Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Biden World MELTDOWN Over His Future As Dem Candidate" video.

AUSTRALIAN HERE: How do you think we feel about this? At the national level like many other countries (Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Britain, Europe,......) America is still out major trading partner and in many cases our most important security partner. Almost all international trade depends on the UD Dollar because as the World's reserve currency the deals are either done in US$ or the currency exchanges are backed by US$. So NONE OF US can afford America to malfunction like this. On the personal level I went to college in America on a sports scholarship. So I have a strong emotional link to America and there's people there I genuinely care about. I have never seen America in such a state as this. Its like everything that's great about America is being thrown in the dumpster by a pack of drunk clowns I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and through many discussions they schooled me in how America and the Constitution WORKED (or is supposed to work). I am of the opinion that the US Constitution is one of the finest achievements in human history BUT its also vulnerable. Unlike so many other systems the US Constitution was designed/intended to protect and nurture the general population and give every citizen a chance at a good life. Your constitution has things that were almost unheard of when it was created and the influence that has had has been a good thing for so many nations. HOWEVER, because it grants so many freedoms it's vulnerable to be being taken advantage of by people with selfish motives. The protection against such people was (past tense) the system of "Checks & Balances" which a small number of insanely selfish people have slowly degraded via their money and influence. SCOTUS and the Senate are effectively broken, the House is a malfunctioning clown show and the Whitehouse is a disaster zone. As an outside observer with a keen interest in seeing America get back to its best, I think BOTH major parties (Dem & GOP) need major clean outs of their entrenched elites AND TO BE FAIR I can say the same about Australia's main parties which have also become these cabals of entrenched elitist snots who see the rest of us as problems to be managed. I truly do hope America can get past this because with the world as it is and especially climate change we need America at its best.
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@ZenOfMKVLI Agreed, sadly we sold our soul back in the 50s and 60s.
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@nata7536 Yeah - have you seen the vid they just posted on the Right Wing goon from the Heritage Foundation. Its not simply repugnant its stratospherically higher. In fact it might be so high that its gone into space.
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@MrLifter20 America didn't sell its soul in the civil rights era it sold its soul after it when Ronald Reagan adopted the "Greed is Good" nonsense of Milton Friedman, renamed it Reaganomics and then slowly gutted America from the inside out. Reagan then Thatcher (with Thatcherism) then others like Australia with what we called "Economic Rationalism" sold our souls to the top 1% and their profits. One of Milton Friedman's contemporaries British economist and another of the Chicago School Ronald Coase tried to get the US government to auction off the air frequencies for TV when it first emerged. It was REJECTED and REJECTED and REJECTED because they all knew it would lead to media monopolies because the people with the most money would be able to out bid and then control the new media of Television. But they gave Coase the Nobel Prize and then the world started auctioning off everything they could. I first heard about this when Mark Blyth (Rhodes Centre Podcast) interviewed Elizabeth Popp Berman about her book "Think like an economist." Its here on YouTube. Interesting when the American Economists went to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet System they convinced the Russians to auction off the state assets. In their ignorance they didn't realise the only people in Russia with any money were the KGB officers and other government rats. That's how the Russian Oligarchs got their hands on some of the worlds richest resources for pennies on the dollar. When you look at the origins of the current conflict it traces back to those auctions and who got control of what. So in a way the entire disaster that is the Russia-Ukraine war can be traced back to Reagan selling America's soul to the "Greed is Good" of Milton Friedman. I just watched an interview with Larry Wilkerson and he hinted at something I have suspected for some time that the reason America blew up the Nord Stream pipeline (and yes it was America) was to help the American companies sell liquified gas to Europe. Ships cannot compete with a pipeline. Another case of "Greed is Good."
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@reubennichols644 The problem is the existential threat isn't a singular threat. The Democrats are just as much of an existential threat to democracy as the Trump lead GOP.
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