by Clive Bibby
Even the worst performing democracies of the world, when confronted with freedoms under threat, usually react decisively to the truth being told.
In that context, it is very sobering to note the mood for change that is steamrolling through democracies that only one parliamentary term ago were
hailing their respective leaderships as the personification of everything their predecessors were not.
In the USA, Biden has been exposed as a cognitively declining fake.
In Australia, Albanese is looking like a possum caught in the headlights, trying to explain away his disastrous backing of the Voice referendum which appears to be heading for a heavy defeat at the polls on October 14. And that isn’t the only problem he has to contend with so early into his first term.
Like Biden, Albanese is facing a revolt amongst many of his most loyal supporters simply because he has already abused the trust he was given by the people at the last election in the “Lucky Country” only a short time ago.
Amongst his disingenuous promises during that successful campaign was the nonsensical commitment to reduce power prices by $275 per household. This at a time when the cost of electricity was skyrocketing because of his government’s decision to close down some of the key coal-fired power stations, replacing them with clean energy counterparts not yet built.
Coincidently, Australia’s current electricity crisis and electoral problems are not dissimilar to those being experienced in many of the European countries who were signatories to the UN-sponsored Paris agreement for reducing greenhouse gases. It is not surprising then that a significant number of those IPCC backers are now being faced with revolts of their own and may not survive politically to enjoy the transition to the new generation of clean power supplies if and when they arrive.
Finally, it is becoming obvious that the current government here in Godzone will not survive the upcoming reckoning with its voters either.
It is not difficult to reflect on the reasons why a seemingly untouchable former Prime Minister’s party could fall from grace so quickly given the heady heights of popularity it enjoyed before the truth was finally told about the betrayal.
In a nutshell, they are facing the consequences of lying to their people.
In most democracies that is an unforgivable sin.
All parties, not least those who aspire to becoming the government after this weekend, should note that the focus will now be on them and woe betide any who try to repeat the performance of those about to be banished to oblivion.
Don’t even think about it.