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This quote from Polybius (c. 200 – c. 118 BCE) just about describes the situation in Australia and most Western “democracies” except the United States under TRUMP who is trying to repair decades of damage.
It is probably the origin of the widely misattributed similiar false quote of Alexander Tytler: (A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. …)
And this explains why, in the absence of leadership in the West (except the US) Western societies are probably doomed if people don’t stop voting for more “free stuff“.
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And the following quote on the cycles of civilisations is usually misattributed to Alexander Tytler but it is not certain he wrote it. It is not in his known writings.
It’s first know appearance is in 1943 in a speech by H. W. Prentis in the US.
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I did early voting yesterday in Melbournistan. It was a long line I had to wait in, about 25 mins.
Hearing the conversations in the crowd, and the various party workers handing out flyers, was a rather disturbing experience. People simply didn’t have a clue, especially would be Green voters. But most were staggeringly clueless.
I held back from saying anything, I wasn’t going to change anyone’s mind in that short time.
I might add that the voting location was in Brighton, one of the more upmarket areas of Melbounistan with a high proportion of “professional” and “well educated” people.
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I have absolutely no problem with nuclear power as advocated by the fake conservative Liberals. We should have had it many decades, the Liberals cancelled the Jervis Bay reactor in 1970, already under construction.
But given the huge regulatory and lawfare hurdles in Australia, to do just about anything no matter how trivial, it is implausible that even if reactors were approved today, I can’t see them coming online in less than 15 years and more likely never.
Australia can’t wait 15 years. Or even one. We must get cheap reliable coal and gas power immediately or what remains of our economy will be completely destroyed.
Australia’s “green” energy subsidy-harvesting infrastructure must be dismantled immediately and the electricity grid returned to the state as it was before fake conservative Howard started dismantling it.
By all means, nuclear should be on the agenda but let market forces decide. Otherwise use coal or gas.
If Leftoid people want wind and solar, remove subsidies and let them pay full market price for it but don’t force the Thinking Community to buy it.
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Comment by George Christensen.
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