Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Guardian, loving your country means you should believe in the climate crisis.
If you love Australia, climate change should scare the hell out of you
Greg Jericho
Sun 26 Jan 2020 06.00 AEDTConservatives love to talk up Australia ‘punching above its weight’, but they turn to self-hating cowards when it comes to climate change.
I love Australia.
It’s not a thing you hear too often from progressives. Mostly this is because we don’t go in for the pathetic jingo-nationalist, quasi-militaristic “love it or leave it”-style patriotism that John Howard attempted to link with a love of country.
But I do love Australia. I get an absurd amount of irrational pride when I hear of Australians doing well.
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Because I love Australia, and the real question is why don’t conservatives who refuse to do more on climate change love Australia? Because climate change will destroy much of what we love about this country of ours.
Much of what makes Australia unique and beloved by those of us lucky enough to live here is linked to the extremes of our land and climate.
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What we love about Australia will be taken by climate change well before other nations who emit much more greenhouse gas will feel great changes. And that should enrage us and our representatives, and it should drive their actions.
I love Australia and so I want action on climate change. And if you love Australia, so should you.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2020/jan/26/if-you-love-australia-climate-change-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-you
Interesting that someone who claims to love their country feels the need to explain that “irrational” feeling.
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…N.U.T.S.
Poor bloke. He should seek help.
Climate Derangement Syndrome is a progressive disease….
Deranged people do things like light fires. Anybody who listens to the fake news is a fool. There are things that we can do to protect ourselves from the deranged, like cut down trees. That’s right, cut down trees instead of planting a bunch of new ones. But the WEATHER!
Associated with leftardism, Trump derangement syndrome, Brexitophobia and low IQ.
What is that makes them think that they are more subject to climate change than other parts of the world. As we are not warming, all alarmist claims are patently false. It has been cool in Australia during all these fires. And fires were much worse in 1974 when the world was in the depths of the last cooling cycle—no one mentions this.
Actually, Australia is in the Southern hemisphere which makes it less effected by climate change. It’s also covered by large tracts of burned out land which means that becoming barren is normal for Australia.
There’s a song from the 80s I often think of when Aussies go on about how terrible climate change is in Australia and the high temperatures climate change has brought. It was by Men At Work, I believe, and there’s a line that says “The Western Desert/Lives and Breathes/In 45 degrees” (Celsius, of course). The record highs the NYT has been freaking out this year have been barely higher than that, and right now at the peak of the Aussie summer I cannot find any place forecast to be warmer than 42 degrees in the next week.
Greg Jericho is infamous for talking out of his proverbial and over the top partisan writing. A supposedly economics journalist but can’t see what a high price we pay to drop world emissions by 0.1% when even if we could drop it 10%, it would do nothing.
As an economic journalist talking about economics he also has not the faintest idea wat he is talking about.
Methinks he has a couple of kangaroos loos in the top paddock.
A few, I didn’t know whether to laugh or ask for police to make a welfare call to see he isn’t self harming.
self delusional at the least
today abc ran an item on how CC was going to ruin all sports for ever for Aussies
the guy spouting this rubbish is an admitted climate activist as his “dayjob”
and is a coach etc
how we might have to move the times we run major events like cricket n tennis comps
well theyve always been stupid enough to run them in the hottest times of the year anyway
mad dogs englishmen and cricketers go out in themidday sun etc
Whereas climate gulliblists are too busy hating everyone else, and haven’t quite gotten to the self hatred step. Don’t stress about it – that will come when they realize how they have been fooled.
He’s clearly describing himself. Fear of AGW is among the most classic example of cowardice and self-hatred in the modern age.
That was my first thought – projection, once again!
Maybe he was looking in the mirror when he wrote this twaddle.
Regressives & the Goebbelstream media are always projecting, projecting, projecting… The accusations they make are always exactly what they are & what they are doing.
True
“. . . climate change will destroy much of what we love about this country . . .” Substitute “climate change” with “renewables,” “carbon tax,” “Socialism,” etc. and you will more closely capture the causes of Australia’s destruction.
Here you go.
Conservatives love to talk up Australia ‘punching above its weight’, but they turn to self-hating cowards when it comes to carbon tax.
I love Australia.
It’s not a thing you hear too often from progressives. Mostly this is because we don’t go in for the pathetic jingo-nationalist, quasi-militaristic “love it or leave it”-style patriotism that John Howard attempted to link with a love of country.
But I do love Australia. I get an absurd amount of irrational pride when I hear of Australians doing well.
…
Because I love Australia, and the real question is why don’t conservatives who refuse to do more on socialism love Australia? Because renewables will destroy much of what we love about this country of ours.
Much of what makes Australia unique and beloved by those of us lucky enough to live here is linked to the extremes of our land and weather.
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What we love about Australia will be taken by socialism well before other nations who emit much more greenhouse gas will feel great changes. And that should enrage us and our representatives, and it should drive their actions.
I love Australia and so I want action on socialism. And if you love Australia, so should you.
“Because I love Australia, and the real question is why don’t conservatives who refuse to do more on socialism love Australia? Because renewables will destroy much of what we love about this country of ours.”
They will indeed, Scissor. When this species of your eagles are all sliced and diced, the species will cease to exist. I cannot understand anyone who calls themselves “Green” being so utterly unconcerned about the totally unnecessary elimination of an entire species.
Tasmanian wind farms are very efficient at killing these endangered raptors.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s2130927.htm …
Wind farm industry a fatal blow to eagles
JULY 27, 2019
There are less than one and a half thousand Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles left.
Now, they are working on the forests.
Old-Growth Trees Razed For Wind-Farm Power Lines
http://bit.ly/2KzarI8
Rainforest trees 200 years old have been cleared to make way for a wind farm transmission line in Tasmania’s Tarkine, prompting claims of green “hypocrisy”.
K, Bob Brown is the founder of the Greens Party. That hypocrite was trying to stop the wind turbines in Tasmania! Not in his backyard. Of course he doesn’t care if they go in all over the rest of Australia.
He was trying to stop them on a BEEF farm!
Each loud mouth liberal should ride a bike, walk to the store, travel on trains, never smoke or drink, have sex for one, then they would be happier people.
+1
Wow, cool! So now I am a self-hating coward? I’ll have to add that one to my “deplorable” list. Oh wait…it only applies to Aussies…darn. I guess I am just a “Flat-Earther”.
It’s amazing to watch a new religion in practice. The members do not even seem aware that they are following a well established set of rules to establish, protect, and then evangelize their faith while ostracizing the heretics. Like I have said before, it seems like adopting a religion is a basic function of the human mind – part of the need for social order.
Well I looked in the mirror & thought what a dreadful person I am.
I cant be a self-hating coward… only applies to Aussies,
I cant be a deplorable … only applies to Yanks,
As a Brit all I can do is get a bigger truck, drive to the supermarket buy as much imported food as I can & eat meat at every meal to become a …Fat-Earther (:-))
…It’s amazing to watch a new religion in practice…
Former Obama EPA Chief concedes: “Climate change has become a religion”
The cathedrals are out in the desert called Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah. Those cathedrals were built in part with taxpayer money while other best of breed solar projects were moving along with systematic cost reductions and not payola deals in the background. Get up to speed on the corruption before calling it settled science and good government. LBJ and the Great Society spending floods are being repeated again with insiders gaining the most. Also question EPA agenda science and its methodology to support and end up at the advocacy objective.
It’s not a religion, it’s a death cult.
What’s the difference?
Just wondering how much additional “greening” of that admittedly beautiful Australian countryside in the top photo is due to the increase of atmospheric CO2 content over the last 100 years?
Gordon, before too many people catch on to what you’re saying they want to cover it all up with solar panels.
To ‘save’ what we love.
And the extra rain over the last 25 years..
Suppose we accept, for sake of argument, that there is a climate crisis. If Australia goes whole hog on CO2 reduction, it will have zero effect on the global climate. The effort will gain Australians nothing.
If you want action on climate change, you want it from America and China and India and Brazil, etc., etc. Otherwise Australia’s only alternative is adaptation.
Why are these idiots demanding that Australia and Canada, and all the rest of the small countries should be patsies?
If Australians abandoned the continent completely (emigrate or suicide) and left the continent devoid of human habitation (even the aboriginals) – it wouldn’t make a discernible difference to “Climate Change” or even measurable difference to climate temperature.
The woke are insane – repeat until it sinks in.
They’re also completely asleep.
It’s Australia Day
And this is about Australia
And I’m Australian
So first, I’ll say ‘why’ this idiot
Thinks what he think’s
The blunt Australian way :
“He’s A Fuckwit” !
Dead simple.
A more elaborate explanation is this :
He is a dedicated cult believer.
Who demands that everyone else
Live live by his cult’s rules !
CommieBob,
Of all the advanced nations, America has achieved the most in the reduction of all emissions and was doing so long before CC/AGW became a “thing”. and before the Paris Accord and continues to do so even after we withdrew from it.
Electric Utility Emissions Continue to Decline Through 2018
http://bit.ly/2Pe0rWP
Due to policies and economic technology, emissions from electric utilities continue to decline. According to an EPA report, sulfur dioxide emissions declined by 92 percent between 1990 and 2018, nitrogen oxides emissions declined by 84 percent between those years, ozone season nitrogen oxides declined 83 percent between 1997 and 2018, and carbon dioxide emissions declined by 24 percent between 2005 and 2018. The large reductions in emissions occurred despite increasing output from U.S. electric generators. Electric output increased by 19 percent between 1990 and 2018.
Clean Air Act Amendments
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 established the Acid Rain Program and required reductions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the electric generating sector. These pollutants are the primary precursors of acid rain. The sulfur dioxide program sets a permanent cap on the total amount of sulfur dioxide that may be emitted by electric generating units in the contiguous United States. The program set a cap on sulfur dioxide at 8.95 million tons in 2010, a level of about one-half of the emissions from the power sector in 1980. U.S. electric utilities surpassed that reduction in 2010 and sulfur dioxide emissions in 2018 were a mere 1.26 million tons, down from 17.3 million tons in 1980. Sulfur dioxide emissions are now about one-fourteenth of what they were in 1980.
…Carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. generating sector declined from 2.16 million tons in 1995 to 1.93 million tons in 2018. Unlike sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, there is no inexpensive way to remove carbon dioxide emissions during the combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity.
…Electric utility carbon dioxide emissions have been declining due mainly to market dynamics stemming from lower natural gas prices due to hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling technology to obtain natural gas from shale formations.
…Americans now enjoy the cleanest air many of them have ever experienced, and all signs point to increasingly healthy air, even as the United States has become the largest oil and gas producer in the world. The future of energy in America is bright; our air is clean and getting cleaner every day.
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Ironically, it’s possible that “renewable” energy is what might set us back.
Duke Energy application points finger at solar for increased pollution
http://bit.ly/2qU0grH
…“After committing $2 billion in tax credits, and more than $1 billion in electricity overpayments for solar power, we now learn from Duke that nitrogen oxides have actually increased, and that CO2 may be headed in the wrong direction,”
https://nsjonline.com/article/2019/08/duke-energy-application-points-finger-at-solar-for-increased-pollution/
The Paris Climate Deal Was A ‘Fraud’ And A ‘Sham’ … Until Trump Decided To Ditch It
http://bit.ly/2Z4upDQ
12/06/2018
According to the Global Carbon Project, which monitors this, global CO2 emissions climbed by 1.6% last year. They are on track to shoot up by 2.7% this year. That’s after three years of annual emissions remaining flat….
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Will U.S. Success In Cutting Greenhouse Gases Kill The Paris Climate Deal?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/greenhouse-gases-drop-u-s-paris-climate-deal/
Climate Change: The output of so-called greenhouse gases continued to fall during President Trump’s initial year in office, new Environmental Protection Agency data show. This demonstrates once again the wisdom of Trump’s decision to stop listening to the global warming Chicken Littles and withdraw the U.S. from the costly and ineffective Paris Climate deal.
Meanwhile, as The Daily Caller notes, “globally, greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise to historic highs by the end of the year, despite nearly 200 countries signing the Paris climate accord. Global greenhouse gas emissions also rose in 2017.”
Go figure. The one country whose air is getting cleaner while its economy grows walked away from the Paris climate deal.
…Output of gases that can contribute to global warming have fallen sharply in recent years. It’s a result of the fracking revolution producing enormous amounts of cheap, clean, plentiful natural gas — which has increasingly replaced coal and oil for energy production.
…Largely as a result of the new energy revolution in the U.S., per person greenhouse gas emissions fell to a 67-year low during 2017. To put that in further perspective, the last time we were this low, Harry S Truman was president, and neither Alaska nor Hawaii were states yet..
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No one who want renewables instead of natural gas and nuclear is really serious about reducing CO2 and AGW/CC. Renewables are unreliable and destructive and do not and cannot ever work or ever save the amount of CO2 that was spent in their creation.
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Imagine if other nations had embraced, instead of banning fracking and had switched to natural gas and nuclear instead of using “renewables”which, except for the extremely polluting biomass plants, like the Drax plants in the UK, all have to have 24/7 fossil fuel backup which emits more CO2 being on idle and powering up and down than if they ran them 24/7 on gas.
“extremely polluting biomass plants, like the Drax plants in the UK”- uh, any evidence that they’re extremely polluting?
“Renewables are unreliable and destructive and do not and cannot ever work or ever save the amount of CO2 that was spent in their creation.” Woody biomass derived from excellent forestry practices is a renewable energy source. Burning it emits carbon but the forests are continually sequestering carbon and in America, the total forest carbon sink has been increasing for decades.
“Burning it emits carbon”. Wrong. Burning it emits carbon dioxide. Vastly different physically and conceptually.
Of course- I was being lazy in my writing- so I don’t need a lecture on it, please. I’ve got 47 years experience as a field forester in Massachusetts- so I do know what I’m talking about.
Spot on Commie Bob
The two causes of our recent fires were the oceanic weather systems the Indian Ocean Dipole plus the Southern Annular Mode in conjunction which brought prolonged drying drought worsened by long term warming and drying in the southern part of the continent meeting accumulated dry fuel load on forest floors ignited by lightning and arsonists
Unfortunately that lengthy explanation is always going to lose to simplistic one line headlines “its climate change ”
As Australia cannot control the oceanic weather systems and can only hope to have any effect on global temperatures , the best policy is one of Adaptation to the highly variable climate which regularly brings both fires and floods
Gang Green never learns.By any means necessary, ends up with by any means at all,ethic,honest,truth be damned.
Of course the result is nobody trusts or believes anything they spew.
Which leads the poor cult members down this road.
All who fail to share my delusion are “mentally defective”.
If you fail to “see” the magnificent new clothes of our self appointed emperor,why you must be a cowardly self hater..
Seems very logical to me.
Well then, if you believe what the ignorant sot Greg Jericho wrote, then it’s is past time for Australia to declare war on Communist China. After all if you believe in IPCC pseudoscience, it is Chinese CO2 emissions driving “climate change” and thus the existential need to force them to surrender to Australia’s will and then reduce their economy back to a pre-industrial level of development and watch 1+ billion Chinese people die of starvation.
Oh yeah, just one small point, don’t forget though that China has nukes and long-range missiles while Australia has none. See how that climate holy war to Save Australia turns out.
Now the Aussie’s could simply stop selling the Chinese coal, gas, iron ore, uranium ore and bauxite. See how long the politicians and their ruling government that force that economic policy on Australians lasts. And in the end even that leave it in the ground Oz policy persisted, China would just try to come and take it with military force if they couldn’t get those energy and raw materials elsewhere in the world.
To believe otherwise (that 1.4 billion Chinese would sit idly and allow themselves to either be enslaved or starved) would be denying 5,000 years of recorded human social behaviors.
And what would stop China from coming. Didn’t the Aussies give up their guns a few years ago?
Alan: “And what would stop China from coming.”
Semi-automatic boomerangs? Concealed carry slings and rocks? Sharpened sticks with the points fire-hardened? No, wait… that CO2 thingy… sharpened sticks? Drop bear suicide squads?
It’s best Australia starts their Crocodile Repel Attack Program now rather than later.
Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad.
Jericho recommends the boomerang hand grenade.
“Crocodile Repel Attack Program”
H.R., now that’s funny!
I had to check to be sure…yep, does not allow comments
If you love Australia it is to be hoped that you would know more about its climate. From the first settlers this continent has been known for its extreme weather and fires.
As a change from dorothea mackellars poem ‘. I love this sunburnt country’. Readers might enjoy this more earthy ditty from nearly a century ago which sums up the extremes even better
SAID HANRAHAN
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
“It’s lookin’ crook,” said Daniel Croke;
“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad.”
“It’s dry, all right,” said young O’Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.
And so around the chorus ran
“It’s keepin’ dry, no doubt.”
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.
“The crops are done; ye’ll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
From here way out to Back-o’-Bourke
They’re singin’ out for rain.
“They’re singin’ out for rain,” he said,
“And all the tanks are dry.”
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.
“There won’t be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There’s not a blade on Casey’s place
As I came down to Mass.”
“If rain don’t come this month,” said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak–
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“If rain don’t come this week.”
A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.
“We want a inch of rain, we do,”
O’Neil observed at last;
But Croke “maintained” we wanted two
To put the danger past.
“If we don’t get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.”
In God’s good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o’Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“If this rain doesn’t stop.”
And stop it did, in God’s good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o’er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.
And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o’er the fence.
And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey’s place
Went riding down to Mass.
While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.
“There’ll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“Before the year is out.”
John O’Brien
Tonyb
Warmists, alarmists, warmunists, climate doomsters. All useful terms deemed to be pejoratives by those so labeled. Perhaps we should just call them Hansahans.
Michael Mann-Hanrahan?
“We’ll all be rooned” said Michael Mann
Kind of has a ring to it.
I prefer this version…
Tonyb
Fantastic!
Tony b,
Thanks so much.
I will get a copy of ‘Around the Booree Log’ with ‘Said Hanrahan’ by John O’Brien on ebook as my family copy is long misplaced.
Progressives lately seem to specialize in assigning motives.
When a conservative shows patriotism it is “…pathetic jingo-nationalist, quasi-militaristic ..”, but his patriotism is from pure unadulterated love of his country.
I used to think that to be a mind reader you required crystal ball; but evidently all you need to do is to lean Left.
Greg Jericho is the Australian George Monbiot. Both prats, both deluded alarmists..
We’ve all noticed jus how cowardly and self-hating Peter Ridd is. Is this rant another case of the Left accusing the Right of what they are going to do?
What really makes me laugh about these idiots is that, like all the other claims of global Armageddon, they fail.
These people should be humiliated, but they never are. There’s always another generation who will start their insane proclamations, it’s like a sine wave.
What also amuses me immensely is that, like the belief in socialism, it will happen this time, no matter how many times in the past it’s failed.
They never learn.
HotScot,
The failure of the Left to learn has been in evidence for a very long time.
“One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputation.”
Eric Hoffer
If you would like to know more about Hoffer, see
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer
He is a fascinating fellow and many of my fellow commenters would find much in his thoughts that you would enjoy. Though he died before AGW/CC became a thing, his thoughts on movements are most applicable to today’s climate debate situation.
HotScot , If you replace the words socialism with humanism and capitalism with moneyism then people may get a handle on the true meanings . At least when the money crash comes around again, good people will unite and look after each other again , that’s if there’s any people left after the capitalist war. Capitalism turns man into a parasite ( an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense. ) when we should be caretakers (a person employed to look after people or animals.)
jmorpuss,
I take it you think we should all look to Cuba and Venezuela for shining examples of what happens in
socialist societies, right?
Socialism turns man into a cannibal (e.g. redistributive change). The order established by these single/central/minority schemes are first-order forcings of progressive perturbations and decadal hard resets. Capitalism is a left-wing construct that denies the optimal function of markets (e.g. democratic processes) to mitigate progress (e.g. prices, availability), which when tempered by a suitable religious/moral (“ethical”) philosophy is capable of reconciling individual dignity, intrinsic value, and inordinate worth with finitely available and accessible resources.
We’ve all noticed just how cowardly and self-hating Peter Ridd is. Is this rant another case of the Left accusing the Right of what they are going to do?
Cowards run with the mindless mob. We are the opposite of that. Aussie skeptics are among our best and bravest warriors.
Check out Laurence Fox actor/musician of the U.K. YouTube his song The Distance. Think we have our anthem. He is currently slanging it out with the woke folks in U.K. media. Not sure bout his climate views but the message resonates
“Much of what makes Australia unique and beloved by those of us lucky enough to live here is linked to the extremes of our land and climate.”
“climate change will destroy much of what we love about this country.”
Are we to understand from this sharticle that “climate change” will “destroy” Australian “extreme climate ” and so
actions must be taken against “climate change” ?
Insane.
Nope, I think he refers to the lies, hypocrisy, hate, fake news and division that is being created to push the climate change agenda and anti-democratic psyops by a determined cabal of human trash.
Trash such as Greens politicians and left leaning media like the Guardian, ABC, Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald journos and their rabid followers.
Alarmist are misanthropes , they care not one jot about the hardship no economic growth/recession would bring.
It’s time for everybody to admit the build-out of planet Earth will continue unabated and to cheer it and do it as rapidly as posible for once it is done and ALL humans on planet Earth have access to cheap, reliable abundant, safe electrical power 24/7, 365…the population will begin its decline. 450ppm? 480? 500? Mitigate. Improvise. Adapt and overcome.
“Greg Jericho
Greg writes on economics for Guardian Australia”
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/greg-jericho
What are the economics of ‘love’?
Exactly. This guy has the IQ of toast
I think the “economics of love” is another name for wealth redistribution.
I believe the “economics of love” has something to do with how much of somebody else’s money is left on the dresser. When you go communist/Marxist/socialist, you’re well and truly screwed.
H.R. the leftist way is to first identity and label individuals. Of course whether or not these labels are appropriate to you is irrelevant, they have decided where you fit into society. If they can decide who you are based on the label that’s been applied to you then the rest is assumed. Of course we understand that this simply their ideology. If you don’t follow their ideology then they treat you in a most hateful way, in fact they feel that they must.
By definition, if we are the ones to be hated then they don’t believe us to be capable of love. Their ideology is flawed on every level of course, even the adults act like petulant children. They think that if they ignore us then they will get their way, the MSM are extremely helpful to them in that regard.
By shutting yourself off to more that half the population you are denying the balance in knowledge and in love. Peace, understanding and love cannot exist without respect and communication.
Notice how brave they get when they know all dissenting voices will be culled. Notice how they fall into the old regressive pattern of ad hom name calling. Notice how they will offer nothing in the way of factual argument or practical solutions, just vague predictions of doom and feelgood actions , mainly for others to do.
Jericho has been a Woke Joke for many a year. I used to pick apart his pseudo-facts and figures but was barred from commenting because of it.
Jericho spends a lot of time explaining his irrational feelings, most of the time it’s his take on economics where he presents cherry picked data and fools those gullible enough to read his articles.
Doom and gloom and a socialist future is all you fools have to offer. Dorothea Mackellar got it why can’t you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5bNhQrKay0
She was very old when reading that — she says “ragged” mountain ranges, instead of “rugged.”
When she wrote it, she knew the difference.
Jericho had better watch for that guy Joshua ….
😉
As I remember it, the walls of Jericho fell.
Having largely failed to get UK voters to do as they are told, The Guardian is now trying it’s luck with Australians.
History suggests it may not work too well. Back in 2004 they also tried to tell the voters of Clark County, Ohio that they shouldn’t be voting for George Bush, and received the expected reply.
They seem to be slow learners over at The Guardian.