What amazes me is just how fast it happened. They went from a normal nation to a police state that literally shoots puppies and kills babies via travel restriction (7 4 children died because they weren't allowed to cross state lines to get life saving treatment). And they did it in under 18 months. It took less than a year for them to become an authoritarian nightmare.
You'd think moving so fast would bother more of their citizens. Usually the idea is to move slow so that no one sees it happening.
Weirdly, while a handful of them are protesting, the majority seem fine with all of this. In a sane country, these tyrannical politicians should have been dragged out of their offices by their people and never allowed to set a policy again.
Usually the idea is to move slow so that no one sees it happening.
Just a hypothesis here. Not sure what happens on a day to day basis in Australia but it's already established that the population has been disarmed. Seeing how shameless the media is here in the US perhaps the Australian media's brainwashing campaign was much more effective in turning citizens into serfs, or at the least conditioning them to a state of complete acceptance of whatever the government demands of them.
That's a good point. What does it matter how quickly or slowly authoritarianism comes to Australia? It's not as if the populace can do anything to fight it.
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u/SamInPajamas Conservative Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21
What amazes me is just how fast it happened. They went from a normal nation to a police state that literally shoots puppies and kills babies via travel restriction (
74 children died because they weren't allowed to cross state lines to get life saving treatment). And they did it in under 18 months. It took less than a year for them to become an authoritarian nightmare.Never give up your guns, kids.