Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why Is the Left's Branding So Terrible?" video.

  1. They are hopeless the world over. I'm Australian and ours are just as bad. They are that stupid that in the last election they had advisors from Hilary's campaign involved. I've had British friends tell me the same happened in Britain. They have good ideas and then present them is the stupidest of ways. A huge part of the problem is that the left side of Western Politics is dominated by lawyers and other intellectuals, but mostly lawyers. The Clintons and Obama's in America, the Blairs in Britain and Julia Gillard in Australia. All of them are lawyers and they all come across with that intellectual superiority schtick. They all expect us to be like a jury and judge their arguments or claims as fact. They all sound great in debates and sound like they have answers but when put to the test are soft as butter and as stupid as eating a shit sandwich. Obama was one of the very few who ever had a decent slogan "Hope and Change" but then he did that stunt in Flint Michigan where he faked that sip of water and everybody saw through him. If he wasn't going to stand up then he wasn't going to stand up ever.
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  2.  @truetech4158  You saved that twice?? But YT does that sometimes. You are absolutely right on the guns issue. The problem is how do you get around 50+ years of the NRA pumping garbage into the soft skulls of morons until it dribbles out their ears. Half the problem with America (and to a growing extent the entire Western World) is the staggering faith in ignorance that rules over politics.
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  3. if you want a comparison between those 4? Listen to this. Its a question asked after a lecture on Global Trumpism by Prof Mark Blyth from Brown that was given in JULY 2019 Its time stamped to the right part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGuaoARJYU0&t=4794s
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  4.  @jocksharerock7318  I'm actually Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) and I could never get Americans even back then to see they don't actually have a political left. All through the British Commonwealth we have Labour Parties that actually started from the trade union movements. You go to Europe and they actually have Socialist and Communist Parties. I found that Americans actually have almost no understanding of left right politics. It still amazes me how little they actually know even now with the Internet. I did engineering and the closest I ever came to a class in politics was the 2 classes I did in sociology and one of those was "Society and Technology" Probably the most amazing thing these days is how little Americans can rationally discuss the US Constitution. A bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and used to bug the crap out of me with discussions on the merits of the Bill of Rights. There's this stunning disconnect from what people think they know and what they actually know. I was stunned a while back when I found Dub-ya cancelled the funding for civics in high schools, because more than anything else that gave every American a reasonable understanding of how their country worked. In the 80s Americans were proud they were educated in how their country worked. They were proud that they knew more about how America worked than what I knew about how Australia worked. In my day our education was based a lot around History more than politics and that used to be an interesting comparison. I'd studied 4,500 years of history from the Egyptians & Sumerians onwards. My friends new about 300years of history but a buckets of US Constitution and why it was what it was. These days I see Americans who are either sad at the decline of education or are proud of their ignorance. There's too few of the first and too many of the other. The scary part of that is that the entire Western World needs America on its feet and functioning responsibly because you have next to no idea about the scope of the Chinese problem. Similar to America its NOT the Chinese people who are the problem its Chinese politics that's the problem.
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