“The Trump
administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the
sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and
social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate
the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the
political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be
vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny.” [Journalist
Chris Hedges, writing in truthdig,
20 May 2018]
“…it is notable that in the past few weeks I've received close to 1,000
representations from local Greenway residents by email, phone and in person
regarding the latest reports of systemic abuse in the live animal
trade for sheep.”
[Labor
MP for Greenway Michelle Rowland, Hansard,
21 May 2018]
“If you were even peripherally aware of history, you’d know that people
subjected to lifelong exploitation, forced into a precarious existence or
buried under annually compounding debts will, eventually, wheel guillotines
into the town square and start taking names.” [Journalist
and former Australian senator Scott
Ludlam writing in The
Guardian, 25 May 2018]
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