1954 Fantasy

The Liberals *batshit crazy* approach to opposition is going to bury them.  Just like it buried their mates the Republicans yesterday.  They have no choice really but to discard their crazy right wing fantasy - and head back toward the centre of Australian politics - and reality.  But I fear they won't see it that way.

It's pretty clear to all rational observers that the re-election of Obama has blown a huge hole in the approach of the far right.  They deluded themselves that the 2008 result was an aberration.  Somehow they reasoned that the people got it wrong when they elected a black man to the white house - and all they had to do was stand firm and the voters would come home to "daddy" in 2012.

And now that it is all over and Obama has wiped the floor with them - they are shell shocked.

It's bad enough for the Republicans.  I doubt that they will recover - certainly not within the next term because they have no reality based thinkers to help them understand where they went wrong.  And their so called "think tanks" don't actually do any thinking.  In their eyes they didn't do anything wrong - it was the people who stuffed up - again.

And Faux News will relentlessly push that theme for the next four years - or until Uncle Rupert dies.

And my guess is that Australian Liberal's will be caught in the same trap.  The few actual thinkers in the party are all seriously outnumbered by the far right - and by the opportunists who thought they could smell a "ministerial post" under Abbott.

But as with the Republican fantasy - the Liberal fantasy will fade badly as we get closer to an election - and the real strategic thinkers start to deliver the goods for other parties.

The Liberals will be left with their main cheerleader Uncle Rupert - hanging onto a plan of misinformation, half truths, lies and made up BS - designed to appeal to "low information voters".  Because they actually believe that they can "fool some of the people - all of the time".

Probably because it has worked so well for them in the past - and Uncle Rupert has built his fortune on it.

The trouble is that the people have moved on - but the old white conservative males who run things are still locked into 1954.