So, I know I'm citing Kyle a lot tonight, but he's the one inspiring these posts, but like the other one, I kinda wanna go in my own direction on this. So another video today discussed how MAGA hates young men. It especially focused on republicans demonizing young men in their 30s who live with their parents and play video games all day and don't work. Given, I fit the stereotype of this, I wanted to address the subject.
Kyle approached this from the subject of MAGA actually being bad for young men if that's what they think of them. I have a different take. Yeah, we exist. Young men who dropped out of the work force? We exist. I think Yang pointed out theres actually a few million of us. it's not a ton, only like 2-3% of the population or something, but we exist. And yeah, a lot of us...have been voting MAGA because hey, guess what? WE DROPPED OUT BECAUSE THE ECONOMY ISN'T WORKING FOR US AND DEMOCRATS AREN'T HELPING!
I discussed this with Asmongold's clips. Hell, that's the only reason I find common ground with that guy. I'm not an alt righter. But I understand, when the democrats seem to abandon young men and seem to struggle to reach them, why many of us would go MAGA as an alternative. But MAGA is kind of...the antithesis of what we need. Because at the end of the day, the republicans will cut safety nets and tell us to get a job. And it's kinda funny, but a friend today sent me a link talking about how the republicans just cut "job corps", like how are we even supposed to get a job when they cut tools to get a job.
And let's go beyond that. MAGA. "Make America Great Again", isnt this whole movement originally based on "bringing back the jobs?" So it doesnt make sense that they'd also cut stuff to help people get a job, while telling us to get a job. It doesnt make any sense. Unless you're just some 19th century virtue signaller out of a charles dickens novel. Which...is basically what the republican party is. Let's face it.
The point is, the economy doesnt work. As I said before, there are only so many jobs that can be made before the economy becomes inflationary, and we've already been at or near full employment, with the economy being relatively inflationary the past few years. The economy is the best it's gonna get, and it's still dogcrap for us. Because, again, our society is regressing to a 19th century charles dickens novel.
Which brings us to one Mike Johnson, who was going on about how lazy men playing video games need to get a job and learn the "dignity of work." Kindly F off, mike. Keep your religious bullcrap to yourself. And yes, it's religious. This is protestant work ethic type crap. About how we need to be punished to learn the proper way of doing things, F right off with that, Mike. That kind of mentality just exists to punish the poor and to justify the rich owning the wealth. They're pushing the narrative of young men playing video games as a 2020s version of the "welfare queen" to drum up working class resentment against unemployed people, when in reality, we all should be resentful toward mike johnson, his brand of conservative politics, and the wealthy who control society.
Seriously, the real problem with american capitalism is we give all of the money to the wealthy, expect them to create jobs with it, tell people the wealth will trickle down, blame the poor when it doesnt, and create narratives about how the real problem with society is lazy people. Like, we don't even do anything, literally. But the wealthy like to blame us, because, hey, it's not fair to joe working man that he has to work so hard while someone else just sits on the couch getting free healthcare, so let's punish that person and make them get a job too so we're all miserable!
Why don't we make a society where NO ONE is miserable? And in order to do that, we need to do the opposite. We need universal healthcare, we need basic income. And before the right starts coming in with their "oh yeah, well how are ya gonna pay for it?" I just wanna remind people, I do have funding plans for this stuff. And most working class people would actually be BETTER off, not worse off with it.
Okay? So let's cut the crap about how people like me are the real problem with society. We're not. The real problem is all of these unhealthy attitudes we have toward work, and how we let these psycho republicans run things in the first place. Seriously, stop looking for people to hate on who aren't those at the top of the system who benefit from its current structure. It's just a distraction to drum up resentment, make people angry over nothing, and to cut social programs that not only should we have, we should expand.
Again, I'm not saying that young unemployed men who only play video games don't exist. I'm just saying that rather than blame them and see them as the big problem with American society, we see the fact that they exist in the first place as a symptom of larger economic issues like Andrew Yang pointed out. Because again, I'm as stereotypical as we get with this, and let me just say, we don't get here for no reason. Something in American society isn't working for us to get into these situations.
And beyond that, let's talk about employment in a real way here. Okay, so Kyle Kulinski, he's a political commentator. He doesnt have a traditional job. Making videos is his job. He has a patreon, he makes money off of it.
I don't have a job. But I'm also commenting on politics. But I don't make money off of it.
I'm also working on a book, which intersects with a lot of these subjects. Im not making money on it yet, but I might in the future. Am I unemployed? Technically. But I'm also trying to do something and "make it" in my own way. Who qualifies who has a job and is worthy and who doesn't? Does what really matter is who is successful? If kyle lost his career, would he be unemployed and be unable to get medicaid? What about a less successful content creator like me?
Really. This is where we kinda get into the socialists and their work obsession, but honestly, we dont seem to have a problem with unemployed people as long as they're independently wealthy. We just hate them when it comes to redistribution of wealth, ie, paying taxes. And when we think about that, again, look at the links above, I brought receipts to this convo in terms of what policies I am for. On UBI, it would be a net benefit to the bottom 70% of the income distribution. On Medicare for all, if we implement a plan like I support, or bernie's plan, the employer contribution to healthcare is subject to a flat payroll tax of the same amount. The househouse tax is 4% in bernie's plan, 5% in mine. People currently pay 8% of their incomes on healthcare. So people are actually saving money. The only people who pay more would be relatively wealthy people. Like, this is why these narratives are dumb. Do the math. Think about your own interests here. Unless you're in the top, say, 20-30% of the income distribution, the kinds of universal ideas I am for would help you.
So for the love of god, stop blaming young men playing video games for your problems. We're the last thing you should be caring about. The republicans make up these narratives to justify insane cuts. And honestly, their cuts go further than just us. They wanna cut off many of the so called "deserving poor" off of medicaid too. people are screaming at republican town halls about how these cuts will kill them and we got ghouls like fricking Joni Ernst, the breadbag lady, going on about how "well we're all gonna die..." These people are evil. Literally evil. How many times do I have to say it? Stop listening to them. Stop supporting MAGA. The entire thing is a scam to enrich the already wealthy anyway.
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