Just because American conservatives are Nazis now doesn’t mean that all conservatives everywhere are as well
They believe all the same stuff, they just know they can not yet bring it out in public.
You’re right that they wouldn’t try to overturn an election but it is only because they can’t get away with it, not because they actually respect any law other than “fuck you I’ve got mine”.
And your attitude of complacency is what makes it so that Australia will also become like the USA - you’re not special somehow, this is happening everywhere.
We aren’t special, but we do have mandatory and preferential voting, which is fairly rare the world over, and that absolutely affects the outcomes of our elections. Mandatory voting has a far bigger effect than most realise on curbing extremism. I’m just so exhausted from American doomers trying to pretend the entire* rest of the world is heading the same direction so they don’t feel as bad about the fluffed state of their nation…
Someone else mentioned the UK and it’s the same FPTP, low voter turnout problem as the US. You know who’s actually special? New Zealand with their Mixed Member Proportional. I’ll give you a thousand dollars if they ever turn fascist!
Voting system helps but it’s not a magic bullet. I’m from NZ. We’ve always been ten years behind the rest of the world, I’ll hit you up in a decade to claim my thousand bucks. Germany is ramping up for fascism for real and they have the same MMP system as us, we copied it almost exactly from them.
They believe all the same stuff, they just know they can not yet bring it out in public.
You’re right that they wouldn’t try to overturn an election but it is only because they can’t get away with it, not because they actually respect any law other than “fuck you I’ve got mine”.
And your attitude of complacency is what makes it so that Australia will also become like the USA - you’re not special somehow, this is happening everywhere.
Being realistic =/= Complacency
We aren’t special, but we do have mandatory and preferential voting, which is fairly rare the world over, and that absolutely affects the outcomes of our elections. Mandatory voting has a far bigger effect than most realise on curbing extremism. I’m just so exhausted from American doomers trying to pretend the entire* rest of the world is heading the same direction so they don’t feel as bad about the fluffed state of their nation…
Someone else mentioned the UK and it’s the same FPTP, low voter turnout problem as the US. You know who’s actually special? New Zealand with their Mixed Member Proportional. I’ll give you a thousand dollars if they ever turn fascist!
Voting system helps but it’s not a magic bullet. I’m from NZ. We’ve always been ten years behind the rest of the world, I’ll hit you up in a decade to claim my thousand bucks. Germany is ramping up for fascism for real and they have the same MMP system as us, we copied it almost exactly from them.