Unless you have evidence to the contrary, assume every single person with a penchant for the humanities is a closet libtard. Same goes for your favorite musicians, actors, celebs, et cetera. That's the only way you won't be disappointed.

I have noticed people trying to use the word "populist" as an insult, when all it really means is that a large group of people support them. Democracy basically runs on "populism" which is something the current establishment seems to dislike. And even with Caesar and Hitler, there's nothing to say that their societies would have been any better if they were "dealt with" more harshly. If anything I assume that would have caused even more damage in the end.

If somebody has not explicitly spoken up about the subversion of society, then they are either one of the subversives or a useful idiot for them. Well even if they talk about the subversion of society they may still be subversive if their "solutions" only lead to more and more decay.

I'm constantly confused how these supposed "educated" people can't juxtapose the dehumanizing, vilifying, ostracizing, silencing, threatening, labeling, calls to violence, etc. that's happening right now with Trump and his supporters with the Nazi's of WW2 — or the Red Guard of Maoist China — through the use of pernicious propaganda.
Now, hear me out. I'm not at all comparing what happened then to a group of people to what's happening now. I'm talking specifically about the divisive propaganda methods that Hitler/Goebbels, and Mao, promulgated over the course of a few years to paint a picture of an "enemy" to the people.
Some may say, "Well, there a big power difference. Trump is the President, he is power."
To which I'd have to ask if they're actually paying attention at all, or just insane.
He may be President, and have the backing of the Republican party, but let's look at the backing of his opposition — the Democrats.
Right now, the Democrats have nearly every large corporate entity in America, all of big tech, all of Hollywood & entertainment, influencers, nearly all of the mainstream media, all of academia, the UN, several other countries, the CCP, the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the International Criminal Court, the Generals in the US military, and current and former world leaders.
Do people on the left truly believe that the scales of power are tilted against them? That's rhetorical, by the way.
I'll once again reiterate, that I'm talking about the methods they use and the power each hold. I'm not comparing the millions of people left dead by the regimes and comparing their lives to current day conservatives.
Each day that goes by we see more and more incitement, cover-ups, misinformation, lies, excuses for violence, calls for violence, omissions, and censorship coming from the Democrats and the powers that back them.
The effects this has had are literally all around us right now.
Earlier today, Ron Paul had a stroke live during an interview. It was a gross and completely ghastly sight to behold. Within minutes of it being spread publicly we had blue checks on Twitter celebrating it, but being disappointed that he didn't die. Influencers with platforms that reach hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of people, were lamenting that another human — who had done nothing wrong except have a different political opinion — had not died. This was met with huge amounts of people replying in agreeance and joining in on the macabre celebration of someone else's misery. Thankfully, there were still plenty of others who wandered into these rejoicements and quickly pointed out how gross and insane many of these people were. There's still one important fact however, Twitter did nothing that I had noticed to step in and stop it. It's become plainly obvious that for people on the left, supported by Democrats and their elite followers, we've now reached a point where it's socially acceptable to do such things without fear of consequences. The direct result of years of propaganda targeting one group while using all of the methods I've listed here.
If it's allowed to continue without more people deciding to use their voice to publicly say that it isn't acceptable, things will only continue to escalate until they reach some sort of inevitable climax.
Anyway, that was fun to write. It seems knowing history doesn't mean people are informed enough in current events to be able to see such obvious things.

This is why I always say that the media is the deranged Left's WMD. They can use it to brainwash and radicalise even reasonable people like Dan Carlin - Carlin likely has no idea how much of the media is progressive propaganda and assumes that if so much of the media is saying something, it's probably true.

He has selective blindness to the media manipulations of the American Left and he uses his close experience with the LA riots to downplay the breakdown of law and order which is happening today. The fact that multi-billion dollar megacorps are stumping up the bail funds of rioters while mainstream political opposition stokes the fires - and the unprecedented nature of all that - is conveniently ignored. I assume this is because it complicates the landscape beyond the current political mode Carlin wants to engage in, which is just 'Orange Man Bad'.

As a fellow fan I was sceptical of your characterisation of him, since I hadn't heard the latest Common Sense podcast and I remember in the March episode he was still careful to single out the concept of partisanship, itself, as the major divisive factor in US politics. However I caught up on the latest Common Sense and you're right. Carlin's gone from a simple dislike and unfavourable characterisation of Trump - which everyone is welcome to indulge in - to saying that Trump is the most dangerous president ever. All the while he's still trying to play the enlightened centrist game as if he's saying something reasonable that everybody should accept at face value.

It's a slow burn case of TDS which has taken slightly longer than average to reach severe symptoms. His trigger condition is the fact that Trump said something along the lines of 'the only way we can lose this election is if it's rigged'. According to Carlin, this is a power grab designed to attack the democratic process itself. Never mind the fact that Trump's opponents and the press have spent 4+ straight years attempting to de-legitimise the concept of any Trump victory, never mind that Biden's said similar things about a Trump win, no, suddenly, this one thing Trump said is an incredibly dangerous signal of his intentions (and of course he's well known for thinking deeply about what he says).

Bit depressing, but I'm optimistic that some of the milder TDS cases will eventually correct themselves, when this particular period of history eventually comes into focus in hindsight as one of the biggest examples of mass retardation on record, and people become embarrassed to have been associated with it.

Dan Carlin isn't a smart man. He isn't even an actual Historian.

He has a sexy voice, and he fetishizes historical human suffering. That's it. It's just painfotainment. He's not based. He was never an intellectual or philosophical pillar.

He's just like any other actor. Be entertained, and smile+nod if he starts trying to talk politics.

He is a big liberal. Calls himself a moderate but thinks Republicans are fascist. Since then can't really listen to him because only a moron who doesn't understand history think he is a fascist.

TYB:

"'Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 60, The Celtic Holocaust' 929K views 3 years ago.

"Julius Caesar is our travel guide as he takes us through his murderous subjugation of the native Celtic tribal peoples of ancient ..."

Are you truly incapable of seeing the Marxism seeping from every word, aside from the timestamp and view count?

Let's start with definitions. The Holocaust/Shoah is called that not because Germany defeated Poland and invaded western Russia. The Jews in the Polish Army who died fighting Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are not part of the Holocaust. The millions who were starved and shot in the KZs are. A military defeat can be humiliating, frustrating, etc., but it's not until you go on to slaughter the women and children that it becomes genocide. Even the Diaspora, Rome's expulsion of the Jews and elimination of the Kingdom of Judea, isn't a genocide.

Likewise, the Romans didn't do anything to the Gauls that the Gauls weren't doing to themselves. The Gauls took slaves as war captives. So did the Romans. Also, Rome moved into Gaul when friendly (which usually meant, more civilized) Gallic tribes were under attack from more primitive and aggressive Gallic tribes, who themselves were being pushed west by the even more aggressive incoming Germanic tribes.

Is Carlin a Marxist? He probably doesn't think of himself as one. He just uses this language he hears all the time to "speak truth to power," even though he's completely ignorant as to who has been taking victory laps in America for the last 50 years.