Supercilious: “Having an air of contemptuous superiority.” (OED)
I don’t know, but when I see Tanya Plibersek cavalierly cancelling a gold mine and Penny Wong continually dissing and deserting Israel in favour of Islamic terrorists, the descriptor supercilious springs to my mind.
Is it just my male perspective or is it in fact hard to think of a male politician who can look so contemptuously superior? It is terribly irritating to me. I have been flailing around trying to think of any contemporary male politicians who might compete with Plibersek and Wong in the supercilious stakes. I reckon I might have to skip to Canada and to Justin Trudeau. Saw him recently chiding America for not voting for a woman; and in the most sanctimonious terms. Hmm, sanctimonious: “Making a show of being morally superior.” When you think about it, the two words are hardly describing something miles apart. I don’t think it is an accident that Trudeau describes himself as a feminist. From blackface to lipstick and mascara might be a shorter leap than one would think.
To be clear, I am not being anti-woman. Perish the thought. There are many female politicians, most, who thankfully don’t fit the bill of being supercilious or sanctimonious. It is just a pity that we have two of them in the cabinet.
Of course, Mrs Thatcher might at times have been considered by some as having an air of contemptuous superiority about her. But then she backed it up with achievements. Whereas Plibersek and Wong are simply national embarrassments. All contemptuous superiority, no talent or wisdom. Mind you, I shouldn’t bracket Plibersek with Wong. Plibersek effectively banned a gold mine and is on a misconceived green-cum-indigenous mission, probably aimed at making life difficult for Albo. Whereas Wong is siding with an evil enemy against our ally. That is truly contemptible. How does a person like that ever attain a position of political power? I suppose you would have to know how the Labor machine and factions work; which I don’t.
But when you consider the complexion of the whole Labor government and its ruinous policies, it is evident beyond any doubt that something rotten has taken hold of the Labor Party. This isn’t Bob Hawke’s party. This is something else. I don’t think anyone has really quite yet got to grips with a government which would risk public safely by rushing to give thousands of visas to Palestinians from Gaza. This isn’t just bad public policy. This is hateful policy. What the heck is going on? Here’s a clue, with acknowledgement to Sir Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons” – It profit a party nothing to give its soul for the whole world, but for a few lousy seats in south western Sydney!
IMHO it’s a toxic brew of hard core Marxist uni ‘educated’ wreckers (who’ve never built anything) along with parasites who regard those seats in western Sydney as their fiefdoms and income stream.
Incubated and cossetted in the fetid halls of the Morven Brown and Merewether buildings.
Ideology destroys, or at least blocks, any free passage of clear thinking. I tend to think that it is ideology that corrupts intelligent deductive thinking in these two women.
Mind you, I believe that Chris Bowen exhibits similar vacuous and supercilious pronouncements. There are many other examples amongst those who inhabit the Left.
If like me you had had the misfortune to sit in a conference venue when it was Wong’s turn to speak you would have noticed how she presents. Head down, speaking in a practiced and rapid monotone. She doesn’t look her audience in the eye and doesn’t invite feedback. An automaton programmed with Marxist terminology and double speak.(I’d swear that most people present didn’t understand what she said and had turned off after the second paragraph of her diatribe). Frightening really that she is in a position of power.
No Peter, it’s not just a male perspective. I’m a female and find the female politician of the species particularly appalling. Clearly promoted because of the “diversity requirement”. Mind you the likes of Bowen with his arrogant “superiority” ramblings, are a close contest.
However I’m heartened by no nonsense women like Georgio Meloni and Trump’s picks such as Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, Sanity is slowly returning to selections, based on merit.
Close on 3 000 Gaza visas .. no other country issued more than 250 and the majority of the few that did were well under 50 each ….
All dun to save 3 or 4 Labor seats ……..
Supercilious male candidates. Rudd, Pyne, Downer, Bowen, Obama
If I were Palestinian I would much prefer Israel’s hot wrath to Wong’s cold “empathy” thanks all the same ….
Labour in UK are even worse and just look at that other leftie party in the US, the Democrats. Those bastards and the Europeans are prepared to destroy the world just to cling onto power. God preserve us.
‘Fatuous moral smugness’ is more what springs to my mind with these two – and plenty of others in government.