The Political Earthquake That No One Is Ready For - Konstantin Kisin (4K)

So are you right-wing?

No, (laughs) I'm still not right-wing. I think you're referring to an article in- in a video I did saying, the title of which was Fine, Call Me Right-Wing. And it's basically just me saying I'm tired of, like, defending myself against this allegation. Uh, I'm still not right-wing but if- if it's- it's really important for people to frame me in that way, that's- that's fine, they can do it.

Why is right-wing a disparaging, uh, marker?

I think we, um, the political realm in which we operate is- is the framing is, I think deep down if people are honest, is like the- the caricature of the left is that they're wrong but well-meaning, and of the right is that they're, like, factually more correct but evil.

Callous.

Callous and evil and cruel and nasty.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and so even if you're right, you're still wrong kind of. (laughs) That- that's kind of the- the way people seem to think-

Morally.

Morally wrong, exactly.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I think that- that's why, that's what I noticed, right? Because my journey into all of this world, as you know, was like, "Hey guys, maybe free speech is quite impor- oh, right-wing." I was like, "What?" And- and then I just gradually discovered that, you know, thinking that you should be allowed to speak freely makes you right-wing, which when I was in my early 20s, you know, George Carlin and Bill Hicks, these were my heroes when I was growing up, these great comedians who were getting arrested like George Carlin for routine, like, the seven words you can't say on TV or whatever, whatever it was. So, um, that flipped without me realizing that it happened. It was a left-wing thing or maybe universal thing.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and then it became a right-wing thing. Then, you know, thinking your country's not all bad became right-wing. Uh, and we can go down the list of- of all of those things. So, it, I just, I think that it- it's basically what a lot of people call you if what they want to do is discredit the things that you're saying 'cause they don't actually have a counterargument to what it is that you're saying.

Mm, and we can't really be fully aware of somebody's intentions, so castigating, lambasting the, uh, moral foundation that it's based on and saying, "Oh, y- y- y- it's- it's coming from a place of judgment, or impoliteness, or uncouthness, or callousness, or whatever," is kind of a easy slime to throw at someone maybe.

Yeah, and- and I, uh, it- it makes people question people's motives. And we, a lot of people find people's motives more interesting than the results of the things that they're advocating. So if you go and, you know, try to create this beautiful utopia in which everyone's equal and you end up killing 50 million people in the process, well, you know, that wasn't real communism. You- you were just, you were well-intentioned but you didn't quite live up to the ideals of this great philosophy. Whereas if you actually do things that work but you have the wrong intentions or you're a bad person, then people don't seem as interested in that. And I find that quite an interesting thing because I was in Hungary earlier this year and they have a very actually right-wing government, uh, under Viktor Orbán. And one of the things that I- I found out is they were very keen to deal with abortion in some way. Uh, they wanted to reduce the number of abortions in Hungary. But they looked around the world and they realized that abortion as a political issue doesn't work. It's- it's an issue that actually loses votes for the right. Even if people tend to agree with the position, somehow it still ends up being a vote loser and it's a bad thing to do. So what they've been doing is, uh, you probably know, is pursuing very pro-family policies more generally. If you have X number of kids, you get this tax break, if you have this number of kids...