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Originally Posted by renormalised
Giving power over to these people was and is a mistake as can be seen all too well not only in the present but throughout history. Exceptionally few of these people have had the ethical, moral, social/personal maturity and merit to the hold the positions they have managed to con their way into. They are supposedly representatives of the people, not their overlords and masters. But that is they way things have turned out....they tell us what to do, not the other way around.
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No modern Australian government has been "in power" - they've merely
held office. I, too, think they've missed this point in recent times. The media are constantly referring to the current government "in power", and it's wrong. A dictatorship or sovereignty is usually "in power".