Thread by @PeterRelph

I am concerned with what I see as the usurping, undermining, destruction of Democracy in Australia.
This has been caused by a convergence of partisan politics.
Let me explain in a long & boring monologue about the most critical element of Australian politics.
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⬆Basically, in brief, Australian politics has yielded to the anti-democratic fascistic right that have taken over both major parties, the Liberals & Labor.
This story has its roots back in Second World War fascist Austria & features the Murdoch family at all stages.
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⬆That sets my basis, now to the fundamentals of Australian politics, that which underlies the Constitution, the assumption of democracy & all that is necessary to support & nourish it.
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⬆Australia is a Democracy in the Westminster (UK) System whereby multiple opposing political parties who all support the concepts of Democracy argue for their particular versions of society, agreeing to be constrained by the concept of Democracy.
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⬆The Westminster System assumes at least two parties, both loyal to the concepts of Democracy, the one in government at any point constrained from excess by the other as opposition. Government is further constrained by an independent Press, the 4th Estate.
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⬆This system handled the British Fascists under Oswald Moseley in the UK in the 30s because enough of the other parties either opposed it, or thought that the time was not yet opportune to support it.
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⬆The current Australian situation was set up by fascists in Austria in the 30s & 40s under the name of Neoliberalism. This fascist ideology portrayed those successful at gaining wealth at the expense of whoever as the worthy, the elect, the elite, the very essence of fascism
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⬆In Australia in 1943, a group of supporters of the Austrian Neoliberal fascists set up 2 political organisations, the Liberal Party of Australia & the Institute for Public Affairs.
These included Keith Murdoch.
In the UK they established the Institute for Economic Affairs.
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⬆In the US the fascist Neoliberal concept appealed to the fascist capitalist oligarchs & the Loony Toons religious Right who saw it as justifying their existence.
These capitalists saw it gave their venal greed an element of supposed morality so they poured their $bn into it.
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⬆Back to Australia & 1975.
The oppositional system existed until the coup of 1975, “The Dismissal”.
At that point or soon after, Labor gave up the ghost on democracy & opposition & joined the Liberals.
From 1983 when Labor were re-elected, they enacted Neoliberal policies.
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⬆From 1983 Labor started privatisations & limited Union power by putting control in government hands. They introduced Neoliberalism into Parliament & opened the door to the full flood of the Liberal Party & the IPA (above) that Murdoch Snr & others had founded back in 1943.
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⬆From that point on, we had the Liberal Party which has no interest in democracy, only corporate control & Labor who had gone over to their side & stopped opposing them.
So Australia had an unopposed fascistic Liberal Party, which means they had a fascist regime.
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⬆The result is a Neoliberal Duopoly, a Neoliberal entity in the guise of two supposedly opposed parties, with the pretence of opposition supported by a choreography portrayed by the Murdoch & associated media.
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⬆Labor pretends to oppose the Liberals, makes all the correct token noises, but actually quietly supports all their important fascist Police State legislation. Liberals blame Labor for everything & Murdoch pretends to support the Liberals whilst berating Labor.
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⬆This is effectively One Party Rule, it doesn't matter to Murdoch & those that he & the other press barons represent, the global corporate would-be feudal oligarchs, which of the 2 parties they own wins, each party is committed to them.
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⬆We go on happily voting for one or the other fondly imagining it is democracy.
You can give one of any number of names, Neoliberalism, Fascism, Oligarchy, Police State, Duopoly ...
The one thing it is not, however, is Democracy.
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⬆As an addendum to the above, when there's been national barbarian thuggery previously there have been other nations with the power to suppress its spread.
This is no longer the case, there are no knights on white chargers out there to stop them.
Just a slow insidious spread.

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