CM, good I read your last post, and now all you have to do is learn how to bang the rostrum, and scream at the right time, and mate you'll be up there with the best of em'. It's a lovely piece of gobbledygook, your audience will be mesmerised.

To O Sung Wu- Yes I noticed your absence. At least there has been some common ground in the discussion. Diplomacy is hard going... sometimes a straight fight is better I guess. Take care mate. :)

The length of this thread is a clear indicator of how important it is to discuss the peril of indoctrination that's ready to push the door open if we're not vigilant.
It also clearly indicates how many have already succumbed & are supporting the peril due to lack of integrity & common sense..

Dear o sung wu,

A blatherer you say? Well that has cut me to the quick. So I did a quick count and I have indeed been posting a lot on this thread. 20 times to be exact. I am sure I have been overdoing it and boring people.

My only saving grace is that I'm not the chief blatherer, the king of the crock, the primary pontificator, the prince of platitudes, one heck of a 'rhetoricor' (I know that's not a word but it kind of rhymed).

That esteemed title goes to someone who has posted 40% more times than I have in this thread, who spares none in the vigour with which he swings his elbows in order to enlighten us with his deep pearls of wisdom. A voice screaming to be heard above the 'foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city'.

That honour old cock goes to you. 28 times and counting. Would you be so kind as to slow down a little so that the rest of us have a chance of catching up.

o sung wu,

Josephus’s post was appropriate and timely; good on him for starting it. However, like all posts, it was soon taken over by big egos thinking that they must show other people how wrong their opinions are. Not satisfied with just giving their opinions and moving on, they have to win arguments with anyone who can be bothered to take them on. However, after more than 300 responses, nothing has changed; nobody has changed his opinion, and people have said a lot about nothing. The ones who have the most to say rarely, if ever, start a post themselves, merely hijacking subjects with their own blather which, as time goes on, has absolutely nothing to do with the original topic. I doubt that these people, one of whom you mentioned, have ever had a face to face conversation and expressed their opinions to a living soul. Keyboard warriors the lot of them, with no real experience of life, and usually lacking in courage.

individual,

I get what you say but, at the end of this thread, has anything changed? I believe that if the subject is brought up again any time in the future, the same old people will be saying the same old things. I confess to adding to the unnecessary and pointless palaver myself. I should have stuck to my one opinion - that there would be no civil war because Australians are too apathetic, and left it at that.

ttbn,
You hit the nail on the head & my persistence of commenting is exactly because of this dreadful apathy. I do it in the hope that every now & then someome apatheticus will actually start thinking about the future of this country & take stock of their own vulnerability.
It's a big ask to assess one's own apathy but once the mind has had a split-second to come away from sport & money & the evil that is leftist indoctrination then even the slightest chance of a doubt will pave the way to healthier thinking AND voting.