ttbn,
I saw that & it almost made me weep with despair ! We must make stupidity a crime, it's the only way to free up seats for intelligent young people to get a good education !
Also, an online petition to stop paying such morons from OUR Tax dollars wouldn't be out of place !

Hey ttbn
"Greta Thunberg is the future";
- I never said I was pleased about it -

She's a marketable brand in her own right now,
Too valuable to the climate change cause to be set aside
She's not going anywhere unless she steps in a turd like Yassmin Abdul-Magied

You know kids these days can and do make millions just on youtube popularity.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/12/18/the-highest-paid-youtube-stars-of-2019-the-kids-are-killing-it/#7627301138cd

Hasbeen,
>No confusion there Aidan. Once people become adults the automatically
>become right-wingers. It's called maturity, but doesn't come to some.

No confusion? You're mistaking arrogance for maturity!

What (seemingly automatically) happens to most adults is that they learn of the flaws in the leftwing arguments they used to believe. It's what happens afterwards that's key: right-wingers just seem to keep assuming that's all there is to it, as if they'd switch their brains off! They won't even consider that most of the rightwing arguments are equally flawed, let alone that there are more sophisticated arguments on the left.

more sophisticated arguments on the left.

Aidan,
Then what do you think is the stumbling block for such sophistication to infiltrate Left Parties' policies & economic ability ?

individual,
That's a good question.
The right has controlled the economic narrative for decades. They've accused the left of having or wanting irresponsibly high levels of tax or interest rates or debt.

And the left have a terrible dilemma there, because trying to explain the truth will make them seem even more irresponsible to those who don't believe it.

Worse still, many on the left have fallen for the economic narrative of the right. Kevin Rudd famously claimed to be an economic conservative. But Wayne Swan was far worse, promising a surplus "come hell or high water". I think that's the most economically irresponsible election promise from a major party that I've ever encountered in Australia! A sensible treasurer would instead have promised to never resort to false economies to meet arbitrary short term financial objectives.

Things have been even worse overseas, particularly in Britain with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown falling for the rightwing economic narrative hook line and sinker. Now they're gone, their party is caught up in a lot more leftist economic dogma (some good, some bad) that they're unable to convince the public to support.

because trying to explain the truth will make them seem even more irresponsible to those who don't believe it.
Aidan,
People vote with one hand on the wallet. Ideology comes second to need !