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Gillard worn down by 'friend' and foe : Comments

By Charlie Ward, published 27/6/2013

The incessant media 'noise' about Gillard's right to govern and her alleged past misdemeanors quickly achieved their desired effect, overshadowing the government's efforts to capitalise on its own achievements.

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Gillard said it herself; her demise was not because of her gender. In fact, it was very probably in spite of her gender.

She was given enormous latitude that no male would have been allowed and she manipulated everyone around her completely ruthlessly.

I posted the following on another thread. Is there any doubt about why we all disliked her so viscerally?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist

Factor 1: Affect

Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Conning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric)
Callousness; lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for his or her own actions

Factor 2: Case history "Socially deviant lifestyle."

Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Poor behavioral control
Lack of realistic long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility
Juvenile delinquency
Early behavior problems
Revocation of conditional release

Traits not correlated with either factor

Promiscuous sexual behavior
Many short-term (marital) relationships
Criminal versatility
Acquired behavioural sociopathy/sociological conditioning (Item 21: a newly identified trait i.e., a person relying on sociological strategies and tricks to deceive)

And yet she had the undying support of the AWU and a few dimbulbs she manipulated, like Conroy and Emerson to the point of being prepared to let the Party be destroyed. Can anyone guess why such hard-nosed men as Bill Ludwig and Paul Howes might have been prepared to let her do that?

She did her best to make Shorten her patsy as well, by coopting his nitwit mother-in-law (it must have burned Bryce's guts to have to swear Rudd in) and his wife, even giving his wife a job as president of a new slush fun...supporter's group.

It didn't work. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Posted by Antiseptic, Thursday, 27 June 2013 9:45:30 PM
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I think it boils down to a couple of very major points:

1. The electorate have become, and quite rightly so, sick and tired or the pathetic political tirades espoused by the former leader of the ALP and the purported 'New messiah' from the Libs.
2. Economic management, during the Rudd and Gillard trip within the trenches has been nothing short of dismal. How does any Treasurer lay claim to slaying the GFC monster, whilst at the same time realising that Australia had the best of possible terms of trade, vis Chinese economic growth +9%, commodity prices that were only ever going to increase over time (2007-2011/12) and no real need for any Aus stimulus............a complete mis-management of fiscal policy at the top end.
3. Pandering to the wants and needs of every green, dysfunctional quasi-pseudo scientific real, vis climate change and clean energy mantra.
4. A lack of understanding that 'Joe or Jane' average had little or no interest in international relations and the governments purported need to appear grandiose on the world stage (UN Security Council) was totally misguided,
5. Misguided knowledge and understand of NDIS issues and NAPLAN because of ineffective Ministerial Portfolio management and most importantly,
6. A total disdain for the 'working man/woman' trying to make ends meet despite the rhetoric and dysfunction of policy toward small, medium and industry based enterprise across the broader business cycle in Australia.

Gillard is gone, Rudd is in power, to what end one can only guess. The party may have re-started, but I think the people will speak in volumes on the day of reckoning, despite any date being set.
Posted by Geoff of Perth, Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:29:26 PM
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Geoff, look at your list

1. relying on sociological strategies and tricks to deceive
2. Impulsiviy, irresponsibility
3. Conning/manipulative;Irresponsibility
4, 5, 6. Grandiose sense of self-worth;Callousness; lack of empathy

Then look at the rest. No emotion whatever on being dumped, but a performance of emotion in Parliament the next day. The tirade over the Alan Jones comment on her father was all about her, not about her dad and the only emotion was anger at another manipulator daring to have a go on her turf. Ditto the "misogyny" speech.

We and the ALP and especially the "progressive" people of Australia allowed ourselves to be conned by a genuinely dangerous psychopath. We should be very grateful to Shorten.
Posted by Antiseptic, Friday, 28 June 2013 6:08:41 AM
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Antiseptic, keep that list handy for one of the family law threads. I think I could tick pretty much every item on the list for someone I used to be married to. Interesting.

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Friday, 28 June 2013 7:15:31 AM
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Yep anything that would wear down Gillard, would make ten normal people flee the country.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 28 June 2013 5:00:36 PM
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Marliyn

Actually, the blue-tie joke was a very witty expose on male power and male groupthink. However, because feminist humour is not supposed to exist, a lot of people didn't get the joke – especially those in the camp it was aimed at. It’s also interesting that her final spill happened within days of making this subversive little quip against the kind of vengeful male authority that dogged her every move for three years.

Antiseptic

That psychopath list describes just about everybody, everywhere at any time.

R0bert

You know ... once, just once, I’d love to hear your ex’s side of the story.
Posted by Killarney, Friday, 28 June 2013 7:16:35 PM
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