Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Trump, US decline, and global chaos - Robert D Kaplan interview | US politics | The New Statesman" video.

I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship. You need to understand that the way history is taught to Americans is NOT LIKE how its taught in places like Europe or Australia. I studied history starting in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia. Then we did Greece and Rome and then covered 2000 years of British History finally getting to 200 years of Australian history. Americans are taught American history and that covers 2 periods - before the revolution and after the revolution. Their basic grasp of any other history is almost ZERO and its why they get into so much trouble at times.
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@robynhope219 Maybe not all of the population but certainly the vast majority. We always find it fun to see how many countries they can name on a map.
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I'm Australian but went to college in America and I was there during one of the primary seasons and its way worse than you think. On this thing about the elites picking their candidates he's 1/2 right and 1/2 wrong. If you look at the Republicans its a mob inspired chaotic mess like he describes. Just think back to 2015 and Trump just standing their and insulting their wives. The GOP is now ruled by Oligarchs. HOWEVER if you look at the Democrats its the complete opposite. The Executive of the DNC based around the Clintons and Obamas have selected the last 3 candidates - Hilary, Biden & Kamala Harris AND THAT'S been a disaster. The DNC is now ruled by their corporate funded clowns. What all of the commentators are failing at, because they each have their side, is that BOTH SIDES of American politics is in a terrible state of SHlT candidates being promoted by vested (usually big money) interests. As one of the very few neutral commentators put it a few weeks ago the Corporations LOST to the Oligarchs. If there's a scary thing then we all need to consider how many of our own parties have been killing the careers of anyone capable and replacing them with puppets. I know this is TRUE in Australia and all signs say its TRUE in Britain.
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@westyinzer4607 Then explain why the other 99.9% of the American population can't find Canada or Mexico on a map?
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Yeah what actually is a "pure democracy"?? There's a lot he's saying is right on point but there's a couple of points that he really should have been more clear about. The part about America's decline in manufacturing as a percentage of World production is correct but he's also NOT including that right after World War 2 the losing side Japan & Germany hade almost zero manufacturing because it had been pulverised. Then he forgets that World production has increased by orders of magnitude. YES in recent decades American output has fallen but that's because their ratbag business leaders moved production to China and other places.
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