I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah that's interesting because I got the sense from the video is that he does support fundamentally restructuring society, but is also in this place where he has no other frame of reference as to what is to be done in order to actually do it. For example he basically advocated for turning 25% of Midwestern corn fields into solar farms. That's not his actual solution but one that "by the numbers" simply "makes sense" and by extension building a fully renewable grid makes sense too. As is often the case with these videos though you never get the "how" part. Except, in this video he crashes out after the credits and you kind of do get the "how", but its clearly muddy water for him at this point.

He seems to think the Democrats will get us there, that they were building this sustainable grid and that the Republicans were the road block. He also seems to think the Democrats are compromised by corporate interests. His support for them at the end of the video was not one of confidence but pure desperation. It was the plea of someone at the end of their political rope. It seems clear to me that the logic of liberalism isn't working out for this "logic" YouTuber anymore, they might not have fully realized it yet.

So in most ways I think your right, though there is a chance that he could be pushed into a more radical direction as well.