What will it take to rebuild the Liberal party

Originally posted by Scott th Ratbag: ↑

university education is necessarily much more complete than early high school teachers would allow. there certainly have been "totalitarian left" Govs around the world, just as there have been "totalitarian right" Govs. neither extreme is suitable for a balanced life of the community or the best management of an economy. each prefers to ignore the suffering of half the population.

the so-called left (Labs) in Aus politics are now rated as moderate right leaning by disinterested assessment.

and what we see of our Lib leaders over the last 9 years fits best with highly authoritarian far right wingtip, ergo totalitarian, governance.

infiltration and appropriation of the liberal Liberal Party has been managed by religious right wing extremists for more than 9 years.

lets try not to be so biased and look at the values as clearly as can be managed Donny.

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I certainly agree with your assessment of the Religious Right having too much say in politics,'Scotty'. Such influence -or control-should be eliminated if possible, no matter what the nature of the politics.
I'm not a fan of Jordan Petersen. He's articulate, appears very knowledgeable in his sphere of learning, but seems to have morphed into a know-it -all guru. But one thing he's absolutely correct in, is his assertion, the Far Left have infiltrated Western Universities. I can vouch for at least one.
I came face-to-face with them as a drama tutor in a regional University back in the mid nineties.They tried a 'take -over'/hi-jack, of the Drama Dept. There was a student rebellion against it and they backed off. I had discussions with the Sociology Professor who was also involved in the Drama Dept. She told me right out, their aim was to 'quote' 'subvert and de-construct' 'Capitalist' society'. Now we may all have views on whether it should be, and to what extent.The important thing is, what is it to be replaced with?
I attended a dissertation by a Masters student in Sociology at one stage.Now, I have Masters degrees in History and Theatre Studies, and I had to engage in a wide study of differing movements, styles and a range of ideas, all in depth, which my theses had to encompass.
At this Sociology dissertation,the candidate may as well have been reading from the 'Socialist Workers Weekly'. I wouldn't have been surprised if she'd thrust her clenched fist into the air at the end of it.Three sociology staff were on the stage with her, and,boy,did they look smug.
The scariest thing of all, was how it was received by a big audience of students. Must've been at least a couple of hundred.
They took it all in as gospel.Like a sponge,soaking it all up. Later, I thought, these students are going out into teaching,public service,Universities,Media,etc. Eventually they'll end up in positions of control, responsibility, policy development et al.
This why today, in my view, a Far Left view of how the world should be, is the now dominant orthodoxy in society.
My fear is, if it isn't counter acted soon,we'll end up essentially, voting democracy out of existence.
Bigotry and intolerance of anything not in accordance with the 'Party line' will receive short thrift.
Politically, I regard myself as left of centre. And its the 'Broad Left' as I term it, which will suffer most from what I call an insidious socio-political anti-democratic cancer, because the right wing of politics will tar all the broad left, with the same brush.

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