It seems that authoritarians all around the world are banning their opponents....

"Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova has been barred from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged mistakes in her application to register as a candidate."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-23/yekaterina-duntsova-barred-from-running-against-putin-election/103262112

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Josephus,

The SCOTUS victory for Trump that you mention is unrelated to the Colorado attempt to ban him from their ballot. This is to do with the kangaroo court attempt to charge him for allegedly causing the January 6 'riots'.

Part of the tactics used by the Democrats to subvert the US democracy is to charge Trump with all sorts of made-up 'crimes' in various jurisdictions in an attempt to distract him and his followers from the main gaol of saving the nation.

There are things for which we can be grateful in this
country. Our democracy is more robust than the US's
which sometimes has a flimsy reliance on norms.

Our Supreme Court selections consult a range of opinions
and are not subject to the same ideological stacking
that overturned Roe versus Wade. The ABC provides a
publicly funded counter-balance in the concentration of
media ownership. Our electoral boundaries cannot simply
be redrawn to the one side's advantage as with gerrymandering.

The establishment of an Anti-Corruption Commission is another
safeguard. Compulsory voting means we lean towards the centre
leaving the crazies yammering on the fringe.

A case in point was Clive Palmer's shamelessly lifted
"Make Australia Great Again" campaign in the last election.
The $100 million spent in advertising yielded laughable
results.

This shows that Australians are savvy enough to sniff out
true BS artists.

This shows that Australians are savvy enough to sniff out
true BS artists.
Foxy,
Unfortunately, they’re the minority.

Indyvidual,

Actually they're not a minority. They may muddle
through - but they get it right in the end.
Lets count our blessings.

"are not subject to the same ideological stacking that overturned Roe versus Wade."

Or the ideological stacking that first instituted Roe v Wade. But stacking that achieves the results the left likes is okey-dokey because....well just because.

Despite the fact that most Australians are savvy enough
to sniff out a true BS artist. Despite all this its
still the right-wing that provides the ideal host
for the Trumpian virus. We've examples of this
in their use of the right-wing media.

We've seen recently a special sort of mania that took
with truth rejection. It descended on us and has yet to
lift. Either way, we need to be wary to help preserve our
democracy especially due to whatever the outcome in the
United States.