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In today's post, I want to look at a bit of history to see if we can draw any parallels in what is happening in politics especially within Australia today.

In the early 20th Century, after World War 1, the world was plunged into a massive economic crisis (The Great Depression) that laid the seeds and eventually gave birth to the Totalitarian Regimes that gave rise to Nazi Germany, Stalin Russia and Fascist Italy.  But in this lets just look at Nazi Germany as its an area I'm most accustomed with.

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The Versailles Treaty signed at the end of WW1 was something that basically crippled the Germans.  Germany was basically held fully accountable for the entirety of WW1 and were forced to pay Reparations.  Couple this with the Stock Market crash of 1929 the Wiemar Republic basically lost control of the hearts and minds of the German People who were never able to recover to their Pre-WW1 glory.

With the feelings of Ill-Will in the German hearts, a strong and outspoken National Socialist Party were able to storm onto the scene to encourage and fuel the resentment to the people whom they blamed for their current condition.  The National Socialists pointed the finger of blame well and truly at the Jewish population as they appeared to be living decent lives, they had money and businesses etc.

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As the country was so down trodden by their years of misery, the general public were quickly brainwashed into also resenting the Jews.  But as sectors of the society spoke out, the National Socialists unleashed their Brown Shirt Brigades to maintain a high level of fear and intimidation.  People that spoke against the Nazi's were beaten and abused and often killed.  

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Hitler himself was not originally the leader of the Nazi's he was only an ordinary member and had failed to gain any political traction for many years.  The Nazi's didn't storm to power via a violent military coup or assault on government.  Rather The Nazi's stood for general elections in the 1920's and early 1930's.  Once they were elected by the German People there was a shift in power from the usual German political parties until such time that the Nazi's actually held the balance of power and Adolf Hitler was actually put into the position of Chancellor.

The rest as we can say is history.

So there are 3 things needed for a Totalitarian State.  1) a Supreme leader who holds unrestricted power, 2) the use of violence and intimidation to maintain power and 3) The removal of Political Freedoms and free thinking.

So lets look at Australia.  Here in the wonderful country which has been racked with turmoil on governments since the turn of the century we have lacked any real political leadership.  But all of the decisions from all of the major political parties have been moving more and more to the Left side of the political spectrum.
The writing is on the wall for a Totalitarian Overthrow within Australia.   

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The left wing politics have ingrained themselves so deep within all of our political and social institutions that we can already see the erosion of our political freedoms and well as our lose of Free Speech and Free Thinking.   This was evident during the debacle of the Same Sex Marriage votes.  The believers in conservative values were screamed down as being homophobes and bigots and intolerant.  There were innocent people sacked from their jobs because of their personal beliefs.  The same is seen when we debate Climate Change, people are ridiculed and abused for their own personal beliefs.

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Then we have the Trade Unions, which in some instances are paramilitary organisations.  In the current QLD Elections, the Trade Unions are out in force vandalizing election material, slandering and telling blatant lies regarding opponents.  In some instances, the union members go as far as abusing and screaming at the elderly volunteers of the opposing parties.  This is all in an attempt to return a left leaning party to power.  As we mentioned in point 2 above, this is using violence and intimidation to maintain power.

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The only thing that Australia does not have is a single ruler.  We do have people that COULD take that position if all of the heavens aligned, but funnily enough any potential person in this category is from the complete other end of the spectrum and are very much Right Wing politicians.  People such as Pauline Hanson play identity politics perfectly.  They find the issues that are enraging the population and foster that hatred and use it to their advantage to start winning legitimate seats in parliaments throughout the nations, all of which are controlled by the one figure head.

So in conclusion, I don't think Australia is sleeping walking into 1 totalitarian nightmare, I believe we are walking into 2 of them that are going to do battle for control the Australian public in years to come.   We will see a greater rise in Far Right and Far Left politicians that get peoples support and they will eventually white ant the traditional Australian parliament until one of them take full control.
With this in mind, the voting public need to be aware that their vote is useful.  Donkey votes and electing minor parties can do major damage.  Saying "Oh screw it I'll just vote Greens or One Nation" can eventually lead to disastrous consequences.  If we look at Malcolm Roberts, he was elected to the Australian Senate with only 150 Votes and the same can be said about many of the other smaller parties.   The only way to combat this really is to eliminate compulsory voting and preferences, but that's the subject of a future post.

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