It seems that your right wing is paralleling the worst of our right wing; climate change denial, fervent religious belief, unhinged demonization of opponents, a dependency on lies to convince themselves that they are right, a voracious need to increase the incomes of the wealthy, and constant bashing of the government that they are too incompetent to run.
Not paralleling, emulating. Every right wing talking point raised in the US is parrotted by the right in Australia in a matter of days. Everybody in Australian politics agreed to the Paris Agreement when it first came out. No one spoke a word against it until Donald Trump did, and when they did used the exact same bullshit arguments ("bad deal for Australia, these "binding" non-binding goals will cripple the economy etc). Leading the charge was
cunt former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who pretty much came out and said we should be copying
Donald Trumps stance on it
despite being the fucking Prime Minister who signed the agreement on Australia's behalf. The justification for this pivot was, well, because of reasons.
The incest creeps further. Every time an Australian conservative leave politics, or is voted out, the first thing they do is run to the nearest US far right group to get their confirmation bias reinforced. John Howard did it with the
Heritage Foundation (FYI it was the first time he spoke in public since he lost the 2007 election),
Tony Abbott has done it
twice. It's almost as though no one in Australian politics is allowed an idea unless it comes from America first.
Right wing pundits are the same. Everything you read by Piers Akerman was said in Breitbart a week before, Andrew Bolt has a very unhealthy fanboy fixation with Milo Yiannopoulos and Quadrant magazine thinks we live in a Tom Clancey-esque Cold War era. So basically the right in Australia is a foreign adaptation of the right in the US; a Malaysian Seinfeld, if you will. Lacks context, doesn't translate well, but dammit we're going to have a crack at it anyways.
All that you need to fill out the suite is for your right to pick a corrupt clown for a leader because he is corrupt and a clown, a right with patriotism for symbols but not the democratic ideals of the nation, and a right with a growing disregard for the rule of law
I am damn certain the
only reason this hasn't happened is because voting is compulsory in Australia. Otherwise we would have had Pauline Hanson or Fred Nile running things already. Maybe even Clive Palmer or Jaqui Lambie. Fringe nuts become relevant when apathy gets a vote in things.
