http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4754598.html
"There's not a shadow of a doubt that the media has been used to help
build momentum, to help build a sense of chaos, particularly this week.
And anytime it looked like it was falling off, there was someone else
[from Team Rudd] out and about … There is absolutely no doubt the Rudd
forces have been using the media quite cleverly for some time now."
I've been rattling on about this for a while now. Yesterday I lost it and let fly, but at least I'm not the only one who has noticed this. A party that puts itself in a perceived cycle of cynically resurrecting a popular leader to win an election then unceremoniously dumping the winning leader for another one to run the government, one iteration of which has already occurred, has zero electoral legitimacy and is doomed to the backwaters for many electoral cycles.
As quoted above the mainstream media has been complicit in this farce from the beginning, but then that is just the nature of the game. If the Rudd supporters would shut up and coagulate under the Gillard flag, the reconquest of the electorate would be easily achievable. The strategy I outlined yesterday needs to happen as a matter of urgency. The government wins hands down on a rational comparison of policy and the sooner this comparison happens the better. Of course it would help if the mainstream media would pull their heads in, forgo the promise of sales, and simply ignore anything a known Rudd supporter says. This can only happen if the deeply conservative strings controlling the mainstream media, reaching from Rupert Murdoch through to his lapdog pack of senior editors, are released.
Let's not get too melodramatic about it but, to reuse a common image, we stand at a historical crossroads. The rest of the world has chosen the progressive road of cold rational decisions, represented here by the ALP with all its warts and shortcomings. How can we as a nation now choose the fluffy, sepia soaked, road of business-as-usual, post modern, feel-good-do-nothing road preferred by the LNP? The shear ludicrosity of such a proposition renders it unlikely, yet such an eventuality is possible. The opinion polls say it is a forgone conclusion. Something has to happen in the next three months to push us to the left. Not too far to the left but enough to reveal the falsity of LNP policy and particularly its leader who is a proven liar, even more so than is expected of politicians in general, and definitely more so than Gillard.
Both the conservative and progressive forces are split many ways.
The progressive forces, represented by the ALP and its left wing, now called the Greens, are only split three ways: Rudd-ALP, Gillard-ALP, and Green.
The conservative forces are split at least five ways now, and if we maintain consistency its six: Turnbull-Liberal, Abbott-Liberal, National/country party, Hanson's One Nation, Katter's Australia, and Palmer's Liberal Lite.
An unenviable choice, wouldn't you say? If division is death in politics, then we are riding a coffin to obliteration.
But isn't it better to vote for the forces which are the least split? Especially when this choice coincides with the policies which place us on the right track to a better future. I have consistently shown on this blog that the conservative forces in this country base their policies solely on failed ideology and the elitism of the rich. Every policy they dare to release can be shown to create further divisions within our society, which they cynically use to maintain their grasp on power.
I know the way I will vote in September and I hope those who read this blog will be persuaded to do the same.
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