Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why America Is in a New Era of Political Violence | Breaking The Vote" video.

I'm Australian and what's so odd about your story is that its sounds so similar to stories I have heard here that every reference to "America" you could swap "Australia" and every reference to "US" swap in "Oz" and nobody would notice. Even your reference to $10K wouldn't be noticed, because that's about the same number we hear. Its even a similar to the $10K we hear that it costs to smuggle people into Australia from Asia. Other than some of those things these also a lot of very common issues and very common talking points with the entire legal & illegal immigrations issue facing Western Countries. 1) BOTH SIDES of politics use these issues to gain points in the public narrative. BOTH SIDES of politics are riddled with ruthlessly cynical bad faith actors whose only motivation is polling points. Human misery is just another stick to beat their drum with. 2) Those who have immigrated via the legal channels resent those who just arrive. They have spent huge amounts of effort, time and money doing things right and they see everyone else as cheats AND THEY HAVE A POINT. That group at around 18 minutes all said EXACTLY the same things I have heard Greek Australians, Italian Australians, Vietnamese Australians and every other flavor of Australian say to a TV camera. 3) Those who are advocates for refugees have a the similar set of common talking points. The reporter who said back to that group "the law is we have to hear and provide for everyone who seeks asylum." Just like the comments from the people she was talking to her response was EXACTLY what I hear everywhere else. 4) What I almost never hear is the actual size and scope of the problem, probably because its scary. Back int he 90s I heard people say there were 20 million refugees in the world and maybe 40million and people went nuts on BOTH SIDES. These days I hear numbers of 60-80 million and nobody bats an eye. This is maybe the biggest problem and the hardest point. How does anyone deal with that many displaced people? In so many ways the endless tropes and rants of BOTH SIDES has exhausted the rest of us. We all have enough issues without any of this. Even without COVID there's still the energy bills and other costs of living that fell out of control. Most of us just don't have time to care.
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Some call it "political cynicism" others call it "political opportunism" either way its been around since the first 2 politicians faced off against each other several 1000 years ago.
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@qjtvaddict Yeah I can understand that as a comment but the reality is a lot different. Go watch Peter Zeihan talk about China's demographics, they are in a lot of trouble with the structure of their population. And that's before you get into the double issue of how bad China has been to its environment or how vulnerable it is to climate change. China has 3 giant mega elephant issues in its room and no viable solution to deal with any one of them. It comes from trying to do too much, too quickly and not paying attention to anything other than your economic goals.
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@qjtvaddict My favorite line on America under siege is: "If America could see what America is doing to America, then America would invade America to free America from America."
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