Doublespeak

Welcome to the continuing disenfranchisement of the 'ordinary' Australian citizen.
Manne wants debate to be between the elite, the 'core' (i.e. the ideologically pure chosen ones!) and to exclude the opinions of 'ordinary' people.
Burnside tweets some of the foulest and most offensive slander about a popular politician and suffers no consequences, and yet it was he who pushed for Bolt's trial on the basis that Bolt's remarks were 'offensive. He calls Abbott a man with no moral compass and a hypocrite...the very things he exemplifies in those tweets and writings in which he slanders Abbott; and yet no journalist or 'human rights' campaigner calls him to task.

• Tony Abbott is pilloried in a new book which describes him as a sore loser and as someone afflicted by ‘innate and deeply embedded sexism and misogyny’. No one apologises. 
• The Footy Show once again comes up with a sketch jam-packed with deeply-embedded sexism and misogyny – and St Kilda Football Club is forced to apologise for this. 
• A male shop assistant bullies, insults and vilifies female customers who don’t buy his store’s products, and the store’s management defends him and tells the women to stop wasting their time shopping there. 
• Wayne Swan reports a deficit of $48 billion for the 2010-11 financial year, despite taking government in 2007 to a surplus. He is praised because the deficit is fractionally smaller than expected. 
• Andrew Bolt is found guilty of racial vilification and may be ordered to apologise because someone didn’t like his ‘tone’.

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Australia under the current administration has descended into chaos and confusion in every arena; leadership, economic, immigration and moral.
As a former citizen of the 3rd World it has been very instructive to observe in real time how rapidly a '1st World' country can deteriorate into the wilderness of 3rd world mediocrity and  it illustrates how dangerous it is for the electorate to experiment with left-wing ideology. Marxist fundamentalists have little to zero moral barriers which might prevent them from using any and every underhand trick to gain a political ascendancy even when that advantage might beggar the economy and/or disadvantage the country either diplomatically or militarily. These people are consumed with the Nietzschian impulse and will go to any lengths to achieve it...and the truly absurd factor in all of this is that the spokespeople for this worldview accuse someone like Tony Abbott as having no morals, or being hypocritical. If it were not so outrageous and dangerous it could almost be amusing.