The engines towards gay marriage are: victimization through AIDS (making it "mean" to deny marriage--or anything else--to them), entertaining images of gay through popular culture ("Will & Grace," "Birdcage," "The L-Word," "Queer As Folk," etc.), the decline of religious faith because of (...fill in the blank), feminism that questioned the female in marriage, the infantilization & feminization of males, the spread of birth control which eliminates the inevitability of children in marriage, etc.
They need to teach Sowell's work in schools if nothing else to demonstrate the imperative need for critical thinking in modern society. Children, do not believe everything you hear. Look at the facts and find the underlying truth, as Sowell does.
Wilson was one of the worst presidents... passing the 17th amendment which essentially took away states' rights. Where is the representation of the individual state governments? Sowell is a genius. Obama is a Marxist.
I hope that there are those who will take his place as he passes but I have very little to almost no faith in American youth who have been indoctrinated into a different logic and reality.
funny how viewers are always ready on you tube too shoot the messenger....if you don't like the vid...shut it off, then get a job, and a hobby, and spend time with your family and friends....or is this your entire pathetic life???!!!
The last bit was beautiful and so true, about how we should vote on the basis of out minds not on rhetoric and symbolism - this happens so often nowadays, people assume the politicians know best and they have thought it through so it must work. It doesn't. The voters need to use their minds, and that is a powerful thing.
uhhh I love Thomas Sowell, but why the hell do gay people get dragged, unfavorably, into every argument? I mean it is absolutely psychotic. Most of the gay people I know wouldn't hurt a fly and yet we are always viewed as the worst threat on the planet. Don't bother attacking me because I/we don't need your freaking approval.
Don't think he painted any unfavorable picture of gay people, he just pointed out the whole absurdity surrounding the phony concept advanced under the label "gay marriage", a logical impossibility
@jamo387 "push their lifestyle and morality on the majority"? The opposite is true. If homosexuals can marry, what effect does this have on your life? What is imposing upon you when same-sex couples can get married? Would the mere idea that such unions existed legally be a burden on your mind? If that's true then grow up. Your line of argument is is at best demagoguery, at worst bigotry, and is (I think) motivated by insecurity.
At the very least gay marriage is a mockery, and to some extent, however big or small, will further demoralize and destabilize society as a whole, more and more as time goes on.
It's also interesting to me that not so long ago no one was talking about gay marriage... only when leftists realized what a powerful political tool (re: weapon) it could be did people start pretending to care about it. It's never the relevant people who start the complaining, nor do the brunt of it... curious, indeed.
I am a big fan of Sowell, but his views on gay marriage, especially considering he likes to call himself a libertarian, irritate me.
He wants the views of others to decide what extent people can join themselves? The libertarian answer is to have government stay out of it, people sign contracts and join themselves to whatever extent they wish and then religious institutions choose whether they want recognize the union and whether they will hold the ceremony.
Sowell calls himself a Libertarian? Uhh, I know that other people do, i don't know that he does. He is a Burkean Conservative more than anything else, and his arguments on the subject of same sex marriage reflect that. You can't demand that government stay out of something that it has instituted unless you just want to abolish the civil institution.
@Califacience He has called himself a libertarian but said that he disagreed with libertarians on foreign policy. He also said, in a C-SPAN interview which is on youtube btw, that he's a believer in maximum freedom. As for his stance on homosexuality, I would focus more on his morals than on his politics. I remember reading an article where he said that homosexuality is a "lifestyle". Homosexuals run the schools and they somehow... "teach" students to... "follow" their "lifestyle".
Where has he called himself a Libertarian exactly ? The fact that he claims to believe in "maximum freedom" puts him on equal footing with countless Conservatives I could name who also make that claim so this doesn't make your point. I am not interested in trying to evaluate ulterior motives for beliefs, I am interested in the arguments a person brings to the table for them. That is what defines a rational society.
"A "Community Organizer" simply collects RESENTMENTS and 'organizes' them in order to get what they want from other people". Absolutely 1000% spot-on.
George Bush or for that fact any member of the Bush family is honorable is a downright lie to say such a thing. is completely dishonest and completely in the dark of this evil familys history. Ronald Reagan was a down right lier and the pedastal that he is put on is a house of cards. This country has not had a great statesman it seems forever, I can't remember who or when we did have a "leader"
@mikeoli Wonderful spelling, there chief. Excellent arguments as well. Granted, you did nothing but throw out your emotionally-driven personal hatred for several people and the administrations they ran, but hey, who needs facts and evidence? My own views? Reagan was good on a number of things, principally the demise of the Soviets. W Bush was good on a number of things but not nearly so much as Reagan. Bush also buckled on a number of serious issues like Medicare and bailouts.
So, the House and the Senate can't read and discuss 2 bills, each a thousand pages long in a year? I wonder how much each Senator and each Congressman gets paid. And this proves OBAMA has contempt for the values and principles of America?
@dfctomm Sowell is not a 'conservative', he is a liberal in the classical european sense: someone in favour of liberty generally and more specifically liberty or freedom from government interference. A liberal like Dr Friedman, Obama is, by contrast, not a classical liberal but a modern American one: a person who is liberal with other people's money, whose ideological crusades are grounded in hubris and emotion, not in any factual observations.
@ MultiUniv3rsal You, if course, have evidence otherwise? I would try and point to the British Empire but it was clearly the weaker sister among te allies. The Soviets relied on American I distrust to feed, clothe, and arm their war effort. Even Germany could not keep up with American production. Whom else is there?
@MultiUniv3rsal It's hard to guage, but it probably was. Although its military was not as mobilized as say, Germany or Japan at the time... despite of the setbacks of the depression many places in the world were hit even harder and the industrial base was perhaps the strongest.
It seems to me specifying class differences based on sexual preference, ie that the legal union of same sex couplings is to be considered different or inferior to that of opposite sex couples is a contradiction to the first amendment.
I see no basis for this taboo outside of Judeo-Christian mores, and by definition those cannot be established by the US federal government. I shouldn't have to explain why as that is in the first amendment, and echoed in the treaty with tripoli.
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I fail to see how a century-old treaty with a long-since dissolved state, containing a clause tailored to prevent religion from causing any needless tension with a Muslim nation, has any bearing on the very recently raised suggestion of same-sex marriage. For all your historical posturing, framing heterosexual marriage as an exclusively Judeo-Christian religious artifact, you fail to recall nearly every civilization since the Sumerians who married man and wife.
@NikovK Hi NikovK: I can't speak for Gaiuslulius, but for myself I say that the seperation of Church and State is vital to a free society. Gay marraige (like abortion) is one of those wedge issues used to mobilise religious opinion and impose it on the whole of the electorate. Justice Vaughn Walker made what seems to me to be an excellent ruling, founded on the constitution and the law, not on religious opinion and prejudice. @ Dr Sowell: Either your nation is secular or it is not. Which is it?
One does not seek to impose the status quo, it already exists. One seeks to impose a change. Marriage is an institution that has existed for millenia under it's present definition. Uprooting it and redefining it over night is a revolutionary move, and inconsistent with the practical Burkean Conservatism that Sowell has always championed.
Second, there are a host of fallacies, assumptions and dichotomies in your last two sentences. Read the ACTUAL arguments of Sowell, Arkes and others on this
Just had the thought of a world where Bin Laden was alive and Iran had nuclear weapons. Pretty scary
AnonymanForeverlol 1 week ago
The engines towards gay marriage are: victimization through AIDS (making it "mean" to deny marriage--or anything else--to them), entertaining images of gay through popular culture ("Will & Grace," "Birdcage," "The L-Word," "Queer As Folk," etc.), the decline of religious faith because of (...fill in the blank), feminism that questioned the female in marriage, the infantilization & feminization of males, the spread of birth control which eliminates the inevitability of children in marriage, etc.
andrjsh 1 month ago
Why do Peter Robinson seems so patronizing. is he just arogant. He is typical of white who are priviledge.
comptonproduction 2 months ago
"it doesnt matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."
I like that
cmmorty99 2 months ago
Does he advocate a preventive war with Iran or did I misunderstand?
ElJefer 3 months ago
@ElJefer Sure seems like it.
ctb619 2 months ago
Love him!! He is a Rockstar :-)
gogogirlsyeah 6 months ago 5
Great advice. Hey Obama ! "Resign"...
jamo387 6 months ago 3
It's amazing how Thomas Sowell Youtube videos gets a mere 20,000 hits, but garbage like Jersey Shore is adored and praised by the American public.
ahhhitsjay 6 months ago 2
They need to teach Sowell's work in schools if nothing else to demonstrate the imperative need for critical thinking in modern society. Children, do not believe everything you hear. Look at the facts and find the underlying truth, as Sowell does.
dukatz1 7 months ago 4
Wilson was one of the worst presidents... passing the 17th amendment which essentially took away states' rights. Where is the representation of the individual state governments? Sowell is a genius. Obama is a Marxist.
Brontefan47 8 months ago
9:57-10:05 best quote ever!
sfreak451 8 months ago 4
@brucedeshayes
Both the average European and the average American are poorly informed, they only differ in political bent.
And the "average American" is not listening to Thomas Sowell
periechontology 9 months ago
@periechontology because we have a liberalized education.
lankness1 4 months ago
I hope that there are those who will take his place as he passes but I have very little to almost no faith in American youth who have been indoctrinated into a different logic and reality.
TerrierToughGuy 9 months ago
funny how viewers are always ready on you tube too shoot the messenger....if you don't like the vid...shut it off, then get a job, and a hobby, and spend time with your family and friends....or is this your entire pathetic life???!!!
Den12tribe 9 months ago
This guy is phenomenol. Go Sowell.
stockinettestitch 10 months ago
I agree with Sowell on just about everything, EXCEPT foreign policy. NO WAY does the US or Israel have the RIGHT to bomb Iran...
crystalcalia 11 months ago
@crystalcalia But they have the right to bomb us or Israel??? Because they've made it CRYSTAL clear that that is exactly what they will do.
stockinettestitch 10 months ago
@crystalcalia does iran have the right to bomb israel? like they say they want to do...
HanStanwell 8 months ago
@HanStanwell No one has the "right" to bomb anyone
pretorious700 8 months ago
"when in Rome tell the Romans what to do" hahaha perfect
Sinamatics 11 months ago
The last bit was beautiful and so true, about how we should vote on the basis of out minds not on rhetoric and symbolism - this happens so often nowadays, people assume the politicians know best and they have thought it through so it must work. It doesn't. The voters need to use their minds, and that is a powerful thing.
Tracywithafacey 11 months ago
a community organizer is someone who mobilizes resentments within a community in order to try to get something from other people.
accurate definition.
Aphoresis 11 months ago
What a mind this man has!
sammyh1982 1 year ago
Awesome. Thank you.
sportsbettingman 1 year ago
Peter Robinson is such a great interviewer. Kieth Olbermann should watch and take notes.
syghur 1 year ago 6
uhhh I love Thomas Sowell, but why the hell do gay people get dragged, unfavorably, into every argument? I mean it is absolutely psychotic. Most of the gay people I know wouldn't hurt a fly and yet we are always viewed as the worst threat on the planet. Don't bother attacking me because I/we don't need your freaking approval.
Noodleydoo 1 year ago
@Noodleydoo He just pointed out that the gay marriage issue is the people's issue.
xleax 1 year ago
@Noodleydoo
Don't think he painted any unfavorable picture of gay people, he just pointed out the whole absurdity surrounding the phony concept advanced under the label "gay marriage", a logical impossibility
vjfperez 1 year ago 3
@Noodleydoo When gay people stop trying to push their lifestyle and morality on the majority heterosexual population, they will be left alone.
jamo387 6 months ago
@jamo387 "push their lifestyle and morality on the majority"? The opposite is true. If homosexuals can marry, what effect does this have on your life? What is imposing upon you when same-sex couples can get married? Would the mere idea that such unions existed legally be a burden on your mind? If that's true then grow up. Your line of argument is is at best demagoguery, at worst bigotry, and is (I think) motivated by insecurity.
rilmatz1 5 months ago
@rilmatz1 How is anything being imposed upon gays by the state observing the definition of marriage that has always existed.
Onieracraft 5 months ago
At the very least gay marriage is a mockery, and to some extent, however big or small, will further demoralize and destabilize society as a whole, more and more as time goes on.
It's also interesting to me that not so long ago no one was talking about gay marriage... only when leftists realized what a powerful political tool (re: weapon) it could be did people start pretending to care about it. It's never the relevant people who start the complaining, nor do the brunt of it... curious, indeed.
regresseur 1 year ago
I am a big fan of Sowell, but his views on gay marriage, especially considering he likes to call himself a libertarian, irritate me.
He wants the views of others to decide what extent people can join themselves? The libertarian answer is to have government stay out of it, people sign contracts and join themselves to whatever extent they wish and then religious institutions choose whether they want recognize the union and whether they will hold the ceremony.
MatM926 1 year ago
@MatM926
Sowell calls himself a Libertarian? Uhh, I know that other people do, i don't know that he does. He is a Burkean Conservative more than anything else, and his arguments on the subject of same sex marriage reflect that. You can't demand that government stay out of something that it has instituted unless you just want to abolish the civil institution.
Califacience 1 year ago
@Califacience He has called himself a libertarian but said that he disagreed with libertarians on foreign policy. He also said, in a C-SPAN interview which is on youtube btw, that he's a believer in maximum freedom. As for his stance on homosexuality, I would focus more on his morals than on his politics. I remember reading an article where he said that homosexuality is a "lifestyle". Homosexuals run the schools and they somehow... "teach" students to... "follow" their "lifestyle".
LordofEmynArnen 11 months ago
@LordofEmynArnen
Where has he called himself a Libertarian exactly ? The fact that he claims to believe in "maximum freedom" puts him on equal footing with countless Conservatives I could name who also make that claim so this doesn't make your point. I am not interested in trying to evaluate ulterior motives for beliefs, I am interested in the arguments a person brings to the table for them. That is what defines a rational society.
Califacience 9 months ago
Thank you, Thomas Sowell. You are very intelligent, yet have common sense. Very unusual these days.
lvgolden 1 year ago
Thomas Sowell, please move to England. Cheers.
Thatcheriteme 1 year ago
Excellent!!!!!!!!
mysonseth 1 year ago 2
This does not have enough views.
JavaClick 1 year ago 3
"A "Community Organizer" simply collects RESENTMENTS and 'organizes' them in order to get what they want from other people". Absolutely 1000% spot-on.
edstate 1 year ago
George Bush or for that fact any member of the Bush family is honorable is a downright lie to say such a thing. is completely dishonest and completely in the dark of this evil familys history. Ronald Reagan was a down right lier and the pedastal that he is put on is a house of cards. This country has not had a great statesman it seems forever, I can't remember who or when we did have a "leader"
mikeoli 1 year ago
@mikeoli Wonderful spelling, there chief. Excellent arguments as well. Granted, you did nothing but throw out your emotionally-driven personal hatred for several people and the administrations they ran, but hey, who needs facts and evidence? My own views? Reagan was good on a number of things, principally the demise of the Soviets. W Bush was good on a number of things but not nearly so much as Reagan. Bush also buckled on a number of serious issues like Medicare and bailouts.
YtseWolf7 1 year ago
So, the House and the Senate can't read and discuss 2 bills, each a thousand pages long in a year? I wonder how much each Senator and each Congressman gets paid. And this proves OBAMA has contempt for the values and principles of America?
This is just ridiculous.
Wobdifurousness 1 year ago
I truly wish Doctor Sowell would run for office, but he strikes me as being entirely too smart for that.
Claymore5by5 1 year ago 2
Make sure to watch this to the end. Especially the part where he talks about what will happen to America if Obama is re-elected to a 2nd term.
tinydancer1965 1 year ago
This is simply the best interview show in the history of the planet. Peter Robinson for President!
Rsambo00 1 year ago
great stuff
wogdoggy 1 year ago
Maybe the greatest conservative thinker alive today.
dfctomm 1 year ago 4
@dfctomm Sowell is not a 'conservative', he is a liberal in the classical european sense: someone in favour of liberty generally and more specifically liberty or freedom from government interference. A liberal like Dr Friedman, Obama is, by contrast, not a classical liberal but a modern American one: a person who is liberal with other people's money, whose ideological crusades are grounded in hubris and emotion, not in any factual observations.
spader49 7 months ago
Be sure to watch every minute of this interview. It's well worth while. Dr. Thomas Sowell is a wise man.
rlrdlr123 1 year ago 57
@ MultiUniv3rsal You, if course, have evidence otherwise? I would try and point to the British Empire but it was clearly the weaker sister among te allies. The Soviets relied on American I distrust to feed, clothe, and arm their war effort. Even Germany could not keep up with American production. Whom else is there?
Quinntonia 1 year ago 5
The US was the most powerful, richest nation on the world in 1941?
There is absolutely nothing to back that up that lies in fact.
MultiUniv3rsal 1 year ago
@MultiUniv3rsal It's hard to guage, but it probably was. Although its military was not as mobilized as say, Germany or Japan at the time... despite of the setbacks of the depression many places in the world were hit even harder and the industrial base was perhaps the strongest.
redduckinpond 1 year ago
@MultiUniv3rsal, what is your point?
Reavelt 1 year ago
The Obama administration benefits from the chaos and destruction by turning more saps and suckers towards suckling on the governmental teat.
TsugaC 1 year ago 44
It seems to me specifying class differences based on sexual preference, ie that the legal union of same sex couplings is to be considered different or inferior to that of opposite sex couples is a contradiction to the first amendment.
I see no basis for this taboo outside of Judeo-Christian mores, and by definition those cannot be established by the US federal government. I shouldn't have to explain why as that is in the first amendment, and echoed in the treaty with tripoli.
GaiusIuliusTaberna 1 year ago
@GaiusIuliusTaberna I fail to see how a century-old treaty with a long-since dissolved state, containing a clause tailored to prevent religion from causing any needless tension with a Muslim nation, has any bearing on the very recently raised suggestion of same-sex marriage. For all your historical posturing, framing heterosexual marriage as an exclusively Judeo-Christian religious artifact, you fail to recall nearly every civilization since the Sumerians who married man and wife.
NikovK 1 year ago
@NikovK Hi NikovK: I can't speak for Gaiuslulius, but for myself I say that the seperation of Church and State is vital to a free society. Gay marraige (like abortion) is one of those wedge issues used to mobilise religious opinion and impose it on the whole of the electorate. Justice Vaughn Walker made what seems to me to be an excellent ruling, founded on the constitution and the law, not on religious opinion and prejudice. @ Dr Sowell: Either your nation is secular or it is not. Which is it?
Wobdifurousness 1 year ago
One does not seek to impose the status quo, it already exists. One seeks to impose a change. Marriage is an institution that has existed for millenia under it's present definition. Uprooting it and redefining it over night is a revolutionary move, and inconsistent with the practical Burkean Conservatism that Sowell has always championed.
Second, there are a host of fallacies, assumptions and dichotomies in your last two sentences. Read the ACTUAL arguments of Sowell, Arkes and others on this
Onieracraft 1 year ago
@Wobdifurousness
By the way, by "fallacies" i meant, logical ones.
Insufficient space in the comment slot.
Onieracraft 1 year ago