This is the BBC News today (11 march), commenting on the tragic shootings in Hamburg:
“Seven people, including an unborn baby, were killed in Thursday’s attack which unfolded at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the city.”
An unborn baby killed. What do you make of that? An unborn baby. A contradiction in terms, surely. I recall a debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2016 election when she referred to unborn babies instead of to fetuses. The satanic left came down hard on her. Hilary didn’t make that mistake again. The language police are ever alert to transgressions. Yet here is the BBC, a pillar of Ingsoc and Newspeak, pronouncing in no uncertain terms, that an unborn baby is indeed a person. This could undermine the whole lucrative business of killing unborn babies, ahem, fetuses; not to say ruin the BBC’s reputation among the green-left fraternity of devil worshippers.
Of course, not all of those on the left are evil. Most are simply stupid or mentally ill. For example, when Chris Bowen sets out to destroy Australia’s energy system, it would be a mistake to bracket him with Fu Manchu. More likely he has some obsessive-compulsive disorder-cum-delusions of grandeur, which may or may not be combined with dimwittedness. Clearly he has unreasonable thoughts and fears about climate change that lead him to fixate on wind turbines and solar panels and to have pipedreams about Australia being the world’s renewable energy superpower.
Unfortunately for us serfs, politicians are immune from being institutionalised for mistaking their wives for hats. Their whole profession deals in delusions of one kind or another. Look at Anthony Albanese whose view of the Voice is that it is a generous offer from some hard-to-precisely-identify racial group for which we who don’t belong to the hard-to-precisely-identify racial group should be unflinchingly grateful. What to make of that? It’s hard to believe that someone of such jejune inanity is prime minister. Not, it isn’t.
Politicians on the whole are a group of mediocre people who are good at only one thing; namely, climbing the greasy backroom political-party pole. They are totally ill-fitted to hold responsible jobs. Look at Jim Chalmers who writes a quite silly piece for The Monthly claiming that he (Jim) holds the key to beneficially changing the nature of capitalism; and, to boot, then announces a change to superannuation arrangements without having the least idea of its implications. Would you put capitalism in this man’s hands? Would you, if you were an executive search consultant, come up with Jim as the best candidate? Be honest, he wouldn’t make the cut. Yet here he is with his equally mediocre colleagues influencing the economic future of the nation.
Those on the centre right of policies are just as mediocre, you might say and you would be right. It’s hard to separate them these days. In the past, maybe centre-right politicians were more circumspect; more self-effacing. But today what’s the difference between Albanese going for net zero by 2050 and Scott Morrison going for net zero by 2050? Sure evil much more lurks on the left and that’s a big difference in principle. But, in practice, insanity and stupidness do a fair enough job of undermining civilisation.
Is there an answer? I don’t have one.
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