Lemmings all

I never thought I would be quoting Ayn Rand. I do not admire the way she lived her life even though some of what she had to say is prescient. However all truth is ultimately God's truth irrespective of which mouth it emerges from.

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
 

We run the risk of being too interested in the footy scores and not interested enough in what this government (Australia) is doing to undermine our freedoms. The left-wing statists have succeeded in occupying education both school and tertiary, they have overwhelmed the teacher unions, the nursing unions, public employee unions and essential service unions, a reality which accounts for the fact that even such an obviously incompetent ruling elite can manage to capture 40% of the national vote.

It truly boggles my mind when I think about how so many people can be so unaware of the noose into which they willingly place their necks. That journalists can so willingly allow themselves to be muzzled only points out the reality that these hacks were never actually journalists in the first place.