by PAUL COLLITS – THIS wide brown land down under is going down the toilet – think economy, culture, polity – and what does the once mediocre Liberal Party do? Talk about itself!
And the legacy media, inevitably, joins in. It’s all about the Liberal Party factions and their henchmen. The all-Leftist moderates and the Leftist “centre Right”.
- Airbus Albo knows he can do policy shite without any risk of blowback.
- It’s all a bit of a circle jerk.
- A bit like Australia’s Liberal Party.
I have been writing about Michael Photios for decades. Others rarely do a deep-dive into his absolute rule over the Liberal Party, or his business links with green energy companies, or his methods of control – for whatever reason.
The other one in the frame is Alex Hawke, the NSW Right’s deserter and the Novak Djokovic deporter. ScoMo’s numbers man. Talk about a high achiever.
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Inevitably, it is also about Sussan Ley and her “leadership”. No wonder Airbus Albo thinks he can swan all over the world and do policy shite without any risk of blowback.
It turns out that tedious internal fighting isn’t confined to the low-impact Australian “Right”.
The American conservative movement is also at war with itself, despite controlling all three branches of government – Congress (both houses), the Executive and the Judiciary. Well, the last often seems confused about what is needed, despite a nominal six-three split.
And, these days, it is all and always about – Israel!
Once upon a time, the modern American conservative movement – created after World War II by William F Buckley, James Burnham, Frank Meyer and friends – was worth studying.
They fought among themselves, of course. There were anti-communists, libertarians and social conservatives. (The neo-cons and the paleo-conservatives only came later, the latter a response to the former.)
They forged a “fusion” of sorts which lasted almost half a century until George W Bush and the late Dick Cheney rose to the top.
Today, the emerging “leaders”, absent the late Charlie Kirk, are half-baked teenagers like Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes (head of the Groypers). On opposite sides of the Israel divide, throwing rocks at each other.
The other “stars” in the current contretemps include the erstwhile MAGA Svengali, Tucker Carlson, the inevitable (Australia-excluded) Candace Owens, the feisty Mark Levin and the establishment’s Heritage Foundation. Douglas Murray is firing rockets from the side.
And both sides, sickeningly, are trying to recruit a dead man – the same Charlie Kirk – to their side.
The most recent bout of infighting began with a softball interview with Carlson and Fuentes. The latter is regarded by many as persona non grata by all of the Left and many on the Right.
The Carlson interview had five million views.
Mark Levin and his fellows, like Douglas Murray, probably felt, with some justification, that Israel already has enough enemies.
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Like Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Lebanon, Qatar, Iran, Sydney’s flag waving Harbour Bridge protesters, the neo-Nazis, Albo, Tony Burqa, Penny Wong, the rocket manufacturing community and all the far-Left progressives who never met a Palestinian terrorist they didn’t like.
The libertarians and the paleoconservatives conflate Israel’s alleged Stateside power with the “forever wars” prosecuted by the Dick Cheney generation. On this occasion it is a true binary.
Thomas More (in A Man for all Seasons) accused Sir Richard Rich of selling his soul (by perjuring himself) for Wales.
Israel is globally far more important than Wales, but there is a bit of the Richard Rich about some of the American conservatives right now.
They are selling their souls for Israel’s enemies, even if they don’t see it that way.
Back in the day, there was the ludicrous war on terror and its fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan that consumed 20 years of useless war machining, with attendant loss of life, an endless raid on the Treasury, a whole generation of PTDS’d soldiers, no strategy for victory and no progress against terrorism.
We were all paleo-cons then, during the war on terror and its associated State-initiated moral panic, or we should have been.
Oh, and Bush 43s war on terror also gave us Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, endless surveillance and the bioweapons industrial complex that made the COVID tyranny possible, indeed, inevitable.
Some of the other branches of the anti-Israel lobby, prone to seeing a Jew behind every evil development– think bankers and paedophile networks – probably blame Israel for all this too. After all, the key neo-cons Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz are Jews!
This is schoolboy level analytics. It doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
What a stupid thing over which to be throwing rocks at one another.
Many of the combatants are good people who have done good things over a generation. At a time of multiple existential threats to our way of life, these folks are down in the weeds arguing over nothing-burgers.
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America’s support for Israel runs to around $3.8b a year. The USA’s current debt is nudging $38 trillion. Do the math.
Get your priorities right, adults in the room. If there are any. The Buckley fusionists of the past, giants of the conservative movement, would be horrified.
Then, of course, there is the rather obvious elephant in the room. That being Islam’s global war on both Gentiles and Jews, aka us.
In effect, whether or not any of these guys are anti-Semites isn’t really the point. Nor do I much care.
Anti-Israel sentiment is never far from the surface across many groups, and it is into this febrile pit that the Fuentes class is reaching for affirmation.
But if they are not on Israel’s side, they are either on the side of the Hamas-led terrorists, or they are just sitting this one out. The last isn’t really an option, given that the Islamists are playing for keeps.
Like Albo with his gift-of-the-Liberals, the American progressives are lapping up the current crisis on the other side.
It is a pathetic hill upon which to choose to die. Yes, there are huge egos involved, and, in the case of Fuentes, youthful ignorance and idiocy.
But, from the other side, the reactions have been, especially in the case of Levin, way over the top.
It’s all a bit of a circle jerk. A bit like Australia’s Liberals.PC
