Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Sick Eric Trump Event Confirms Mental Illness a Major Problem" video.

I'm Australian and went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I did aerospace engineering at a top engineering school. I spent various holidays with the families of teammates and frat brothers. I HAVE SEEN and EXPERIENCED the best America has and it is awesome. When Americans are at their best they can do stuff no other country can. We can claim all sorts of stuff like resources and population base, but one day they decided to just go to the Moon. Out of the Apollo program came a flood of technologies including a massive leap forward in digital computing. The computer you are on right now can trace its heritage to Apollo. Everything in the room you are in right now that came out of a factory was made using machines controlled by computers with direct heritage to the Apollo computers. What's happened to America isn't simply sad its a tragedy created by the brainless greed of a handful of billionaires.
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@iericgaisie3700 As an Australian who went to college in America I can give you sort of an answer to that. It DOES NOT explain everything but it might explain some of it. The first Europeans to settle in America at the Plymouth Colony left England because they felt persecuted. The Americans who revolted against English rule did so because they felt persecuted. So when Americans study their history its first few lessons have the narrative. _"We were persecuted and had to fight for our freedom." If you then keep looking into American history there are waves of other people who went to America because back in Europe "they were persecuted" or that Europe "was ruled by an unjust aristocracy." So, distrust of government and powerful elitists is ingrained into American history. In fact if you look at the first Amendment and pay attention to the very last part it you can see that its an implied statement of "you can't trust the government, so speaking out against it must be protected." In that environment anything that starts with the basic premise of "we aren't like those with power" combined with "you can't trust the government and others with power because they hide stuff from you, but here's the truth and we'll help you understand it" has a lot of appeal. I now suspect that Qanon is or was a smoke screen to get intelligent people to NOT look into the influence of billionaires by having the craziest people scream endlessly "look at this." Just the other day one commentators pointed out that America 465 billionaire collectively spent almost $900,000,000 (million) on this campaign season. Of that $900M most of it came from about 25 of them. Since its not something that can be easily hidden an easy way in America to get people looking the other way is start a brainless conspiracy of a secret cabal and make it so outrageous that most people dismiss the idea.
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@melodyyoung9640 Australian here and following my earlier comment I can say the same thing about Australia that you just said about Canada. I was in Canada for work late 2017 and it was bizarre how similar our countries are. They way Canadians speak about Ottawa is identical to how we speak about Canberra. We get a lot of British and European news here and I think we can say similar about London, Brussels, Berlin Paris, Rome and the rest. I know enough about America (I went to college there) that Americans feel the same about Washington.
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@melodyyoung9640 I spent 4 months in Saskatchewan in late 2017 early 2018 so I know full well about some of the views people have there. I was quietly warned to be very careful about certain subjects in rural areas. Other than that I loved the place, loved the people and sorry but I am now Roughrider fan. I just found their way of speaking about Ottawa so similar to our way of speaking about Canberra.
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