Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "MAGA Supporter’s Gruesome Attack on Liberal Dad" video.

  1. @user-fv4nb3is3c Right now I can't see why we are making even stronger commitments to America when its in this state of flux. I actually went to college there on a scholarship and believe that overall they are a great country with fine people. The problem is they have sat back letting this minority gain a staggering amount of political power. They have had so many opportunities to put limits on this stuff and just didn't. They have let a small group of insanely wealthy people have too much power and that has never worked at any point in history. AND YES I know Rupert bloody Murdoch has been a major player in that. At some point we are going to have to deal with that entire family and their minions.
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  2. I'm Australian and that is a staggering way to describe this situation in America. AND YES it seriously scares the crap out of the rest of the world. The rest of us simply can't afford America to fail for several reasons. First there's the obvious security issues, but just as important are the economic reasons. 1) America is still the worlds largest economy (24.6% almost 1/4) and that includes staggering amounts of foreign money invested in America including billions in Chinese money. 2) America (or certain states) have turned out to be some of the worlds largest storehouses of foreign money being hidden from other governments. The Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands might be where the Chicago & New York mobsters hide their money but Russian Oligarchs and 3rd World dictators prefer Idaho, Texas and Delaware. 3) The US dollar is still the worlds reserve currency and that's not changing anytime soon no matter how much the BRICS wants too or how much anyone else wants to. Its just such a massive task. SO NOBODY on the planet, NOT EVEN the Russians can afford America to implode because of the GOP freak show.
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  3. ​ @soulslip  I'll give you this explanation and sorry if its a longish. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions probably because I could throw in different perspectives. I uses to argue all the time that any country could fail and fall into a totalitarian dictatorship because that was the main lesson I got from studying Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) in high school. I didn't mind Animal Farm but 1984 was a headache for teenager but these days I'm grateful. One thing people sometimes miss with Orwell is that he wasn't really anti-communist but anti-dictatorship and dictatorships can be Left (like Soviet Russia, Communist China,...) or Right (like Imperial Russia or Imperial China. Iran is an interesting case because before its current Right wing RELIGIOUS dictatorship it had a Right wing monarchy. The point Orwell made was that dictatorships can take almost any from from almost any political system. People forget the Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were elected. As was Mussolini and his Fascists. My friends used to argue that I was wrong. America could NEVER FAIL because America had this system of "checks and balances." It was hardwired into the American system with multiple layers - POTUS with executive control, The House who write laws, The Senate who make certain bigger states don't dominate an SCOTUS who check those institutions are doing things in a lawful way. What NONE of us every discussed was what might happen if that system of checks and balances was undermined by very determined people with enough money to get what they wanted. There's a great PBS Frontline on Citizens United. Its here on YT and EVERY person who lives in a democracy should watch it. Its title is "How the Citizens United Decision Changed U.S. Political Campaigns" About 20 minutes in they interview the lawyer who won Citizens United. His name is Jim Bopp and he started as a pro-lifer and wanted abortions banned. To get what he wanted he had to be able to make money work how he wanted it to work. It was also exactly what some of the Fossil Fuel billionaires needed to get what they wanted. I once had the term "High Machiavellian" explained to me. Machiavelli has been wrongly credited with approving of "the end justifies the means" when in fact he was describing how certain people operated. Its important to understand this isn't about how people "act" but how they "operate" because operation implies planning and goals rather than just responding. If you watch that documentary Jim Bopp is a "High Machiavellian" and that means he truly believes that he has to do whatever it takes to get the end result he wants and any collateral damage is irrelevant. So when he says Citizens United was necessary to democracy he really believes it because the consequences to other people is irrelevant because his task was to rid America of "Roe V Wade." Nothing else mattered to him and his people. At the same time its also allowed the billionaires who backed Jim Bopp to get the people they wanted elected to congress and put on SCOTUS so they could dismantle the IRS, FBI, EPA, FDA, FAA and any other 3 letter agency that restricted their profits. The craziest aspect of throwing out "Roe V Wade" is that its also thrown out the right to privacy over medical records that were (past tense) covered by the 4th Amendment. Go look up the Wikipedia page on Roe V Wade. One of the main arguments was the right to privacy between a medical practitioner and their patient. Remember how on all those TV crime shows like "Law and Order" where they'd go to a doctor and ask for something and the doctor would say "Go get your warrant" and the judge would say "give me a GOOD SOUND reason or go away." Yeah sorry mate but that's gone. Because when Jim Bopp finally got what he wanted he also threw out you basic right to privacy over your medical records. America is now a lesson to the rest of the Western democratic world that if you allow High Machiavellians to go unchecked they will eventually do staggering amounts of damage to your nation and society that CANNOT be easily fixed. Sorry for the length of this but I have a soft spot for America and wished I did have magic wand to fix it. I really had a great time going to college there. The vast bulk of Americans I met are good people and they deserve better than the situation they now have.
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  4. That's actually the real threat getting young women to use their brains. Conservatives want those girls back in the home making babies, not in college, not having a career and MOST OF ALL not having an opinion of their own.
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