Why is Tucker Carlson so vicious?

[eTorro]

Hi.

After years of trying to figure out Tucker Carlson, all I can say is that he's run by pride and hatred.

I can't find any other reason for his inflammatory podcasts.

What are your thoughts on Tucker Carlson?

He doesn't seem to stop, and he's trying to isolate America from the world—at least that is what I get from watching his videos.

Any thoughts?

[Daniel Balan]

He is just a stage blue propagandist. Engaging seriously with such characters is already a mistake. Thinking Tucker is an intellectual honest actor is already a mistake. Tucker is just a right wing propagandist. He should be taken as such. There is nothing serious, or intellectually honest about him. His job is to spread hatred towards liberals, to push right wing naratives without any qualms or shame and to shape the minds of American citizens along the right wing conservative agenda. His life purpose is to destroy stage green.

[Hojo]

Cause he's Russian agent. He refuses to say anything negative about Russia.

[Joshe]

He's a con artist. A full-blown opportunist with no morals. Willing to claim he found Jesus because it helps his numbers.

He once stood on a stage in his high school and taunted all the teachers to come up and argue against him and that you could give him any topic, and he could beat any member of the staff in debate. Something like that. 

In other words, since he was young, he was obsessed with the ability to persuade and change people's perceptions of a thing. And the thing itself wasn't important, it was the power he liked. Basically, he had a knack for manipulation and he knew it and stepped all the way into it without a moral compass. 

He's not ideological the way that most people think. Ideology doesn't mean much to him. Basically, he's a wolf herding sheep. 

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[BlueOak]

 

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He doesn't seem to stop, and he's trying to isolate America from the world—at least that is what I get from watching his videos.

Any thoughts?

Think of it more as a concentrated effort by Russia/China/BRICS to end democracy worldwide.

Isolation of America is a clear goal of that. 

That's the undeclared war we are in.

Edited 14 hours ago by BlueOak

[zazen]

3 hours ago, BlueOak said:

 

Think of it more as a concentrated effort by Russia/China/BRICS to end democracy worldwide.

Isolation of America is a clear goal of that. 

That's the undeclared war we are in.

BRICS doesn't exist for the sole purpose of bringing down global democracy but as a reaction against a uni-polar imperial monopoly on global power.

The West has been anything but democratic at a geopolitical macro level, even if internally they are democracies - even failed ones, now failing even more. Those failures are more due to structural changes and internal pressures rather than some conspiracy by BRICS.

It's because of structural changes to the world order and the Wests position in it + our own system's internal contradictions reaching crisis point. Its a response to a changing order from a uni-polar one where the West reigns supreme to a multi-polar one they no longer do. The internal contradictions coming to a head are: decades of neoliberalism hollowing out the middle class, financialization concentrating wealth upward, de-industrialization destroying the working class, surveillance capitalism eroding privacy, corporate capture of democratic institutions, rising inequality, immigration and cultural change + economic anxiety = reactionary politics.

China, Russia or Iran didn't do any of that to us - our own elites and special interest class did - who sold their actions as being for the national interest when it was anything but. China and Russia opportunistically exploit those vulnerabilities but didn't create them. Multi-polarity isn't emerging because the West chose it but because they couldn't prevent it. So the order is changing and the Wests privileged position in it is ending - the economic pie is shrinking including our ability to capture new pies being grown elsewhere (China+developing world). Western societies are responding in various ways to compensate for that loss - right wing nationalism and authoritarian leaning is one of them.

BRICS is actually calling for being democratic between nations (on a global level) even if internally they aren't - multi-polarity where institutions reflect and represent everyone rather than having a uni-polar dictatorship run the planet.

[Joshe]

Pride + hatred is exactly right.

[BlueOak]

3 hours ago, zazen said:

BRICS doesn't exist for the sole purpose of bringing down global democracy but as a reaction against a uni-polar imperial monopoly on global power.

Yes, its just a necessity for their ideology to become the new monopoly.

I refuse to engage you here on the flaws of replacing imperialist ambition with genocidal, fanatic, and brutally aggressive regimes the world over. I'm taking a day off.

[Dabidoe]

Outrage and partisanship drive engagement and revenue.

I find his inappropriately timed demonic sounding mocking laughter skin crawling. He's not some beacon of truth and justice he's yet another asshole trying to get attention and high on his own supply.

If he were ideologically consistent (pro war -> anti war, pro Israel -> jews are baby killers controlling the world)  and entertained both sides of a debate with an open attitude "I agree to disagre and respect your point of view." he would not have the same cult-like following or ratings.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Dabidoe

[zazen]

2 hours ago, BlueOak said:

Yes, its just a necessity for their ideology to become the new monopoly.

I refuse to engage you here on the flaws of replacing imperialist ambition with genocidal, fanatic, and brutally aggressive regimes the world over. I'm taking a day off.

They don’t even have the same political systems let alone ideaologies. India, Brazil and South Africa are democracies - 3/5 BRICS members or 60%.

The main thing their united around is the fact that the current system is rigged against their interests - that 15% of the world can dictate to 85% of the world via institutional leverage.

Your framing turns what is a structural correction and shift in power into an ideological crusade that justifies then resisting this shift in power by containing those rising in power.

Multi-polarity is the opposite of monopoly. 

Have a good weekend.

[Leo Gura]

Tucker has always been a clown since the first time I saw him on CNN back in 2001. And nothing has fundamentally changed.

[Schizophonia]

Mirror effect; everything you say about him is a projection; making a topic or writing on a topic to comment on someone is vicious.

When you are no longer the characteristics you project onto him, you will no longer have the will to comment on this character.

You will no longer want to make a topic or participate in a topic about him, or even more simply in fact you will no longer see him appear in your maya, or with the projection of other things onto him.