CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Mav I think the progressive left is also very strong in the US which could well lead to an ugly clash with the right.

The problem is that "the progressive left" in the US is basically the centre in Australia. When medicare for all is seen as an extremist view, that tells you a lot.

My perception is that trying to organise left wingers is like wrangling cats. They're pretty much going off in different directions. You have the hippies, the greenies, the socialist left, the pro-Union left, the NSW left. It's a miracle that they've split into only 2 parties in Australia. The right-wing, on the other hand, has increasingly tended towards authoritarianism and coalesces around Trump-like figures.

When someone as right-wing as Liz Cheney is considered too left-wing for the Republican Party, there's trouble ahead. She'd regard Peter Dutton and Matt Canavan as communists. As for Antifa, that isn't even a group. The sole role for those who are tagged with that name seems to be counter-protesting against the Nazis. That's a commendable activity in my book. It's not as though you hear about them kidnapping people a la the Red Brigade or robbing banks.   
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