The danger of the tipping point

I’ve been listening to some interviews with Douglas Murray recently. He’s very good.

In this video, there’s an interesting interchange about tipping points.

It’s as if generally conservative people looked at the madness around them — in schools, universities, government, private industry, entertainment, social media, etc. — and thought, “it can’t go on much longer. People will realize how stupid this is and they’ll back off.”

And then they don’t back off, and things get worse, and the conservatives think, “Oh, but this will be the tipping point. People won’t accept that.”

“This one will be the tipping point” is wishful thinking.

How do you censor the guy who’s lining your pocket?

If it hasn’t been obvious until now — and it has — it should be obvious to everyone that social media has too much power. They are not neutral platforms, as the law currently defines them. They clearly have an agenda, and should be treated that way.

It’s perfectly fine for them to have an agenda, but they can’t have an agenda and at the same time get an exemption for being a neutral platform. But that’s the current situation.

Why? Because they contribute tons of money to the candidates.

This is a major problem with our system. How can you believe that a politician will vote honestly on an issue when he knows that voting one way makes him rich, while voting the other way makes him lose his job?