I must have had my eyes and ears closed for 9 years, Foxy. But, I had given both political major parties away long before that, so it's not worth my while arguing.

I found an amusing example of how misunderstandings can occur :

Last night, I watched a session with Nick Cater, John Howard and Alexander Downer in front of a Melburnian audience. The broadcast had captions.

John Howard said that he thought that Dan Andrews was an very good communicator, but he ABHORED his policies.

The captions, however, said that Howard APPLAUDED Andrew's policies.

The two words would have sounded the same to a computer, which went for the wrong word.

I can imagine deaf people out there who watched it being convinced that Howard is fan of Andrews :).

Paul,

There is little real difference between communists and Nazis. The communists, however, managed to kill vastly more of their own citizens.

The communists are extreme socialists as were the Nazis.

Foxy,

Forgot to ask.

What were Dutton’s 15 falsehoods?

"Australians were put to the test and they voted in
favour of Labor and integrity-minded Independents."

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”

Booker T. Washington

"There are 2 ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pushing up."

"Character not circumstances makes the man."

Booker T. Washington.

SM,

"There is little real difference between communists and Nazis" I must agree, but I put it this way; There is little difference between one form of political extremism and another form of political extremism (communists and Nazis). One can be radical and not be an extremist. When the extremists come to power their ideology becomes the normal, and the moderates are then seen as the extremists. To be locked up and then shot. I'm sure if Albo and ScoMo had turned up in Berlin in 1940 and sat down with Hitler and explained why his regime was extreme. At the end of their discussion, Hitler would have said; "These two crazy EXTREME SUBVERSIVES, have them taken out and shot immediately!" The same deal if they had gone to Stalin in Moscow with the same spiel. " "These two crazy EXTREME SUBVERSIVES, have them taken out and shot immediately!"

BTW; I believe in the "Horseshoe Theory of Politics", as the extreme right, and the extreme left become more extreme, they also become more alike.