The hand-wringing by political ‘centre-left moderates’ about the rise of fascism and the likelihood of another Trump presidency overlooks a key fact: they are a big part of the problem. There is widespread lamentation about the popularity of Donald Trump and the likelihood of another Trump presidency, from Hillary Clinton’s notorious 2016 reference to the… Read More The ‘centre-left’ feeds fascism
The weather is freakish, the climate is freakish and politics is, well, freakish. They have pushed me to where my head tells me the chance to pull ourselves out of the fire is about gone. But it is not as simple as slipping into despair and apathy, though that would be easier in some ways.… Read More Letting go of rational hope
The emptiness of modern Labor is now on full display: maligning refugees, promoting fossil fuels, tinkering around the edge of social crisis, pandering to the wealthy, condoning mass murder, adopting policies of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison. [Published at Pearls & Irritations, 10 Dec 2023.] Labor’s reaction to the High Court’s decision to outlaw indefinite detention… Read More Labor Losers
We ought, more accurately, to talk about the money supplied by the the federal government, instead of a deficit in government accounts. The so-called government deficit is also the private sector’s surplus, which it can use constructively.… Read More Two big budget fallacies harming Australians
Labor clearly is in climate denial. You cannot promote huge fossil fuel extraction projects if you understand the climate is critically close to tipping into unstoppable runaway. Or perhaps it is already tipping, for all we know… We, the Australian public, are paying extra to trash the planet faster.… Read More Labor’s climate denial, and lies
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