Feeling about what particularly?
In terms of large cultural events, we had some of the largest-ever protests in this country at the start of August, in support of Australian recognition of the Palestinian genocide. Followed up by some much, much smaller, nationalist, racist right-wing protests that were hijacked by neo-nazis at the end of August. Our Prime Minister is currently in the US for the UN general assembly, where he plans on recognising Palestinian statehood.
In saying that about the right-wing in this country, at our federal election earlier this year the main centre-right party completely collapsed under a landslide by the centre-left. Our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is pretty milquetoast in my opinion. But he at least seems steadfast in not allowing Trump to bully us into submission, so far anyway.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
Well right now the barometer is running about 85 percent glad of our Westminster-style democracy, 10 percent secondhand embarrassment and alarm about the state of the US, and then of course there’s the omnipresent 5 percent who think that everything the US has done l and is currently doing should be slavishly copied here.
That last 5 percent can generally defined as the opinions of the proportion of the population that, kindly speaking, have a few kangaroos loose in the ol’ top paddock.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
On election day, I saw a man on a mobility scooter with Trump flags waving behind him. I’d say he had more than a few kangaroos loose…