We had our election yesterday (Saturday) and…our Aussie Trump aligned party got beat with broomstick. Not only did they lose seats overall, their vote was at a historical low but,wait…there is more…their potato headed temu Trump LOST HIS SEAT of 21 years!!! To a WOMAN!
At a new low in Aussie Politics they even mobilised the Brethren (extremist christian cult, who, get this, DO NOT VOTE) to harass voters outside polling booths…
Non of this did them any good…1st Canada, now Australia…Democracy IS being defended by ordinary people.
Oh and one more cherry on top? La Drumpfs campaign guru?advisor visited Australia and the Liberal (neo cons) party to advise them on tactics…ahhhaaaa IN YOUR FACE!!!
After watching the result feeling at last a bit optimistic about humans…
And here it happened like a bomb…the Labor party has got 96 seats in our parliament…the MOST , the BIGLIEST majority of any color since the Second World War.
Trumpism (aka fascism) was rejected as was Sky News (entertainment) and the Murdochs media dirt raking, division and fear mongering.
The nasties were hanging their hope on Gen z Tate inspired males to turn out for them…they didnt.
Remember folks down under we have COMPULSORY voting and it is not an either or. It is a Preference ballot. We have many parties in each election.
For instance I can put Greens as my first preference and Labor as my second and number the other parties in order of my wishes, if the primary votes are close then the secondary votes are counted and so on until a clear winner is seen.
The reason the result was announced so quickly (90 minutes) is that it was obvious that the Primary vote was so large overall in the first booths counted that Labor could be forecast to win a majority in Parliament. No one forecast how large this was going to be.
Australia shows the way. Get out, vote, fuck the fascists.
Oh and a comedy? Clive Palmer a wannabe drumpf spent 100 million on this election for his Trumpet of Patriots party…and did not get one seat.
It’s quite scary that people don’t see the danger looming until the executioner stands above them with a raised axe. But I’m really happy that you sensible Aussies saw what was coming, and reacted swiftly.
I wish we had that here, so people could get their lazy asses out of their couches and their gaze off their phones. Hell, it could even mean they’d get a teeny tiny amount of gentle exercise by walking their lazy asses over to the polling station, and take leave from munching their potato chips for a few minutes.
Excellent! Well done! 
failed to consider: people won’t vote for them when they realise what their real policies and aims are.