There was an interesting article by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian this week, suggesting that the current rise of the Right is not being countered effectively by the rest of us. He uses Brexit as an example. He says, do we believe that, if the Leave campaign had lost, they would just have withdrawn and accepted the result? Oh, no, they would have taken heart that nearly half of the UK's population wanted a change and there would have been rioting in the streets.
In the US, if Donald Trump were in Hilary Clifton's position, having gained more than 1 million more votes than his opponent and still lost the nomination, would he have just politely accepted the decision? Would he be a model of politeness and fairness? Not bloody likely.
The point of the article is the suggestion that the voices of reason need to be more ruthless. There's discontent all over the world and there will always be opportunists willing to take advantage of it. We're not immune in Australia and it's about time our leaders addressed the problem.
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