Is Australia still a liberal democracy?

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Seriously, isn't it a rule 101 of politics that "liberal democracies" can still do highly illiberal things?

This. And people have to start knowing that, because some "liberal democracies" are more illiberal than literal dictatorships.

Like you can literally have a liberal democracy and carry on a genocide if the genocide has a majority of the popular support and if the separation of power fails to prevent such things, like agree with the genocide...

Technically you can have fair & free elections... if the people agree with the genocide.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Seriously, isn't it a rule 101 of politics that "liberal democracies" can still do highly illiberal things?

This. And people have to start knowing that, because some "liberal democracies" are more illiberal than literal dictatorships.

Like you can literally have a liberal democracy and carry on a genocide if the genocide has a majority of the popular support and if the separation of power fails to prevent such things, like agree with the genocide...

Technically you can have fair & free elections... if the people agree with the genocide.

It's incredibly offensive to compare a policy that's about saving lives to genocide.

I don't care about what it is offensive, i care about making the point, and you know very well that my point is valid. Replace with genocide with anything else, and it still says, it has nothing to do with genocide, but yes given that you have no insightful criticism on what i make, you deviate the attention to something else which is irrelevant.

It is exactly this kind of behaviour that is responsible for 21st century increase of polarization.