehammer force and putting it to work.
Beau, hitting conservatives with that deadly left hook of knowledge.
"Left" hook. I see what you did there.
*THE RIGHT HAS LEFT THE CHAT.*
Is mainstream "conservatism" really anything other than controlled opposition at this point? They certainly don't seem to do a good job of conserving anything and fold at every opportunity.
@@dbojangles1597 *SOUNDS LIKE DEMOCRATS FROM THE LAST 3 DECADES, FOLDING LIKE CHAIRS.*
How do you even argue with people who think jews and transgender people run everything
Forget Folger's. This is the best part of waking up.
Every morning I get up and make a pot of coffee. Then I go back to bed and watch a few you tube videos while I have alittle coffee. I watch this guy every morning it's a great way to start your day.
Same! Especially when I actually have to get up early, this is the very best way to get yourself in the mindset to deal with the world lol. I think I'd even choose Beau over coffee... The horror, the horror
Indeed!
Yeah, he does go well with a morning coffee, don't he? Gets the neurons firing.
Ooh. That's a bold statement. Folgers is _damn_ good, man.
I’m a liberal. I love America. Yes, you can do both. Love of country also means love of its people.
As musician Michael McDermott said in the song The American in Me, "don't mistake dissent for disloyalty"
@@charliealbers8171 I can't agree more. To me, patriotism means loving my country enough to stick with it and try and improve it, not mindlessly agreeing with everything my country has ever done.
Was a lifelong Conservative until about 2015, when it's transformation to full-out Fascism was too obvious. Of course 40 years of fear of Liberals and Socialism took a little longer to go away then my allegiance to Conservatism. Watching this video was one of several "Eureka!" moments for me. Thank you.
FDR and the New Deal are responsible for the start and completion of the most ambitious infrastructure projects this country has ever seen. It kills me that half the country doesn't even realize where their standard of living came from. It kills me that people in the Southwest don't even realize who irrigated that whole region of the country. It kills me that people in the Bread Basket don't even realize who solved the Dust Bowl crisis. It kills me that Hollywood will make movies about Winston Churchill, yet we haven't seen anything about FDR.
"A Traitor to his Class"
@@NWPaul72 Exactly. Righteous dude right? Sometimes my fellow anarchists, well the ones that are are over analytical try to trash FDR and I just laugh at them. It's like say what you will about the old Social Democrat, fact of the matter is he's the reason all of us aren't speaking German & Japanese.
The Hohokam indians built the first irrigation canals in the Southwest a very long time ago. These canals ran across a wide swath of Arizona and some of them are still in use today. I won't go into how many hundreds of years ago New Mexico built its ag systems.
@@laurab.9845 While you are correct, what FTW is describing is the large scale irrigation that turned the Central Valley of California from barren grasslands into the biggest producer of food in the country. The dams and canals that feed those crops are enormous feats of engineering started by FDR.
I'm a big fan of documentaries. CZcams has quite a few on FDR.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Different context, but this one is also good:
"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred."
@@Dorian_sapiens 👍 Thanks, different context but same sentiment. It's crackily but the audio is worth the listen.
czcams.com/video/IjSTQwamo8M/video.html
Yep. Got tons of em.
Roosevelt was allies with Stalin.
@@dreamdiction SO? TRUMP HAS ALLIED HIMSELF WITH BOTH PUTIN AND FAT KIM UN.
The conservative movement has a new motto. "Pull up the ladder, I'm aboard".
Im not even a minute in and im like "This is the new deal"
Finally catching up to old vids and my first thought was that it sounded like the CCC projects...which, yeah, part of the New Deal.
Exactly the policies & projects we need but got only scraps of in the new bill.
Oh, except FDR didn't give the rich a huge tax cut.. he signed tax INCREASES to "soak the rich" & CLOSE tax loopholes.
Wish we'd gotten Wallace instead of Truman (the non-socialist replacement to satisfy the establishment)... things might be different here now.
Nailed it agin Beau, fearless...... that is the key. Today Americans are sold fear wholesale. Fear stokes the division in this country today.
It's not even wholesale, it's fucking free. Even our government is doing their part in making sure the people are so scared of each other.
I refuse to own a firearm.. I think if you do own one, you're the biggest kind of coward, you are afraid of not being able to use your words, and we're kept afraid at a shooting distance from one another on purpose. I refuse, I'll break that distance and use my words. Kill me, but you're all the cowards.
It's also been found that conservatism correlates with a larger amygdala (the part of the brain that governs fear responces, including aggression) while self-identified liberals have larger anterior cingulate cortexes which are involved with things such as attention allocation, reward anticipation, decision-making, ethics and morality, impulse control (e.g. performance monitoring and error detection), and emotion.
Not surprising considering the "ideology" boils down to an appeal to tradition fallacy, which works based on a fear of change, and how xenophobia is also correlated with conservatism.
I hear there's a lot of money in selling fear. cough..MSM.. cough..
@@HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS my family has been after me for years to get a gun. I refuse. I will not live in paranoia land. I will not.
And that diet of fear is served up daily.
Conservatives seem to forget that we literally had a planned economy during that "war the conservatives won."
The Soviets won that war. They beat Hitler, not us. We helped, that's about it.
@@thehellyousay I think that that occasionally made assertion doesn't fit the basic facts. The Soviet Union did a lot of the heavy lifting, but without Lend Lease and the military effort of the other Allies, they would not have defeated the Third Reich. Stalin as much as said so at the Malta Conference. Operation Barbarossa stalled because the Germans outran their own supply lines. The entire pre war Red Army was destroyed by that point. If relief had not been delivered to them, the war would likely have ended with the Soviets ceding a huge chunk of their territory to the Germans. Hitler's inability to launch Sea Lion, his invasion of the Balkans, and fighting in North Africa prevented a knockout blow of the USSR ahead of the Russian winter. But only Communist/Russian propaganda and some apologists/revisionists pretend that the Soviets defeated the Axis alone.
We've always had a planned economy it's just usually planned of by and for the authorities not the people.
My Dad was at Iwo Jima and after he saw "The Sands of Iwo Jima" he refused to allow any movie with John Wayne to be watched in our household.
He might have liked JW playing Genghis Khan....
My father was a sailor in the Norwegian merchant fleet during WWII, mostly in the Pacific theater and he too hated John Wayne with a passion. No John Wayne movies in our household either.
Too bad. Wayne was a kind, good man... he was an ACTOR! He made movies the public wanted to see, and the government at that time wanted in theatres. In real life, he was generous and kind to people in all walks of life, no matter the color of their skin or the shape of their eyes.
It can be a small world. When Wayne was young, he knew my grandparents. Many years later, my Dad's sailboat happened to be berthed for a couple of years across from Wayne's yacht. So we saw who he sailed with - all colors of people - and he always greeted my Osage family with a wave and a shout of joy.
I appreciate the actual 5th collum style of delivery where you bait the audience and switch to pro New Deal talking points
You are an inspiration to a young dude like me. Thank you for the great dialogue everytime.
And to an old woman like me.
F.O.M Cobra, kudos to you for being willing to listen and learn. 👍
Kudos to all of us for opening our
minds and listening a bit.
Tell it, Beau. My Italian-American family members fought in WW2 and all were FDR loving, Union ILA longshoremen. All from Brooklyn, NYC. Infantrymen and sailors all. A great WW2 movie was A Walk In The Sun. It illustrates the diversity, albeit of white Americans, in a US Army infantry platoon in the Italian campaign. The singer of the theme song was Paul Robeson. His name was removed from the credits due to the Red Scare of the late 40's and to this day never reinserted into the credits. Keep telling the truth, Beau.
I accompanied my father to the Honor Flight on October 3rd 2013 during the government shutdown. The Veterans that served during WWII were asked not to say anything to the members of congress when they found out that Ted Cruz and other members of the GOP were going to meet them. These veterans were pissed off at how president Obama was being treated by the GOP. They talked about it all day.
Our country is truly in distress when Curious George is displayed upside down.
Definitely in distress.The best they have ever had an argument now.Money is hard to swallow=future.
Man, I thought you were gonna start bad mouthing liberal ideas. As a veteran, I couldn’t agree more with your assessment. Thank you brother 🇺🇸
My fishing buddy is a veteran who was deployed to the middle-east 3 times. We don't talk politics that much but during the 2016 election cycle we were chatting and he made an interesting point.
He said, "It's funny how Republicans denounce socialism as such an evil thing, yet our entire military is rewarded with socialist policies. We get free housing, free healthcare and free education. If those things are so bad for the rest of America, why don't Republicans lobby for doing away with all them, increase soldier's salaries and let them find their own housing, buy their own insurance plans and pay for their own schooling? I'm not advocating for a new socialist government but it's too bad that people can't really see how easy it would be to reduce poverty and create a better country."
To be fair, we wouldn't have the modern conservative if FDR didn't save capitalism.
@ricciraptorhawk The New Deal was to quell the possibility of a full on revolt
to be fair fascism would have taken over the planet if FDR was not around during that time.
@Bryzz Lull I don't know if they had a friendly correspondence going. I know Winston Churchill did like Mussolini. I'm pretty sure after you are most likely didn't. However that is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is when push came to shove he helped Stalin rebuild their manufacturing and raw materials harvesting in Siberia after the Ukraine was taken by Nazi Germany. This was crucial to winning World War II. Because of this effort the war was won on the Eastern front and by the end of it Russian industry was putting out much more superior tanks by the hundreds turning the tide of World War II. Facts don't care about your feelings. Stupid ass hole.
@Bryzz Lull I know fascism was popular amongst many industrialists and bankers in the United States. The very same assholes that tried to have General Smedley Butler overthrow FDR with a military coup. The very same industrialists that produce munitions that killed American soldiers. Don't try to talk to me about history you fucking twerp.
I will clap your fucking cheeks at every turn.😎🖕
@Mike Knight y'all are the dumbasses participating in unaccredited historical revisionism not me.
Even after binging all of these videos, I feel so ashamed that the first part of the video actually got me to tear up, because I thought that Beau had lost his mind, but by "New Deal", I had realized the error of my way.
I'm a Developer, I am the sole reason you all lose your jobs to robots, and I am a Democratic Socialist. I know for a fact one day robots will take my job, your job, every ones job. We need to start shifting to a policy that will be ready for the long decline.
We need higher paying jobs, Universal Healthcare, Universal Free Education, And Universal Basic Income. If we do not add these "Socialist" ideas. America will die because Capitalism is dying. You cannot have only Capitalism you need Socialism with it to stop it from destroying itself.
Capitalism gives all the money to the rich just like Communism, just takes longer to do so but the outcome is the same most of your population is poor. One side has all the money and the other does not. If you have socialism with Capitalism you take from the Richest and give to the poorest and it makes no one poor. You will still have rich people just not Billionaires.
We argue over this all the time, but this is the same thing my son keeps telling me... he’s a millineal.
@@1w598 No, I get it now... My son gave me some good examples of how the current system is untenable. AI is going to put a lot of people out of work… So what else is there left to do??
In Canada, Province of Québec, there is universal health care, free education until university and university cost 1400 US$ per session (4 months, 15 credits) and that began in the sixties, before that we have to pay doctors and very few people had the means to go to university except the english people (most people in Quebec speak french). People are talking about higher paying jobs and universal basic income but i don't know how long it will take to get these. For canadian elections the federal government control all the activities. For province elections the province government controls all activities.
I like to ask them when ***exactly*** was America great that you want to get back to "again"? I'm usually greeted by crickets or a topic change. But when I'm not, it is usually the '40s, '50s, or sometimes '60s. Ya know, the time period when these policies were in effect and corporate tax rates were their highest or on their way to becoming the highest...... I love to inform them of that. THEN I'm guaranteed to get crickets or a topic change lol
You won't get crickets from me. I'm fine with high corporate tax rates these days even if back then they were effectively paying even less than the do now. The important bit was that back in those days America was still an overwhelmingly white majority country and saw itself as a largely united people rather than the mess of ethnic interest groups all squabbling over what they can scavenge out of this country's dying husk of a body.
@@dbojangles1597 Well in the likely chance that you are of Irish, Italian, German, or Slavic descent, you can be assured that people felt the exact same way about your ancestors coming off the boat.
@@trickydick2909 True enough and truth be told they had every reason to. Different peoples and cultures will always clash and have problems coexisting together. Luckily just about all European groups are similar enough that they can readily assimilate into a common culture in just a couple generations and have high rates of interbreeding to further unify the people. This is not the case as you get further and further away from your point of origin. The blacks in this country never assimilated at anywhere near the degree of European immigrants and they have been here since the beginning.
@@dbojangles1597 I would have to disagree with the idea that all European groups are so similar. Many were very different not only from Americans of the time but also from each other. Nobody really thought of a common European identity at the time and if they did, they probably only meant North and Western Europe. The assimilation process took a very long time. All of these groups lived in insular neighborhoods speaking their native tongues and holding their traditional customs. In many cases, they were not truly accepted as "white" Americans until the mid-20th century, after decades of living in this country. I think this process will be much the same for immigrants from Latin America. It will be a gradual process of course, but they are no more foreign than the European immigrants of the past.
As for black people, they were really never allowed to assimilate...
@@trickydick2909 There are still, to this very day, sections of large cities that are referred to as "the Polish section" or "the Irish section" or "the German section." There is a reason. It wasn't that long ago that those groups segregated themselves or were forced to live in certain areas (for a bunch of reason, not all negative). Memories seem to be short in that regard.
I love you so much. I'm so glad you brought up FDR
FDR wasn't the worst thing in the world besides the fact that he basically manipulated America into WW2
@@dbojangles1597 yeah that part wasn't the greatest... Then again you seem like you would prefer to be speaking German. Which is what would have happened if we had not entered into that particular war. But go ahead and blather on with your psuedo intellectual tropes. Dipshit
That was the end result anyway. @yellow dog
Yea I don't think Germany had much of a chance of conquering America and even if they did I dare say we might have been better off today. There are a million complex factors that go into this equation but it seems to me we would have been better off mediating a peace and going on to deal with the Soviets. After all they were the ones who were truly looking to takeover the world. The Germans just wanted to be another great power that could hold its own against foreign manipulation. @@Ericleeproject
@@dbojangles1597 you ignorant sad pathetic sack of worthless neo Nazi shit stain... I'm actually surprised Beau is allowing your Neo Nazi rhetoric to continue on this channels comment section. Are you going to start denying the Holocaust also, or are you going to exclaim about how the Nazi's should have killed more Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, and anyone else speaking out against the Nazi party?
*ten seconds in* "He's going to talk about FDR and the New Deal right?" *30 seconds later* "Yeah, definitely the hook on this one."
I'm not gonna lie, he had us in the first half. Masterfully executed. I just needed to instantly rewatch to process what did i just saw.
Nicely put, Beau. It's taken the conservatives 50 years to dismantle the New Deal, starting with Nixon and the Powell memo and up through Reagonomics and Citizens United, money has done a lot of talking.
Thanks, Beau. I needed to hear some sense this morning. It's not common anymore.
"the greatest generation were great, because they were fearless. And they cared about each other."
There's a life lesson.
Man, I got a little choked up watching this. Choked up about the turn our country has taken for the worse. I'm sharing your videos with everyone I know. I am always told I could do great political/historical videos, but what you're doing is fantastic.
Beau, please talk about the bipartisan attack on American workers and their rights!
This Too many people think that the Democratic Party loves unions and wants to protect them.
What do you expect when Jews control both parties?
@@dbojangles1597 - WTF, do you think they had a secret meeting ? ever have an original thought in your life ? Are you always going to be a mental midget ? can you say scapegoating ? Face meet palm.
NarpytheCrimeDog you are SO right!!! There are the minority of candidates (in both parties) that see the value and necessity in unions. Sadly, that kind of politician is becoming extinct.
Secret meeting? No need for that. They are simply a tight knit people that naturally work towards their own ethnic interests. I recognize this is a hard thing for white Americans to understand given just how atomized and individualistic we are but everyone else understands how this works. You wouldn't bat an eye if I were to suggest that blacks organize in their racial interests but when it comes to Jews everyone goes insane. You do realize that Jews provide a good 50% of all donations to Democratic political campaigns on the national level right? Why do you think it is that both parties were so quick to rebuke Ilhan Omar for daring to criticize AIPAC? Jews manipulating U.S politics for Jewish interests is plain to see for anyone who isn't terminally brain damaged to the point where any criticism of them sends the person into a senseless rage. This is all easily verifiable. @@englishsteve1465
"You can go from Liberal to Conservative in 20 years without changing a single thought" - Robert Anton Wilson
R.A.W. ❤️
On... what issue? On what issue have we ever, ever, ever shifted right?
"Trans rights" is now a talking point despite how this used to be comedy
We got gay marriage
Even explicitly legal protections for gays
Bake that cake, bigot
I don't know of any kinds of guns that have become unbanned that were banned since GCA68 or even the NFA. I think we recovered a tiny bit of lost ground for a few years, somehow, but obviously we're still not back to pre-NFA levels of Constitutionality.
The DNC has recently spoken of Obama being a Republican because he's too conservative for them.
Trump used to be a Democrat holding more or less the same views he had now. Obama deported far more illegals than Trump did and he was praised for it by both sides.
The people who stormed the beaches of Normandy weren't bitching about micro-aggressions, they were long before the Civil Rights of the 60's and instead of abortion they were arguing if birth control should be legalized.
It used to be that Commies were seen like Nazis are seen today. Fired, deplatformed, all that. And based on what Yuri Bezmenov's warned us about moving away from that was probably a mistake.
We used to deplatform socialists and commies but now one of them has bid for president for two elections in a row. How have we shifted right?
@@MR-dc4od I think you should look up the Overton Window. It's not necessarily that we have shifted right as a country, we just haven't shifted left with the rest of the world. From a modern, objective, outside perspective looking in on the United States, the mainstream politics are shifted very far to the right. As the rest of the world progresses, we stagnate. The Democratic Party, which people in the United States claim is leftist, is really center-right. The Republican Party is further right. We are also regressing on issues regarding the rights of people to migrate, speak freely, et cetera.
@@azollafiliculoides9922 Oh, I know all about the overton window. But it really only backs up my point - the overton window has only ever shifted left. I don't care if the rest of the world has become more authoritarian, let themselves be invaded by rioting hordes, or doesn't like free speech - that doesn't make it okay.
@@MR-dc4od The rest of the world has become less authoritarian as the Overton window moved left, as can be seen in the fall of monarchism, fascism, and authoritarian reactionary conservatism.
It could also be argued that the Overton window did move to the right in the United States. For example, Eisenhower supported socialized infrastructure, higher taxes on the rich, social security, subsidized or free education, and subsidized medicine. If a Republican candidate ran on those ideals now, they would be called a socialist and be accused of trying to turn the United States into Venezuela. Obama was further right (almost centrist) when compared to JFK and FDR.
Here's a graph that illustrates this principle: blogs.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/presidents_common_space_1D2-600x410.jpg
This is now the second video from Beau that I've watched and yet again he's surprised me in a very positive way. This guy is living proof that you can't judge a book by it's cover. I don't know how I will feel about his other videos but he has definitely earned my benefit of a doubt from the first two. All the best to you and yours Beau.
Turning them all on their heads, including Curious George! Great message, Beau!
Not just fearless, but even more importantly, selfless.
There isn't a difference between fearlessness and selflessness.
If you can truly be selfless, then its not even fearlessness you possess. Its the ability to understand and use your fear to help others, and to understand that fear is the root cause of all hate in this world. Fear becomes your closest friend, and its panicked cries sooth into incisive warnings. When understood, fear is also, many times, the heart of your willpower, and the light that helps you through the dark. To be fearless, is to be blind, powerless, selfish, and reckless. But to be healthily fearful, is to be cautious, powerful, observant, courageous, and most importantly, selfless.
Courage, in fact, is a product of fear. It brings into focus the exact obstacle you must overcome, and the best path available through it, and without fear as the obstacle, your courage would have nothing to overcome.
@@knowfake No lol. Fear is selfishness lol. This is simple.
@@ziquaftynny9285 the fear in the chest of the men on the beaches of normandy, the fear that if they failed then the Nazi atrocities would continue and expand, that fear is selfish?
@@knowfake Obviously lol. You SERIOUSLY misunderstand what fear is. There are different degrees of selfishness.
P.S I'm not a nazi.
Dang Beau did you have to slap them that hard?!?! But thank you!
Yes. Yes, he did. They need to be shaken
They needed it so yes he did.
You get me every time. I’m like “there’s gonna be a twist. There’s gonna be a twist. There’s gonna be a twist. I guess there is no twist-god damnit he got me.”
The greatest generation were my grandparents. I was so proud of all of them and I miss them very much.
Thank you, friend, for stating the facts of our American history. I'm not one to comment often, but you are my favorite CZcamsr of the political genre.
I like (some) war movies and I'm a dirty Commie. Any story with dead nazis is a good story.
"this right here might be my masterpiece"
It kind of seems like Inglorious Bastards was largely criticizing the fact that you glorify and revel in extreme violence towards an entire group of people who you see as innately evil in a direct reflection of your western Nazi stereotypes. @@prestonspicer
That's because you realize the Eastern Front decided World War II. And if it wasn't for FDR helping the Soviet Union to rebuild their industrial sector in Siberia we all would be speaking German.
HAHAHA!!! Same here brother.. well I am not a communist but get called one pretty often by neo liberals 🤷♂️
Nothing to lose but our chains Comrade.
Beau, you are the most sane and well thought out presenter of clear-eyed concepts on social media today. Thank you!
Awsome story telling and reasoning. Loved it!
So glad to hear someone say what I've been trying to tell my circle of people for years the same thing. Keep up the good work your voice hits a lot of people and does a lot of good
This is FDRs new deal isn't it? I love your channel.
No, it is Bernie Sanders and AOC's Green New Deal 2.0 Almost a century on from FDR's... #BernieTulsi2020
The Greatest Generation got paid a living wage. It's extremely helpful when you're trying to be great.
FDR baby! Bernie Sanders is FDR 2.0. he's not just the best choice. he's the ONLY choice. accept no imitations.
WWll was the last time America pulled together for a common cause. Two things that came after hurt America to the extreme. #1: The House of American Activities Committee; HUAC, taught us how to stab our friends and neighbors in the back under the guise of patriotism. #2: The President of the United States was assinated right before our very eyes, in a conspiracy that was so convoluted, that the truth is still lost and might never be revealed. We we're once a great nation, but now we are rotting from the inside out due to greed and a lust for power.
I've always been amazed at how well Americans can retcon history while ignoring reality. And they do it all intentionally, they're well aware that reality doesn't match but that doesn't matter. It comes from a place of so much ego, so much self-confidence hat reality has to bend to accommodate them.
I was getting pissed off until about 3:00 when I was like, "Wait a minute, this sounds familiar..."
Damn it, you had me going, too.
My father stormed the beach at normandy, and beyond. His flag, and many metals rest on my fireplace mantle. His was and will always be the most humble, brave, caring and honest man I've ever known. He believed in human rights, he believed in unions that protected workers, he believed in a fair wage. He also believed that all men are equal, and that no man was above the law. My father was a union democrat, he fought, and shed a lot of blood for his country, for our right to be decent or even, crappy people. I choose to be decent in his honor!
This video is a fantastic bait and switch :D
Martin Zyka yep, Beau is a master at that tactic
@@professorditchdigger166 WTF R U TALKING ABOUT?
Chatty Cathy in this video he does a great job of goading in the listener, rallying sympathy and then yanking the carpet out from underneath them. Forcing them to confront and think critically about themselves and their own views. Beau is one of the best voices on this platform.
Down here in Texas we love our state parks. One that I've gone camping at is Buescher State Park. In an open area of the camp grounds there is a beautiful stone building with tables and fireplaces large enough to cook in on either side. It has a display in front of it explaining how the young men who built it were part of the New Deal and how even though they were doing hard physical labor they all put on weight, because it was the first time many of them had had regular meals.
The New Deal did so much good.
We have a number of the same buildings my uncle worked in WPA in Wisconsin met his wife there beautiful buildings designed by people in same programs. still standing but the message is being buried.
@@jaydaniels8698 My uncle and grandfather worked on those types of projects in Southern Illinois. Thank you, FDR.
I agree
@@adambowman8543 but is restraining federal power to do good in this way without any recourse to be able to get a leave to do it a good thing??
You know that old saying absolute power corrupts absolutely?? Men wrote the constitution. Brilliant men yes.
But men.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The curse of men.
So perhaps he has a point. Maybe not how your concerned it could be exploited. But perhaps a system needs to be designed to balance the check that is that document to allow a federal government to take such steps to help their country in times of need.
I do not know how you would wish to do so what with 4 year term limits and how court system can be, and how easily corrupted 2 party system is even with houses common and senate.
But he perhaps had a legitimate point?
@@adambowman8543 okay but thats the all or nothing answer. That doesnt work. We know it doesnt. I agree to much is bad. And too much in the wrong places is worse.
So ill rephrase. Assuming that FDR overall helped and makes a fair point how do you propose one approaches the problem of an efficient, useable process that will not open a loophole in the constitutive ideal but will allow a time efficient way to get approval of 'you the people' to do something such as FDR did.
We have modern tech now so im not sure if that would help the communicative process or not. But how would you approach that problem?
For it is a problem.
A government works, idealogically anyway, for the people in a democracy. So since this is an issue to you, and indeed arguably one within current legal framework, how do you suggest to work it so that if needed a federal government could step up in a similar scenario if required??? Something like a 'Constitutional Request/Appeal vote?" For, you the people? I mean i dunno if thatd be time efficient even now with the sheer number and land size of america though.
Cause remember they are supposed to work for you. So hypothetically look at it like this. Your employee approaches you with a comprehensive problem in regards to say.....structural integrity of a house your building. They dont know how to fix the problem because every method available breaks health and safety laws and the OSHA asshats are on site. House needs to be done today cause its closes tomorrow morning. You need to go with said employee and try to figure a solution that will work and not get anyone fined.
Look at my question as a similar hypothetical. Im FDR showing you (the people) my comprehensive plan but informing you...'I dont see a way i can do what i should do, as your federal government that you voted for (ergo employed), without breaking some hard and fast rules (Constitution). Do you see anything i dont? Is there a way to do this and avoid that??"
Thats my question
Powerful thoughts there, Beau! It's people like you that make me still have hope for humanity. Keep up the good work and from now on I will watch all of your videos/thoughts.
"Fearless " Beau, you never let me down.
Andrew Yang gives me tremendous hope for this country; not just because of his policies but because of the reactions I've seen to him.
Even when I venture into Fox News comments sections, I see comment after comment saying "I'd vote for this guy." This is someone who wants a $1000/month UBI & single payer healthcare who *still* has the likes of Tucker Carlson & his followers hanging on his every word.
Even if he doesn't win, Yang has already qualified for the debate stage. His ideas will get out to the American public, & they will grow.
UBI is a terrible idea. It creates dependence on the oligarch class and will always provide only just enough to prevent revolution or meaningful systemic change. It is a policy designed to maintain the status quo and remove the possibility of economic mobility by further removing labor from value and increasing the profit opportunity of ownership of the means of production. It's still better than 'let people starve' but at a certain point, it's no longer being fed but being pacified.
@@Amautok UBI is a good idea as a transitioning strategy. What's needed is a transition to a post-scarcity economy, but how would we know how that even looks? An astonishing amount of wealth is accumulated through capital gains, which is basically having your money grow by letting someone else do something useful with it, or leaving it alone so people can borrow it. That strikes me as a very tappable revenue stream. The resources and environment that produce these great fortunes are diminished for all, why shouldn't all get a share of the dirty money? Think Alaska resident dividend and wonder why that's not nation-wide.
@@NWPaul72 post-scarcity comes when we develop and distribute some kind of device, call it a universal molecular assembler, that produces whatever material goods a household needs. I think this might be less than a century away.
The marriage of machine learning and quantum computing leads us there, and it gets funded initially by the pharmaceutical industry so they can model cellular environments and automate drug design. That's my bet, anyway.
@@kevinmathewson4272 it's my understanding that current scarcity is artificial. I forget who it was, but some CZcamsr said "If someone in the 21st century is starving, someone is starving them." after he had fairly compellingly made exactly that case. Current production and distribution capability exceeds need, but the profit motive trumps human need as well. Once upon a time, so I'm told, to form a corporation in this country, it had to have some benefit to the nation beyond "to enhance shareholder value". I'm not sure what happened to that, but everything we need for everyone is here and yet somehow protecting the investors supercedes seeing to our neighbors. 40% of the food in the US goes to waste, and farm subsidies are often about stifling production. If we could marry worldwide food security to the potential to earn billions, I believe it would be solved in months, not years.
And yet, desktop nanoassemblers will likely be a thing in our lifetimes. Imagine how far you could stretch your leftovers if you could break them down to their constituent atoms and put them back together as, well, anything.
@@NWPaul72 it' artificial, in a sense, but as long as production is at all centralized, as long as farming happens in one place and manufacturing in another place and distribution in another place, as long as we need these bulk infrastructures of production, someone will control it, or we'll have to fight hard to prevent someone controlling it. Whatever system we create to prevent that control becomes its own system of control, and now we have to worry about that. Maybe the dictatorship of the proletariat becomes a regular dictatorship. Democratic socialism and widespread class consciousness might be our best bet until we can decentralize production technologically.
Great one again Beau, cheers from Germany. All you people on the other side of the pond, don't let the tactical framing by a huge section of your media blind you into hyper partisanship.
😄howdy!
I learn so much from your videos! Thank you for cutting through the BS to get to the heart of the matter, Beau. Glad you aren't frosting the shit cake with icing.
My father was a WWII vet that grew up during the great depression and the segregated south. He never would have stood for anything in modern conservatism and he was always progressive. He actually identified as a socialist.
Thank you for all your videos Beau, I love what you put out so I joined your Patreon.
Look at who fought that war. what nationalities had the most skin in the game. minorities who were grateful for their new home and opportunities. They were the best, brightest, and bravest from their villages. TO leave your home land and fight for your new country is the bravery that stopped fascism. I wonder what the great generation would say about all this today.
Beau, 65 yr old Vietnam vet here, mom is 97 still kickin' and a WW2 vet as was my father, I agree with you about the difference between the men & women of that generation and "modern" conservatives. Mom is very conservative, coming from North Dakota, and we've had more than one conversation about socialist presidents but her version of conservative is waaaaay different from mainstream. Thank you for your thoughts, I live in Eugene Oregon, so I know all about what SJW ideology is doing to our society, all I have to do is talk to a U of O student they know everything! haha Seriously though, I had always considered myself a moderate conservative, lately I've had to re-evaluate my definition and I do appreciate your input.
Ha! I thought it sounded a lot like FDR
FDR's mistake was he seemed to expect to live forever. Everything went to shit when Truman took over.
The greatest generation turned conservative when they got old.
ONLY some of them did.
Love this Beau. My father and two uncles his brothers are World War II vets. One of them did not come home. So I have family members of the greatest generation who fought. I am disgusted that so many of my fellow citizens are wallowing in fear being took in by a conman. Ignorance is no excuse. With computers and the internet the whole world's collection of knowledge is at your finger tips at the speed of light. I am going to repost this to Face Book. But I doubt any of the Cult of Trump will be swayed by facts. Sadly as we are bailing out the ship they are bailing in the water. I hope those bailing out are greater than those bailing in.
Conservatives are always mad at you. Being mad is basically the resting state of conservativism
twiexcursori yep. Anger and fear drive them.
We are mad at him he's just full of shit... for example FDR did not desegregate the military. That came after his death by his successor Harry S Truman using executive order 9981. It was something most Americans were against. That includes Democrats.
At the time being homosexual transgendered or black would get you beaten up by other political party. Trying to slap a Maga hat off of their head would have been a really bad idea instead of the blank stares you get from today's conservatives you would have gotten a swift beating
@@theheretic3764 He didn't _say_ FDR desegregated the military, though? Just that they were desegregated after WW2.
I'm not sure what point the rest of this is trying to prove :u
@@twiexcursori that it was not desegregated as a result of enlightenment on behalf of men fighting together...or the conservative views of days gone by as though it was a result of their more accepting views...
It was deliberately inserted to include a racial issue...and it was presented deceptively.
@@theheretic3764 but if it was unpopular, then it's not a political move, right? Either Truman was this enlightened man (he did serve in after all) or said enlightened men pressured him from within the forces.
"Actually, they did this progressive thing even though everybody hated it!" does not actually make me hate this progressive thing
As soon as you started reading the list I knew you were talking about Roosevelt's New Deal and not anything current.... but then we had history classes when I went to school and I actually paid attention.
Just got a new subscriber. Got chills listening to some of that man, great to hear these things put in to context with the way today's world has changed.
There's the saying that wealth only lasts three generations, seems as though that wealth might also apply to the morals and values people ascribe to the political ideals they rally behind. I hope this is a signal that we have reached a point where we can begin to rebuild in the image of wisdom and truth from our past.
My Grandfather fought in the Pacific in WW2. He was a union carpenter his whole life. He voted for FDR and was proud of it till the day he died. He once told me "There is no such thing as common sense, because if there was, everyone would have it." He would be disgusted by Trump and his supporters.
okay I'm 2mn into the video and this is probably the roosevelt new deal he's talking about...
The moment I knew was the word "sculpture". Maybe we need to remember more than just glory movies about war, and realize the roads, parks system, power grid, ports and countless reforestation/renewal programs gave us the incomes and standards of living that the right seems to want to take from earners, and give to only wealthy.
Hippy tree planting … the Civilian Conservation Corps!
I caught on with the no living wage no right to exist line.
I called it too!! 🙂
Good on all of you for knowing some of your history.
Let's be Fearless again
You just made me think of my father, who was a lifelong liberal, and who spent a year of his life getting shot at in Northern Europe, simply because it was his duty. To me, he was a great man, and I miss him every day.
Love what your doin! Keep it up bro!!
I don't understand Americans defense of non competitive businesses and how they expect employees to subsidize these businesses who are so uncompetitive they can't afford to pay a living wage
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Many conservatives have been told, so they believe, that companies will raise prices.
I’ve had many conversations with people that understand supply and demand controls prices not costs but they struggle with this concept when it comes to wages.
Any company that can’t sell a product for the price the consumer is willing to pay will go out of business not raise prices.
Damn Beau I always get the same feeling u get after watching the scene in Independence Day where the president gives that epic speech b4 the last stand lol.
That's fucking ridiculous.thrres no propaganda here.
"Independence Day", on the other hand, was as pure a propaganda piece as you'll ever choke on.
My father was born in 1921. He served in the Navy during WWII and in the Air Force during Korea and Vietnam. He grew up in NY city and LOVED FDR as a governor and a president.
Dang, I knew it was an old plan, but I guessed Eisenhower in 1952. He promised a lot of those things too
Well howdy there Beau, it's the Internet people again.
Let's talk about anthropomorphism, and why people associate human like traits with their pets, inanimate objects, and god.
Crimson Halo howdy
Howdy!
@@CaptainBuggyTheClown
You, sir or madam as the case may be, deserve a standing ovation for this. I'll don a hat just to tip it to you.
@@thehellyousay Aaaand a very cheerful howdy to you, too! It's nice to find you so reliably here!
So when your Curious George patch is upside down is that a distress call also?
I noticed that myself, fairly quickly....
I think it means that his tongue will be in his cheek for a while..
To be fair to the contemporary Democrat, it was vastly easier to pass the new deal then it is to pass social welfare spending today. Vast swathes of red America didn't much mind social spending until they were told some of it will go to helping black people.
As you go lower in the social heirarchies people tend to be more desperate to distinguish themselves from the rung right below them. Alot of very conservative areas would rather suffer then get a helping hand if it means the rung below them, which is filled with minorities in their mind, if those people also get a helping hand and thus a chance to thrive and potentially pass up afformentioned conservatives.
Some people can't handle the truth. Thank you for speaking it
Another amazing, thoughtful, insightful, incredibly beautifully spoken video.
Also, loving the patch on your cap. 🙃🙃🙃
You have a good night too, mate.
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"The economic principles of Modern Socialism are a logical deduction from the principle laid down by Adam Smith in the early chapters of his Wealth of Nations,-namely, that labor is the true measure of price....Half a century or more after Smith enunciated the principle above stated, Socialism picked it up where he had dropped it, and in following it to its logical conclusions, made it the basis of a new economic philosophy [...] This seems to have been done independently by three different men, of three different nationalities, in three different languages: Josiah Warren, an American; Pierre J. Proudhon, a Frenchman; Karl Marx, a German Jew... That the work of this interesting trio should have been done so nearly simultaneously would seem to indicate that Socialism was in the air, and that the time was ripe and the conditions favorable for the appearance of this new school of thought. So far as priority of time is concerned, the credit seems to belong to Warren, the American,-a fact which should be noted by the stump orators who are so fond of declaiming against Socialism as an imported article." - Benjamin Tucker; Individual Liberty
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed." - Adam Smith
Socialism ≠ Economic Nationalism. Worker ownership is a form of socialism that still has the condition of capitalism, just a clean version based on individualism while being guided by independence and the law of the harvest, like the free labor party of Lincoln.
FDR's new deal came from a guy Leon Trotsky who fought against Stalin and the communists
Trotsky was a Bolshevik, but he was an anti-authoritarian communist. When Stalin took over instead of Trotsky after Lenin's death, he fled to Mexico and wrote anti-Stalin articles until the NKVD finally assassinated him. But he never fought against the communists, he was one of them. He just hated the direction Stalin was taking them in.
Trotsky would probably have made the USSR a very interesting and far less antagonistic state...
You need a mix of social and capitalist systems to get things done no one system works well by it self !
It's all in the balance without someone leading the constant devide and disrespect.
But yes I agree!
Anthony Woodroffe exactly right, but US conservatives keep resisting that
I am from Gen X and I am ashamed of my generation.
We started well but somewhere along the line we collapsed & have lost our direction
@@robertnewell4054 Being from suburbia we became materialistic and lost sight of people. There were clicks but not community.
Denise Walker sadly I think you’re correct.
Denise
Baby boomer here: we were going to change the world - peace, love, music, back to the land, ....and on, and on... Children of post-war, New Deal
prosperity, we were handed incredible opportunities to learn to go deeper: drafted into, or fighting against, the first war that made Americans feel dirty and small, deprived of a president who had specifically demanded of his generals a plan to end it, of his brother, of a black man who called to something higher and better in ALL of us (and yes, every one of them in his own way flawed). And so as young adults, if we managed to pay any attention at all, we might have actually felt the early rumblings of the re-ascendance of the hard right, biding its time all through the politics and economics they hated, bitter, “victimized,” vengeful...
Peace and love turned into jobs and kids, and our revolution flat-ass just.....went to sleep. We stood slack-jawed as Saint Ronnie made greed and xenophobia signs of patriotism, stayed comfy as Bill and Hillary and their oh-so-hip and realistic friends sold the party of the people to Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Defense, watched - yep, just stood and watched - as what used to be our country re-invented the sickness of colonial war (Kuwait to Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria to Africa, and coming soon to a Venezuela near you; heck, it’s so much fun we’re stealing kids and gassing women and children right here in the lower Lower 48!) And we slept. We sleep still, as the rumblings turned into outright dismantling of constitutional democracy, War has become the sole actual product of our economy, and outright fascism wraps itself in the flag.
So enough already. Do NOT be ashamed, Denise, of your generation. There is MORE than enough blame to go ‘round, and those who would rule us just frickin’ LOOOOOVE blame, shame, and anything else that steals the heart from us. They’ve weaponized shame, hate, fear, division, cynicism.
I am apologizing for all of us who TAUGHT your generation to sleep (because after our little revolutionary flurry, we had ourselves had become so good at it).
All THAT said: Wake up. Get up. Stand up. You and me. OK?
Tim Manion no offense my Respected Elder, but as a committed Gen•X, coming from a family of 8 children, myself the youngest, I have a built in affinity to tell BabyBoomers to go fuck themselves. Your generation has not only been my elder siblings, you’ve been my teachers, Professors, Supervisor’s, Mangers, Directors, CFO, CNO, CMO, CEO & as a whole you folks were self aggrandizing narcissists
Love this plan.
Beau’s voice in Congress would be a must see.
We have the female version..her name is Aoc..but yes..beau in congress would be a huge improvement over some of the GOP..i got mine too bad for you crowd.
Thank you. U such a great teacher. I love listening to you. U keep my brain working.
Historically, fascism is a strictly far right ideology. What we see in the American right of today is actually neo-fascism; it is not mere conservativism.
Beau be breaking his stuff down with a hint of sarcasm,but the perspective he puts in isn't for one to favor a side,but to see through the B.S of American Mythology.
Superior comment alert.
You made me cry. Cry for my father. Cry for the hope that we had in the fifties. Cry for the innovation and can-do spirit, a future that we thought would stretch on forever. Cry for the death of that hope in the 21st century. I'm so glad my parents didn't have to see this. But maybe they saw was what was happening without screaming. As I do now.
My dad fought in Leyte and Okinawa, though he didn't like talking about it. He voted for Adlai Stevenson and all his life dreamed that we would have socialized medicine. After the war and collage, this war vet went on to have the macho job of being a 6th grade school teacher. He fought in war and he fought to get Head Start implemented and more resources for schools and smaller class sizes. I remember asking him why was he so determined to get into that war that he would lie about his age, was it the Nazis, was it Pear Harbor? He replied in his thick west Texas accent, "You've been to Wink Texas (where he was born and raised), wouldn't you seize any opportunity you could to get out and see the world?".
Illuminaty confirmed Curious George upside down, whats this world coming 2? On a serious note as a Welsh guy who has always been interested in uk and us politics your take on things is always dead on and worth listening too
Thank you for listening to us in the US try to get our shit straight Welsh man. I could be part Welsh for all I know.
Hahahahahahahaha...........I died laughing. You got me with the title........
A coworker of mine recommended this channel to me what has to have been two years ago. I’m glad I finally came across it. Really good stuff. I wish guys like this ran for office.
Favorite. Modern. Philosopher. ❤
Hey! I love war movies and I'm an aging liberal snowflake!
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There's nothing like a bunch of people who -despite personal differences and extreme, justifiable fear- join together and go through the epitome of a living hell, just to defend and protect those who can't defend themselves.
@@im.empimp Extremely well said
World ear 2 may have been the only war in human history that featured a genuinely evil faction.
@@thehellyousay - WW2 was certainly the largest war that featured genuinely evil faction, but our troops have also served in smaller wars and in non-combatant areas with genuine evil.
I'm ashamed that I have forgotten, but I served with a Marine who had just come back from either Somalia or Rwanda. From what was shared with me, our troops were simply providing aid in the aftermath and serving as a deterrent force. Regardless, there were unquestionably evil factions involved.
you made me want to look up Websters definition of socialism 🤔
Look around you. Are you a hermit? No?
Then you're a socialist. Period.
Blessings to you and your family. Thank you again for all of these lessons.
I respect your veiws and the dramatic build up was amazing thanks for being imformative and truthful