I read all of Naturalman’s posts very carefully, and he has a very high tolerance for collectivist thinking and crushing of individual liberties.
That is why Australia does not look so bad from his vantage point.
See post 17. From my standpoint, the loss of human rights in the USA is far worse than Oz. We both have severe problems, but right now your Federal Justice system and Judicial system is looking much like Germany before WWII. You have people locked up in solitary confinement, barely represented, not able to see their relatives and being intimated to bleed guilty for minor trespassing violations. And then when convicted give ridiculous sentences.
You have the Justice department investigating parents protesting at School Board meetings and calling them domestic terrorists.