Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "US presidential election: Is global democracy at stake? | DW News" video.

@opinion4755 I totally agree. In a discussion that needs clear rational arguments she's borderline hysterical.
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I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and you're right. Although the MONEY is just 1 of a raft of problems its possibly the biggest because its the most influential and what its done is like radiation poisoning. Its not obvious at first how much damage has been done but by the time you find out its a major problem because its shows up EVERYWHERE. I did engineering NOT law or US history but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of their discussions. my political education was sort of limited to studying Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in High School. So I'd argue that any country can fall into a dictatorship if it wasn't careful. They argue back t=how that was impossible because of America's system of checks and balances. What the money has done is wreck that system of checks and balances and its done it through interferrence. The billionaires funding so much of it have simply got their politicians to prevent things from working. They have the mindset that government can't do anything right so they make that into a self fulfilling prophecy by interfering with any government agency like the EPA or IRS, that they can. I did aerospace engineering and I see it in the issues with the FAA and what's happened with Boeing and air travel safety in general.
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@pamsimth8018 I'd agree she's speaking the truth but she's delivering that message in a ridiculous almost hysterical manner. This is when people need to be very clear and concise about FACTS not emotions.
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I'm Australian but went to college in America and although what's she saying is basically right she's hopeless at presenting it. Yes Trumps a threat, but the way she's presenting that is terrible. Trumps a threat because he was never held accountable for anything he did. He had everyone bluffed. They should have slapped him down on the first impeachment and done similar to what they did with Bill Clinton - guilty but not bad enough to be thrown out of office. Instead they let a malignant narcissist off the hook and he's run rampant through the system. That's encouraged others to do similar on other countries. The fact they DIDN'T even try on the second impeachment and done nothing but come up with excuse after excuse to do nothing since is just pathetic. Thump's real threat is the economic threat a broken America poses. No matter what we do or don't like about America the American economy is still 1/4 of the world's economy and the US $dollar is still the worlds reserve currency that underpins world trade. After that there's issues with tax avoidance, inequality, corruption, CLIMATE and a long list of other issues NONE of which can't be dealt with if there's a second Trump Whitehouse.
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@JamesSmith-je7vf Do you know how many other countries that logic can be applied to? Here in Australia the Prime minister only has to win his electorate and then win control of his party which is done INTERNALLY to that party. So 99% of Australians don't actually get to decide who our Prime Minister is. In many countries where they have a plethora of minor parties those parties often are required by a major party to form government. So you get these small parties with extraordinary leverage and power over the rest of the country. Israel, Greece and Italy are 3 examples. Yes the American system is NOT perfect, but then nobody else's is either.
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@JamesSmith-je7vf Its actually one of the most forgotten warnings that Orwell gave us. Too many people think he was only concerned with the Soviet version of socialism. He wasn't really condemning socialism but TOTALITARIANISM and cults of personality like his stylised character "Big Brother" as well as INFORMATION CONTROL. Sorry to rant about it but blame my high school English teachers.
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