Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Bernie PERFECTLY PREDICTS Trump’s Rise In 2003 | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

Australian here and I went to college in America - sadly you are wrong. Bernie would have been slaughtered in a US Presidential Election for the simple reason that the US Presidential election does not follow common sense. The very system itself has now morphed into an unusual form of popularity contest where logic, reason and sensibility are meaningless. Its not that other elections in other countries have similar aspects to them. Its just that the US Presidential election does it at another level. I'm old enough to remember the Carter-Reagan elections and nobody in the world could believe someone as stupid as Reagan clearly was, got elected. The exception were the business leaders because they knew it was the start of a new economic model that greatly favored them. I was actually in America (1987) at college when the 1988 election season was starting. The Dem front-runner was Gary Hart. He was charismatic like Reagan but far more intelligent. Then he was accused of extra-marital affairs and his campaign was done. His wife came out and publicly declared that although their marriage had struggled it was now doing well and she believed her husband was still the best man for the job. THAT DID NOT MATTER and his policies did not matter, because there were Americans who's great fear was the Russians sending girls over to "suck the secrets out of American leaders" AND YES THEY SAID IT LIKE THAT. And this is the point of me telling you why Bernie would never have won a US Presidential election. The Republicans have operated on FEAR for decades. Its their only policy at times. They find something for people to be scared of and wind the volume up to 11. In Bernie's case that fear is socialism. Forget that Bernie's brand of socialism would get every American health care and an education. The fear to America is that he'd tax the rich to pay for it and if you tax the rich they'd stop investing in jobs for average Americans. The GOP sell that as "Forget what you'd get and embrace the fear of what you'd lose." Sorry, but its an incredibly easy tactic and the Republicans have decades of experience using it. They either scare people into NOT voting for a person who wants to make their life better or they scare people into the arms of the guy who says he will protect American values.
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@lwright1554 Your obviously a Brit. I'm Australian but went to college in America. What we are seeing in America is an amped up version of what we are seeing across the entire developed world. It comes from the inevitable result of Milton Freidman and the Chicago School's economic ideology that "Greed is Good." It started as Reaganomics and Thatcherism but we know call it Neoliberalism. Its not simply 1 concept but a bunch of ideas that when combined have 1 inevitable conclusion the rise of second Robber Barron Era and we are now there. I'm old enough to remember the start of Reaganomics. At the time i was too young to understand any of it, but I remember people saying that he was going to far while others said NOT far enough. I remember Margret Thatchers fight with the coal workers and their union. I also remember the Unions in the 1970s became their own worst enemy with ridiculous strikes where they simply held the rest of us to ransom. So we basically let the Unions die and billionaires rise. One of the great problems now faced is that all of the text books that economists study are written by neoliberals. So there's almost ZERO understanding of other economic ideas in the education system. This is why no matter who does get elected in any developed nation the economic situation never changes. That's because all the politicians and/or their economic advisors all studied the same material in college. Simply put, when it comes to economics there's no other voice in the room except the neo-liberal voice and that's why nothing changes no matter who is elected. Your a Brit - look at Keir Stammer and try and tell anyone he's actually different to Sunak, Cameron, Thatcher or any of the other recent Tory leaders except for Boris and the Lettuce Brain.
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