by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the nation’s social fabric in tatters, the best the Liberal Party can do is talk – about themselves.
The self-obsessed Liberals don’t seem to have noticed that the Australia that we have known is crumbling. Not just on their watch, but at their hands.
- Preserving the truth in dark times was and is God’s work. It is also our work.
- The trick is to spot those who are ultimately serving the interests of higher powers.
- We must distinguish them from innocent, well-motivated activists.
Its abysmal MPs – and the legacy media which salivates over inconsequential minutiae occurring inside Canberra – are stuck in the weeds, where they are most comfortable.
The column inches and air-time given over to the messy internal squabbles of the former Coalition partners have been astonishing, when really important, indeed, existential threats to the nation, are going down at the same time.
INSIGHT
If you want an insight into how major Party politicians operate, watch this interview with the British COVID hero MP, Andrew Bridgen.
He was one among 650 British MPs who spoke out. As it happens, the only one.
They told him to shut up. Staffers at No. 10 told him that he could have “anything he wanted” to stop speaking out. They said this was the game they played. That they always played.
No one in Australia has yet figured out how to turn popular anger at the deeply and broadly corrupt political class into actions that will get rid of them and their rotten games once and for all.
This makes the under-acknowledged work of those who battle on each day to keep the flame of freedom alive, who make enormous sacrifices to reveal truth and stare down hard and soft power, so essential.
All the while knowing that they are pushing it uphill.
Dissidents and whistle-blowers, micro Party members, podcasters and writers, conspiracy theorists and conventional critics of public policy wrongdoing are exposing something that the careerists of the UniParty never show. Courage. Courage in the face of frightening corporate and globalist power.
And they don’t give up. They don’t all agree with one another. They each focus on their own issues.
Some attack issues with the ferocity of a dog with a bone. Not are fully awake to the entire depth and breadth of the corruption of the corporate State.
Some work within bad systems, and get bagged for that. Doing too much, and too little, at the same time. Tony Abbott?
VICTIMHOOD
Sometimes victims of the elite power brokers become keepers of the flame. Think Lucy Connolly. They set victimhood aside and turn it towards exposing evil doers and fraudsters and, in some cases, seeking regime change.
Sometimes you come across seeming keepers of the flame who turn out to be not-so-much. Nigel Farage is a prime example.
In the meantime, the trick is to spot those who are ultimately serving the interests of higher powers, and to distinguish them from the innocent, well-motivated doers.
Andrew Bridgen is the keeper of the flame par excellence. But we have our own, down under. Not many, mind you. But enough.
They were out and about this week in Canberra. We should value them and esteem them.
Especially the ones who keep turning up, not to change the world overnight but to keep the dimmed lights on.
Andrew Bridgen, Ralph Babet, Alex Antic and friends in the political sphere, Mark Steyn, Alex Berenson, Andrew Gold, John Anderson, Ezra Levant (with Avi Yemini in Davos this week) in the journalism realm, truth tellers like George Christensen and Topher Field and the alt-podcaster class, deep probers like the Triggernometry boys, activists like Tommy Robinson, COVID dissidents, right-to-lifers and others plying their trade courageously on the streets, can’t solve all the massive problems we face. But they are doing their bit.
Their currency, ultimately, is hope. And they are giving us the tools to participate in a counter-revolution. Without them, we would be flying blind.
INVADING
Preserving the truth in dark times was and is God’s work. It is also our work. Heavy lifting. (Ironically, one of the ongoing threats to the work of these saintly preservationists was invading Islam.)
We won’t all, always, agree with what the keepers of the flame say and do. Like all of us, fallen human beings, they will make mistakes. They won’t get everything right.
They may even be outrageous at times, or even routinely. Think DJT. (Perhaps this is the best way to think about Trumpism.)
Think Katie Hopkins, too. Bird-flipping comedians have their place.
Yes, they are problematic. But, we need them desperately. These are the people who refuse to play the game.PC
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“Some work within bad systems, and get bagged for that. Doing too much, and too little, at the same time. Tony Abbott?”
Not so: Tony got bagged for an entirely inexplicable failure of moral courage that saw him squander, in a most egregious manner, the opportunity of a political lifetime.
It is impossible to overstate the full extent of the fallout that ensued from the damp squib that was Tony’s time at the helm – indeed, one could argue that Albanese’s socialist Australia is being built on the foundation of Tony’s manifest ineptitude.
Morrie, You are on the mark. Abbott ( and Credlin) for all the chestbeating allowed Turnbull to creep up behind him. The Liberal mess has been in train a long time. I measure it from at least the third Howard term with its NSW origin in the Greiner years.
Good article Paul but a lot more than preserving ‘hope’ is needed, now. None of the Libs and most of the Nats pale into nothingness at policy level. Hanson covers some bases as can be seen in the polls. Labor is wisely, imo, letting the Opposition in all its forms squabble, knowing the ABC and most other media will assist the demise, with an occasional nudge from Albanese, Watt and Gorman
Ted O’Brien tries to get people to see economic and social damage but even Sky with its egalitarian mood lets the Labor spokesman, btw no women?, rattle off the question asked into Labor-speak.
Until the squabbling is replaced by key, firm policies with cut through speaking points Labor will avoid scrutiny. At the present rate of political degradation expect more tealists, a few flash points with ON cannibalising the Nats and musical chairs in the Libs party room. Australia? No worries. Or ‘Poor fella my country,’ hope’ is no hope at all without political action.
Good article PC. Unusually positive, coming from you, but it’s welcome and keep it coming.