Australia's descent into tyranny continues. Chilling.
What is striking about images like these is how much they reveal about underlying autocratic instincts in human nature: men are prone to arbitrarily abuse their power when given the least excuse to do so. COVID gave closet autocrats around us the very excuse they needed to succumb to their worst instincts. Australia is a case in point, as I discussed before.
I hope Australian voters will severely punish their leaders at the next election, but I am not so sure they will. As Senator Amidala famously said, "this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."
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