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This sounds like a wonderful recruiting opportunity for countries that needs skilled soldiers, sailors, Marines and aviators.
Come to Australia! The Australian Defence Force allows eligible U.S. citizens to join, and accepts lateral transfers, after some conditions have been met.
The ADF allows LGBTQI+ people to serve openly, and will even support transition for trans members.
And Australia is just awesome. We just re-elected, literally last weekend, a level-headed centre-left government, in what is very likely to be at least for two terms (2 x 3 years), given that the centre-right party was absolutely flogged in the polls. They fucked around with endorsing 'MAGA' politics and then found out, by winning less than half the seats required to form majority again.
Our electoral system generally keeps our politicians sane and centrist: mandatory voting for citizens (you get fined if you don't - we don't care who you vote for, just as long as you do); full preferential voting (aka ranked choice voting - where every candidate must be ranked), and a balanced Senate (different kind of ranked choice voting). No first-past-the-post shit that leads to extreme fringe parties gaining any serious power.
Criteria:
Overseas applicants with relevant military experience may be eligible to start a new career in the ADF and a new life in Australia through a lateral transfer. To be eligible, you must:
https://www.adfcareers.gov.au/careers/joining/eligibility?side-tab=citizenship
Given all the anti trans stuff going on in the USA that actually sounds like a pretty damned good offer for anyone being kicked out who wants to get out of the USA for their saftey.
Labor is not centre left. They are authoritarian right. Much better than the liberals but that's not hard. https://www.politicalcompass.org/aus2025
Depends on who you ask.
I'm not sure why Political Compass has them in the Authoritarian Right quadrant. It'd be nice to see how they calculate that standing.
They have had flecks of right-leaning authoritarian policies, such as off-shore detention for asylum claimants whilst processing their applications, though they are generally centre-left in our political sphere.
ABC's Vote Compass has them in the 'Economic Left', 'Socially Progressive' quadrant: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-11/vote-compass-federal-election-2019/10731602
From Wikipedia:
"The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party
I think the ABC's compass has a problem when they put the greens the most extreme left possible when there are other parties on our ballot even more left that still don't seem extreme
Something like full communism would be where the greens sit on that compass