Yeah just like the "bank run" on FTX wasn't what caused it to go bankrupt, it was actually the owner's hubris.
In much the same way that the fire didn't burn the house down, it was the tenant buying matches four days earlier.
If you're willing to go that many levels down to get to the root cause of an event you might as well say the nazis being humans is what caused the collapse.
People not realising this is what's so baffling.
Narrator: The left did not, in fact, get everyone’s basic needs met because it hasn't been in power for nearly half a century. And incidentally, every time it was represented in government there were major strides in "getting everyone's needs met".
Don't believe me? Do a Google search for "most liberal/leftist US presidents", click any of these listicles and try to find the most recent leftist president. Notice how there isn't a single one more recent than 1969?
For most of you reading this, the last actual leftist government predates your parents' birth.
It's less uneducated thinking and more "here's a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others".
That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.
That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It's a little like saying "people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer" while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people's behaviour, namely smoking.
The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.