The Joke that is the Left

It is not so much a 'funny, ha-ha' kind of joke, more a sad, makes you groan a little kind of joke. I sat down at my computer this morning and, as always, clicked on over to the ABC news website to have a look at what was going on in the world, and I made the fatal mistake of reading one of the opinion pieces. "Only a resurgence of the Left can set this country to rights" was the title; and I chuckled to myself. Another misguided Leftie who thinks that public ownership and welfare handouts will cure all ills, I thought to myself. But no, it was, of course, Bruce Haigh, a man who demonstrates that you can be educated despite being cognitively impaired...

The piece was, to say the least, an embarrassment; how the ABC could run this tripe is beyond my comprehension. Well, actually, no it's not beyond my comprehension. The ABC has long pushed a socialist - almost neo-communist - agenda, with every Left-wind nut job who can string together a few sentences given as much on-line space as they desire. But the issue of the ABC's bias is a completely separate issue, my disagreement at the moment is with the dangerously misguided views that Haigh is pushing...

"My notion of a Left agenda would include the state providing a framework to deliver the greatest good to the greatest number of people, including the empowerment of Aborigines and asylum seekers." Haigh writes, clearly oblivious of the fact that these to populations combined barely represent 2% of Australia's population. This is the heart of the Left's problem; they pursue narrow agendas to the detriment of the whole while under the guise of being inclusive. Why address larger structural problems in the system when you can just give handouts to the 'disadvantaged', all the while taxing the majority of hardworking Australians into poverty? Is that the equality that you are speaking of, Bruce, one where we are all poor and disadvantaged, with no incentive to make a better life for ourselves? Speaking of self-determination...

"There is no Left in Australian politics or discourse at the moment. There is just the Centre, now seen as the Left by the Radical Right, as The Right stretches away to glorious infinity – a Nirvana of free markets, the centrality of self, supported by uncontrolled vitriol and uncurbed aggression." Yes, self-determination is a terrible thing. It allows people to make a life for themselves, to choose their job, their home, their government. How horrid! How beastly to think that we should have the right to determine our own fate and, more importantly, be responsible for that fate! Self-determination is more than just choosing your own destiny, but being responsible for it! I direct your attention to the UK riots, the result of over a decade of misguided Leftist social agenda whereby the state is responsible for everything and individuals are free to run amok! This is how you want it, isn't it Bruce? No one need take any responsibility for their actions, just run free and be sure to collect your welfare payments at the end of the week...

"The imagination, creative drive, courage and egalitarian agenda of the Left has been sadly lacking from the national narrative for the last 20 years" I'm sorry, but I just laugh every time I read that quote... What utter nonsense! I don't know what you smoked during the 60's Bruce, but it has seriously damaged your ability to differentiate reality from fantasy...

There is a counter to all of the arguments which Bruce puts forward, an argument which illustrates undeniably that the Left has failed and will only destroy all that we have worked so hard to achieve: The Greens... Need I say any more?