‘Woke’ Lefties make about as much sense as a goose’s fart
What the ‘woke’ generation needs to know is that a vote for ‘progressive’ Liberals Zali Steggall or Kerryn Phelps will help install the hard-Left-backed Labor Party nominally led by Bill Shorten but not-so-secretly controlled by ultra-Leftist ACTU secretary Sally McManus.
All those “woke” folk better wake up — and quickly.
This election is not an episode of Game Of Thrones or Married At First Sight.
It can’t be put on hold to be resumed at a more convenient time and it can’t be replayed. This is the real in reality.
Real as in your future, your children’s future and your grandchildren’s future will be affected by the outcome.
You must care because the fate of the nation is in the balance — and don’t hide behind the notion that you’re a socially progressive Liberal either.
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Foreign-funded Left-wing activist group GetUp’s Warringah candidate Zali Steggall likes to claim that label but she has never voted Liberal in a federal election in her life and is supported by the largest campaign in the insidious organisation’s history, with additional help from a coterie of Labor unions and shadowy business people who stand to make a packet out of the wind farm racket.
The last revolutionary Labor prime minister, Gough Whitlam, was a social progressive but Ms Steggall’s backers make him, as calamitous as his foreshortened reign was, look like a hard-core conservative.
What the “woke” generation needs to know is that a vote for Ms Steggall, or Kerry Phelps in Wentworth, will help install the hard-Left-backed Labor Party nominally led by Bill Shorten but not-so-secretly controlled by the ultra-Leftist Sally McManus.
Ms McManus has no regard for some parts of the law and sneering contempt for those who like to think of themselves as political centrists but she is dictating the agenda Labor must follow should it win the May 18 poll. Her hard-line Marxist agenda would have been totally rejected by the Whitlam government as crazy as some of its policies were.
Nor is there any validity to the argument that Mr Shorten will be his own master if he gains the keys to the Lodge. He has already taken out a first, second and third mortgage on the property with Ms McManus, the historically notoriously criminal CMFEU and other big unions and their demands are absolute.
They will want the guest bedrooms full-time and insist on silver service.
Julian Assange’s unpleasant personal hygiene regimen may have offended his unfortunate hosts at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, but compared with the demands of Ms McManus and the union movement, the disgusting Mr Assange will seem the perfect house guest.
There’s no secret to the fact that the unions want Mr Shorten to repeal the very laws governing industrial relations that Labor actually legislated when it was last in office.
They want him to abolish the Labor-designed regulations that gave something like equal weight to employees and employers and tip the scales in favour of the union movement.
Ms McManus’s ACTU fiefdom is under threat from aspirational Australians who don’t want their working lives controlled. Union power is increasing while membership is now less than 10 per cent in the productivity sector but the unions have oceans of cash from their super schemes enabling them to live out their socialist fantasies.
The sort of people who have in the not too distant past traded away workers’ rights and wages for payments to union bosses — people exactly like Mr Shorten who was revealed to have sold out the lowliest paid cleaning workers he was meant to represent for a swag of cash that went straight into the coffers of the AWU, the union he formerly ran.
Four days into the campaign and the battlelines, as Tony Abbott famously titled his prescient manifesto, are clear.
Labor is promising to remake Australia in the image of the old and failed Soviet Union right down to its plan to mandate the sort of vehicle Australians will have to purchase if they can afford an electric car and even if they won’t actually be able to drive them because of the unreliability and unaffordability of the power necessary to get them on the road.
Generation X, Y, Z, and the alphabetical rainbow crowd may cheer the announcement of Labor’s Big Projects but a glance at Labor’s recent history of such massively expensive failures as the NBN and the lethal pink batts program for example stand as monuments to the party’s compulsion to make grandiose claims it never fulfils.
Given that the education system has been deliberately run down by the Left-controlled teachers’ trade union, it is most unlikely that members of the above mentioned generation will ever have been taught about any of Labor’s more spectacular failures. Such as the fact that no Labor government has managed to produce a Budget surplus — despite any number of promises — since 1989.
Why should they care about stuff that happened before they were born?
The answer is simple. They should know that as grandiose as Mr Shorten’s promises are now they are absolutely as flawed as all the promises made by the last three Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, each of whom is now endorsing their Opposition leader successor as a worthy PM.
As caring and sharing as Labor supporters and its socially progressive fellow travellers claimed to be the reality is that their policies ensured the deaths of more than 1200 wannabe illegal boat arrivals — and they are promising more of the same.
As for the huge climate change controversy, nothing that Australians do will have any effect on the weather.
Carbon dioxide comprises just 0.04 per cent of the gases in Earth’s atmosphere. As a nation we produce 1.3 per cent of that 0.04 per cent and a third of that comes from electricity generation.
A goose’s fart compared to a clap of thunder and the Millennials think this should determine their vote. What a joke.
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