What a whirlwind few weeks. First there was the masterclass meltdown from the left as they struggled to wrap their heads around Trump’s win.

In true style, they refused to accept any responsibility for their loss at the ballot box. 

Instead, they insisted that their failure was due to people’s inability to appreciate the superior merits of Kamala Harris, portraying Trump’s supporters as gullible victims of the “broken information ecosystem”.

According to them, it wasn’t the skyrocketing cost of living and inflation like what Australians are experiencing under Labor. It was.

Nor was it the impact of unchecked immigration that is placing unprecedented strain on housing, health and services. It was.

It wasn’t even the sense of disconnect felt by mainstream Americans alike who feel sidelined by progressives. It still is. 

Then we saw the attacks. The people who support Trump were subject to sweeping labels: “older white men and women”, “the uneducated white working class”, “misogynists”, “boomers” and “lost boys”. The list went on with slurs like “cookers”, “Nazis”, “Karens”, “dumb” and “gullible”. 

75 million of them in the USA apparently.

Somehow, hate speech only seems to apply one way.

At the same time, those who supported Harris pretend to be voiceless victims, some shaving their hair, giving up sex, or googling how to escape the new “fascist American state”.

Meanwhile in Australia, Labor, the Greens, and the Teals are pushing their Misinformation Bill through parliament’s lower house. 

Why the rush? 

Well, they are just trying to silence us, to control the narrative and shut down alternative views.

If passed, these misinformation laws will be used to silence Australians.

Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey this week described the Misinformation Bill as “really problematic”, raising a key question: “What is misinformation, and who decides what it is?” 

The answer isn’t you or me but rather Labor, Green and the Teals and their selected “experts”.

The bill fails to clarify how this government or the Australian Communications and Media Authority or their “experts” would determine “truth”.

The Prime Minister recently said, “When the stakes are high, passions run high. But these are not warning signs, they are vital signs…. Because only dictatorships pretend to be perfect.” 

The stakes are high and the opposition to these laws are widespread.

Millions of everyday Australians want freedom of expression; democracy over dictatorship. 

It is, to again quote the wayward PM, “a contest about substance, about things that matter to people and issues that affect the country”.

This is a contest Labor, the Greens and the Teals must lose. 

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Sandra Bourke
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