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The Oz government’s digital ID bill has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories and fearmongering, despite it being “world’s best practice” and “completely sane,” privacy and security experts say.
Several Coalition and crossbench politicians claimed the bill was an attempt to introduce a Chinese Communist Party-style social credit score and a measure to control the public, despite no evidence or factual basis, after it passed the Senate.

How the digital ID bill became a lightning rod for conspiracies
The Albanese government's digital ID Bill has become a lightning rod for conspiracy theories, despite it being “completely sane”.

«In some parts of the world, Mondragón’s approach just looks downright weird. No one bats an eyelid at the co-operative model in countries such as Germany, “but with these ideas in Texas or Kansas, you’re basically a communist,” says Mendieta, only half jokingly.» https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/24/in-the-us-they-think-were-communists-the-70000-workers-showing-the-world-another-way-to-earn-a-living

The Glowing Pickle (Berlin, 1993-95), an electronic surplus store using 20 tons of discarded East German scientific equipment, parodying both communist and capitalist cultures

«In some parts of the world, Mondragón’s approach just looks downright weird. No one bats an eyelid at the co-operative model in countries such as Germany, “but with these ideas in Texas or Kansas, you’re basically a communist,” says Mendieta, only half jokingly.» https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/24/in-the-us-they-think-were-communists-the-70000-workers-showing-the-world-another-way-to-earn-a-living

Kant’s essay on perpetual peace is often cited as an inspiration for the European Union: a project born out of the ashes of the second world war that saw former mortal enemies come together in a shared commitment to peaceful institutions.
For all its limitations, it has been crucial not just to steer western European politics away from fratricidal nationalism but also for disillusioned states struggling to reconcile with their communist past. 
Europe has recently become a place …

The Glowing Pickle (Berlin, 1993-95), an electronic surplus store using 20 tons of discarded East German scientific equipment, parodying both communist and capitalist cultures

Once, a local Basque Tv reporter approached me and asked what I would do if I had infinite money. The guy walked away when I told him I would sponsor communist guerrillas. And that's it.

"One quarter of all Paris residents now live in public housing, up from 13 percent in the late 1990s. The mixité sociale policy, promoted most forcefully by left-wing political parties, notably the French Communist Party, targets the economic segregation seen in many world cities.
'Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it,' said Ian Brossat...who served for a decade as City Hall’s head of housing."

Once, a local Basque Tv reporter approached me and asked what I would do if I had infinite money. The guy walked away when I told him I would sponsor communist guerrillas. And that's it.

By the end of the 1960s you have on the far right a real sense that the conservative movement had failed, which is to say it had failed to conserve pre-civil rights America. 
More than that, the radical communist Marxist revolution that they've been warning about for decades was finally here, or around the corner.
From the perspective of someone who has been warning about Jewish communist revolution and conspiracy for 20 years, 1968 and 1969 must have been terrifying.
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Interview with author David Austin Walsh on conservatives, the far right and his book "Taking America Back"
Interview: David Austin Walsh on his book "Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right"