Invitation to a Wake.

Shane following the Money

G'day Possums,

like-minded Possies are invited to celebrate here, online, on Sunday May 19th, the death and possible obliteration of the Ruling Rabble who, collectively, have blighted this countries future, its reputation, social fabric and economy.

If you had watched ABC last Monday night: viewing first, the human induced disaster of the Murray/Darling, followed by seeing the crumbling of University board's ethics collapsing under IPA thought-bubbles of a "market economy" ( happily implemented by the Ruling Rabble) and then taken time to reflect on the historic shambles they have deliberately made of the NDIS, the 3rd rate NBN, the dismantling  of the car industries, the disembowelling of the CSIRO, health, education, industrial relations and the ABC, you may well have felt very depressed.

But then, Willie Shortstuff offered in his answers to questions on QandA  what looks at least like a vision for the future, offering a positive alternative, a broader, fairer space in which to breathe and to grow, rather than again soporifically accepting  that more of the same:  the very dark, musty and venally selfish place we're presently inhabiting nationally, is really satisfactory.

Earlier, surprising all the nay Sayers, Willie, had widely accepted "wins" in the first two "leader's debates", and while not eviscerating Scummo, exposed his bully-boy and then his Ruling Rabble as being as I've said for the past six years, a policy free vacuum running on slogans, hype, smoke and mirrors for their donors and ultimately for their own self interest.

First having established superiority on policy grounds and then presenting as an interested and engaging listening type with genuine human concern for the nation and its future, people "educated" by years of the Ugly American Murdoch's 20,000 negative articles and references to Shorten, suddenly found that in reality the opposite of The Ugly American lies was true.

This was too much.

An Ugly American shill, Anna Caldwell (Sydney's, Daily Terragraph), posing as a journalist, vomited up an article purporting to show Willie Shortstuff's (according to the Ugly American) well known duplicity in seemingly distorting a narrative about his dead mother's life and career in order to sound more human and approachable.

Well, as one of the main biased propaganda arms of the Ruling Rabble, The Daily Terragraph  found very quickly that it had kicked an "own-goal" of such proportions that even Ruling Rabble seniors began admitting that it was "all-over-red-rover" and that this marked a definitive turning point in the campaign. It also opened a floodgate of pent up resentment toward the The Ugly American's comic's  biased, lowest common denominator  distorted reporting ,its untruths, false equivalents and jaundiced world-view and factually sloppy column writing with past reporters and even current ones, expressing disdain for its editors low journalistic standards and irrelevance to the truth of what it writes nationally.

Interestingly, The Scum-Herald propaganda unit here in Vic where the Ruling Rabble are desperate to shore up once safe "blue-ribbon" seats from wipe-out, chose not to run Caldwell's pathetic ordure, showing at least, some sense of self preservation.

All of which happened Petals, in the week when American Diplomatic cables released from their time quarantine, provided evidence that in 1974 the not then American but still very ugly, Murdoch issued the directive to his Australian editors, "Kill Whitlam !"

How times don't change.

There followed next day the third debate where an initially flat Shorten eventually overhauled his opponent by dint of policy and finished him off with a couple of bon-mots, the best being when asked by the moderator, "How will you stop the revolving door of prime ministers?" answered drily, "When we've won this election."

If the Wake on the 19th isn't to celebrate the excision of the Ruling Rabble cancer from the Australian political body we will then be faced with a corrupted fractured party in power again, one which has normalized rorting of the entitlements system, normalized corruption, normalized lying on policy, acceded credibility to the far right and religious fundamentalism, degraded human rights, evaded personal financial scrutiny, has no interest in public education or the public broadcaster and wants health privatised like the 22 of its party who adhere to corporate interests / IPA ideas and not a national one.

Times will be far darker than ever before experienced.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

Ps

for Scummo..."He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."  Montaigne.