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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by madeofpalk on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:07PM (#27523230)
I'm not sure how you rationalise that with the fact that Australia consistently votes in a right-wing government. UK (which doesn't have compulsory voting) also reelected a right-wing government.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by DFHippie on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:17PM (#27523315)
Here's a recent article about the special electoral conditions in the US:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/

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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by mastax on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:25PM (#27523388)
The "wings" are not very comparable between countries. They are influenced by their environment. I can confidently say that an alternate universe where those countries had US-style elections would have very different parties, though not necessarily more US-like.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by jwmhjwmh on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:15PM (#27523293)
They were talking about the US specifically.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by trhway on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:25PM (#27523387)
Australia has 83%+ (with 67% being of British ancestry) and UK has 86% white population while US has 60% non-hispanic white population (with no such single major ancestry inside it like the British ancestry of the AU and UK white populations). Thus there are huge sources of racist/xenophobic voting power drivers that the right-wings in AU and UK can tap into while doing so in US causes blowback of similar scale and which grows with voting participation increase.
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