two videos about the good old, get woke go broke I found on odysee. I think is good stuff. the first video just explains the basics, the latter video is a parallelism between people taking the blue pill to stay in the matrix and people against free speech to stay in the confortable world of lie that they made real in their mind
https://odysee.com/@outofframe:9/hollywood-hates-you-(unless-you-agree:d
https://odysee.com/@outofframe:9/how-can-you-possibly-not-be-red-pilled:4
Ritualistic Left-Wing media diet.
They are being told that they believe in right things by people in positions of authority, and they are told this every day. It's affirmation.
I used to listen to NPR every single day for somewhere close to 10 years. Had it on my radio all day long. (I like Classical Music)
I wasn't persuaded by anything the right said, because most of the time I didn't hear it, and couldn't understand where they were even coming from. Also, Fox News isn't exactly a good mechanism to push people towards actual anti-Left positions.
What drove me from the Left is when they violated their own principles and contradicted reality to such a degree that I had to accept that screaming at my car radio in anger was probably not the correct answer.
I'm more of the intellectual type, so I was more sensitive to the logical inconsistency, and (frankly) listening to Academic Agent explain economics was the final nail in the coffin for any sense of Leftism I had. However, I'm the exception to the rule. Emotional arguments are far more persuasive to most people, and it's what leads most women to remain on the Left, and it why you'll hear "centrists" agree with the entirety of right-wing positions, and then still call themselves Leftist out of an emotional need to do so.
Wouldn't it be cool if that was something we were taught growing up instead of having to learn it from a YouTube channel?
What was interesting to me is that I have family that work in finance, and so I always argued in my physics class that accounting was to economics, what quantumn mechanics is to general relativity.
There is no question that one is emergent from the other, and that the larger is simply the infinite number of individual actions of the smaller. It's just hard to unify them because of their scope, but they are literally not different. They are part of the same system.
AA's explanations on Austrian School Economics just formalized what I had already thought existed.
Also, any time I would have conversations like that, people who were in economics would tell me that this had been established economic science for over 100 years. This was basically the same complaint that physicists have in regards to "scientific literacy" and why "science communicators" exist: the average person doesn't have any scientific knowledge that was established after the 18th century.
Instead the only education in economics I ever got was fairly high-level macro-economics from Keynsian perspectives at best, that never seemed to make any sense... the reason why is because Keynsian socialist monetary systems are fucking nonsense, like all Socialism.