Ed,

Politics today is in a weird place. The Victorian election is a perfect example of stupidity and dictatorship on show and the people fell for it. 

We are looking at a rising young society that believe “socialism will work this time”, not knowing any of the past atrocities placed upon an unthinking innocent population that did not have a choice re authoritarian regimes. So, they fled to western democracies to escape the tyranny. 

The world of today think that implementing a digital carbon parallel economy is a way to “save the planet” from a problem that is not so urgent. It well needs to be addressed but does not need the urgency and scare mongering that is being pushed onto an unsuspecting busy society swept up in the corporate’s agendas and schemes. 

This seems to me to be economic suicide, but it sure makes the elites “feel good”. In the meantime, the people that ran from socialists’ countries are not cutting through to younger generations who have been brainwashed and hardly think for themselves. They need to be warned re the danger of losing freedoms we so readily take for granted.

The time will come when it is too late to pull back and there is no place left to run to. The west has its problems, brought on by greedy corporations and corrupt politicians, western democracy may not be perfect, but it is by far the most stable and free form of government. It is time to wake up and re-educate re – the repercussions of Socialism.

Diane Slattery, Bathurst