“describes himself as a non-marxist socialist”.
I don’t like socialism, probably not for me.
I tend to vote for centrist, independent candidates who aren’t necessarily politically correct. Not America’s version of PC, but in Australia there is a HUGE emphasis on “safety”.
The Australia handled covid is reminiscent of our appetite for risk. We have one of the lowest road related death tolls in the WORLD yet our goal is to increase policing/fines/increase tolls/safeguards until the death toll on the road is zero
“safety” has become an excuse to push through controlling, punitive measures that wind up being more about ‘raising revenue’ than upholding public safety. Party I vote for wants to increase speed limits (as opposed to decreasing them). Liberal/labor here are decreasing speed limits in residential neighborhoods to 18mph and enforce those limits by parking nondescript cars stocked with hidden speed cameras in residential neighborhoods. Go more than 1.8mph over the speed limit and it is an instant fine + loss of demerit points.
It is not politically correct over here to be against that “because people die”. Yet the average Australian has immense difficulty conceptualizing the idea of all cause mortality, they hyper fixate on whatever agenda is being pushed in terms of ‘upholding public safety’.
It’s scary how easily manipulated Australians in particular tend to be. The attitudes Americans and Europeans have towards authority differ to that of Aus. Aus is more like much of Asia in regard to our blind adherence and love for rules, rules and more rules.
When people disagree with me, I bring up all the red tape and nanny state nonesense that is unique to Australia… The rebuttal is “so you don’t care about people DYING!”… typical strawman bullshit. As if there isn’t such a thing as a middle ground.
As to Australia adopting the PC stuff. WHY would you try to re-create the dynamic that has led to sociopolitical and sociocultural turmoil reaching an all time high in the States? This rhetoric in itself is divisive, creates a dynamic where people begin to belligerently adhere to an “us or them” mentality…
Before gender ideologues, divisionary sociopolitical agendas began permeating modern society (started in mid 2010’s) I never thought about gender, religion or race when casually interacting with my peers… now I do think about this… thank you “anti fascists” for making me a worse person 
I tend to find that the far left pushes me further right and the far right pushes me further left. This is reactionary because both side annoy the ever living shit out of me. I try not to “fly too close to the sun” and therefore distance myself from crowds that purposefully push reactionary rhetoric in effort to invoke disgust or repulsion for political gain as I find being around this tends to make people jaded, biased and STUPIDLY stubborn.
I find myself within the middle (between conventionally left or right)… Where I sit on the sociopolitical spectrum hasn’t changed in almost three years. Facing legitimate disability has moderated some of my more conservative views… Especially the “everyone is capable of being David Goggins, just need to push through… it’s all in the mind blablabalbla”. I also used to adopt that “tough guy/push through it” mentality despite knowing my body had issues and I have actually broken my body now… NOT everyone is capable of what a physically healthy individual can do. Especially not long term… But I have no ragrets and would do everything I did all over again!
Dealing with the far left has moderated some of my more ‘left wing views’ just as interacting with people who identify as far right has pushed me away from ever identifying with far right views because I’ve heard what far right bodies of political thought are about, I’ve seen what views provoke the ideologies harbored within MANY factions of the far right (even Jewish ultra nationalism! Yes it exists! Not as common as many make it out to be though) and I just don’t agree with the FUNDAMENTAL concepts that make up far right or far left ideology.