For me, the questions raised here are:
What legitimate grievances do this movement represent?
How can those grievances be listened to, acknowledged & redressed?
Whose interests are served by encouraging proliferation of these groups?
And more fundamentally, for those within such spaces - When ‘the people’ are the authority, which people are they? When laws are ‘god given’, who gets to say what god wants?
Enriching the wealthy few while screwing the poor creates the conditions in which groups like this flourish. Dismantling systems that provide safe housing, healthcare, education & income support for all who need it, feeds them. Defunding the disciplines that teach history & the critical thinking skills needed to understand the operation of power creates ever more fertile soil for dodgy ideas to spread. And spread.
The post war welfare state & universal education system were created for a reason. It’s not as if we don’t know this. It’s as if 40 years of acculturation to Neoliberal ideology among our governing classes has wiped out all capacity to remember history. The accumulation of knowledge & exercise of power in silos has eroded our ability to join the dots.
Come on, folks. We can do better than this.
#AusPol #Governance #inequality #exploitation #ignorance #plunder
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