Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Matt Gaetz admits that Trump should be above the law" video.

This is one of the classic traits or narcissistic politics no matter if they are from the Far Right or Far Left. "What we do is perfect and in the best interests of society. Whenever anyone else does the something similar or even exactly the same its the worst crime imaginable and we have to exterminate it." Orwell perfectly described this sort of behavior in the book Animal farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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@shewolf2584 I find it hard to believe they could lose their minds over Hunter because that implies they still have their minds to lose. The MAGA Republicans are now so far gone we have to start seeing them in terms of being a genuine threat to civilised society AND NOT just American society but Western society. I'm actually Australian but went to college in America. I love the place and MOST of the culture. I love college sport, NASCAR, the NFL, the NHL, Cubbies Baseball and American slow cook barbecue just to name a few things. I tend to think these people are a mostly and angry frustrated minority who have been dumped on for so long they don't care anymore BUT they are now so far gone we have to see them as a threat to everyone.
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@shewolf2584 I am not surprised in the slightest. Despite all we have tried to accomplish here in Australia we still have some very ugly stuff happen AND it comes from all directions. Racism is not simply a "white thing" its something every tribe an nation does at some point. The problem for European societies is the colonial era was so well recorded and its not so far in the past that its ancient history. I studied engineering but my main humanities string was classical civilisation and I ended up doing 3 classes on ancient Greece which we often see as this enlightened society where democracy and philosophy were born and nurtured. Go read up on their wars and their politics and you get everything that's wrong with humanity. We have a lot of Asians in Australia these days and WOW do they have some history between each other. I have worked with both Indians and Pakistanis and their feelings to each other are unbelievable. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and like Australia and New Zealand they are also trying to deal with their colonial past. I think New Zealand is ahead in that process and the 3 of us are well ahead of most other nations BUT that's like saying we are clever because we have done the first mile of a 1,000 mile journey while others are yet to start. I often remind Australians that were aren't better because we have started the journey because its going to be a very long journey and we have a very long way to go. I think America's biggest problem right now is the super wealthy and especially the OLDER wealthy who just wont accept they don't need to keep earning millions each year. Warren Buffet's 93 and Charlie Munger is 99. There are a bunch of them of similar age. WHY are they still working? WHY are they still interfering in politics as much as they do? America (and a few other countries) desperately needs a younger leader to stand up an be counted and look at the future instead of being scared by it.
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@shewolf2584 Yeah I was in Texas in 87 on a road trip with a college mate and in one conversation I referred to everyone as Yanks because that was how Australians saw all Americans. This one guy said (quite indignantly) "I'm no Yank. I'm a confederate!" A little while later I asked about his statement when someone referred to him as a "good ol' boy" (even though he was about 19 or 20). When I asked if they still took that seriously everyone in the group (in unison) emphatically said "YES!" One of the girls then asked me if I understood (which I obviously didn't) and she then explained to me how CERTAIN southerners saw things. So in a way none of this surprises me but what does is how prominent and how aggressive they are now coupled with how nobody else seems to know how to deal with it.
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@shewolf2584 Its called American Exceptionalism. It basically comes from White Christian Nationalism although I would NOT call the majority of Americans White Christian Nationalists. AND YES it pisses off the rest of the planet. When Americans are at their best and I have seen them at their best they do amazing things like the Apollo program which has benefitted the entire planet from the technologies that were spun out of it. I maintain that America doesn't lack for good leaders in their society. I got to personally see the effect a person like Walter Payton had on people of every racial type. He's best of America in a single person I have seen in my life. BUT politically America has next to zero leadership. Here's proof: There's a report that came out September 2022 from the Congressional Budget Office on Family Wealth 1979-2019. Almost nobody has spoken about it because the story it tells is horrendous. 50% of America have not only gone nowhere for the last 30+ years but they LOST 50% of their combined wealth in the 2008 GFC and have still NOT recovered. Meanwhile the Top 10% who caused the GFC and got bailed out ($4 Trillion by Bush and another $4 Trillion by Obama) have made an estimated $30 Trillion since the GFC. That's 15 times the combined wealth of the bottom 50%. That's 165 million people who got smashed and the people who smashed them not only got bailed out BUT HAVE NOT PAID the money back and now pay EVEN LOWER taxes due to their buddy in crime Donald Trump. A real leader would have said NO and taxed the crap out of the top 10% and also charged interest for that $8 Trillion.
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