Story submitted by Eric Worrall: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a taxpayer funded media organization, has just asked whether we should consider restructuring democracy to ensure an efficient response to the climate “crisis”.
The first paragraph;
“Is it democracy that is blocking progress on climate change or the current limited version of it that pervades Western society?” pretty much sums up the rest of the article, which spends several paragraphs praising authoritarianism, before chickening out and trying to suggest that governments are acting contrary to the wishes of voters.”
The article quotes one of our old favorites, Naomi Oreskes, who celebrates China’s authoritarian political process; “China’s ability to weather disastrous climate change vindicated the necessity of centralised government … inspiring similar structures in other, reformulated nations.”
To me, what this bizarre effort suggests more than anything, other than a disturbing lack of commitment to democracy, is that Australian greens are still having trouble accepting that in the last election, they were soundly rejected. Greens are blaming imagined flaws in the democratic process, rather than trying to understand the reasons for their rapidly fading appeal to ordinary voters.
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In all of this it’s important to realize (especially when comparing with past movements that led to totalitarian states) that today’s leftwing zealots are either wine-and-cheese types or spoiled-brat-SAs. They’re really cut from a different cloth than the Bolshevik (and other) revolutionaries in pre-revolutionary Russia or Erich Rohm’s WWI-battle-hardened storm troopers.
These are the same people who said we shouldn’t call people who go around beheading their fellow humans terrorists. Who left the door to the asylum open?
What should be changed is the Australian government broadcaster.
Where did this story come from? Sources please.
The blue text in the post is a web link to the original article.
How did I miss that? It’s all clear now ” the dumb” explains it all <:o)
Of course it should…
The mere idea that poor people should have a vote; it’s like going back to the 20th century.
I find it hilarious that Naomi Oreskes uses China as an example for Western govts to follow regarding CAGW “abatement”, when China is destined to lose about $500 billion in low-interest loans to wind/solar corporate start-up costs…
Moreover, China ironically continues to get most of its electrical power from coal plants, which they’re opening at a pace of 2 a week to meet growing energy demands…
To appease Western political hacks, China continues to hold ribbon-cutting ceremonies for expensive and inefficient wind/solar projects, but these are just for show and contribute almost nothing to their power needs.
Way to pick ’em Oreskes…. “Impeccable” leftist “logic” strikes again.
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.
Barry Goldwater – a man the MSM hated
Can we ditch the ABC to ensure a science approach?
It was inevitable that sooner or later the CAGW activists would expose themselves as nothing more than what the Chinese would call “running dogs” for the enemies of the individual. Thank you Thank you Thank you ABC
Dear naomi should do the world a favour and wear a burka.<:o) please
While I strongly agree with free speech, a government funded broadcasting company questioning whether or not to ‘ditch’ democracy in favor of a form of government more ‘able to deal with’ climate change or anything else, ought to be defunded.
A democracy ought not pay for propaganda that advocates for totalitarianism.
Taxpayers ought not have to fund fascist propaganda. In the name of saving the environment, peace, or any other cause.
if only the American left could be so easily dispatched as the Australians were, we would be in much better shape.
Totalitarianism has always been the goal of the deep pockets and special interests that fund climate change “research.” The true believers in AGW are their “useful idiots.”
That reminds me. We have ditched democracy in Germany(*), and it’s getting cold already. So that seems to work.
(*) Try finding a party that is against any of the EU’s policies. Yes there is one small one emerging (AfD), but all the conventional ones are absolutely identically pro-pan-European (Die Linke, Greens, SPD, CDU, FDP (RIP)).