Rita Panahi: If your kids vote Green, you may have failed them as a parent

It’s a harsh call but what else can one say when privileged youngsters back what has become a neo-Marxist doomsday cult that wants to destroy Western civilisation.

If your kids are voting for the Greens then you may have failed as a parent.

Now, I know that is a harsh call but what else can one say when privileged youngsters back what has become a neo-Marxist doomsday cult that wants to destroy Western civilisation.

The modern-day Greens are proudly and dementedly radical. It’s no longer about saving old growth forests and whales; it’s a worldview dominated by racial and gender obsessions and a simplistic oppressor, oppressed narratives. The Greens back extreme economic policies that would destroy living standards.

They are proudly anti-Australia, anti-meritocracy and anti-law and order. Whether it’s energy or housing policy or border protection and defence; you can be sure the Greens’ position is illogical, expensive and doomed to exacerbate the very issues they’re trying to solve.

From waging war against mum and dad property investors to railing against Australia Day, the Greens advocate positions that are abhorrent to the great majority of Australians.

Greens leader Adam Bandt. Picture: Martin Ollman

However, despite winning only about one in 10 votes the Greens have enjoyed disproportionate power and have succeeded in pulling Labor further Left.

And, with the very real prospect of a hung parliament, there’s a real chance these economically illiterate miscreants will hold the balance of power. That would be a devastating result for Australia, the economy, families and devastating particularly for young people.

Greens leader Adam Bandt has detailed his list of demands that Labor must meet in the event of a minority government including wiping student debt, free childcare and implementing all elements of the Uluru Statement.

Bandt understands that this election could be among the most consequential in modern Australian history particularly if Labor fails to win in their own right. “There’s a real opportunity in the next parliament, with all of the commentators predicting a minority government, to have a golden era of progressive reform,” he said. “A minority parliament can keep Peter Dutton out and get those progressive reforms that I think will set the country up for generations.”

A minority government can also bankrupt Australia and damage the prospects of young Australians.

The very demographic most likely to vote for the Greens has the most to lose in the long term from a Greens-Labor coalition.

Rita Panahi is a Herald Sun columnist

Originally published as Rita Panahi: If your kids vote Green, you may have failed them as a parent