Andrew Wilson
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So the idea here is social safety nets, right?
Right.
Okay.
So how come those aren't voluntary?
Interesting.
Because the entire idea of progressive liberalism is supposed to be volunteerism and that the left-wing government does not force you or compel you to do anything.
I completely agree.
But the promise of the leftists, the promise of the progressive,
The reason they demand that we have a secular government and we can't move towards Christian ethics or Christian nationalism is because secularists are going to do what's fair.
And what's fair is you can do whatever you want, as long as you're not hurting anybody else, we're not gonna force you to do anything.
The evil Christian nationalists will.
But here you just laid out a case for how it is that they're compelling me against my will to do various things.
Totally agree.
That's what the state is.
Is that fair?
I guess, but maybe we can dive into semantics a bit.
Sure, if you want.
Okay, so when you say right or left, you agree with me that that's dialectical?
Well, not just that, but when we view politics and the paradigm in the United States, we view it through a dialectic that is dual.
It's left, it's right.