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Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich (his viewpoint, former Sec of labor) Video—2 3/4 minutes
Youtube ^ | 2022 | Robert Reich

Posted on 09/27/2024 5:47:37 AM PDT by Phoenix8

In the last 50 years, I’ve moved further to the left of center without changing my political views at all. How? The right has moved dangerously close to fascism.

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I remember Reich back in the early Clinton days. I recall I had this impression (seemingly shared by many then) he was wrong and in the wrong camp but brilliant and having a genius like mind.

So I was a bit surprised when I watched this video he created. He comes across to me as a very ordinary intelligence. He also makes a lot of specious claims, devoid of any depth or argument and especially evidence of proofs.

One example is his claim that Regan moved the country “far right” by backing extreme right politicians or trying to reduce the size of government. Yet he gives little or basically no argument why making our government smaller and less encumbered with red tape is an extreme right wing action.

Amazingly he even attacks his old boss Bill Clinton’s tough on crime polices…? What? How is being lawful and enforcing laws being “right”? Again no sources, no logical arguments..just these generalities and broad claims.

The same with his claims on the left. He says the left “has not changed at all”… WTH..Not changed at all? Is this guy suffering from dementia? Critical race theory, gender neutrality theory, diversity equity and inclusion (dei) , free health care, reparations, open borders, packing the SCOTUS, eliminating the delegate system..and I could go on. I don’t remember ANY of this being mainstream in the democratic party in 1982 yet he makes the bizarre claim the democratic party hasn’t moved at all. 🤔

The little leftist has sure shattered the intellectual illusion the media had built up in my mind.

1 posted on 09/27/2024 5:47:37 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

He’s the fascist, Jim.


2 posted on 09/27/2024 5:49:51 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Phoenix8

Reich, in his old age is good for only one thing. Midget bowling.


3 posted on 09/27/2024 5:49:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: Phoenix8

Remember that Hillary Clinton was also the smartest woman in the world.


4 posted on 09/27/2024 5:50:10 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Phoenix8

Ah, the trials and tribulations of a mediocre individual pretending that he matters.


5 posted on 09/27/2024 5:52:39 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Phoenix8

Reich likes to look down on people, but it difficult.................


6 posted on 09/27/2024 5:54:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Phoenix8

During the Biden/Trump debate, I saw him and some lady together YouTubing it and watched about five minutes of it before I had to turn it off. He had a little paddle to hold up with “liar” written on it whenever he felt like Trump lied. It was very gimmicky and just.. I don’t know... performative?


7 posted on 09/27/2024 5:55:44 AM PDT by goodolemr
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To: Phoenix8

Nothing brilliant about any of these people. The only thing is, they have access to the media and we don’t.


8 posted on 09/27/2024 5:57:36 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Maybe dwarf tossing.


9 posted on 09/27/2024 5:57:58 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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He’s the fascist, Jim.

Yep.

Pure projection.

10 posted on 09/27/2024 5:59:41 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Phoenix8

Well let’s be fair, opening the borders and free health care were leftist ideals in the 60s, FDR was trying to pack SCOTUS in the 30s, and the left has always been racist. But yes all the social LGBT crap is new.


11 posted on 09/27/2024 6:00:06 AM PDT by fluffy
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To: Phoenix8
Reich is either ignorant, lying, or both. Fascism is a Leftist ideology that Leftists paint as an ideology of the Right.



12 posted on 09/27/2024 6:01:56 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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I wish the right would act extreme. It would be a nice change of direction. It is impossible to take clowns like this seriously when they say such stupidly false things. With the exception of Trump, who is hardly extreme right, the republicans have primarily become the party of Cheney, Romney McCain, McConnell, Graham. The list goes on and on. When the right is headed by leftists in disguise not even trying to hide their rejection of what they are supposed to stand for, leftist criticism of right extremism is a joke.


13 posted on 09/27/2024 6:03:13 AM PDT by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Nothing brilliant about any of these people. The only thing is, they have access to the media and we don’t.”

Thank you. Truth. Best statement I read in a while.


14 posted on 09/27/2024 6:03:24 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Phoenix8

He’s not suffering from dementia. He’s just incredibly dishonest, like most of the Clintonistas.


15 posted on 09/27/2024 6:03:55 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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The has-been half-pint Robert B Reicccsshhh trying to stay relevant.

Who will we hear from next out of the Clinton rogue’s gallery? Paul (Forehead) Begala? Lanny (There is no poof) Davis? Ron Brown was not available for comment.


16 posted on 09/27/2024 6:09:01 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
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To: Paladin2

This midget and his opinions are worthless... He was part of an administration led by a criminal pervert, who was controlled by his domineering and sexless wife, and the political ‘discourse’ that we endure today was begun by the liberal press and Clinton sycophants like him defending the Clinton’s and their sick, twisted and criminal administration.


17 posted on 09/27/2024 6:14:12 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Maybe dwarf tossing.”


I did that one in a bar in Three Forks, MT after a softball tournament. The title folks got free beer...


18 posted on 09/27/2024 6:16:30 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Phoenix8

before Reich went to work for the clintons, he was in charge of managing Harvard’s investment portfolio, and managed to lose billions of dollars ...


19 posted on 09/27/2024 6:31:15 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Phoenix8

The Berkeley Dwarf lives stupid.


20 posted on 09/27/2024 6:34:18 AM PDT by Zathras
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