Rebuttal to the “Most Honest Three Minutes in Television”
Great acting sure, but terrible ideology. This 3 minute youtube video is edited, less convincing in it’s original form with him hallucinating about the lady in the audience writing him cue cards.
First, I am sick of the profanity. His language is unacceptable.
The video is about a forum, apparently on a college campus, where a conservative, a liberal and a TV show guy are being asking questions, moderated by a fourth person. The left are right are shown to be endlessly bickering. A girl asks why America is great. The first answer from the is the best. America is the greatest nation because of freedom. Short and simple. If our standing is diminished, it is because of loss of freedoms. The man in the video (Will?) claims that all countries have freedom. Not true, and which would you move to? None. He lists some great countries and I am glad that they are allies. They have some freedom but they are less free than the United States. I would love to visit Australia, but they have a gun control problem, in that the government restricts gun ownership. Perhaps because everyone knows that Australia is entirely peopled with thieves.
Will lists some stats about education, none of which are meaningful. Are these numbers from mandatory, high stakes testing that we all revere so much? What matters with his statements is results. US produces the best equipment, cars, technology etc. The US is not 178th in infant mortality. It’s a lie but the numbers on infant mortality are misleading. US has the best medicine and the highest regard for human life. We try to save even the most hopeless of cases and have incredible success. We are constantly improving and teaching the rest of the world how it is done. There are some bad numbers for infant deaths in the US but in most countries these don’t even count as viable pregnancies. Stats and lies. I am not sure what being fourth in labor force even means.
Where do we lead the world? He lists three. First, incarceration rate. Maybe we need to get some religion back in schools and teach people some good behavior. Impossible to say what he meant by this. Does he think we have an increase in bad ethics or unlawful imprisonment? Not sure. Is it about drugs? If so, I have little sympathy; the marijuana obsession needs to stop. Second, Americans believe in angels. Good, I am Christian so I believe in angels and I think it is a good thing if people do. Third, defense spending. I think we spend too much on weapons but much of our budget is spent defending the next twenty five countries combined. We don’t use the funds to attack them. And again the numbers he gives are not correct. The two countries behind us are not our allies. That would be Russia and China and they are currently being aggressive militarily.
We don’t wage war on the poor. He says we used to wage war on poverty instead. Yeah, that was tried. A huge socialist failure. It was never designed to help the poor, and they still are poor. That is the goal of socialism. Will lists a lot of good things that America has done. Art, building, technology, space exploration. He says, “We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed.” I don’t get it. Informed is pretty vague. Informed about what? What are we not informed about now? He says in the next sentence “by great men” but he doesn’t say who they were and why they were revered. I think Washington is great but some think that Marx or Cronkite was. It’s meaningless without some context. My guess is that if you find his statement profound it is because you are thinking of someone you think is great and you would love to have learned from them. But I am certain it is not the same revered person as the liberal was thinking of when he wrote the script.
I think America is still the greatest country in the world. We have problems, and I agree with him that the first step in solving a problem is recognizing it. One of the biggest problems, in my opinion, is that people don’t value liberty.
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