What I wrote is a parody, a vision of your country as seen by a US conservative.
Ok so a relative view from a different position to those actually living in the culture. Sort of the same thing that some Americans use to think that Kangaroos were jumping down the main streets of Sydney lol.
No, to US conservatives it just means socialist tyranny. Resistance to socialism is more important than human health for a true MAGA conservative.
Believe me the radical socialism is greater in the US and parts of Europe. It has been a rising ideology in recent times as a reaction to western colonialism and all the cis norms lol. To bring about a DEI utopia.
Australia is well behind the world inb that sense. Certainly not legislating DEI and Trans ideology in policies. Though Trump is undoing a lot of that. We have not even reached that point and now that the US is leading the way in refuting such ideology
I don't think Australia will ever develop a more bobust socialist State. In fact I predict as the US that the conservatives along with the National parties will be in government in the next few years. As the world realises the agenda of this ideology that is divide the world.
What about more dangerous leftist ideas like single payer health care? Are your conservatives not trying to undo that? What about gun control?
We dealt with gun control years ago thanks to the conservatives and this has stood the test. We banned all guns except for licenced holders for farming and sports and they have to be vetted. But we don't have the high gun ownership on the streets to warrent that people get guns to protect themselves.
I am not sure what single pater health care is. Is that (you don't get health care unless you can pay for it at the counter). If so no, we have also had from decades national health cover for everyone no matter who they are. Though there is a threshold for the wealthy where they have to pay a premium to help cover the national cover. Its about 2 to 3% of income and then additional premiums. But those on welfare don't pay anything.
This was a labor thing. This is what labor were good at, welfare. But the secuirity and law and order and borders and fical management as far as business enterprise rather than restrictions and taxes on business was the leberal Nationals and Conservative parties. Who are now aligned. Liberal as in market and enterprise and not liberation or liberal ideology.
I would say this is a a general split of all Left and Right sides of the spectrum. They will vary is radicalism and may merge with other ideas. But broadly speaking this is the conflict that is happening across the world in western nations where radical socialism or Marxism and radical nationalism and freedom rights are clashing.
Many conservatives here would say that if you had been able to keep your guns you could have prevented the socialists for imposing single payer health care on you in the first place.
No I am glad labor is there to balance the ideas. One is more concerned with social welfare and the other with enterprise and merit. Bith are needed in a society.
I think the general view was in the past when politics was not so polarised that there was more middle ground and the radicals were on the fringes and deemed out there and unreal. So both sides did not mind the opposing party having a turn as it sort of balanced things out.
But now its so extreme its like the other party will actually destroy democracy and is a dangerous threat. THis is the end result of the ideaologies that marched through the institutions. They made the political the personal and the personal the measure of reality.
That's better, now you are sounding like a true Conservative.
Lol I like how every position or belief or peoples observations of the world and reality is reduced down to political ideologies. If you believe this your a conservative or that and your a dem.
Its just common sense observation. It doesn't have to be politicised. A cultural and sociological observation of what is happening in a society. Pointing out how ideology itself can cause a society to self destruct. Can cause people to believe unrealities and then showing what is reality and how we should be as a society which is usually somewhere in the middle. The truth that is.
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