Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Far Right

It is pretty clear (to me at least) that conservative political parties across the world are being taken over holus bolus by the far right - and that these parties either have no interest or no capability - in doing anything about it.

I won't get into all the evidence here - but if you have doubts then it will be a relatively simple intellectual exercise to do a bit of research to validate my hypothesis.

If you can't do that then you shouldn't be reading this - please turn the page now.

I will give you a clue - check out who runs our very own *Liberal* Party.

But don't take my word for it - look at the *evidence*. And if you are even partially alive and awake and alert and able to read and comprehend then it will be fairly easy to find.

In Australia, on the far right we have people like Tony Abbott, Eric Abetz, Scott Morrison, Cory Bernardi and a bunch of other near geriatric white males calling the shots. And on the moderate side we have Malcolm Turnbull and a few invisible nobodies who are pushing that barrow.

It might be that the Liberal Party is finely balanced between the far right and the moderates in terms of numbers - but if the far right make the policy and control the party room and dictate the terms - how can this be anywhere near equal. Why aren't the moderates revolting?

OK they might be slightly revolting - but they aren't actually doing anything. And that is because they have ceded control to the far right. They have taken the easy way out - hoping their invisible individuals will get a guernsey when the Libs eventually return to Government under Monsignore Abbott. I suppose "Minister for Something Completely Lightweight" looks like a pretty good title when you have few other options.

But in the meantime the Australian population are looking for some leadership. The only option we have is to find a party who is looking after our interests or to stroke the others. Some Choice?

So what I say to Malcolm is this. Please stand up and be counted. And put together a competent team who understand these things. Purge the dingbats - because you have no-where else to go.

And neither do we.

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