Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Republicans BAN Universal Basic Income Programs In Shockingly Evil Move | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

AUSTRALIAN HERE: I have been trying to ell Americans for over 35 years they they DO NOT have an actual Left like the rest of the Western World does. What you actually have are 2 right wing parties with one of them being MORE to the right than the other. You DO NOT have a party like Britain's Labor Party or the similarly named parties in Australia, New Zealand and a few other places that STARTED out of their Labor Union movements. Here in Australia the Labor Party was the political wing of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions). You do NOT have anything like the Socialist parties in mainland Europe. The American Democrats started in the American South and were the party of the Confederacy and the Klux Klux Klan were a militant offshoot of the Southern Democrats. It was the Republicans under Lincoln who were the progressive party and freed the slaves. How do I know this never having taken a single class in political science or American History? I went to college in America in the late 80s in a time when they still taught CIVICS and I was surrounded by 100s of other WELL EDUCATED intelligent students who KNEW American History and HOW the American Governmental system worked and they explained it to me time at great length. What staggers me more than anything these days is how little American's seem to know or understand of their own history and how their government actually works. THAT USED to be one of America's GREAT STRENGTHS. It blew my mind a couple of years ago when I asked someone what changed and found out Bush had defunded Civics in American High Schools. Years later having seen the pro's of teaching Civics and the cons of NOT teaching civics I am absolutely convinced that ANY Democratic society, INCLUDING Australia, that wants long term stability should tech their version of it and that it should made available to EVERY citizen so that they can go back and check or review things. I remember moments of feeling embarrassed that I didn't know as much about HOW Australia functions as my American classmates did about America. I think American's should now feel embarrassed for what they have thrown away.
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@Tao-fp3yr Yes I agree. Irrespective of if we are talking about Australian Labor (where I am) or any of the others they are now dominated by collections of lawyers and economists. Right now Australian Labor is run by a lawyer - Albanese. Just this last week I saw Chris Bowen the minister for climate change say live on TV that he doesn't believe in government ownership of power stations. That's a 100% pure neoliberal economic stance. I can give you example after example of Australian Labor being right wing on economics.
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@Madamchief I like that - we're like feral Canadians. Having been in Canada for work I know they'd like that too. You can also fell a little better after today. America finally found a way to hold one of your elites accountable. JUST DON'T LET IT BE A 1 OFF EVENT. Now go get the rest of them.
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