Posted on 18 May 2010 by Will O' in Politics
This isn’t ordinary oppositional politics. It’s madness, verging on treason. - Philip Adams
With the election of Barack Obama in the United States and Kevin Rudd in Australia we thought the Conservative Right Wing would crawl back under the rocks from whence they came. At least for a while. Instead they are frothing like unleashed Pit Bulls.
This cancer of humanity’s soul is presently rearing its destructive head in America as the Tea Party (current mouthpiece for the Repuglycan Party), and in Australia as the Tony Abbott Party (formerly the Howard Party and before that the Liberal Party).
Promoting what amounts to governmental overthrow in the United States is the Murdoch Press and affiliates. The Wall Street Journal and the gobsmacking cretins at Fox News regularly spew the kind of wilfully ignorant propaganda that would have made Stalin green with envy. Forget the fact that Barack Obama was elected president by the will of the people — without having to steal the election as did is precursor, with the help of the Supreme Court — this lot won’t have a bar of it. They quite simply want the result annulled.
Murdoch is alive and well in Australia, too. The Australian is the newspaper equivalent of Fox News. Rabid. Mendacious. Unwavering in its bid to unseat the Rudd Government.
The two countries have in common an opposition that is one hundred percent obstructionist. Neither government can get its bills passed, and if one does get by it is so watered down as to be ineffective.
The common cry for the opposition right wing is that Obama and Rudd are socialists, even communists. The fair go for all (partnership with society) has become a communist ideal to be neutered and/or destroyed and replaced by the cult of the individual (dominator masters with society as servants).
The Tea Baggers in Umeruhca are now swaggering around armed to the teeth. That’s right, tree huggers, the tree-loppers are taking their coffee and donuts at Starbucks with six guns nestled cosily next to their little dicks.
Insane? Umeruhca became a pre-fascist state with the first stolen election of George W. Bush. By the time he stole the second election it had become fully fascist. Now, with the reversal of fortune that Obama represents, the fascists have no one in power to cater to their atavistic whims. Just look at Arizona’s Nazi-lovin’ law requiring Hispanics to show their papers at the whim of redneck cops. Where Umeruhca’s pitchfork-wielding herd was sedated by Dubya’s God-told-me-to-do-it policies, they are exploding with rage over the black man who believes in peace on earth good will toward men. And the sick irony is that they all profess to be Christians. “Onward Christian Soldiers/marching as to war…” is the anthem they grew up with. That it has nothing whatsoever to do with Christ’s teachings shows they have not evolved beyond the middle-ages mentality of the Crusades.
Here in Australia Tony Abbott and the undead remnants of the Howard Party have called a jihad against the duly elected Rudd Government. They will do and say anything, even to the point of contradicting themselves, in their ferocious attempt to denigrate the government.
Just today Tony “n’importe quoi” Abbott has been caught out admitting as much. Ni’mporte quoi is a French idiomatic expression with several meanings. “Whatever” is one. “Nonsense” (as in talking nonsense) is another. Tony fits the bill for both in that he will spout any nonsense whatever to con the electorate. His update of John Howard’s core and non-core promises.
Of course, the French phrase will never catch on, but Phoney Tony looks the goods.
As with Howard, Abbott’s coalition of larval cynics treat voters as ignorant mugs, secure in the contemptuous belief that no one has an attention span of more than a sound bite, and that they will eventually realise the error of their Labor-voting ways and return to power the party that panders to their hatred and fear.
Kevin Rudd has not helped his cause, with his pedantic prissiness and politically expedient backflips. There are now polls suggesting that Julia Gillard should take over as Prime Minister. Gillard is too smart to fall for that one and Rudd’s ego is too monstrous to let it happen. But unless he sheds the perception that he is an incompetent prime minister, he could well find himself head of a government that barely gets over the line at the next election.
Because, let’s face it, if Tony Abbott is elected, then voters will have well and truly “lost their minds”. Abbott stands for everything despicable about the right wing. He is anti-abortion. He believes women should view their sexuality as a gift to men. He could care less about climate change; as a result he supports the big end of town without reservation. He wants to reintroduce WorkChoices, where wage slaves can once again be under the Master’s thumb. Worst of all, he is a low-rent demagogue who, like his predecessor John Howard, believes he can hornswoggle the ever-anti-evolutionary Silent Majority into believing that being members of a civilised society is a communist plot and that they are far better off as self-serving individuals.
In both the United States and Australia, the rabid right wing has declared war on humanity’s basic desire to simply collect their paycheque and live in peace. Hatred is their impetus; treason is their goal.
PS: There is one Rudd Government bill that if it passes into law would find me advocating any party but Labor. This is the Rudd-Conroy ISP Internet Filter Legislation, supposedly set in place to prevent the downloading of child pornography but in reality is meant to protect adult Australians from themselves. Made law, Australia would be in the same league as China and North Korea. Even though it will be relatively easy to get around the filter, the answer is a resounding no. A government that censors this blatantly is unsupportable.
ISP bill links:
ISP filtering bill delayed indefinitely
Ruth Ostrow: Let freedom reign
Woah, welcome back to the fray, Will O’!
I’ll have to admit you goaded me into it. Fixed a couple of errors and added a bit. Looks like Tony, Joe & Barney are doing their best to blow their chances. But, like the Tea Baggers, they are serving to polarize folks. Both countries facing a battle between incompatible sides. Your basic recipe for violence.