Nah, this is a shit video. I listened through it all (in spite of the needless verbal abuse and finger-pointing in the latter half of the video). He’s right about AOC and Mamdani, sure, but it isn’t “prediction” to observe that they’re capitulating and call attention to that. There’s nothing special there as analysis.
After he spends minutes repetitively ranting and rephrasing the same thing, he goes on to say that USians fall for this basically because they don’t actually care and are sort of fake caring about international issues to feel better. It’s idealist dreck where he’s more or less accusing people of not reshaping reality through individual willpower and insulting them over it. One could take the same kind of nonsense speech and point it at comprador states that haven’t overthrown their comprador ruling class. The reality is it’s more complicated than whether some people want to change things and this is him just indulging in his platform to do an “off my chest” style rant that is more fitting to say to a friend than what you say to the public.
I mean, suppose he’s completely right about USians and all of them who purport to care about international issues are a bunch of fakers who “just don’t want better outcomes for the world badly enough.” Is insulting and scolding them about it going to change their behavior? No. So even with the presumption that his take is accurate, it’s still little more than indulgent trash TV.
Was thinking about it more: His solution is incoherent too. It amounts to “make a different political party.” So his analysis doesn’t even go as far as understanding why electoralism tends to fail under capitalism.
I don’t like BE but hes on the money here.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
