Jonathan Green
"The conservative commentariat is still railing against a hardline left
which is almost exclusively represented in modern times by half a dozen
spotty vendors of Green Left Weekly."
Where can we find the next bogey-man-to-beat-up. Those ignorant low-borns won't know what to think. Oh no Joe please don't go. No, no Joe.
"A hankering for a time when ideological divisions were rich, clear and
meaningful, when a clear sense of what separated the left and the right
gave a certain rhythm to the cut and thrust of mainstream politics."
This is such a LIE. Ideology is vastly important. Good God : an asteroid is coming close to our annihilation and you say it's unimportant? The salvation of the planet relies on this concept.
Oh Jonathon. What shall we say to this?
"In early 1886, the Texas & Pacific Railroad fired a leader of the district assembly of the Knights of Labor, and this led to a strike which spread throughout the Southwest, tying up traffic as far as St. Louis and Kansas City. Nine young men recruited in New Orleans as marshals, brought to Texas to protect company property, learned about the strike and quit their jobs, saying, “as man to man we could not justifiably go to work and take the bread out of our fellow-workmen’s mouths, no matter how much we needed it ourselves.” They were then arrested for defrauding the company by refusing to work, and sentenced to three months in the Galveston county jail. The strikers engaged in sabotage. A news dispatch from Atchison, Kansas: At 12: 45 this morning the men on guard at the Missouri Pacific roundhouse were surprised by the appearance of 35 or 40 masked men. The guards were corralled in the oil room by a detachment of the visitors who stood guard with pistols . . . while the rest of them thoroughly disabled 12 locomotives which stood in the stalls."
Zinn, Howard (2010-01-14). A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (p. 269). Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Kindle Edition.
Is this ideology? No, these are only facts, things that actually happened. It is because of the lies of Friar Tuck and the Robbing Hood that another myth is created about the disappearance of ideology. It reminds me of that 'budget emergency' we were searching for, high and low, before the election. Was that my ideology? oh no I missed it again.
Why do you procreate the myth by giving it credence on the media?
Which brings us to the crux of the matter.
It is LNP policy to drive wages down to the level of subsistence existing in China (in fact, if you look at their policy on Qantas, they want all our assets to be owned and operated for profit by state owned Chinese enterprises). Part of their strategy for achieving this is to convince the electorate that the ideological battles of the previous two centuries are in the past: 'blowing in the wind', passing wind in the process. This has lead to the abandonment of union membership we see today. They have fooled everyone into believing that we have all grown up now and it can't happen again.
This is all just lulling their opponents into a false sense of security prior to a blood-letting of supreme importance.
People died and blood was spilt to get everyone their job security and wages and working hours.
If we get lucky, a few of us may still have these things by the end of this term of government.
every body fell for it.
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