Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Does America Deserve a Second Trump Presidency?" video.

  1. AUSTRALIAN here with an outside observation. Apologies for the length of comment. YES - American deserved Trump (past tense) and in some ways almost every other democracy in the world (including Australia) needs (or deserves) their version of Donald Trump. For decades we have all kept electing clowns, idiots, morons, liars, cheats and all we do is complain about them. ONE of the great things about democracy is that we can change our government when it fails us, but when we all we do is decide which flavor political SHlT sandwich we'll eat for the next few years we should NOT complain about how that tastes. Donald Trump is NOT the problem, he's just a symptom of the problem. The Constitution is NOT the problem. I went to college in America in the late 80s and was surrounded by people who'd all studied the constitution in Civics class. A bunch of them were pre-law and were studying it even further. These days, (from all the conversations we had) I have no doubt the US Constitution is one of humanities finest achievements. So its NOT the problem. The problem is the American people who keep electing crap into their state and federal politics for all the wrong reasons and those people then trample all over the constitution. The American people have ALLOWED organisations like the Federalist Society to wreck the court system. The American people have ALLOWED Lobbyists and Think Tanks like the Heritage Society and CATO Institute to corrupt the political system so a handful of billionaires can do whatever they like. The American people have ALLOWED their politicians to buy and trade stocks while deciding which companies won which contracts. The American people have ALLOWED their education and health care systems to be gutted for profit. The American people have ALLOWED their infrastructure to crumble. The American people have ALLOWED their politicians to send their sons and daughters to be stationed in places of no value to die for no sensible reason. AND TO BE SURE - EVERY other democracy on the planet is doing similar things and that INCLUDES Australia. CASE 1) Australia recently caught PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) handing over confidential information. PwC had been hired as consultants to help the Australian government close up tax loop holes. They then on sold information to other clients to get around what they were advising the Australian government. Instead of CHARGING PwC and their clients with conspiracy to defraud the Australian people they have been let off WITHOUT ANYTHING. CASE 2) Before the PwC scandal we had a Royal Commission into our banks. For Americans its not to dissimilar to a Senate Inquiry in that its a activity where the presiding officers can subpoena people to appear and if they lie its perjury and the evidence gathered can then be used at subsequent trials. Our banks admitted to things like systematic theft from accounts with illegal fees. CEOs, CFOs, and other actually admitted to the commission that they did it. They did things that would put a normal person in jail for decades. Just like after the 2008 GFC NOBODY when America's DOJ refused to prosecute the CEOs and CFOs who caused the problem nobody here was charged and nobody went to jail and NOTHING was fixed. The problem is "We the People" have failed "Us the People" by continually electing people who lie and cheat us. America got Donald Trump because they elected him. Every other democracy got who they got because they elected them.
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