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Jesus fucking Christ, are we all learning nothing from what's happening in the US right now???
Yes, what were learning is that we'lll follow the US down the highway of oblivion, its what voters want apparently.
What I'd like to see is we petition the EU to join, and I'd like to see Canada and NZ do the same and any other nation thats wants to we need to be in world thats closer, not more blacanised. The US and UK can go off and do their own thing separately.
Fuck the US they've gone from bad (Regan) to worse (Trump)
I was honestly hoping that people would see trump, see Dutton trying to emulate him, then go "ahh no maybe not."
It's pretty horrifying, makes me worry that the average Australian is exactly the kind of person I suspected.
I'm ashamed to say I still had some hope for this country before the Voice vote.
Did you know there was a progressive No campaign? The only sensible position limped over the line with majority help from racists, I'm fucking done ... not like I can afford to live here any more anyway.
Me either. 9 years ago I moved my family here from the US (I'm Aussie born), and I've been dirt poor ever since. But I don't even know where the hell else we'd go.
Apparently not, sadly. I cannot believe people cannot see the parallels, but then the average Aussie probably doesn't pay any attention to US politics and the Australian coverage (even from the ABC) is not really explaining just how bad things are.
I'm assuming OP is talking about the politicians, not the voters. Labor has been way too conservative around how to tackle the cost of living issues. And that's causing discontent and a rise in crime too, which gets exploited by the right wing.
It's still infuriating that there are people who think "Labor isn't putting out the fire fast enough, so let's vote for the petrol party".
A lot of voters will just vote for 'change', and don't dig into the actual politics or policies. I get that you can't just turn around things on a dime, but it feels like Labor has been more conservative than they could've been. And then there's the CFMEU clusterfuck, which will cause tens of thousands of union members to put Labor last, regardless of who they put first.
And, I'm not sure if it's just being played up because of the election or what not, there's just too many stories about cars being stolen by young kids, them getting caught and then be bailed out that same night. So you have that fucking helicopter up there for nothing basically.
Labor sure isn't