@farmerman,
Quote:I am amazed how the "big Lie" still works in US politics. We think we are politically sophisticated yet we are as gullible as any group of people whove voted only from their hearts.
Tell a lie enough times, and most people believe it.
What we're seeing (in Australia as well) is a gradual process of unveiling, for want of a better word. A peeling back of the layers of deceit by the ruling class.
When there's no real choice, or no actually clear division between the left and right, anyone who isn't for the system, gets labelled an extremist of some description.
Since our last federal election, a handful of "extremist" far-right and far-left independent senators have been calling the shots, which some applaud, and some condemn.