With less than an abysmal one-third of the vote, in a seriously defective electoral system designed principally to protect the atrophying two-party system and one more open to blatant fraud than in any comparable country, a clearly inadequate, inexperienced, and far-left politician has become Australia’s 31st prime minister.
How long will the people tolerate this unworthy electoral system?
In the meantime, as mentioned last week, it became apparent two decades ago that the elites are being increasingly infected by a variant of what Churchill once declared as a ‘plague bacillus’; namely, Marxism, obviously no friend of democracy.
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