Covid has revealed just how compliant and reliant on an authoritarian government most Australians are. It has also brought the rest of us, few though we may be for the time being, to wonder what does the Liberal Party stand for these days, if anything at all. They no longer stand for small government; they are no longer a party of fiscal responsibility and good economic management - they have racked up more debt than Labor. They are not interested in fighting wokeness, and they have pretty much lost the culture wars.

By dropping any pretence of standing for small government, less spending and debt, the Liberal party has done away with the main difference between them and Labor.

The party's current leader has no guiding principles. His leadership is hollow and meaningless; he is not committed; he has merely placed himself ever so slightly to the right of Labor, believing that right of centre voters have nowhere else to go, and that at least he's not Albanese or whoever Labor chucks up next.

Morrison is so pragmatic that nobody knows what his values, if any, are. He has turned small government and human freedoms on their heads. He has alienated the Liberal support base, and probably his back benchers, if they were allowed to speak. He is even into the "net zero" malarkey. He has been described as a "quasi socialist" who often looks "lost and aimless".

If we want genuine choice in this country, the Liberal party cannot continue to be led by people like Morrison.

Integrity of the Liberal Party has been lost.
The Labor Party has Shorten hovering behind Albo.
What chance of middle of the road sensible government does Australia have?

David Flint agrees that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two major parties. They are both made up of an "homogeneous political class"; policies differ only cosmetically. The sameness disenfranchises voters more than it does in any comparable country; and the "near-identical" policies have been disasters: defence, education, water, debt, immigration, and slavishness to the man-made climate change con.

Flint says that, because of the duopoly of policy, the winning party at the next election will depend on which 'leader' more closely "approximates a pie-eating Aussie at the footy".

Which leader approximates an Aussie pie-eater
at the footy?

Bob Katter would win that one!

He stated on Facebook:

"They're now serving vegan pies at the football in
Melbourne. I haven't heard of anything more anti-Australian.
Let's fight back and continue to eat Aussie beef!"

Is either Scott Morrison or Albo a vegan?

cont'd ...

Did David Flint say what kind of pie?

As long as the majority of voters doesn't curb their wants for nothing in return, the politicians will behave similarly !