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Here in Aus the simple fact is people vote with their wallets, and most people - even progressives - aren't altruistic when it gets down to it. That's human nature and it's been proven many times over in the last decade. From experience here, the way people vote is pretty simple; they vote with one hand in the ballet box, and one hand on their wallet. On the one hand, you have the LNP, a bunch of moustache twirling villains who would be scary if they weren't so hilariously stupid and incompetent. On the other hand, you have the ALP, who while they are also incompetent, they generally are (or were) out to do the right thing with the right policies. Keeping services under public ownership, funding medicare, more money for education, for science, less money for coal mines, etc. The issue is that the majority of Australian people over the age of 35 are: * home owners * up to their loving eyeballs in debt because of it These people don't give a gently caress about medicare, or science funding, or coal mines. Well, more accurately, they care about it, but no where near enough to vote for it, when voting for that party risks cratering their over inflated property "investments". Armed revolt would never work or if it did, it would only work temporarily, because as fun as it is to shake fists at Jeff Bezos and your Musks of the world the real villains of this decade are normal people who are desperately clinging to any scrap of measurable success they currently have, regardless of how much it fucks it all up for future generations.
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