I think I see my sister among the half-dozen attendees. I notice that the video began with thanks to the LGBTQ community. She and her partner are part of the LGBTQ community in Asheville, where they complain bitterly about the Trump apocalypse seated on leather upholstery in the swank living room of their quarter million dollar home in a gated community. My sister moved there from Chicago.
Maintaining friendly relations with my sister allows me to gain insight to the mind of the American leftist. First and foremost, they live in a bubble where no dissent is allowed. In fact, she rarely watches the news from any source, although All Things Considered is on the car radio. Conservatives, Christians, and Republicans are hated. Interestingly, or predictably, my sister and her partner heap contempt on their southern neighbors as inbred hayseeds.
One moment stands out. I was visiting her home when Charles Krauthammer died. Her partner looked at my sister and said, “You know what they say - one death at a time.” And it was at that moment I truly understood how an ordinary person would happily enslave another human being, push someone into the gas chambers, or murder a neighbor for having a different religious or political belief. Hannah Arendt was correct about the banality of evil.
You will also find not one of them is knowledgeable about history, either. Zero intellectual curiosity about what went before, why great societies were built or collapsed, the immutable aspects of human nature, why people flee totalitarianism for freedom, how freedom and liberty can disappear.
My oldest daughter is like that. She accused me of not listening to her positions. I simply told her I don’t brook communism or totalitarianism, our family fled that 75 years ago, and there is no way she can convince me those are good systems for humans.