ANALYSIS: Morrison's self-appointments are a reminder that secrecy and lies are destroying democracy
Investigations, criminal trials, imprisonment, impeachment, corrupt bankers bailed out by the White House... no wonder Americans have lost faith in their democracy.
Stealth, he says, is the autocrat's weapon, "concealing the real operations of power becomes a central strategy for amassing it and retraining it". With unprecedented restrictions on the public, he says, "measures that would have seemed heavy-handed in any other circumstances came to look normal, even banal".Scott Morrison has used the emergency of COVID to justify his secrecy and the privilege of his office to reach into all levels of government.
All around the world, truth and trust have been sacrificed under the guise of emergency. In a world where truth itself has lost its meaning, autocrats have exploited the politics of the "big lie".Scott Morrison has used the emergency of COVID to justify his secrecy. Our institutions are robust. Our electoral processes rigorous. Australians voted Morrison's government out of office.
Democracy as we may have known it is already past. The world is in a battle to resurrect a democracy fit for the 21st century.
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