Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
Trump is turning the world to the left.
It’s not really left though, it’s just sightly less right. More maintaining status quo instead of taking a big step right. Which I guess by comparison is left?
Our (Australia’s) progress parties like The Greens actually lost a lot of seats.
I feel people just didn’t want the Conservative party more so than wanted a progressive party. But I’ll take it.
People need to see fascism in action in other countries to be reminded of what it is, too bad that it had to be the US, last time it was Germany.
Too bad voters can’t live in a simulation showing the consequences of their vote before they do so, that way it wouldn’t be necessary to stumble and waste resources/progress that we’re going to need in the future.
The simulation you’re talking about is the population being able to access higher education so that they understand their vote.
Pre-WW1 and WW2 Germans were some of the most educated, informed and progressive societies in the world at the time and it didn’t stop them blundering into jingoism and fascism, I don’t think it is just that.
There is a large component of “the socialists/wokes are coming for you” which glitches regular people into protest voting to the right of center instead of for a left that actually represents their interests.
PS: there is also infighting between lefties, far lefties, “moderates” and liberals that can prevent them from aligning against fascist demagogues until it is too late.
PPS: also, if you just study a lot of STEM in college, your views on humanities may still be atrocious, like elonstans.
This was very depressing to learn. I know a lot of software engineers, some of them PhD students, who are really smart and clever people, able to abstract concepts, form connections in thought, recall relevant information and make intelligent conclusions every day. And then they say things like masks don’t do anything during COVID, the vaccines don’t work, Russia is defending itself, the wokes are oppressing everyone and destroying everything etc. It’s almost impressive to see someone seemingly intelligent act like the lowest Trump supporter with certain topics like someone just flipped a switch.
Literally, just step back and look at history.
It’s amazing, and disappointing, that the simple exercise of “Let me predict what the consequences of my vote will be” seems beyond so many people.
Unfortunately that path feels like it’s closing. Will probably need more shows like The Handmaid’s Tale to make learning entertaining. The more people are reminded of the horrors of fascism in parallel fictional arenas, the more likely they will connect the dots.
They’d call “Fake Sims” before lunchtime on the first day.
Except perhaps in the UK, where there’s a Labour government who are triangulating rightwards Blair-fashion, but who (if recent local elections are anything to go by) look likely to be replaced with a far-right populist party that’s actually a private company controlled by donors.
I love how the UK’s supposedly left leadership aggressively, insistently opened with “let’s cut off the heating for old people in winter” and kept doubling down on it.
There is no left in Canada. I’m not sure what you mean. Maybe trump is turning the world centrist is more apt of a statement. As far as I know, the labour party in Australia is more centrist than left leaning. Also, half of Canada voted for the right-wing guy, and the next election will be close again.
The universe seeks balance