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Originally posted by Kgre: ↑

Hi Rhame,
If you take the 1 word: Trump out of your goals. I am with you 100%.
However, if you believe Trump has the nouse to mastermind/lead that, you really haven't been watching.

That is why i differentiate between legitimate conservatism and Trump supporters. The myopic hope that Trump is the ONE, disregarding all evidence is where I am astonished, and why I displayed the example of Robert Carpenter. He's far from the stupid minority of Trump supporters. He's the average. I would suggest you are part of a very thin wedge.

I don't believe Obama lacked sincerity in his values, however as you seem to, I sincerely believe the Clinton/Dem machine is hugely corrupt. Not more so than than GOP machine, though. On a frightening par. I think US politics are in a dire place right now. It's my belief that Obama was a victim of that, doing what little he could against two tides.

Australia is a long way down that same path. I believe the majority of Australians need to sit down and make the deliberate decision that we need to desert our core political values, for a term or two (be they left or right) and make a conscious decision to vote someone honest into power. Trusting that a term or two of the opposite agenda won't destroy us, it never ahs before; but that this road of dishonest fully paid up politics will destroy us.

As generally a conservative, its tough for me to say, Albanese might be that guy. For now.

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Hi Kgre,

I totally agree that Australia is down the same political path as America. Corruption is rife. Many voters here do go down the alternate path and vote for one of the smaller parties. But to me it only complicates matters because it ends up putting more voices in parliament than ever. So many voices that nothing ever gets done. Red tape is spewed out faster than notes on the monetary printing presses. Personally I think the whole Westminster system needs looking at. But I don't believe that will ever happen without something like a revolution.

You mention Albanese but, like most Prime Ministers/presidents, they are really only spokesmen or women that tow the party line. I personally think it's easier to work out what the American Democrat party stand for then our Labour Party - not than I'm overjoyed about the Liberals either. I guess this is where it's easy to get inspired by a guy like Trump - who seems to be his own man. I'm not saying he's handled the virus thing that well but I wish we had a Prime Minister who would stand up to the Chinese Communist party and say enough is enough. I wish we had someone who was adamant about bringing manufacturing back to our shores as well.

If nothing else this Corona virus will set an interesting stage for world politics in the near future.