From the top down. The Prime Minister eats raw onions like Cheetos. Government openly says that bigotry is ok. Media don't challenge any of it.
A nation more concerned with whether Topshop has a sale on than decisions that will echo down decades and generations.
"It's boring" the people on the street say. Well boring is what the hateful and the greedy want. Boring lets the big decisions snake right under your nose. Pay attention instead. Kick and scream and shout. Burn down buildings if you have to.
Apathy and ignorance breed hatred.
The right wing is on the rise. They claim they are defending free speech. But if you let them, they would take every person whose skin is less than lily white and lynch them from a tree. It's happened before, and all it takes is for enough people to think it can't happen.
I love my country. But it's sliding towards something horrible...a caste system where Speedo wearing rednecks with flushed faces and beer guts are at the top prodding the lesser folk with pointy sticks. "Eat your onions!" they will shout in your face, and gesture at a giant mural of Emperor Tony on the wall.
It's a beatific image of Tony Abbott as Christ, with a half chewed red onion in one hand and a rawhide whip in the other.
The poster reads "ONLY I KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU."
Peace out, brothers and sisters.
