The conservative think tank once defined conservative politics. Now Heritage is turning to the right-wing fringe in an attempt to recapture its glory days.
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This was always the plan when the end goal is to install a dictatorship and means are regarded as justified. If the goal is to protect Democracy they’re not. The LNP were equally as aggressive in the destruction of the Public Service, the ABC, and other bodies to which heads were once appoined according to merit rather than political affiliation. Branch stacking is a misdemenour when compared to the stacking, and privatisation of Australia’s public institutions from the ground up. The LNP were up for selling the furniture and appointing their cronies everywhere.
Former President Donald Trump’s top allies are preparing to purge potentially thousands of career civil servants and install MAGA loyalists in key administration positions if he wins the 2024 presidential election, according to Axios.
Trump’s 2025 plan includes a nightmare list of Cabinet picks — and purge of career officials: report | Salon.com
I do believe Mark Sawyer underestimates the loathing all States have for Peter Dutton outside of Qld and then add Barnaby Joyce to the mix.
It might only take the Coalition adopting a new climate target to get back into the game. Dutton, who must know he’ll get only one election, will decide that winning is more important than pleasing the far right. And winning is something he does.
Source: The great conservative undead: don’t write off Dutton – Michael West
“Woke” is Republican-speak. Murdoch Media-speak. Conservative political speak
“Woke” is versatile Conservative catch-all epithet: A form of abuse thrown at us who cry change
And the bigots and the hate-preachers and the supremacists are right to be afraid of us because we in our “wokeness” are going to make sure that they do not have the final word here. To Republicans, to be woke is to be deeply human, and that humanity will remain the foe they cannot defeat.
It’s woke to want fair elections.
It’s woke to be anti-racist.
It’s woke to be anti-fascist.
It’s woke to trust Science.
It’s woke to wear a mask in a pandemic.
It’s woke to be the parent of a bullied child.
It’s woke to want to be addressed with the gender you identify with.
It’s woke to want a less-polluted community.
Source: Republicans Call Decency “Woke” Because They’re Indecent
COVID-19 is destroying the foundational ethos of individual liberty and small government, to the point where conservatives have been at sea, unable to respond effectively to the health crisis. It comes down to serving the public interest versus the self interest of elites and vested interests, which is not a conflict confined to conservatives: centre-left parties are fully capable of ignoring the public interest and looking after their mates. But in a pandemic, it seems, left-wing governments are more inclined to impose the restrictions necessary to control the virus. Two current illustrations of that are the mess in New South Wales and the crowds at Lord’s this week watching England v India, mask free. The NSW Liberal government was reluctant to lock down hard enough and deprive its citizens of liberty, with the result that the Delta version of COVID-19 is now out of control. The federal Coalition supported that, and criticised the Victorian Labor government’s hard lockdown, but is now forced into embracing total lockdown, along with Gladys Berejiklian.
Source: Alan Kohler: Modern conservatism offers few answers for a pandemic
Contemporary conservatism has fallen into the seven deadly sins of pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. This listing of faults originated with Evagrius the Solitary, a fourth-century monk from what is now Turkey. His original list had eight sins, but both pride and vainglory were on it, and subsequent authors collapsed them into seven.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Today’s Conservatives
It’s not Conservativism. It’s the senescence of Trump-ism = Fear and without it they can’t exist
If the ABC didn’t exist, conservatives would have to invent it. It provides two vital functions to the right side of politics: it is the foe which unites the army, as well as a decoy which distracts progressives from the main game.
If the ABC didn’t exist, conservatives would have to invent it
The man is doing an Andrew Bolt who was noted for calling himself an Indigenous Australian. It goes to show what Conservatives turn to when legless in arguments….nonsense (ODT)
Nationals senator Barry O’Sullivan has told parliament he is declaring his gender “to be a woman”, so left-wing politicians will stop attacking him over his anti-abortion views.
After scraping over the line two years ago, Turnbull secured the numbers in the Senate and both the ABCC and ROC were established. Soon after, the ROC’s credibility came under question when, at the suggestion of the employment minister Michaelia Cash, it chose not just to investigate the previous Labor government, but specifically something the current Opposition Leader Bill Shorten did or did not do more than a decade ago when he was at the helm of the Australian Workers Union.
via The ROC: A partisan institution that won’t survive Labor | afr.com
Australia ingratiating itself into a post-Brexit, British-instigated Anglosphere would be a futile exercise in counterproductive nostalgia.
Source: Dreams of Australia joining a rekindled ‘Anglosphere’ are backward delusions
It may sound condescending to say I feel sorry for conservatives but I do. Conservatives live in constant fear. Fear of government regulations, fear of taxation, fear of social evolution, fear of “the other”, and the overriding fear that drives it all – the fear that they may have to share. They throw the phrase…
Source: I feel sorry for conservatives – » The Australian Independent Media Network
‘Sometimes, just sometimes ones own problems can be resolved by helping others with theirs’
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