Trump & the Problem with Politics | Philosophy Tube
The Presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has revealed something interesting about politics. The ideas of philosopher (and Nazi) Carl Schmitt, and the black activist Kwame Ture, can help us understand how the right-wing and left-wing criticise liberalism…
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Transcript for this Episode: http://tinyurl.com/juuvyeu
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (http://tinyurl.com/zuyc6ow) and The Concept of the Political (http://tinyurl.com/hzgs2mk)
Kwame Ture, Stokely Speaks (http://tinyurl.com/jkql8ys)
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (http://tinyurl.com/jhn2jxb)
Falguni Sheth, Toward A Political Philosophy of Race (http://tinyurl.com/jkost9q)
Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law & Politics (http://tinyurl.com/zxf8x4e)
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@kazerniel
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
4:00 "How are you gonna cope when someone genuinely says that they don't believe trans people exist and that they shouldn't have rights?"
I "love" that we're still having to deal with a sea of transphobic crap in the UK almost a decade after this video…
@sststr
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
It is interesting to observe how over the past year+ now, it is those who call themselves leftists who are calling for the extermination of the Jews and the eradication of Israel. The wheel turns, does it not?
@purpletwig
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Damn, it's happening again
@keziahdelaney8174
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
He just pointed out things that the left has hardwired as an ideology and how to make politics where as cuckservatives indoctrinated by Liberalism believe "in the marketplace of ideas". Dissidents have a lot to learn from Schmitt, Heidegger, Dr Richardo Duchesne, Dugin, Joseph De Maistre from their critic to Liberalism. Or continue to be dehumanized, inprisoned and seing their countries being stolen from 'em by Marxists and Liberals.
@livpeake8108
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
this reminds me of Moritz theory white sight
@MidasDanielGhysels
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Yes
@LungaMasilela
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
"Not only do we accept poverty, we even find it normal "
To this day I am amazed at how humans can allow poverty to exist. Even things such as inflation, it really amazes me.
@hunnybadger442
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
When the cruelty is the point…
There's not much you can due to fight and defeat such pointless and irrational hate
Because you can not reason with unreasonable…
You can not shame the shameless…
And you can't argue logically with liers…
Who's followers and supporters have lost all touch with reality itself…
How do you even begin that battle… Where truth, justice, compassion or even seeing others as fellow human beings… These rabid dogs have been set loose upon an unsuspecting world… As far too many kept denying the true nature of the dangerous, disastrous delusion, warrior mentalies that are attacking our citizens… Destroyng lives and communities and tearing the country apart at the seam… People always find solace in the denialistic mantra of…
"O that could never ever happen here"… And my response has always been and always goes unheeded…
"Yeah, until it does"…
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me…
By
Pastor Martin Niemoller…
We tried to warn you…
But you didn't listen…
No one even listens…
Until it's too late…
@angelsalvaje
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Thank you•!°
@peternyc
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
This is a brilliant video and reveals how dangerous the right is.
@mhall383
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
So… what color did you decide to paint your doomsday bunker Abigail?
@TurtleChoom
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Watching this as a US American Transwoman after watching Ron DeSantis try to create his own Brownshirts and Trump threatening to stop gender affirming care, it's surreal to see how much has changed in the world.
@lain54831
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
2:41 team fortress 2 reference
@blank4227
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
(the foreign threat to Germany was the Soviet Union actually, which many Jews supported both directly and indirectly)
@liamsweeney4754
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Subpar explanation video that just turns into straight up propaganda quite quickly, immediately the description of friend enemy distinction is incorrect, and then it gets worse from there
@PrecariousPorcupine
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
You clearly don’t understand the Right wing in American politics. You paint them all as racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic. That’s not the case at all. Sure, there are racist people on the right, but they’re a minority.
Also, Trump didn’t “ban Muslims” you’re clearly very ignorant on what actually happened. Trump enacted an Obama era travel ban from a few Muslim majority countries that had large extremist/terrorist groups. If this is so racist why didn’t Obama get bashed for doing it?
Everyone is so eager to paint right wingers as evil monsters, when literally we’re not. I don’t know a single racist, sexist, homophobe, or xenophobe.
But you know what I do know? My president just gave a speech to the whole country saying that “MAGA Republicans” (that’s roughly 70 million Trump supporters) are a threat to democracy. We’re called domestic terrorists. We’re demonized on a daily basis as racist and homophobic. We’re being dehumanized not just by regular people, but by our own government. I pray this doesn’t end the way I think it will.
@julianborges1569
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Greg Abbott said absolutely nothing wrong, and your interpretation is insane. He is not even particularly outspoken to my knowledge, and if the fact men can never be women and vice versa upsets you, it's no wonder that it strikes you as bigotry. It's not a partisan thing.
@AR-vm7tk
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
So with the left you can stop being their enemy by giving up all possesions and doing whatever is demanded of you, how generous and mercyful
@alexgee3111
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
idk abby some extreme lefties are misandrists so you'd have to give up your gender identity or maybe your sex or maybe just die for them. It's not as concrete as you say I only think you are generally correct here
@xslimshady18x2
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
I saw one dimensional political perspectives, group identity, generational guilt, and straw manning like no other in this video
@aaendi6661
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Didn't watch the video yet, but shouldn't it be "problems" with politics since there are more than one?
@garnix5612
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Interesting – I am disabled, but the only ones who got me the feel that I should seize to exist were lefties who didn't like when I expressed my concerns about their eco-friendly reforms for mobility.
I am basically f*cked by both sides of the political spectrum, so I am punching at both sides.
@mordcore
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
schmitts really said "oh crap! some enemy group is gonna come along and take us over." and then he went and became that enemy group
@danwylie-sears1134
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
The meaning of "liberalism" that's consistently used on this channel is many decades out of date. Also, in the US, the Overton window has moved so far to the right that actual liberals are now part of the "far left".
@erinwedekind
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
"Refugees are to be taken in and cared for." Oh, 2016.
@Firmus777
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Incredible. You took possibly the greatest critic of liberalism and defanged him by completely ignoring any call for action and by shying away from the importance war and killing your enemies has on the political. You also defanged the far left by saying everyone can be reformed, by depoliticizing it, by moving it away from Schmitt. Meanwhile you make Trump actually sound good and not just another liberal who maintained the parliamentary system just as Bush and Obama did before him. And even when you talk about liberalism your complaints are diametrically opposed to Schmitt's complaints thus denying all the problems Schmitt saw with liberalism.
I would advise everyone to go and read Schmitt. As well as Marx, Lenin, Mao, Deng and others.
@yt_Ajay_
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
I was not expecting Red Vs Blue to be referenced in this video, but certainly a welcome surprise.
@kadran3263
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
This is Social Identity Theory, as far as I understand it. When someone identifies with a group, that group becomes an extension of that person's psyche and they defend that group, or ideology, with their lives. Neoliberalism employs a lot of propaganda which deliberately obfuscates the consequences of deregulation, promotes the vilification of social welfare and wellbeing, and ignores the moral cost of exploitation. Being indifferent requires such little effort.
@peterthegreat996
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
The problem liberals have in the USA – they like and enjoy the good live too . And when the talking is over most liberals walk home to their gated communities, too.
@Ian_sothejokeworks
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
I love the idea of Brexit: British people feared outsiders so much, they decided to turn all of Europe into outsiders.
@tkz4_on_osu295
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
No one from the right wing saying that brown, disabled, etc people need to stop existing??? Wtf is this bs????!
@LogicGated
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Hit the nail on the head.
@yoinksscoob4889
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Schmitt talking a load of Schmitt
@robot7759
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
The tragedy of the human as a social being, we need us & them.
@D91991
August 14, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Lies.
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