How did we get into this Shit?

Shane Hoarding

G'day fellow serfs,

There's an irony of monumental proportions in the alleged Chinese aphorism: "May you live in interesting times".

The  Australian economy, perilously entwined in China's grip has now been presented with their latest innovation, the Covid19 pandemic and its corollary, the shutting down of supply lines, disruption of  commerce and reduction both populations and pollution in a most direct manner: death!

This has thrown up some interesting Antipodean behaviour; behaviour which hasn't been seen here for a long, long time.

People have been panic buying toilet paper and paper-towel rolls, some, thousands of rolls of it, leaving bare shelves and little to nothing for those who have immediate needs and can ill afford even single packs.

Hospitals, both public and private are being pilfered of bottles of alcohol hand sanitizer from hallways and wards:  visitors are stealing material meant for staff hygiene and patient safety, and these ill-disciplined, mongrel acts are now accurately defining, in depth, what we really are as a nation. 

 How did we get into this shit?

 

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Think: ex-Liberal Party candidate removed for racist comments, Pauline Hanson.

Think: Liberal Leader Little Johnny Howard refusing to criticize her after she won her seat as an independent.

Think: Channel Nine promoting the misogynist, racist and brutish Sam Newman to an audience of the lowest common denominator in "The Footy Show" and giving it voice.

Think: Little Johnny, again,piggy-backing on Hanson's racism, refusing refugee entry from MV Tampa and Peter Reith policizing the Navy and lying about "refugees throwing their children overboard".

Think: Pacific Solution" devised by The Butcher of Fallujah, now Senator, Molan.

and think too: it was all eventually acquiesced to by Labor!

Think of the union-bashing, the increase in a police state, the dismantling of Medi-Care, (people are not getting tested for the Corona Virus as they cannot afford the out-of-pocket costs) think of the growing inequality of the education system, the gutting not only of the ABC and CSIRO but the stackings of the AAT and Fair Work with Ruling Rabble apparatchiks.

Think: of The Institute of Public Affairs and its 100 Point Plan, much of which has been at least, partially implemented.

Think: Capitalism, Dog-Eat-Dog, and a return to a feudal state.

We have the most incompetent and corrupt government the country has ever seen and a Murdochratized media who will not report the truth plainly before them, journalists just being a vehicle with which to have Ruling Rabble talking points repeated and not questioned.

A Federal Police Force which itself is lead by a corrupted officer whose only role it seems, is to do Ruling Rabble bidding.

We've seen and heard their gross incompetence during the Bushfires. We know they still pathetically deny the reality of Climate Change and we are now experiencing their confusion and incompetence all over with this Corona Virus and yet are still allowed to refuse to answer for what they have done and are doing even though we are now fully aware of their fiscal mismangement and corruption. 

 

Excellent camoflauge.

Trust has evaporated with the rise of the aspirational bogan, a species well nurtured by the Ruling Rabble but who now are demonstrating where the selfishness of libertarian policy leads.

With wage theft ignored, poverty increasing, and systems breaking under relentless right-wing, neo-liberal pressure, a perfect storm is about to descend on this country.

We have just seen the first manifestations of a broken society and  have no-one else to thank for it but The Ugly American, Murdoch, the Liberal and National Parties and of course the IPA or, as I prefer to collectively call them, The Ruling Rabble.....it's the first wave of the tsunasmi about to break over us

Hoo-roo, peasants,

Shane

 PS something nice and something I'm quite proud of having produced.

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