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By Lyn Allison, published 2/3/2006John Howard - skilled politician and the consummate con artist.
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What has turned out to be years of plenty for Australian Conservatives has been a famine for Australia's would be left wing social democrats. Up come all the old accusations of dog whistling, clever use of of propaganda, fear mongering and more.
What has happened to the sense of vision in the left?
Perhaps Clive Hamilton was right after all. The left has failed the Australian people. In their nightmarish world of Australian racism, bigotry and intolerance all fostered, of course, by John Howard, ably supported by a tamed and obedient media, the Australian people have been conned by the little con artist living in the Lodge!
The evidence for all this? Lyn Allison directs us to Wikipedia for a definition of propaganda and to the often incoherent ramblings of Ross Gittens. Thankfully Ms Allison had the good sense not to refer us to the mental meandering of Phillip Adams but that would have been far too obvious.
Let's take a look at Wikipedia. Its reputation in such matters of poitical discourse is already sullied and Ross Gittens is hardly someone to rely on for objective analysis.
The Australian Democrats had a valuable tradition of keeping the bastards honest but the lefties who found the policy vacuum too tempting to resist have brought about its collapse and eventual demise. Their sense of reason, intelligence and fair play having deserted them they have reaped what they have sown. To now blame it on John Howard simply reinforces the verdict the Australian public has passed on them. The Democrats have become irrelevant and have lost their reason for existance.
Perhaps Lyn Allison's tirade against Conservatives will be remembered as one last shrill scream before the expiring political corpse breathed its last desparate breath.