Here's the News: Left Unraveled - Exploring the Exodus of Former Liberals
Joe Rogan has spoken about previously being “a left-leaning person,” but now is one of the people who have “woken up to the leftist lunacy.” So what has happened to the left in recent years to make so many former Liberals now reject that label? --💙Support this channel directly here: https://bit.ly/RussellBrand-SupportWATCH me LIVE weekdays on Rumble: https://bit.ly/russellbrand-rumbleVisit the new merch store: https://bit.ly/Stay-Free-StoreFollow on social media:X: @rustyrocketsINSTAGRAM: @russellbrandFACEBOOK: @russellbrand
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Now Joe Rogan has just done the biggest deal in independent media history.
He's Survived some of the biggest attacks that the legacy media have ever tried to impose upon an independent voice.
The n-word attacks, the horse-paced attacks, the, he shouldn't be allowed to have this audience, why are people listening to Joe Rogan?
Hey, that's not fair!
Why are you listening to him?
We got a newsroom in shiny, I put a tie on!
People are infuriated, but there it is, the genie's out of the bottle.
It's no question now that Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan are the biggest voices in independent media and people are losing their trust and leaving legacy media resources in their droves.
Could there be a connection between this decline of trust in the legacy media and the breakdown of neo-liberal values or what Joe Rogan referred to as the lunatic left?
I know Joe Rogan, I've been on that show a few times, and I think he's a great person.
And I would say that he has what you'd call liberal values, like he just wants to sort of be left alone, doesn't care about people's identities or cultural choices, believes in democracy and representation and voting and all that kind of stuff.
So why is someone that the left could have grabbed and turned into a hero rejecting the left?
Is it because the left has gone kind of crazy, lost all his values and principles, and doesn't mean anything anymore?
Let's have a look at what he said in the framework of this being the most significant voice in independent media.
I used to be a part of the blue bubble.
I was 100% a left leaning person who lived in Los Angeles.
I suppose I was as well.
I worked in Hollywood, worked in British media and when I was part of that establishment it seemed kind of ordinary and necessary that your values would be Democrat
or Labour or progressivism and for me that was always based on kindness
that everyone has the right to express themselves how they want to and I kind of I suppose didn't notice how the
rights of people that had traditional values like say Christians were always alloyed to power
structures that were regarded negatively how the framing around pro-choice
versus pro-life or pro-gun versus anti-gun were always skewed in the media in a very particular way
and how one of the perspectives that we were never offered is decentralization
allow different communities to be run differently according to the principles and values of the people that inhabit
that community that was oddly never And now you have a left that's taken progressivism into some interesting areas which I frankly don't trust.
I don't think the left is all about looking after what they would call vulnerable communities.
I think the left is about censorship and centralised liberalized authoritarianism, corporatism and globalism.
That's what I think defines the left now.
And if you look at the great experiments of the left, Maoism, Stalinism, perhaps it was always this way.
Perhaps all of us massively understood that aside from a cultural blip in the 60s,
where it's like, "Oh my God, hippies, Black Panthers, women's rights,
and the uprisings of trade union movements,"
maybe the left has always been about authoritarianism.
I don't know. Certainly Joe Rogan's rejecting it.
Over time, this is what we're seeing.
So over time, you and I, who used to be on the left, are now like, where's the left?
Where are you guys?
You guys are so far away!
I know a lot of people feel politically homeless.
A lot of people that would say, I'm not a Republican, I don't think, or I'm not a conservative, or I'm not a right wing person.
I mean, what?
Are you, if you say, I believe in free speech, I believe in communities being controlled by the people in them, I believe in leaving people alone, I believe in minimum government, I believe in opposing rampant corporatism and extremist capitalism, particularly as it's practiced on a global level, I believe in freedom to worship, freedom to identify, freedom to love, freedom!
I believe in freedom, and I recognize that other people's version of freedom might be different from mine, and if I leave you alone, you leave me alone.
Is that cool?
What's that now?
I can't even see you!
You're out of your mind!
Even if you look at the idea of Tucker Carlson's recent trip to Russia, it's the left that's saying, well, this is treason.
He shouldn't be allowed over there.
Russia are the baddies.
That's what the right would have said 20, 30 years ago.
He's a traitor against our nation.
These are the kind of tropes and ideas that were not of the left.
Authoritarianism, take the shot.
All of this emergent authoritarianism in the name of cultural progressivism makes me feel that it was never about freedom, that the left was never about freedom.
Certainly, it doesn't seem to be about freedom now.
Yeah.
Why are you just accepting this?
Because it's a noble thing to blurt out?
So everybody goes, you're on the right team.
That's what it is.
Above all, the left used to be about supporting working people against the establishment, whether that establishment was the state or corporations, which were largely believed to have It's not like, oh my god, what are we doing to San Francisco?
It's not like, oh my god, why are we letting these violent criminals out of jail?
party of working ordinary Americans, ordinary British people now. It's a leist, it's progressive,
it's exclusive, it's condemnatory, it's patronizing, supercilious and haughty. They clearly represent
professional educated city class people. There's no doubt about it. If you see someone in a
white van flying the flag of their nation, the left hates those people.
It's not like, oh my God, what are we doing to San Francisco? It's not like, oh my God,
why are we letting these violent criminals out of jail? Oh my God, why are we defunding
the police? What are you doing? Yeah. You can't say any of those things. You say any
of those things, you're a Nazi.
Whatever you think about those issues, the fact that we can't talk about them is the biggest problem.
Shouldn't free speech and the ability to communicate be a shared value across all political spectrums?
I would say the side that wants to shut down debate are not the goodies.
Whatever your view is, if you're like, I believe the opposite to Joe Rogan and everything.
Early release for criminals, compassion to people, belief in true reform.
Even if you absolutely believe in that, you should be willing to have a conversation about it.
We all should be willing to have a conversation.
Otherwise, what are we ultimately going to get?
We're going to get conflict and fracture and the breakdown of cultural values.
And I start to wonder if that is the name and the point of the experiment.
Austin people are great people.
They're really nice.
They're nice.
They're not shitheads.
They're not Hollywood people.
They're not lost in this fake world of leftist ideology that everybody's trapped in.
They're just people.
They're just regular people, man.
first went to Florida and met all the people that I work with at Rumble and people that
are conservative. They're often Christian, they believe in traditional values and you
can ask them outright, "Are you a racist? Do you believe that white people are superior
to people of other colours?" And if you go, "No, I don't believe that." Well, what are
Oh, you're a liar, you are a racist.
I mean, if people are being secretly racist, well then, if you're not going to trust anybody's views, what I found when speaking to conservative people is they don't care what I believe in.
They just want, basically, to be left alone.
Now, I'm sure we could tear each other to shreds over the right to bear arms or pro-life, pro-choice values.
I'm sure I could argue with numerous people on numerous subjects.
But the fundamental principle of being able to freely and openly discuss our values, that That shouldn't be up for negotiation because that leads to hysteria when Tucker goes to Russia to speak to Putin.
It leads to censorship.
It leads to the legitimisation of controlling social media spaces.
It leads to government interventionism.
It leads to being told things like war is the only route to peace.
It's leading to a kind of madness.
These blue bubbles where everyone's gone insane.
Well, I used to be a part of the blue bubble.
I was 100%.
I never voted Republican my whole life.
I was very left-leaning.
Even from a strategic perspective, if you can't get your movement together to get Joe Rogan on your side, you're a mess.
Like this is someone that could be going out to bat for the Democrat Party.
Hello, I'm Joe Rogan.
Here's Gavin Newsom on my podcast.
Here's Joe Biden.
Joe, wake up!
Joe, wake up!
But we don't like him.
He's a meathead.
He's an idiot.
Oh my God!
Who do you want to exclude next?
And as I've said to you before, I think it's become an elitist, authoritarian organization that doesn't like working or blue collar people.
That's been insidiously creeping in for a while, from Clinton and Blair in our country onwards, and that was enshrined in policy, in our country at least, and in yours.
You saw different kinds of financial deals and deregulation took place under Clinton.
Basically, ordinary people got abandoned, so the left had to justify that by saying, those people, we should abandon them.
And who we're looking after is vulnerable minority groups.
That's what it's done, in my view, in order to give itself a moral backbone, which it now lacks because it has no raison d'etre.
It has no purpose, because it's essentially the same as any party that goes, we're here to support the interests of big business and globalism.
There isn't anything else they're offering except for, oh yeah, we think these groups are getting a hard time.
And those groups historically have been getting a hard time.
But again, most people are willing to say, you do your thing, we'll do our thing.
That, along with an ongoing dialogue, is the only solution to this, as far as I can see.
Especially with, like, any social issues.
When it comes to financial things, I'm a little bit more conservative, but at the end of the day, I'm way more left than I am right.
But California went nuts, man!
It's gone, like, full communist!
It's out of its f***ing mind!
And their approach to law enforcement is so insane!
It's so insane!
The no-cash bail, the letting people out for committing violent crimes...
The f***ing, not stopping people for stealing up to whatever money it is.
What is it?
$900 now?
I think they raised it.
I think they made it a little higher.
San Francisco is non-existent.
San Francisco, most of San Francisco is emptied out of like big chain stores and big department stores.
I won't even do stand-up there anymore.
It's crazy.
It would be ruined.
Amazing and interesting.
And again, if someone who plainly speaks to so many ordinary Americans in the way that Joe Rogan does in an unprecedented way can't be reached, that is a barometer that should be paid attention to.
If you're part of the Democrat Party establishment, you should be like, that idiot, then you are unelectable.
I'm in the middle now.
I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle.
I never thought I would ever say that.
Never.
It only happened in this last year.
Right.
Exactly.
I just went, I can't do it anymore.
People that you thought were aligned with you are now mad at you about sh**.
They're in a cult.
They're in a cult.
It's got all...
Marc Andreessen, who's a brilliant venture capitalist guy, explained it to me in very clear terms.
Like, what the definition of a cult is, how you can get excommunicated, how you get shamed for having differing opinions, the groupthink.
He's like, it's a cult.
And he's right.
He's 100% right.
It's just hard to say, because then people in the cult will attack you.
You get excommunicated.
You get treated like you're a Nazi.
When did this transition take place?
Perhaps the most identifiable and obvious point was during the pandemic, when left and right bifurcated at a point when everyone could, and was supposed to, come together.
When the cult of wearing masks and taking medicines and posting on TikTok and shaming people And then acknowledging, wait a minute, minority communities are particularly vaccine hesitant.
How do we move the pieces around on the board to facilitate that?
The point about a cult is an important one because that is where authoritarianism and the refusal to engage in discourse really take hold.
If your ideology is quaking, shaky and not solid, then you don't want to engage in conversation because you know that you don't have a robust ideology that can withstand discourse.
Ultimately, what's clearly necessary in this age of mass communication is decentralization.
Is the ability for communities to be governed differently according to the will of the people that occupy those territories, whether they're physical or online spaces.
The idea that you can now have a country split down the middle with one half oppressing the other half is ridiculous and laughable.
The pandemic period was when authoritarianism became normalized.
Initially, well, you have to stay indoors because you're protecting other people.
There's no evidence that it protects other people.
There's no evidence that social distancing works.
The whole argument fell apart and I think helped us to recognize that what neoliberalism in the form of this peculiar new form of leftism was masking was authoritarianism.
A desire to control.
A desire to signal virtue rather than practice principles and actual virtue.
And if the left can't house the biggest voice in independent media, a person who's plainly not a communist because he's just done a massive, massive media deal, who says he's never voted Republican in his life, who clearly speaks the blue-collar America in a way that's unprecedented, if you can't get in alignment with that voice, then your political movement, I would say, is on its way to expiring.
But that's just what I think.
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