Paul,
I think I disagree with you on the Nazis as they are a political
grouping with a long tradition. We even have a few in this country.
I place the Labour Party as a leftist party that is about 25% of the
way across the political scene.

I will take the opportunity to ask you how can they be so stupid on
banning all except solar & wind and a little hydro ?
It puzzles me although I know the Libs were in government when they
did not prevent the first literal blowing up of power stations.
I saw a gathering of Greens actually standing there cheering when a
couple of stations were blown up.

I was amazed that anyone could be so STUPID to blow up power stations
before they built the replacement generation facilities!

Hi Again Bezza,

The issue of electricity generation is not philosophical, left right and all that nonsense. Whether you favour nuclear over renewables, or vice-versa is not a philosophical difference politically, rather just a difference of opinion on a mundane issue of power generation. This election the Greens for example were running around with a big tooth brush, dental into Medicare was the cry, hardly radical. Now if they had been demanding the total nationalisation of the health system, that would be radical, going to the hearth of the functioning of society, and the accepted norms. What puts one on the left or right is ones attitude on fundamental social justice issues, and to what depth one excepts the incursion of the state into the operation of society.

What is politically normal in society is not set in concrete, but fluid and dependent on what society by and large accepts to be the normal. The old normal can be replaced with the new normal. What was once seen as radical can, with a change of political dynamics, become the moderate, and what was once moderate becomes the radical. Example the rise of Nazism in Germany, 1930 Germany, a liberal democracy supported by the majority is the normal, Nazi's are nothing more than a radical fringe group, with marginal support. Then circumstances change, brought on by a Great Depression, the Nazi's come to power, by say 1938, Nazim is now the accepted new normal, and the radical is liberalism.

It looks as if Paul 1405 is using AI to write his posts. The posts are well beyond his standard of literacy, and his general ability, which stops at personal abuse.

ttbn,

Maybe if you had studied Political Science you to might have an understanding near the level of myself.....perhaps not. Can you point to any insults/abuse I've directed at you. I view you as a Dear Old Fart stuck in the quagmire of conservative mud. My youngest son is an Old Fart, and I tell him so, and he's not yet 40, although gay he's still just a regressive negative thinker.

Just when you think the Liberal Party has hit rock bottom, the newly returned person who proposed to his “husband” on the floor of Parliament before he lost his seat, Tim Wilson, has put himself up for the leadership of the party. Well, he is ‘weighing his options. Who expects a straight up statement from a Liberal?

I suppose if he backs down, the media will add “gay problem” to the party's “woman problem” the party is already branded with.

I fear that not enough space could be found these days to list the Liberal's problems.

At my stage of life, having benefited from an Australia that people keep proudly saying is gone forever, I don't really give a toss about governments or what brand they are. I just cannot understand why Australians who have made a hobby of whingeing about cost of living, cost of housing, cost of rent, not enough ‘help’ from the government and so on - all brought about by the Albanese socialist government - can turn round and re-elect the same government.

I have one theory: they are such sheep that the constant banging on by the media and “experts” about how we NEVER or only ONCE kick(ed) out a first term government, that they thought that they had better not do it this time. Nor can they pick a lie from the truth. Albanese told more lies over the few weeks before the election than he did over the past 3 years - and that’s saying something! His lies cover all the other reasons why Australia went bad: Donald Trump and all things overseas: never Albanese and his buffoons.

As for my own South Australia, there are only 2 Liberal seats left and the really wacky reason accepted for that? The high regard in which the state Labor Premier is held! How stupid. He has sweet FA to do with the Albanese government. I like him too: voted for his government at the last election; but that certainly wouldn't lead me to vote for Albanese. Anyone who thinks that, after what we have experienced over the past three years, Albanese is a better man than even the inadequate Peter Dutton, doesn’t deserve a vote.