Well Flanders, as an American, you are always more than welcome to come and live in Australia whenever you like; we have very tight immigration laws, but they do not apply to you guys. Australia has always valued America as a great friend.
In answer to your question, Australia today is very politically Conservative. We have a Conservative administration in power as I speak. Most Australians today do not like the nature of
modern (neo-Marxist/socialist) left-wing politics. Earlier this year the Australian Labor Party went into a Federal election on a set of high-taxing, pro-immigration, big Welfare spending, Identity politics , socialist policies and were soundly thrashed by our Liberal Party which is pretty much the political equivalent of your Republican party.
I have to say I am very worried by the lurch to the extreme, socialist/postmodernist left your Democratic party's base has taken. I watched the most recent Democrat 2020 Presidential debate in the US and what I heard from people like Elizabeth Warren, "Mayor Pete", Bernie Sanders and co was pure, loony-left madness. I was shocked and I wondered how socialism/neo-Marxism/Postmodern political ideology could have infected your Democratic party to the extent that it has? I blame Obama for a lot of it, he was a Marxist for many years, beginning at a young age. He attended Occidental college in California and was well-known there as a revolutionary Marxist communist; later, he became heavily involved in a number of socialist organizations (like the DSA) and attended lectures on radical communitarian/collectivist agitation. He was mixed up with hard-core socialist groups in Chicago when his career in politics began. Much of the shift to the far left in the Democratic party is, I think, a legacy of his 8 years in office.
Thanks for the video clip of Howard Roark's court room speech in "The Fountainhead", I had not seen it before. I have read the novel though, and I've just checked the year in which Ayn Rand wrote it, which was 1943; quite a long time ago ! Roark is railing eloquently against Collectivism of course, and Ayn Rand personally defined "collectivism" as...
"...the subjugation of the individual to the group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good."
I think the dangers of collectivism remain just as real today as they were for Ayn Rand in 1943. But the modern-era's political Left in America - the Democrats - (who have now largely become a socialist/collectivist party) seem to have never learned about the dangers of collectivism. They appear to be blithely unaware or totally unconcerned about the disasters created by collectivism during the past century. Without an enumeration, there are, just within the 20th century, 120,000,000 "disasters."That's the number of people killed in that century, by the ambitions of totalitarian, collectivist/socialist regimes, and this astounding figure does not reflect the tremendous poverty associated with those ambitions, nor does it reflect the devastation that was wrought through the processes of war caused by such diabolically flawed beliefs. The political philosophy of Collectivism brought with it a terrible loss of liberties throughout the 20th century in the Soviet Union, in the Second World War, in Red China under Mao Zedong, in Vietnam, in Pol Pot's Cambodia, in Reagan era Cold War conflicts, in the surreal terror of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and so on and on. More recently America has had it battle collectivism under the socialist Obama administration in the form of macroeconomic controls, Welfarism, regulatory obstructions, identity politics, the politically correct suppression of free speech and lifestyle paternalism.
You mention Democrat "parasites", I agree; and this highlights another one of the main problems with socialist collectivism, namely "free-riding". This is the problem that parasites in a society can benefit from group effort even if they are not involved in the effort itself. There is also the example of syndicalism here: i.e; when a trade union in an industry protests against a law, either, it loses and everybody loses, or it wins and everyone wins, even workers outside the trade union. Moreover the free-rider problem is getting bigger as groups get larger. Another problem with collectivism is "latency", in which, for the same reason, collectivism might lead to a latent group where everyone waits for someone to act in the first place.
Finally it is worth remembering that there is no country in the world where socialism has EVER come through peaceful means. It worries me (a lot !) that your Democrat Party in the US is now effectively a ratbag, socialist Party. I think if they remain that way and if they ever become a serious threat to win office, there could be another Civil War in America, or at the very least a national outbreak of war-like violence. I would hate to see that happen as I love America, but I am extremely concerned.
Regards
Dachshund