maybe it shows that young people have a mind of their own and don't have to be brainwashed.

Perhaps the other thing 579. It may be showing that all the attempts to brain wash the kids in the lefty/feminists education system are not being any more successful than their feeble attempts to educate the same kids.

However I do find it hard to reconcile Will's theory behind the article with the current polls.

Perhaps Will should consider the writings of Joséphin Péladan.

“Society,” Péladan wrote, “is an anonymous enterprise for living a life of second-hand emotions”.

One point Péladan made that remains valid today is that spending time among a crowd of people whose minds and conversation are utterly conditioned by popular culture is not noticeably different from getting your popular culture firsthand. If anything, it’s even more of an issue these days than it was in his; I suspect most of us have had the experience of hearing a conversation between two politicians in which every single word spoken was a sound bite from some media source or other. There’s no need to become a hermit, but it’s a good idea to choose your politicians with some care.

“’Fear the example of another, think for yourself,’” wrote Péladan

Our current political leaders evoke Péladans’ thoughts and words, much to our political embarrassment.

don't have to be brainwashed.
579,
So, we should look forward to more coalition supporters then. First positive thing I read in a long time. Thanks.

"A key strategic blunder of conservatives over the past five-to-ten years has been their lack of recognition that younger people are more and more making their voting decisions based on issues rather than ideology."

It is ironical that 'younger people' have voted for socalled action on climate change based on ideology, not science. There is no scientific evidence that human-caused greenhouse gases cause dangerous global warming

What about the "Tea Party Movement"? Hmmmm.

What we are seeing is the last gasp of the destructive left/liberal/feminist/green ability to mobilise a grass roots.

Instead leftie/feminist zealots have taken power in or schools, divorce courts, nanny state, governments etc. Like the ALP, they no longer have a grass roots - and they don't need it... they have POWER.

And they use their power just as any powerful group does... to 'silence dissent'. The self-proclaimed 'radicals' are now in power and, lo and behold, they are now use 'conservative' techniques of oppression.

And on the other hand, there is a growing but unfunded and disorganised grass roots movements:-
- Fathers and Families Movement (mis-named as 'men's rights')
- A growing popular media especially seen on talkback radio (mis-named as 'right-wing').
- An embryonic anti-green grass roots.
- A vigourous anti-big government "Tea Party Movement"
- a reaction to the discrimination inherent in the 'war against boys' in schools
- Truth campaigners in the anti-migration, anti-multicultural field.
- truth as opposed to propaganda, age of enlightenmnet values as opposed to PC lies.
- a resurgent evangelical christian movement.

The extent of the power of the lefties/feminists is that the institutions that 'should' guard against discrimination and lies, are in fact the worst offenders of oppression and propaganda. The anti-discrimination bodies are the worst offenders... supporting overt oppressive discrimination against the unfashionable oppressed, and pushing additional priviliges on their favoured groups and beliefs (women, illegal migrants, aboriginies, womens industries, geeen fascism)

These are 'conservative' movements. and they share several things in common.

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