A diatribe

The post-modern chant; 'there is no such thing as truth', rings out every time PoMo president Obama opens his mouth: "President Obama blames Republicans for the collapse of his latest government jobs bill. But in the end, he has only his tall tale-telling tongue to blame."

A remarkably similar tune is whined by Australia’s head-bobbing, erstwhile PoMo prime  minister: "Julia Gillard says the latest boats show that Tony Abbott should pass her amendments to rescue her Malaysian solution, and that any boats to come are his responsibility."

As with most irresponsible children, when issues are not resolved to their satisfaction their default position is to blame someone else. We make excuses for children because their cognitive resources are still being formed, but these morons are supposedly leaders of the 'free world'! 

Both of these hopelessly incompetent 'leaders' whose ascension to power illustrates most profoundly the 'progressives' inability to manage an advanced economy other than ripping off honest taxpayers to subsidise their sycophantic 'entourages'. A kindly perspective might be to perceive them as mere victims of our shallow 'youth culture', where lived and learned wisdom counts less than 'whipper-snapper-smarts'. However, as a growing sceptic I count it more likely that these ideological grandchildren of Marx, Lenin and Stalin are merely repeating history...just as Harry Truman said they would.

Time after time, again and again, in numerous countries, on multiple continents, and under countless differing conditions the repeated failures of this Utopian vision illustrate its inability to prosper and its tendency towards tyranny. It is a mendacious and dangerous worldview suitable only to be embraced by those who favour repression, degradation and totalitarianism because chief amongst its prodigious flaws lays the problem most ignored by rulers to their peril. It does not take into account the devious and ‘fallen’ nature of human kind.

The misanthropes who pursue this philosophy do so because they either believe in the unworldly theory of Locke’s tabula rasa; and Rousseau’s ‘corruption through civilisation’(hence the crippling taxes to bring down the economy) or they are hell-bent on the Nietzschean ‘will to power’ and care for nothing or no one other than this goal.

Either way these idiots are forever trying to turn water into wine, base metals into gold, and sows ears into silk purses.