Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics?
stepchook@mastodon.au 3 months ago@Ilandar @trk
No. We are perfectly capable of having our own version of the right wing extremist shambles. Reaction to hard times. Source good news. Stay calm and vote against them.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
No what…?
stepchook@mastodon.au 3 months ago
@Ilandar
I can't see the daily discussion topic, but it was something about Aus developing trends of USA politics. They're already here. We have two republican parties.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 months ago
LNP and the Greens?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I’m struggling to understand what’s going on here, even if I click up to view context. If we’re talking “two republican parties” with a lower case R, I’d think that would be Greens and (some of) Labor.
If we’re talking about analogies to American politics, surely that would be LNP, One Nation, and United Australia Party, but the latter has just 1 Senator and zero state representatives, so maybe we’re ignoring it to get to 2 Republican parties. Or maybe they meant Liberal and National as two parties?
Tagging @stepchook@mastodon.au, your interlocutor, for visibility.
stepchook@mastodon.au 3 months ago
@unionagainstdhmo
I was being sarcastic. I meant republican in the American sense of being reactionary. The Labor party seems compromised by the mining lobby.
stepchook@mastodon.au 3 months ago
@unionagainstdhmo
I'm not accusing the Labor party of popular sovereignty.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Ah I see, maybe this is a formatting error as you’re commenting from Mastodon. From my perspective it looked like you were directly replying to my comment. That was confusing as you didn’t appear to be responding to anything I’d said.