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🚨 AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 ➡️When I joined the Liberal Party of Australia almost 20 years ago, I did so because I genuinely believed I could try to make a contribution to ensuring our society could be all it was meant to be, morally and materially. ⚡️I sat in a meeting after meeting listening to people saying they were committed to the same thing. And much of that was because they were unhappy with the then current government policy and attitude toward Australians in general. ⚡️You could say they were “anti-government” in the sense that they disagreed with what the government was forcing people to live with via legislation that did not make sense to the well-being of this nation. ⚡️Fast forward almost 20 years, and I sit here aghast to now hear a Liberal Party leader address the nation and tell them to snitch on their family, friends, neighbours and work colleagues in the name of the greater good. ⚡️When a political leader, who will likely be the next Prime Minister of Australia, issues a directive to the general population to snitch on those family members, friends, neighbours and work colleagues, they are potentially lighting a fire under an existing powder keg of mistrust and suspicion. ⚡️Sadly, most people will merely read and hear the cliff notes of what Mr Dutton had to say. ⚡️They won’t see the bigger picture - that caution must always be adhered to before knee-jerk reactions and that it is always necessary and prudent to look back at history before casting aspersions. ⚡️Society in general has become so addicted to being kept safe by the government, that anything they are told which hints at them being harmed, will lead to a default position of feeling they must do the “right thing.” ⚡️Rather than reading the whole story, they will read or hear the trigger words and phrases. ➡️ “𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 , 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 , 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘚𝘐𝘖 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦.” ⚡️The Ancient Greek historian, Plutarch, asked the following question in relation to the actions of the newly formed triumvirate of Octavian (soon to be Rome’s first emperor, Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus as they turned on their Roman countrymen in their quest for power in the final stages of the fall of the Roman Republic in 43 BC: “𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳?” ⚡️It is a reasonable question to be asked of anyone aiming to assume leadership over their fellow citizens, no matter the period in history. That we have enough warnings of the traps which men fall into should be uppermost in our minds when it comes to seeing our democracies as fair and reasonable. ⚡️Today, I watched an ordinary man, granted the extraordinary opportunity to represent his fellow citizens, tell them to turn on those same citizens. ➡️And it is devastating! 🔗Source 👉 puritan 🔆 #politics #journalism #facts #trending