I am not sure how YouTube comes up with its recommended connecting links, but it has come up with some weird stuff lately. I often go on there prepared to hear the other side of the argument, but I am never convinced that the opposing view even comes close to the truth, and often is simply based upon flawed, if not totally fallacious, logic.
Anyway, the three particular individuals whom I seem to keep getting recommended to me, and whom YouTube would be advised to keep away from my vision, are as follows:
1. Adolf Hitler. Enough said, really, but it is amazing how many people still seem to regard the biggest political thug of the 20th century as a heroic figure and it leaves you almost speechless. People are THAT STUPID?
2. Margaret Thatcher. The worst British Prime Minister of the 20th century, the creator of mass unemployment on a scale equalling anything in the 1930s (with all the associated poverty, degradation and hopelessness), and the creator of an economy based upon unsustainably ludicrous amounts of private debt, and, of course, usury.
3. Milton Friedman, an economic guru whose philosophy was put into practice by his political followers - a philosophy which brought the world economy crashing down under a huge pile of debt in 2008. His beliefs are firmly based upon the trickle-down nonsense of which some politicians were so fond in the 1980s, and still has its adherents. The fact remains that the amount that trickles down is so minimal that even the majority of people in the middle have seen their livelihoods squeezed.
I think that it gives me the Friedman links as I have spent some time listening to the excellent Joseph Stiglitz and his analysis of what is wrong firstly with American, and by extension the global, economy.
But the two are poles apart. Stiglitz is firmly in the camp of economic sense, Friedman in the camp of economic elitism.
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