Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Democrats' 2024 Status Quo Strategy Was A Massive Failure" video.

  1. Australian and from an outside perspective you like many others are 100% right. I'm an engineer so I am good with numbers and data and I have detailed this in a comment I put at the top of this. Fundamental to this election was 16 million FEWER people turned up an actually voted in the election. Trump had almost 1 million FEWER than 2020 Harris had over 12 million FEWER than voted for Biden in 2020 and the minor parties were all but annihilated. The ACTUAL RESULT HERE is that people REJECTED Democracy. The Trumpsters did it by (mostly) turning up and the Democrats did it by NOT turning up and the independents simply gave up. The real question is WHY and I have put it in a longer comment.
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  2. Australian with an outside view: In 2020 74,223,975 people voted for Trump and in 2024 73,407,934 voted for Trump ALMOST 1 million FEWER In 2020 81,283,501 people voted for Biden and in 2024 69,076,028 voted for Harris OVER 12 million FEWER. This is the opposite to what's been happening in American elections over the last few cycles. 2000 105,421,423 2004 122,295,345 2008 131,313,820 2012 129,085,410 2016 136,669,276 2020 158,429,631 2024 142,380,403 Except for 2012 when there was a slight decrease American elections have been getting larger and larger turnouts which should NOT be surprising because America's population has been steadily growing from the 282 million in 2000 to the current 335 million. The TRUE RESULT of this election is that almost 16 million Americans saying "we don't care anymore" which is part of the general feeling across the entire developed world that NOTHING CHANGES no matter who we vote for. Go and look up a 2022 Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth. I have checked the Australian data and British Economist Gary Stevenson describes how Britain is eerily similar. The very first graph shows how the Bottom 50% of the developed world have gone NOWHERE for around 40 years. Other Data like Branko Milanović's famous elephant graph show how wage stagnation for the bulk of the developed world has caused this. There's just no way for most of the developed world to change their lives for the better. This is what Milton Freidman and the Chicago School Economists gave the world via Reaganomics, Thatcherism, Australia's Economic Rationalism and what we now generally call Neoliberal Economics. CENTRAL to Milton Friedman's ideology was that governments are good for nothing and expressed eloquently by Ronald Reagan's famous "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." So Governments around the World started to privatise, de-regulate and hand control of their central banks to the ECONOMISTS. These days most policies are written by Think Tanks and managed by consultants most of whom are ECONOMISTS or MBAs with economic training or Lawyers with economic training. In the PBS Documentary "The Untouchables" about the 2008 GFC (which can be seen here on YT) Former United States Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer (around 50 minutes in) describes how ECONOMIC EFFECTS are a consideration in criminal cases. That's why none of the executives were ever charged. SO THIS BEGS THE QUESTION: Why vote at all, when the government can't get anything done because ECONOMISTS have re-wired how government works and no matter what "We the people vote for" nothing changes? FYI - We have our next Australian Federal Election next year and I fear that the same clown brained campaign strategists who helped fabricate this disaster in America will be here doing the same thing.
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