We just wanted it to be over.

With the outcome of the election in the bag, the first piece of advice to a future prime minister (who may be bereft of ideas or promise, and having little to distinguish from his opposition) would be – do not, under any circumstances, opt for a long campaign. Enough, already.

PROPAGANDA

The last thing that many voters, especially that considerable percentage already angry – not just disillusioned – want to experience is yet more lies, propaganda and pork barrelling.

Once you’ve voted early, you can turn off the TV and get on with what is left of life in the COVID new normal.

We knew the incumbents were in deep strife when all manner of introspection on the future of the governing Party breaks out well before (official) election day.

The thought bubbles on the fate of the so-called Liberal Party “moderates”, the heroes of net-zero, gay marriage and the hurt feelings of the transgendered, among other causes so highly relevant to Jo(e) Average, are intriguing, and just as other-worldly as almost everything that now emanates from the mouths of the punditocracy.

Concern for the plight of the Leftists in the Liberal Party post-election is emanating from a range of sources.

One is from the moderate faction itself, from none other than Matt Kean, for whom, unlike Tim Paine, an embarrassing sexting scandal did nothing to damage his career progress.

Kean recently opined that absent the modern Liberals like Trent Zimmerman, Dave Sharma, Tim Wilson and so on, the Party would be at risk of becoming “like the Republicans”, Trump supporting, gay-hating, coal-worshipping, Putin-supporting anti-vaxxers.

I am not sure what Kean’s definition of an anti-vaxxer is. Does he include, for example, those who might have sympathy for the ten thousand NSW unvaxxed teachers sacked by his government, and still to be either re-instated or compensated?

RESCUED

Or those who had to be rescued from the Lismore flood by private citizens because the State Emergency Services leadership stopped the unvaxxed from joining the rescue efforts? Are they anti-vaxxers?

Recent figures from the United States show that now 65 per cent of Americans have either refused the jab altogether, or refused a second jab having had the first, or refused the booster, having had both previous vaccines.

The equivalent number for Australia, based upon Our World in Data figures, is 76 per cent.

Not a tiny number, then, have concluded that vaccine redemption is not for them.

Kean might also not be aware of recent Israeli research which shows that the boosters are good for … eight weeks.

Nor, perhaps, does he know about the 828 deaths following receiving the vaccine officially recorded for Australia, or the 2096 in the United Kingdom, or the 14,379 in Europe, or the 27,532 in the United States.

All caused by the COVID Corporate State of which Kean is a senior player.

(Kean’s friend in Canberra, the outgoing Health Minister Greg Hunt, has given us as his parting gift a $13m advertising campaign to encourage boosters, including for 5 to 11-year-olds. That seems to me to have broken both electoral laws on political advertising and all manner of truth-in-advertising provisions.)

HUBRIS

Having a cheap crack at anti-vaxxers is clearly still seen by the powers that be as being just fine, but perhaps it will simply strike many as out-of-touch hubris on the part of one for whom hubris is his middle name.

The so-called “teal” independent in Wentworth, Allegra Spender, the progeny of Carla Zampatti and John Spender and descendant of Liberal stalwart Sir Percy Spender, agreed with Kean’s message.

The now MP Allegra, too, saw a dark future for the transgendered and their right-side-of-history cheer squad if moderate Liberals fell.

Which does raise questions about the seat-targetting strategy of the teals, by the way.

Then we had the enduring soldier of the progressives-in-print, Niki Savva, putting in her tuppence-worth.

Savva seems actually to believe that the Liberal Party is still a conservative machine that, through Morrison’s support of his candidate in Warringah and hence his perceived attack on the transgendered, has offended the rest of right-thinking Sydney.

Now, we real Australians, after two years of lockdowns and mandates and all manner of COVID totalitarianism and gaslighting, are used to viewing the laptop class as being unhinged from reality.

But anyone who believes, as Savva claims to, that the Liberal Party in Canberra – or anywhere else, for that matter – has lurched to the Right post-Turnbull, is clearly talking about another country.

TURNBULL

Savva’s notion of a true Liberal, of course, is one Malcolm Turnbull, and this, no doubt, clouds her thinking on all manner of things political.

Finally, we had the Liberals’ elder statespersons (former prime ministers both) weighing in, to circle the wagons as one might expect of them, but also to defend something that no longer even exists.

Yes, I speak of the Liberal “broad church”.

The young NSW Premier has become the third generation of Liberal leaders, conservatives all, to extol the virtues of having “moderates” in a “broad church”, and the dire need to defend them against the dreaded teals, and anyone else who might threaten them.

The “moderates” within the Liberal Party never, ever cease to defecate on their conservative colleagues from a great height, to go out of their way to pick fights and to have a winner-take-all approach to factional power plays.

Their internal opponents, on the other hand, simply smile sweetly, even turn up at the campaign launches of candidates with whom they, if we are to accept what they have said all their lives about their core values, are in violent disagreement.