Professor of Law at Queensland University, James Allan, thinks that Australia has the worst political class in a hundred years. That opinion is very hard to argue with, and it is all our fault; the electorate always gets the government it deserves.

This fact has never been more evident since the China virus panic. The childish adoration of the Ad Man and the grovelling to unelected public servants. The sheep are ever-so-grateful to a PM for his ‘expert’-induced panic which has increased debt, unemployment and wrecked many small and middle-sized businesses. All fanned by the ABC and the Left press; all over a disease which has a death rate just a little over the ordinary influenza, with the people dying with it mainly older than the average life expectancy for Australians.

Allan is amazed at how weakly Australians have given up their liberties, and at how they still consider that a good job has been done with the China virus. Even the tyrannical Andrews government stuff-up is praised. In SA, some of the sheep herd are referring to ‘expert’ Professor Nicola Spurrier as ‘Saint Nicola’.

What an opportunity there is for a switch to totalitarianism while a weak, easily led populous is feeling even more vulnerable than normal and wailing for protection from something that doesn’t even figure in the top ten of medical threats

The commissars have started fighting among themselves. This morning, it was announced that the SA police commissioner had overridden the health ‘expert’ on distancing in hospitality venues because of complaints from the industry. The area per person has been reduced to 2 metres from the 4 metres ordained by the health poobah

What can we expect from a rabid right poster, yet another thread on what insignificance the Covid-19 pandemic really is. Forget about the lives saved, or the lives lost, after all they were only old farts who were past their used-by-date anyway. People like ttbn would much rather listen to the Dangerous Doctor Donald, the golf playing, turkey sparing nincompoop, than offer any thanks or gratitude to the people who thus far have protected Australians from the worst of the pandemic, the medical workers, the public servants of all kinds, the scientists, and yes, some of the more moderate politicians as well. No thanks to those who risked their lives treating the sick and dying, no thanks to those who have worked extremely hard developing a vaccine in double quick time which will ultimately save millions of lives. Just look to the land of free and the home of the brave, to see what poor leadership brings when a deadly pandemic strikes. The Orange Man supported by nut jobs from the far right has thus far presided over more than 14 million known cases, at least 280,000 deaths and an infection rate of over 200,000/day and climbing.

"What an opportunity there is for a switch to totalitarianism" The only ones desiring that are the nut jobs from the rabid right. In America where enough people had the good sense to vote an incompetent arsehole out of office, the arsehole is now doing his best to hold on to dictatorial power, as he abandons the democratic process. My thinking is the hard right nut jobs would do the same in Australia given the opportunity, there are several of them on this Forum.

Ttbn,

Yes, perhaps you would be enthusiastic if governments could set up a system whereby, once someone turn eighty one or so, they must register for elimination, and await the removal trucks. Perhaps they may be granted their last favourite meal.

Since we're all doomed anyway, you would probably be happy to be amongst the first to sign up, once you've turned eighty one.

I wonder if you'll be missed on OLO.

Joe

Hi Joe, no problem, a bowl of "fresh strawberries" awaits dear ttbn!

Joe,

I usually look forward to your huffing and puffing because it always assures me that I am on the right track. But on this occasion I haven't a clue what you are talking about. There is no connection between your comments and my post. I'm guessing that you might be having trouble with your own mortality at the moment

"That opinion is very hard to argue with, and it is all our fault; the electorate always gets the government it deserves. "

I'm not sure it's really our fault.
We get crap candidates and its always pass the baton with the major political parties, one or the other;
The whole systems been hijacked.

And it was they that signed us on the the UN agendas.
You've got to see the bigger picture:

'Change the people, change the government'
- That's what the immigrants are for;
To change the demographics of our 'people', which results in changing our government.

I reckon they planned for Hillary getting in.
When that didn't happen, elites started going nuts to get the agendas back on track and on a correct timeline.

You see, Trump pulled out of Paris and a heap of other stuff, and that just is NOT a part of the global agenda, so he had to go.

Even if they had to release a pandemic, with China's help to get rid of Trump, for the benefit of big business, and global agendas.

I was happy for the restrictions to stop a foreign virus that kills Australians, but I want everything to go back the way it was.

Unfortunately it's not going to.
The elites are using the crisis to their benefit, to sweep through more of their 2030 agendas and get things back on track.

the electorate always gets the government it deserves.
ttbn,
I think you're very, very wrong about that. Half of the Australian Electorate for example gets the Govt they deserve, the other half has to suffer the consequences they do not deserve.

AC,

I know it's hard for some people, most people perhaps, to take the blame; but as long as we keep voting for what you call "crap candidates" we are to blame. Australians think a lack of interest in politics is a virtue. They even brag about never talking about politics. It's meat pies, football and Holden cars still. Well, they have lost the Holden cars, and they are going to lose a lot more because of their political indolence. And here you are, already accepting that things are not going to return what they were prior to the China virus. Just what they want you to think. That's the defeatism typical of a people who have had everything given to them by previous generations - people still expecting politicians to 'save' them.

individual,

You would like me to be wrong to make yourself less responsible. You have had some very harsh things to say about Australians yourself, but you are still locked into the idea that voting for one team of a bunch of villains makes you somehow better than those who voted for the other team. The Turnbull and Morrison governments should have shown you by now that voting for either side is aiding and abetting bad people. If you vote for the Coalition, Labor or the Greens, you are most certainly responsible for the government you get. I have repeatedly revealed what I now do when I am forced by law to attend a polling booth. If other people did the same, the political class would have to take notice. But, as long as they continue voting for what they consider to be the best of a bad lot, they do deserve the government they get.

Could we please have a link provided to where the
professor makes the claims that are asserted in this
discussion. It would help greatly to understand the
context of what is being stated.

Thank You.

ttbn,
What is true may sound as harsh to you but there's no getting away from many who call themselves Australian are mere opportunists rather than worthy Citizens !

individual,

I think you might have misinterpreted my mention of your harsh words about Australians as criticism of you; it was not. I agree with you. Disinterested people deserve to be treated harshly. I speak of them harshly. The way they are headed, they will be very harshly treated by governments in the future. Perhaps a few harsh words from their peers might wake them up but, in the long run, the only people we can change are ourselves. I'm pessimistic about the future of Australia and the people who are allowing it to head the way it is going.

Hi Foxy

You can't expect "ttbn" = Trump's tiny Brown Nob

and his drooling mates to have to actually look up from Mein Kampf to find

link-proofs in support of their prejudices?!

We Centrists of Sanity can note that http://www.spectator.com.au/author/james-allan/

lets fly in sub-scholastic "tones" on Causes dear to the hearts of OLO's remaining Trump Pets.

CORRECTION:

@ttbn = Trump's tiny brown NIBBLET :)

From one of OLO's:

Centrists of Sanity = the "cEnts" to you Sir :-)

plantagenet,

Wrong as usual. Wrong reference. Never saw it. I don't supply sources or any other information for the likes of that woman, who would have already made up her addled mind that anything I put up would be wrong. If people are too lazy or too disinterested to look up things for themselves, that's not my problem. I don't give a toss. I just report what I want to report and express my own opinions. I don't give a rat's arse about halfwits who don't like what I say or who disagree with me.

ttbn

Your's are just excuses.

Face it. You're too lazy or befuddled to provide links, even out of courtesy to your mates.

"Your's are just excuses".

My 'what' are excuses? You don't make any sense. Nor would you have anything to say if you didn't pinch everything from someone else. Just like you live your life on the back of your father's or grandfather's - which ever it was - achievements. There are more red lines in your posts than there are black. As for my 'mates' I don't think I have any mates here on OLO. Social media of any kind is an artificial construct, with anonymous people; certainly not given to mateship. You, that woman, Looselips and Number 1405 are really pathetic examples of people who can't handle real life.

and?

Paul 1405.

Don’t forget this virus was deliberately foisted on the West by the left’s Commie mates in China.
President Trump shut down travel from China ( then Europe) 3weeks after the world learned of the virus.

I watched Pelosi and Biden go on the news, at that time. Calling him a racist for saying the virus,
came from China and shutting down travel. Biden also added that Trump was over-reacting.

How long I wonder would it have taken Pelosi and Biden to shut down travel from China and risk
offending their puppet masters in China?
Would it have taken them anoth,er 2 or 3 months or not at all?. You could well and truly multiply that 200,000 and more
dead in America, by six times that number, if they’d been in charge.

The virus has also been really bad in Mexico. Lucky there weren’t still thousands coming illegally
over the border from there,bringing thousands of cases with them.
This didn’t happen because Pres Trump had gained control of the borders, by threatening to end
very lucrative trade deals with Mexico. Now the Mexican police turn these caravans of people heading for the American border back in Mexico.

What about the fact that Pres Trump sent a big well equipped hospital ship down to New York to help Cuomo.
Doctors and nurses on board, plenty of beds and medical supplies. Cuomo refused to use it to help people,
because he was playing politics.Instead, when New York’s hospitals became short of beds,
he put all the infected old people from the Nursing homes back in the homes,
killing thousands and thousands of people.

His son a CNN news anchor interviewed his father about NewYork having so many deaths, 50% of deaths.
They put the blame on PrTrump saying, “ he was too slow to react” so we had no supplies.
Trump had in fact rung Cuomo to say, he would send him anything he needed.
Cuomo was still letting over 250 planes land at New York airport 6 weeks after the shutdown