Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "This Mechanic Could Win the Most Important Senate Race in America" video.

As an Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s this is something I have been trying to explain to Americans for over 30 years. America NEVER HAD a true Left like Britain has with British Labor, Australia has with Australian Labor or many other countries have with political parties that STARTED out of their union movements. What America has is 2 parties that were formed by their political and business elites and as such are BOTH fundamentally RIGHT WING PARTIES. Further they have shifted where they were on the political spectrum as well. Americans seem to forget that at one point the Democrats were the radical racist Right Wing party while the Republicans were the moderate Right Wing Party. Remember that Republican President named Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. Go look at the history of the Klu Klux Klan they were an offshoot of the Southern Democrats. Here in Australia the our version of the Labor Party was essentially the political party of our Unions. People like Dan Osborne were its members. There has been a significant change in recent decades however. The Australian Labor Party like British Labor and other Left Wing parties across the Western Democratic World have been taken over by college educated people usually with educations in law or economics. Tony Blair (former British PM), Julia Gillard (former Australian PM), Anthony Albanese (current Australian PM) and Keir Stammer (most likely to be the next British PM) are all lawyers and all members of their respective Labor parties. So it does NOT surprise me that America might be looking for working class people to displace some of the political elite like Dan Osborne is. We had that, then lost that and need to get it back again.
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As an Australian who went to college in America in the late 80s this is something I have been trying to explain to Americans for over 30 years. America NEVER HAD a true Left like Britain has with British Labor, Australia has with Australian Labor or many other countries have with political parties that STARTED out of their union movements. What America has is 2 parties that were formed by their political and business elites and as such are BOTH fundamentally RIGHT WING PARTIES. Further they have shifted where they were on the political spectrum as well. Americans seem to forget that at one point the Democrats were the radical racist Right Wing party while the Republicans were the moderate Right Wing Party. Remember that Republican President named Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. Go look at the history of the Klu Klux Klan they were an offshoot of the Southern Democrats. Here in Australia the our version of the Labor Party was essentially the political party of our Unions. People like Dan Osborne were its members. There has been a significant change in recent decades however. The Australian Labor Party like British Labor and other Left Wing parties across the Western Democratic World have been taken over by college educated people usually with educations in law or economics. Tony Blair (former British PM), Julia Gillard (former Australian PM), Anthony Albanese (current Australian PM) and Keir Stammer (most likely to be the next British PM) are all lawyers and all members of their respective Labor parties. So it does NOT surprise me that America might be looking for working class people to displace some of the political elite like Dan Osborne is. We had that, then lost that and need to get it back again.
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