NorthOfNorth wrote on Oct 5
th, 2021 at 12:08pm:
Bias_2012 wrote on Oct 5
th, 2021 at 11:55am:
Authoritarianism, that's what we have at the moment, and "divide & conquer" can be applied in that also. Select a group (non vaxxed) and go after them, get the vaxxed on-side to assist. If things are still not going well for you, go after the non vaxxed even more, with even more hostility, until the vaxxed are mostly doing the job for you ..... and that's exactly what's happening now ... then the Covid incompetent politicians just sit back and watch the tactic take effect in the community
"Divide and Conquer", a jurassic political tactic as old as the hills - we never wake up to it
A few flaws in your logic...
No Australian politician engineered the pandemic.
Mark McGowan is the only Australian political leader who has benefitted politically from the pandemic, so if it was a mass political conspiracy (which it isn't) it is an abject failure.
In early 2020, all Australian political leaders were confused by what course of action should be taken... i.e. there was no conspiratorial plan as how to deal with the problem, either for or against their political interests.
The need to align to a singular world strategy for the next step though the pandemic is obvious, so the actions that need to be taken by Australian politicians could be against their immediate political interests (particularly if there are logistical cock-ups, which there almost certainly will be). This is particularly true of Mark McGowan who, no doubt, would be happy to continue with state isolation for maybe another year.
While you can always evoke the cynical political quip: 'never let a disaster go to waste', in reality disasters are political tornadoes in that they cannot be controlled such that the politician can guarantee and advantageous outcome.
never let a good crisis go to waste.
the same thing happened post 9/11.
20 years after, you still wouldnt dare go into an airport and start cracking jokes or teasing the security guys.
you have been trained to be submissive
you have been trained to obey
you have been trained to comply and be an automaton.
you have been trained to do exactly what the state says.
if they want to strip search your 5 yo daughter, you wouldnt speak up.
it will be the same with this new found authority with regards to health (which was always seen as a personal right) in 20 years time.
the position wont be unwound