The woke experiment has been a disaster for the Australian Libs. By James Allen.
The Michael Photios wing of the Liberal party is slowly destroying its host from within, the way cuckoos do to the nests they infiltrate. …
These are the people who relentlessly push for policies that park the Liberals a microscopic centimetre to the right of Labor. If Labor goes more left, then these moderates hop into their up-market Teslas and race after them. Heck, sometimes they overtake the party they’re chasing and find themselves to the left of Labor — on green energy, on wholesale surrender in the culture wars, on big government spendathons, on genuflecting to the identity politics offence-takers and overseers of the ‘diversity and equity’ scams, on just about everything other than superannuation and unions.
Under the sway of the Photios acolytes and their ideas of what will win elections, the Liberals have become hostages to Labor; where Labor goes the moderates bay to follow.
The left’s electoral advice is in who’s interest?
Why do you think Prime Minister Albanese keeps calling for Peter Dutton and the Liberal party to move left by throwing in the towel completely on net zero and the culture wars? (And by the way, when the Left attacks and remakes our culture that’s just fine and dandy but if the Right tries to fight back and stand up for its views, well that’s ‘opening up the culture wars’ or some such self-interested BS.)
Do you think Albanese is actually giving the Libs advice that will help them win elections? He wants them to surrender and not to differentiate themselves.
Listening to the ABC leads to failure:
So I think by now even the recalcitrant dumbos at the back of the class (aka all the political advisers to the Liberal party and half the party room) can see that this is a losing strategy. …
They tried it in Victoria, opting not to criticise Dan Andrews on his thuggish handling of the pandemic, on his unconstrained spending, on his treaty lark and the policies that divide Australians by characteristics they got at birth. …
Oh, and don’t forget Morrison’s trying this ‘moderate’ strategy by signing up to the self-destructive lunacy of net zero, basically eliminating the one thing that had won him the ‘unwinnable’ previous election.
And then last week the Libs lost the blue-ribbon seat of Aston in a by-election. Same dumb strategy, same brutal result. So let me spell this out though I think Mr Dutton already knows what I’m about to say. The Coalition opposition leader has to get off his bum and start taking positions, out loud not under his breath, that align with long-standing liberal values. No more ‘we can’t take a view on the Voice till after the Aston by-election’ because that sort of focus group driven pusillanimity is at the heart of what’s wrong with Libs.
Turn off the ABC. They are not our friends. Stand up for principle. No more party machine installing candidates from Brunswick. Argue from first principles. Go very, very hard against the Voice. (That alone can win the Libs the next election.) ...
Even the left is signalling that opposition to the Voice is a vote winner:
You can tell being against the Voice is a vote winner because Mr Albanese is doing everything he can to stop Mr Dutton going down that road — namely the path of standing up for mainstream values and principles.
Amen.