This is the right message at the right time.
Put your politics aside for 5 minutes and just listen to what this man has to say. I truly believe it's important for everyone to hear.
Whether you agree with him or not, it would be nice for a change if we could discuss this without the typical personal attacks on the source or each other.
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I am willing to discuss this issue and I will do it based on my own experience. I do not need a video of someone's else's opinion to make my point.
I have to start with one of life's basic rules. None of us is perfect. There is no perfection ever found in humanity, which means that if you look at anyone, at any approach, at any endeavor you will always find something that is good and something that is bad. We are on earth to learn and to learn from our mistakes and even then, usually we only learn for our benefit and not for the benefit of others.
Another basic that exists is that normally we are first for ourselves and then for others, no matter who it is. People like Mother Teresa are the exception and not the rule.
Why do I say all of this? because big government and little government both have their pros and cons. Neither is better than the others, just different. One thing about big government which is a general positive is that since there are more people involved in the decisions being made, there is little chance that evil will stick out. By the same token, there is also little chance that big good will come out. Big government is the "middle road" where the extremes are not involved. Small government is just the opposite. If the leaders are good and have intelligence and good hearts, much good will come of it. On the opposite side, if the leaders are bad, much bad will come of it.
In the video you provided, the person is talking about "taking risk" and allowing things to happen in order to get the most that life can offer but that can be done by the each person by himself. We don't ever want others to decide if taking a risk for "us" is the thing to do. It has to be an individual decision based on each persons character and not as a decision made for all by others.
The other thing about big government versus small government is that there is a lot less safety for the nation with little government, and I do mean in every day life. This is clearly seen in many countries right now where people are at risk daily of their own homes being ransacked and the people killed, businesses being put on a "vacuna" basis (meaning individual protection payments where the bad people (like the mafia) protect you if you pay but also they themselves attack you if not). Small government also allows anarchy to flourish and anarchy means everything is ruled by the powerful and those not powerful often pay dearly and even with their lives. Putting your life at risk is only a decision each individual must take for themselves and not leave it to others.
The thing is that by human nature alone, people tend to follow the wrong path as greed is much more prevalent than the idea of sacrificing oneself for others. That means that also by nature, we need to have others protect us because more people are weak and defenseless than those that are strong and confident.
Having said all of this, I believe big government is the lesser of two evils, both of which exist in life whether we want it or not. Evidently, a strong and confident individual wants less government because they have the ability to defend themselves and prosper but there are many more that can't that those than can. In reality, we all need to coexist because when we allow the strong to rule, we will see a return to those past times where the weak were killed and very little was accomplished because other than slaves existing to do all the jobs that the strong do not want to do, there would be no one to do those jobs. If only the strong survived and there were no slaves, who would clean, who would till the fields, who would dump the garbage, who would do the serving at restaurants, tellers at the banks, bus drivers, and so on and so forth. In that respect, the weak are as important as the strong and with small government, that would not be guaranteed, in fact likely the opposite.
The way to go for any group in general is the middle road. Within that middle road, there is room to for some to go to the extreme but with "some" (but not a lot) of impediments/controls. If there is one thing I have learned in my life is that generally extremes are bad, at least extremes from the point of view of everyone being at the extremes. A few being on the extreme can bring some advancement but also some drawbacks but that is called progress.
In short, I do not agree with the person on the video
