Bob Carr has a terrific BLOG which I have referred to here before. Apart from being very well written and covering a wide range of subjects all of which I am ionterested in he is usually RIGHT. Which means that I agree with him.
I've long been concerned about the old comms who are running the Greens in NSW. Inner city fanatics who still actually believe in the necessity of a dictatorship of the proletariat. It's amazing that in 2011 there are still people who believe in this sort of stuff. The strange situation in NSW where Labor is about to "slip back through their arsehole and disappear from sight" has led to these people having power way beyond their normal influence and they are predicatble in their misuse of it. I'll quote Bob in full, he won't momnd it isn't as if anyone reads this!
"The arch- conservative faction of the New South Wales Liberal Party must have their eyes swiveling with glee as they contemplate the opportunities opened up for them by the Green Party. The hardliners around Lee Riahhon have won the argument that the
Green Party will not direct preferences to Labor anywhere in the March State elections. This means the Coalition and their allies will control the State Upper House if they win government.
And that will have rolling consequences over the next four years. As Labor MLC Luke Foley puts it, that decisions delivers the Legislative Council to "the book burners and the elephant shooters - people who are on a crusade to overturn environmental protection, let hunters rampage through national parks, bring back duck hunting, close the safe injecting room and end ethics classes in schools.
The Green Party decisions means there will be no check on what an O'Farrell-led Coalition government - remember that includes the National Party - will be able to do. On anything. That includes privatisations and industrial relations, a prospect that will have the hyper-conservatives very excited.
It was the comm wing of the Green Party that made this decision, not the environmental wing - the Marxist types who believe the worse things are the better they are. Give a Coaltion government full rein, we will all be radicalized by the result and the world revolution will be expedited. Bugger the environment in the meantime."
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ReplyDeleteIsn't it hilarious how the only people who seem to think there's a bunch of marxists in the Greens also seem to be the same people with the most to lose from the rise of the Greens?
And it's really funny to hear a NSW ALP hack horrified that the shooters and religious nutjobs will have power. Now which party has been using these same upper house nutters to pursue their agenda while in government?
The NSW ALP might have some argument about preferences if they'd been in the slightest part willing to negotiate with the Greens in the past. As it stands, we make our decision based on what we've actually experienced, not some vague idea that these guys are marginally better than the other guys.
There actually are a small bunch of good ol' marxists in the Greens. I've known a few of them. They're not bad people really. I'm not real crazy about the Leninist and Stalinist element though. They still tend to hide themselves. The Greens would be better off without them. What I don't like is their idea that if we let things get a whole lot worse then the ignorant masses will finally see that they are the way forward. It didn't work in the 50s and it won't work now. Perhaps the ignorant masses are too ignorant.
ReplyDeleteMy big objection to the preference situation is that in reality it is going to give the conservatives an open shot at total control. At least if they did not control the upper house the opposition and minor parties could have a role in putting the brakes on. I think the fact that the Greens have given that up is Bob's point.