What’s spicy this evening
The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ If nothing else, this federal election served as a reckoning against the soggy, wet, gangrenous Liberals sitting in wealthy Sydney seats. The ‘we’re so much smarter than everyone else’ MPs who ran election campaigns that looked as if they were copied straight off the Climate 200 website lost en masse. The Sharmas, Zimmermans, and Frydenbergs.
As for voters, what happened on Saturday was entirely predictable. It has long been said that Climate Change is a death cult. Its architects have spent years terrifying children and guilt-tripping their wealthy parents. The only thing left to do was sit this guilt-ridden privileged class in front of a polling booth and offer them a way to ‘virtue signal’ out of sin. It was like dropping a coin into the collection plate. One vote – guaranteed saviour status. The consequence of this selfish action will be felt by the poorer electorates next door who already struggle to afford the necessary energy to heat their homes in the freezing Winter that isn’t supposed to exist.
All of us must pay extra tax to sate the original sin of fantasy climate guilt, but when the apocalypse fails to manifest and all the sacred relics and priests are de-frocked, a different sort of blue sea will rise. Editor Rowan Dean said it best on Sunday morning, ‘Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when Scott Morrison stood in front of an adoring crowd of climate cultists in Glasgow and committed Australia to the ridiculous pledge of “Net Zero by 2050”.’
Conservatives have tough years ahead of them, but according to some commentators, this may have been the election they needed to lose in order to expel the wets and rebuild the base. As for the Teals, Greens, and Labor, the problem with building the foundation of a political party on a fiction with an imminent deadline is that the deadline will come to pass – and then what? As Andrew L. Urban writes, Climate Change is the wolf that isn’t there. While Climate Change’s use-by date sits a few years off, Kristina Keneally finally failed her way into oblivion (we hope), managing to lose one of the safest Labor seats around. Thank heavens for small miracles.