Who’s More Radical: The Left or the Right?
What would America look like if the Left got everything it wanted? What would America look like if the Right got everything it wanted? PragerU’s Will Witt fleshes out each of these scenarios in this provocative thought experiment.
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Script:
There are crazy positions on the far left and crazy positions on the far right.
On the left, there are people who believe a man can get pregnant; that the world is going to end in a decade if we don’t cap carbon emissions; that the real purpose of the American Revolution was to preserve slavery.
On the right, there are people who deny the Holocaust happened; who believe that whites are inherently superior to other races; that no one should pay taxes.
But there’s an important difference between these two extremes: The crazies on the right have no voice—they are shunned. They live mostly on the far fringes of the internet. The crazies on the left have a loud voice—they are celebrated. They live in the halls of Congress, in state legislatures, and in governors’ mansions.
In light of this distinction, it might be interesting to ask ourselves this question: Which group, the left or the right, is more radical?
We can arrive at a commonsense answer by posing this thought experiment: What would America look like if the left got everything it wanted, and what would America look like if the right got everything it wanted?
Let’s start with the left.
Taxes would go up on individuals and corporations to pay for more social programs—everything from universal childcare to free college tuition. Many on the left call for income taxes as high as 70%. Private health insurance would be abolished; the government would provide all health care services. Everyone in the medical field—doctors, nurses, and administrators—would be government employees. Americans would pay for this government health care through much higher taxes.
Illegal immigration would be decriminalized. It would still be illegal to enter the country without proper documentation, but no one who made it into the US would be prosecuted for doing so. Illegal immigrants would also receive free health care, free education, and free housing.
The Green New Deal would be adopted. Hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies for wind and solar power would be added to the federal budget. Drilling for fossil fuels, the current source of 80% of our energy, would be sharply curtailed or eliminated altogether. So would nuclear power. As a result, consumers’ electric bills would be much higher.
Reparations would be paid for the past injustice of slavery. How it would be paid—and exactly to whom—is not clear. Legally acquiring a gun would become much more difficult. College debt would be cancelled. Those who had already paid for college would get nothing.
Transgender women—biological men who identify as women—would be allowed to compete against women in sports. America’s military budget would be slashed by 25 to 50%. Speech codes would be enforced throughout American life.
And that’s just a partial list.
Now let’s ask what would happen if the right got what it wanted.
Income taxes would be cut. Capital gains taxes would be cut. Corporate taxes would be cut. And those cuts would be made permanent. All regulations that make doing business unnecessarily difficult and don’t protect public health would be repealed. The issue of abortion would be sent back to the states for each state to decide its own abortion rules for itself.
Many more charter schools would be opened, and it would become much easier to fire bad teachers. In order to vote, citizens would need to present a valid ID. The border with Mexico would be secured. The only way to enter the United States would be through designated border crossings. In order to qualify for welfare assistance, you would have to prove you could not work.
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I don’t think you even define what “left” and “right” even mean. Do you mean economics or cultural values? Someone who Denies the Holocaust, Wants no taxes whatsoever, and wants more military intervention would never agree in American politics. Neocons, Ancaps, and Neo-Nazis are all rivals. Also, Social Liberals aren’t “Far left either”. If you want “Far left”, look up Ancom, ML, etc. Even for the “cultural far-left”, without the economics, you can look up Futurism.
I hate both communism and theocracy, so neither lol.
What are your sources, this isn't a good video
Thank you comrade for the best leftist promotion video ever! Bernie Sanders salutes you!
Yep
ew what is this democrat propaganda
Which country I want to live in you ask?
Hmmmph… the left's country sounds pretty good ngl
they accidentally made the left look better than the right lmfaoooooooo
"The left has crazy positions like historically and scientifically accurate information, while the right has actual Nazis and genocide enthusiasts. The right is definitely less radical. I am very smart." 🤡🤡🤡
Leftist America
On the far-left, you have those who believe in trans people and climate change. On the far-right, you have Nazis.
❤❤😂😂😂😂😊😊😊
Bro even when they lie about the left they still make it look good😂
The crazy leftist positions of gender existing, scientific reality and a middle school history lesson versus white supremacy, history denial and… Well okay the tax thing is not so crazy but you get the idea
So we glossed over the holocaust denial and white supremacy huh? Interesting
This video literally (at 1:53) shows an immigrant father with his two young children in the back of a truck and says that, if the Left wins, they would get free healthcare, education and housing. Then argues that this, somehow, is a bad thing. And yet, this was the founding principle of the United States. It then appears, by implication, to suggest that if the radical left didn't win, they would all be going to Jail. And that this is a good thing.
Oh yes, and the idea that white supremacists getting absolute power would lead to "Lower Taxes"…. That's a whole new level of stupid right there!
Far left should be explained more because no nuclear power and only wind and solar would not be enough ?
What would happen if the left "got their way" : healthcare and social saftey nets
If the right "got their way" : genocide, literally just genocide and work camps.
just about everything in the country if the left for what it wanted sounds based for one reason or another
If their goal was to frame the left as the bad guys and the right as the good guys, then they successfully failed.
If the left got everything they wanted:
– free healthcare, housing and education
– guaranteed employment
– 15 $/hour minimum wage
– strong legal protections for labor unions
– nationalization of key banks and industries
– green new deal
– 60-70 % tax rate for the top 1 % (ONLY the top 1 %)
– >50 % cuts to the military budget
If the right got everything they wanted:
– elimination of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
– elimination of the minimum wage
– constitutional ban on abortion and same-sex marriage
– nationwide right-to-work laws, legal bans on labor unions
– voting rights stripped for minorities and anyone who disagrees with fracking billionaires
– genocide against Mexicans and African Americans
You people in the comments don't understand. He said in the beginning what is radical on the left and on the right. Then when he stated the policies that would be in place if one of the parties would be in charge but not from the radical perspectives of the parties just from the normal left and normal right. Also I would really people to explain to me why the left is so good. The only good thing at the left is the fact that you have free health care and free college. That's it. We in Europe have free education and free health care and we are right wing, at least most countries. Free health care and free education should not be a leftist thing. It should be for everyone!
Oh this is right wing propaganda I almost fell for it barely but almost
PragerU – if ur far-left then u want a man to be pregnant
Me, a Yugoslav Communist – no, that's not how communism works
Its obvious, the left is trying to destroy this country. Look at Canada.
Are you suggesting we let holocaust deniers and white supremacists into congress and celebrate them?
chad video
This video was just one long fart reverb.
no one thinks the world will end in a decade, and no one thinks no one should pay taxes…
but obviously radical conservatives are a dangerous insane treasonous majority of conservatives
Maybe because those positions on the left are not far left, these are just mild liberal points
Ahhh the radical right fighting for freedom… Freedom: Guns, god, Gas stoves and Applebees .. god I love Americans
Basically what I got from this is …. You’re a conservative and you hate libs …
Both need to breath a fresh air
Look, even though I am a Classical Liberal, which is a faction of the right wing, this video is kind of stupid because you are talking about what a terrible radical leftist like AOC or Illad Omar would do, and you are comparing that to someone on the center right side, what you should be doing is talking about what the true radical right want and compare that with the radical left. This is not how we stand up to the left. Also the far right has tons and tons of political clout and power, they might even have more than the far left.
“On the right, there are people who deny The Holocaust happened”
We know, they’re making videos for you
Radical leftwing groups generally consist of persons who are involved in a subconscious conflict with their parents and are involved in groups that provide them with an expression for this rebellion. On the other hand, radical rightwing groups frequently include entire families and are somewhat like cults. Leftist groups engage in protracted sessions of self-criticism, while rightist groups spend their time falsely reinforcing their self-image as genuine and dedicated. Both left and right domestic terrorist groups are the leader, the activist-operator, and the idealist. Members of leftwing groups tend to be better educated than members of rightwing groups. Those on the right tend to be more compulsive, while those on the left are more meticulous planners. Rightwing groups tend to be more violent, although leftwing groups more frequently target law enforcement as the willing tool of the oppressive regime. Both left and right groups try to achieve some level of solidarity with similarly oriented political organizations. Leftist groups are concentrated in the urban areas, while rightist groups are more commonly found in rural areas. Leftwing groups tend to not use biblical scriptures to justify their actions, and rightwing groups are usually radical fundamentalists who seek to justify their actions with quotes from Biblical scriptures.
U are saying bullshits true leftists and Anti capitalists hate corporacys
😂 you got to love this stuff. white supremacy is on par with eco-activists. learned something new.