Today the troops appear on Sydney streets – and it’s heartbreaking that they’ve been sent there by Liberals. --- Geez, it's not heartbreaking at all, it's not surprising one bit. This is what Liberals do. They say they are all for freedom, diversity, whatever, until they get power, because it was only to get power, power is all they care about, power for themselves. They stand for nothing else but enriching themselves, for raising their status. I always hear older gen Libs, or current moderate libs whine about these ruining it for the rest of them, but it was always what "Liberalism" was about.
Today the troops appear on Sydney streets – and it’s heartbreaking that they’ve been sent there by Liberals. --- Geez, it's not heartbreaking at all, it's not surprising one bit. This is what Liberals do. They say they are all for freedom, diversity, whatever, until they get power, because it was only to get power, power is all they care about, power for themselves. They stand for nothing else but enriching themselves, for raising their status. I always hear older gen Libs, or current moderate libs whine about these ruining it for the rest of them, but it was always what "Liberalism" was about.
As I tried to explain elsewhere, Liberal with a capital L are the conservative party, in Australia...
Though "conservative" just means... Somewhere in between the Dems and Reps in the US. They're not all that conservative in reality.
But they aren't what you think of as "liberals", or at least they don't brand themselves that way...
Hence, we use "progressive" to describe the people you are talking about, down here, generally speaking...
Confusing, I know, but that's the general idea.
I explained it more in one of my earlier comments.