SOG,

Firstly, what you are burbling about has nothing to do with the thread. There is no "conservative doctrine" and no "survival of the fittest". The closest we come is not baling out businesses that have no hope of surviving without subsidies.

Secondly I think you are misquoting Abbott.

SM.....fair is fair....you accuse me of being of the left....so I respond that you are just this side of a National Socialist.....I spent six years savaging the vandals that Labor have decended to and you read none of it?

Now that one of the High Priests of the left (Tony Jones) has apologized to Bolt i don't suppose any of his disciples on olo would also follow suite. The silence is deafening.

Shadow Minister says of me:

"It is clear that educated debate is not coming from you. Your mind was made up before you started".

But was it?

My biggest concern more is that so many people out there don't have their own opinion - and so they will easily grab onto people's "comments" like Andrew Bolt (to the right) or say (Christine Milne) to the left. It's easier.

I was recently reading an excellent report (based on data) from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. It was well written - and very professional. Also when someone puts forward a good idea - my mind changes immediately - its an amazing feeling I get!

Yet now I have physically turned off 90% of television. I don't buy newspapers because they are just filled with garbage, the same writers - and plenty of full page advertising.

This site is a lot better - as I can try to encourage other people to 'be themselves' - not 'be' a defender of Labor, Liberal or the Greens.

People do however need their own views to go down that pathway. Will you, along with the 600 others who wrote on the (newspaper based) page take up the challenge?