Shapiro states Three Problems of the Left

From a Ben Shapiro podcast:

one of the big problems for the left right now is that its philosophy is a complete mashup 8:42 of a bunch of different ideas that are mutually exclusive and we are seeing it all come to fruition before us in the 8:49 ugliest of possible ways modern leftism has basically become a mashup between 8:55 three principles and the worst aspects of these three principles so principle number one one that the left supposedly 9:01 Embraces is a sort of John Stewart Mill libertarianism this is particularly true on social issues in which I'm free to do 9:07 whatever I want except harm you right I can wave my fist around until it hits you in the face the non-harm principle 9:13 of John Stewart Mill which is really a libert taring in principle and if taken properly means things like property 9:20 rights Free Speech but that is not what the left totally means by it basically what they mean is that you shouldn't 9:25 have any pressure on you to perform anything in the way of Duty that effectively there should be no 9:32 boundaries on your personal Behavior so John Stewart Mill libertarianism in which consent is the central value and 9:38 there is no higher virtue at all okay that is principle number one principle number two is the belief that human 9:45 beings are their feelings and so if human beings are their feelings then it actually is an 9:51 act of harm for me to insult your feelings so it's a perversion of the John Stewart Mill principle it's a 9:58 perversion of that principle right so the John stormill principle again is you can wave your hand around until you hit me in the face you can say 10:04 whatever you want and whether my feelings are hurt or not is relevant but the second principle that the left now believes is that I am my feelings and so 10:11 if you hurt my feelings you have done to me a grave harm you're erasing my identity that is a concept that's drawn 10:18 from 19th century Romanticism which was sort of blowback to the enlightenment 10:23 rationality that was put forth by philosophers like John locke or David Hume Romanticism was the the philosophy 10:30 of rouso the philosophy of Shelly you are your feelings and because you are 10:35 your feelings therefore no one can offend you and then there's the third principle which is that all failures are 10:41 the result not of you individually but of systems surrounding you and again that is a concept that's drawn from 10:47 rouso and from Karl Marx it's those three principles modern leftism a mashup of the worst aspects of this a supposed 10:54 libertarianism in which there's no such thing as virtue there's just moral relativism and I can do or say whatever 10:59 I want so long as it doesn't hurt you which again on its own is at least arguable but that is matched up with a 11:04 second principle which is that it is a form of harm to insult you or make you feel bad and a third form a third 11:11 principle which is that if you fail in life it is not as a result of your activity or as a result of your choices 11:17 it is the systems surrounding you well when you add all of those together then 11:22 politics basically turns into just a power game because after all who defines whose feelings are Paramount right it 11:28 may be that me saying the thing hurts your feelings but me not saying the thing hurts my feelings so whose feelings are Paramount how are those 11:35 feelings protected what systems need to change to bring about this magical personal 11:40 Utopia what the deconstructionists realized is that basically all of this was specious and all of politics is just 11:47 a power game and that's in essence what the left ends up promoting is a power game where they get sit at the top of 11:52 the Heap and boss everybody else around and structure Society in ways that are anathema to a healthy functioning society