I believe you've nailed this one David and never ever have truer words been spoken?

Not only are our so-called liberals not liberal but a rabble of deeply divided, for the most part, ultraconservatives. Who to a virtual generic man only need to take one step further to the extreme right to look like the (ticking time bomb of self-destruction) national socialists of prewar Germany.

These folk just do not listen to understand the issues, but merely to counter any view that does not fit their narrative, David. And believe to a virtual generic man, all they need is a better salesman to sell their message?

Even as they sell the country and joe average down the river for either moribund political expediency or veiled personal gain? Post politics consultancy roles etc-etc?

If only we, the rest of us, could be as well rewarded for polishing leather with our backsides and issuing grandiose statements that lead nowhere except further down the economic maelstrom these (economic illiterate/Keystone Kops) visionless half-wits, create in the name of best practise economic management/border security?
Alan B.

Never has a truer word been spoken by both David and Alan. The spooks in Canberra have got us by the short and curlies with their paranoia.
David

OK Leyno

If the Liberal Party = "Police State"

and presumably Labor and Greens are worse.

What political force are you recommending to form Government following the May 2019 Federal Election?

Are you recommending that One Nation or the (Palmer) United Australia Party rule?

Or that you should become PM leading the Balding Gonads Party?

See Live Feed "Morrison government fights for its political life in high-stakes constitutional battle over refugee bill"

at http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-government-fights-for-its-political-life-in-high-stakes-constitutional-battle-over-refugee-bill-20190212-p50xco.html

COMMENT

Put more simply this evening the Morrison Government is losing the vote to push or block legislation on the floor of the House of Reps and the Senate.

This is destabilising the Government's ability to rule and right to rule.

Pete

All the independents should gang up on the two useless majors.

David,

In my view, you have made significant errors in your assessment.

Firstly, you stated, <<Our governing party is guilty of cultural appropriation. It calls itself a liberal party but it is not liberal. >>

This is not true. The governing party of Australia is NOT the Liberal Party. It is a Coalition government that involves two parties, (1) The Liberal Party (majority status), and (2) The National Party (minority status). There would be no Coalition government without the Nationals and their values.

Secondly, <<The majority positions in the party on recreational cannabis use, assisted suicide and same sex marriage, for example, demonstrate no openness to new ideas or acceptance of behaviour different from one’s own>>

Those are some of the policies of your libertarian party, the Liberal Democrats. Since when did the Coalition government have a responsibility to vote on libertarian policies?

You treated the Liberal Party as a monolith but have forgotten about the diversity within this party that includes liberal conservatism or conservative liberalism.