Trish Corry January 26, 2017 at 12:10 pm

No we don’t live in a fascist regime. We got rid of the closest thing this country has ever had to a fascist. His name is Campbell Newman. I even hate typing his name. If Newman had continued and elected to another term, I’m too scared to think what would have happened to us next. Isolate us from the other states? Make us our own country? Police on every corner – maybe even army?

You have not given the reader your thoughts on how these 14 points relate to our country. You have left this up to the reader to assume. The reader’s assumption may or may not be correct.

I don’t like to be critical, but I am only raising it because we are accepting to much of just letting people make their minds up these days. Facts or discussion or putting forward a solid argument don’t seem to matter anymore. “I am correct! and the facts are fake” – Here – look at this link – let’s not discuss it in depth – just here is a link for you to interpret. See point proven. I gave you a link. That is the scary world I see every day – I don’t know about anyone else. I see the world spiralling out of control.

I’m sorry Kaye, I very rarely give a negative review of an article, but I think it is important that as bloggers we think about how we are constructing our articles. All I see in this article is – Here are some facts about Fascism. See how it applies to our country? – Um well no. You haven’t told us. How is that different to “Here is a burqa – see how that is a bad thing for our country? We must ban it.” (yes, yes, you haven’t told us why Pauline, but we agree).”

I am disappointed that this does not link the elements to the actions so far of the Australian Government or even anything the Opposition or other parties have on the table to measure where on this scale of fascist rule we are and how much more will we accept and what should we do about it.

I believe it is important we discuss the differences between Nationalism and Fascism and how Nationalism can lead to Fascism – and why it is important to discuss that for our future Particularly with the voters and children posing for selfies with Nationalists and the the media paying the Nationalists to be on their breakfast shows and the rest of the media never ever ever asking the Nationalists the hard questions.

The serious issue in Australia right now is the rise of Nationalism. We need to understand that first, before we decide if we are under a fascist rule.