Peter Wynn
2 min readFeb 10, 2022

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Nobody is saying that you should feel guilty about being born in the USA. You had no control over that.

Being born in the USA, however, is not like winning the lottery.

For starters, even Donny Poo admitted to former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, that the US health insurance system wasn't as good as Australia's. Australian Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, introduced Medibank, which Malcolm Fraser privatised and Bob Hawke introduced Medicare. It is optional in Australia to have private health insurance but you can be treated for free in hospital, and you can have bulk-billed consultations with doctors.

Having Donny Poo in the White House was cringeworthy, so admitting you voted for him is something to feel guilty about!

Here's something you need to remember, also, the USA and Mexico are separated by an artificial line. Mexico is also stricken with poverty. Companies such as Ralph Lauren, that make some jeans in Mexico, don't do so because they want to lift Mexicans out of poverty, but because of lower production costs! A Mexican or Central American working for the minimum wage in the USA, who sends money back home is on a better wicket than a Mexican who works for a US company in Mexico! And people in Mexico don't work making jeans for Ralph Lauren because Ralph Lauren pays above award wages and they can afford to buy beef, they do so because if they don't work they don't eat and if they don't eat, they die!

What Americans need to be mindful of is, cowboy movies are made romaniticising the Wild West, but it was about the dispossession of the First Nations Peoples.

One of the greatest loads of nonsense I read was from a ridiculous doctor who claims that men and women can never be just friends, talked about how the First Nations Peoples lived prior to European settlement, but what this ridiculous doctor doesn't acknowledge is, the Europeans imposed their ways of life on the First Nations Peoples, and, when he talked about how your mortgage could be making you sick, a casual reader of his work could have laughed and said, "Prior to Europeans arriving in North America, the First Nations Peoples didn't trade in money, so they didn't need to borrow any to buy property! They built a tipi on a space of land, they hunted for wild buffalo and they ate nuts and berries from the bush, so what are you talking about, Doc?"

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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