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here's a positive, nothing has been lost, no rights have been lost, no money has been lost, no programs have been dismantled
this was just one thing and we can keep working in other ways
sadly, what may have happened is an increase in social division here, thanks to murdoch and russia . We must not let them write the narrative, we will not become Us vs Them. We are all Aussies.
I think what stresses me out the most is the thought of how easy it was for that divisive narrative to win. This was such a simple proposal in a way and it just seemed so easy for fear and disinformation to win. I really worry about what it means for the neslxt election etc.
(I know you don't have the answer just riffing off your comment)
(unless of course you do have the answer in which case all hail Seagoon_ I look forward to you long reign :) )
I'm an old Genxer
This is not surprising. Answers are not complicated because humans are not really that complicated.
We have an aging population and it's a fact that as people age they feel fear, fear because they are physically weaker than when they were young, they also feel they don't fully understand society anymore and may be confused by all the changes. It's far too easy to appeal to the past , when old people felt stronger, and say the past was better etc etc
Better change will come when the population demographics changes , as the older boomers pass on. The younger people will act out of compassion, courage and a positive belief in the future again
But please remember the boomers also voted in Whitlam, not all are conservatives
Yeah it does feel really weird. Like same-sex marriage vote was a unanimous yes, and Labor's wins in both the Federal and State elections weren't landslides but they were better than majority thought. I understand that this one lost because there was so much misinformation, but it just feels so weird that it lost by a lot. So far only one state/territory has got a majority Yes. Victoria is always a pretty safe Progressive seat as of late, and while the inner electorates are mostly Yes and the regional electorates being No. It still feels weird that it's a majority No here.