Dealing with the growing risk of insurgency

Waleed and Scott ( ABC;s Minefield) raised questions on everyone's mind as we wait  for an election result ,
Unlike Aly,  I don't see the left right division as under threat, so I don't accept his scenario of new parties involving the Greens.( see below) "

The situation across the West is more complex
Even though globalism is the target of many for our economic woes,  secularism's failure  and "government as good god" is driving the lack of productivity and hope that keeps the overly comfortable ABC elite focusing on  the war on everything . . Like Donald Trump these forces are not intelligent ---just reactionary  . This insurgent prone reality amongst the left puts Labor and its growing failures, in focus .  The failure to take  on the big picture of care ( loyalty) means the left is lost in a constant game or rebadging the problems. Avoiding loyalty and playing with the latest relationships/

Yes the traditional reasons to be in either Liberal and Labor are changing , but they are best addressed by cutting the subject in  away which is less superficial . I find Chestertons categories of progressives and conservatives most helpful. ( My own vote compasses above and below ) for what they are worth .

Of particular note is Gilbert's lively awareness of the shallow drivers for many  progressives and the way it can cocontentate  with the resurgent temptation in All of us . More powerful today because its potency was evident even 100 years ago.

 I broadcast this excerpt from his work  some years ago
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByHXA-7u8-8-WW92bW8wTDNEMkU










Greens as progressives

The Greens can't grow in Australia (under Aly's scenario ; where he thinks that just because the issue of sustainability is big , it will work to have a party named after a problem )
What will work ( as it has before ) is Barnabys Joyce's idea of grounded competence and public service restored,
For example,  having had their impractical fling with Labor and lost., divorce is certain.  The Greens win votes by taking the heavenly ground, but lose the minds long term because they haven't checked where the tax would have some earthly use. They still think a tax is "the answer" .Vision must touch base. Windmills .

The majors are glossless,  but they have sustainability because they both touch base with practical spending realities and some form of ideal society The Greens aren't sure what we should eat , wear or house ourselves in. Since when did politics become so impractical? 

Labor as lost 
It was good to have Aly havva go  at the old categories, Labor are losing heartland to divisions they set up as relationships ,
Aly  missed the point that Labor  are cultivating a diversity of shacking up   divorce and marriage almost in the same breath. Paradoxically, they want us to believe they know a better way to do family -when they only reflect families under deep threat  .True representative but not in their own mind.

Labor is the one who needs to find a new ideological home because its own mates on the insurgent field are overtaking them - in their own game ,

Media as lost    Libby Gore celebrates the new Senate as entertainment .   The ABC is the home of many insurgents who should be sacked ; they waste our creative energies and provide a cynical and futureless mentorship for our children Their only raison d 'etre is to wage such wars at our family's expense .
Truly the Senate will be "the parliament we  deserve " yes but more ., Sadly cultivating more rebellion while the wires pf the internet  burn is dumbing down ABC all over  . While ABC plays news as entertainment,  the colosseum games of blood sacrifice( apart from their own) will continue 

Liberals as family

For all their faults,  the LNP demonstrates in practice the practical demands of family  ( at least at the moment )  . They have most of their disagreements in house, they have a proper certificate of marriage  ( unlike the unhappy divorce between Hanson =Brown and Bowen on Q and A), they put up with blinkered progressives like Turnbull  and they talk tough about the budget .  They show what loyalty and family  is in a way which should inspire us to support them for the next three years

One can only hope they don't give up in the face of a senate full of noisy children . 

St Crispins day - A temporary Truce July 3rd 2016

I campaigned harder than I ever have,  knowing that at each election there is a growing risk that the bigger East will take control of the West .( Farmers form only 1 % of our population  10% of people live in regional areas. ) 
The Senate looks worse than we ever thought possible , but what can we say than what we  predicted ,   The  children take charge.

Its not really about parties,  but a  growing determination  to " get what we want"

We won back our seat despite the odds against us in Corangamite  The incompetence and ignorance of Labor about the two different cultures not helping their case ( Firefighters and  Schools meddling ) 
Like Henry V's troops we true Nationals are tired of fighting and with the odds against  us growing each for years  to greater that 5 to 1 . i was inspired by those now too old to campaign for farmers and for our young people who are given degrees but no mentors ,

We are still free to go surfing on the surfcoast even though our ability to afford a latte with those who try to manage us gets lost in a sea of words .

At this point we wait in hope .Its not clear if anyone will hold the balance of power ..  We have done well to hold influence for so long .
Unlike Labor we have held that confidence of the people not by numbers but by competence . Our  ability to act efficiently in keeping the economy productive hasn't changed .In 2004 when we first fought this battle i wrote about the risk of the children taking charge. As every year passes they gain more control . At some point soon judgement  must come for both the parents and the children

The positive is that people will question whether the current system and the rebel and protest self preoccupations are really helping us WORK TOGETHER .

The TRUMP is amongst us

There are always areas of agreement on the hustings .

Our joint concern yesterday was the phenomena of TRUMP

We are all asking ----why do Americans like him?

Sadly few Australians are asking whether we have anyone like him?

We would all want leave the family if a TRUMPer   led.

Which is the point ,

 TRUMP symbolizes the children in charge 

“ I will get what I want”  .

The prominence and dominance of the personal pronoun

 "Too bad that I don’t know how,  or I would send us broke in a week"

We must resist such non leadership .Yesterday in cold Colac

Shorten ends his final speech today

"I am determined to win "

The prominence and dominance of the personal pronoun

We cannot afford to have more minors and people who talk about me  me me me
Don't get careless in the Senate - we don't need more of the single issue and single focus there.

Have we got a TRUMP amongst us ?

There are always areas of agreement on the hustings .

Our joint concern yesterday was the phenomena of TRUMP

We are all asking why do Americans like him?

Sadly few Australians are asking whether we have one like him?

We would all want leave the family if a TRUMPer   led.

Which is the point ,

TRUMP symbolizes the children in charge 

“ I will get what I want”  .

The prominence and dominance of the personal pronoun

 "Too bad that I don’t know how,  or I would send us broke in a week"

We must resist such non leadership .

Shorten ends his final speech today

"I am determined to win "

We cannot afford to have more minors and people who talk about me  me me me

in the Senate , More single issue non representatives