Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Never Happens Here" video.

I always wonder if Rupert Murdoch wasn't given US citizenship which he needed to create Fox News etc. in the US and he was still in Australia would things in the US and Australia be different. Murdoch does control a lot of media in Australia but only Sky News Australia is sort of equivalent to Fox and doesn't have quite the same following I think.
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Republic versus monarchy indicates who the head of state is and nothing else. Whether a country is a current democracy depends how the government came to be, if Trump somehow hung onto power the US would not be a democracy for however long a period that lasted. How a democracy elects people is largely irrelevant. Australia is a constitutional monarchy, eg we have a Queen but we are certainly a democracy but with very significant differences in the operation of the government and all members of the government including executive positions are held by elected officials but the ruling party selects from within it's elected officials who does what. The Queen and the governor general or Queens representative do very little even though technically they have veto power for example under normal circumstances, about 50 years ago the opposition party held the senate and cut funding to the government which led to the Prime Minister being sacked and an election called, since that occured both parties have guaranteed they won't do that move again but of course that is a gentleman s agreement, Trump would do it for sure. A lot of things are held together by convention only not law as is the case everywhere. The US has one person the president who is head of state and the leader of the government and selects the entire executive government which is unelected. North Korea is officially a Republic but I would suggest in practice a monarchy and technically a democracy but one that doesn't really allow opposition parties.
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The majority of comments in this thread and the original comment is disturbing. Why is one violent mob considered better than another violent mob? That's a question for anyone who supports whatever violent mob. Certainly don't want either in my country and you should want the same in your country. Whenever a violent mob takes to the streets it should concern you. Not that's ok they're my violent mob. You have one of the most powerful militaries in the world and paramilitary police units in all large cities, let them take care of things and if they don't vote for whatever the opposite party is. Some states and cities are effectively one party states because people want it that way, so if you keep voting the same mob back in no matter what you can expect an unaccountable group of politicians because you made them untouchable. In a democracy it's your collective right to be stupid maybe discussions should be had about why people prefer this status quo in so many areas of the US.
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@wokuginger528 I am Australian and you are making some pretty wild assumptions. Australia is a peaceful country with only one 6th the per capita rate of homicide and has a 90% plus clearance rate. We also don't believe in killing each other with a virus and mitigation measures that kill people and on that score if the trend has continued in the US since 3 October when excess deaths were recorded from Jan 26 to October 3 was 300,000 including 200,000 by covid 19 directly meaning 400,000 plus deaths now or if trend about 450,000 . This is a rate about 40 times that of Australia. If you believe a country that internally has everything open and no paramilitary police is somehow more authoritarian so be it. The violent mobs be they Antifa or heavily armed protestors which according to the FBI went on to make a threat on an elected officials life , the governor of Michigan you are nuts. If you believe killing innocent people for your freedoms to basically kill and possibly get away with it especially in Chicago with a homicide clearance rate of 53% last year , which was apparently an improvement you are nuts. Trump was right bring in the military however his grand standing was pointless, get all levels of government to agree then military comes in to clean up what is worse than many low level war zones. Good luck with whatever it is you consider freedom.
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Not so sure, if Republicans control the senate they might just obstruct everything so government doesn't function which has the possibility of working in their favor. It might backfire also. I am not American but just my observation is anything can happen. I certainly hope you are correct because even if some things he did were actually good the bad he did was far worse in my opinion.
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