The dictionary defines centre as ‘the middle point, a pivot, a point of concentration or dispersion; a nucleus or a political group holding moderate views. I’m not sure if I qualify as ‘centre’ or not but if I think about it I would be inclined to describe myself as more ’centre‘ than not. I’m not extremely ’right‘ nor am I extremely ’left‘ in my thinking and my political views.
After recent events I’m glad I am that way.
Recent events!
Well, the most recent have given me cause to go back over ground that I have covered before but I this time find myself compelled to re-visit it in detail. I have been offended twice in recent times; first was while I was listening to 2GB with Andrew Bolt, when he replayed a comment made by a popular female TV presenter. She was attacking a male academic for defending Andrew against accusations that he was racist. The academic I would describe as centre, the claims as extreme left as was the attack on his character. The female TV presenter described him as … “a white, able bodied, heterosexual male”… so she was objecting to him being those things which in my way of thinking is discriminatory.
Once again the leftist-driven political correctness of some, is brought into play to silence freedom of speech and open honest, balanced and centred debate. More on that later.
I was offended the second time by a photo in the daily of a young school girl wearing a T shirt that said ‘F#ck Tony Abbott’. She was attending the ‘March for March’ or whatever it was called. I will always defend and support her right to protest but I was offended by how she went about it. People ringing talk back radio wondered out loud at what her parents must think of her face being made public.
Well, sadly I think that her parents are so far Left that they probably encouraged and condoned her behaviour. I suspect that she is a manifestation of Leftist parenting and a state school education system in the hands of the politically Left ‘correctness brigade’. The Left has systematically eroded all discipline and therefore decency in most of our state schools, good manners being taught at school is now sadly a thing of the past. Good manners being taught at home is left to the discretion of the parents and thanks again to the Left that responsibility too has been eroded but more on that later.
I’m so offended and outraged by recent events that I must take this opportunity and some poetic licence to vent my spleen. An item in the news yesterday tells us that our World War Two veterans will no longer be permitted to march behind their units’ colours, the banners that depict their unit and where they served. Yet another erosion of our long-held traditions. My suspicious nature sees the hand of the politically correct Left in this mischief also. Then there was that disgraceful behaviour of a union Labor member at yet another anti-Abbott rally who flagrantly broke the law by inciting someone to shoot the CEO of Qantas because of job losses… more on that later too.
Anyway let me get to the guts of it. I just do not get it!.. I just don’t! What I don’t get is how the Left gets away with all their crap and I definitely do not get how faithful Labor supporters don’t get how they’re being fooled.
Let’s start with the bleeding obvious. Labor, who are supposed to be the ‘only’ party to care about or care for the working man are in bed with the Greens who are bent on dismantling most of the areas where Labor supporters are employed; the car industry, forestry, power generation, steel manufacturing, mining, trucking, the list goes on. Suffice to say that any industry or ‘non Green’ manufacturing is on the hit list. Labor and the Green’s,.. Hypocrisy!
We have an out of control crime problem Australia wide. Let’s start with our Judiciary. I am of the opinion that there is a tragic discrepancy between the crime and the punishment. This is the result of Left-driven thinking that has stacked the benches with judges that lean Left and want us to believe that violent repeat offenders just need just one more chance to come good and if we give them that chance and that encouragement by excusing their bad behaviour, they will magically see the error of their ways and became model citizens. The solution lies way further back in their history.
While we are talking about crime, let me reiterate that it has been a Left-driven political correctness ideal that has lead us down this path. A left-stacked immigration department has supported a discriminatory policy that has seen ethnic-driven crime explode. The discrimination is against you and me, the host nation’s people (Australians), many of you are Labor supporters. A large number of the real problems we face today can and should be laid squarely at the feet of Political Correctness. Political Correctness is a Left-driven ideology! Which part of that don’t you understand? Most tradesmen and tradeswomen I know vote Labor, well most of them used to. Most truck drivers used to vote Labor in fact many working people vote for the so-called working man’s party – Labor.
Home is where we start our lives and that is where we should be taught right from wrong, where we should be taught good manners and how to conduct ourselves as good citizens. The rights of good parents have been eroded or completely taken away by the loony-left to compensate for the minority of parents who lack the education or sense of personal responsibility to properly bring up their own children.
School is where our kids should be receiving an education. It’s where the tools to lead a productive and empowered life should be being delivered, but there too the loony-left have been at work stripping teachers of any meaningful control over the pliable young lives in their care. The Education Department has been stacked with left-leaning do-gooders as has the Teachers Federation and of course the teachers union by its very nature needs no stacking.
It’s interesting to note that these departments have been, so I’m told, stacked/staffed with mainly female personnel – another example of discrimination perhaps. A discrimination against men that has already come back to bite us on our collective arse.
Recent survey results from around the world are telling us there not enough male teachers in schools and that both young male and female students are suffering from this shortage which has caused an unbalanced school environment. Political correctness gets it wrong again! I am yet to meet an old-school Labor supporter who excludes the socio-political products of our state school system, one who does not consider themselves a patriotic Aussie.
You don’t have to look real hard to see that the new-left, in cahoots with the greens, is working behind closed doors to undermine most of what makes us ‘Aussies’ … remember it was Gillard who aimed vitriol and spite at those of us who have Southern Cross tattoos and who celebrate Australia Day in the wake of the so called Cronulla riots, where I might add Aussies were defending and sticking up for fellow Aussies. But then again that wouldn’t fit in with the politically-correct scheme of things, would it?
The loss of jobs is always tragic but we live in and accept an ever changing world. But please don’t ask me to believe the unions and Labor didn’t see the coming of the closure of GMH or Ford or the loss of jobs in the coal and steel manufacturing industry. It’s their job to know. They just didn’t tell the rank and file, so down the track they could blame the bosses again. Anyway I could go on and on,.. maybe another time. Go with your God, go in peace. Your friend Angry