THE DELUSION OF DEMOCRACY - PART 3
Turnbull put in place
laws to prohibit politicians from having sex with their staff. Fancy words that
translate as “Don’t fuck your staff.” It sounds insane. That it needed to be
written into law. Some of his own party revolted over it, insisting there was
no need to pass those laws because they knew not to… yet Barnaby did, and it
seems likely others are doing it too, hence their resistance. One idiot even
said his wife irons his shirts, so does that mean she counts as staff so he
cannot have sex with her?
That’s the kind of half-wit that gets elected into Parliament. His wife may consider it a blessing, but if he seriously considers her to be a servant, and cannot distinguish between the two, he has bigger problems than just being a dirty old man trying to fuck everything that moves instead of doing his damn job to represent the people who elected him to do his damn job instead of being a dirty old man trying to fuck everything that moves. It’s real simple, fellas – do your damn job and don’t fuck your staff!
That’s the kind of half-wit that gets elected into Parliament. His wife may consider it a blessing, but if he seriously considers her to be a servant, and cannot distinguish between the two, he has bigger problems than just being a dirty old man trying to fuck everything that moves instead of doing his damn job to represent the people who elected him to do his damn job instead of being a dirty old man trying to fuck everything that moves. It’s real simple, fellas – do your damn job and don’t fuck your staff!
You are elected members of Parliament. You are elected
to represent the voters of your Electorate. It is your job to manage and run
society and the economy. You are supposed to respond appropriately to community
issues by establishing or amending laws that can solve problems by using
regulation and legal repercussions to protect those who are adversely affected
by injustice. Nowhere does it state that you may do the opposite, fuck staff
and generally seek to enrich yourself through moral bankruptcy, corruption,
incompetence, and then excuse it through ‘technicalities’!
Ever since Turnbull
managed to boot Abbott he has been fighting against the die-hard half-wits
within the LNP that remain loyal to the extreme right-wing hypocrisy and
insanity of Abbott. Some of them are posting or retweeting publications from
right-wing extremists in Europe and the UK that have inspired crimes and even
murders. Others are posting gun-toting selfies threatening people who don’t
support their extremism. And then there’s all the idiotic behaviour of Barnaby.
The right-wing media
has also turned on Turnbull and anyone that appears loyal to him, their
love-affair with Abbott leaving them jilted by what they consider ‘treason’
against him. The public, too, has little sympathy, either extremist Abbott
supporters who see Turnbull as a ‘lefty’ (that’s how far to the right they are)
or folks on the left being all too well-aware that policies remain unchanged.
And through it all, nobody seems to have pointed out how damaging this is to
the LNP.
If only they had at least
one Media Advisor. Someone who could say “no”. And, “don’t do that, it won’t
play well to the voters.” It would have come in handy to advise Barnaby not to
have an extra-marital affair, or live rent free in the palatial estates of a
wealthy LNP donner, or refuse to step-down once he had been caught out, or
project his own flaws on others and try to blame the media and other people for
harming his family and claim it was all a ‘private matter’.
Oh, wait, they do.
One bloke had two of them at one point, and then the extra one got sent to
someone else’s office that also already had one. She was getting paid more than
twice what the first one got. But she was part of the problem. She was
fornicating with Barnaby. Seventeen years her senior and already married with
kids. And she encouraged him to keep doing the exact opposite of what she
should have been advising him to do! There’s your problem! An entrenched
culture of corruption.
Parliament is not meant
to be a brothel. Neither is it meant to be the Playboy Mansion. Opportunistic,
empty, and blame-shifting rhetoric is never an acceptable response to getting
caught out, or to the victims of injustices, especially when it is you guys
that are behind so much of the hypocrisy that inflicts the injustice. As a kid,
I use to wonder why my parents and step-father beat and brutalised me, played
mind-games to leave permanent scars. As an adult, I wonder why the so-called
authorities forced me to remain silent and enabled those predators. Predators
do it, as my mother once told me, “because I can and nobody will stop me.”
I use to wonder why
my grandfather did nothing to stop it. Why he made all those empty promises to
me as a child but turned a blind eye to the physical and psychological
violence. Why he allowed my mother to wage a covert war against me to defame
and discredit me even as a child. Why he never intervened when it was clear I
was being starved. Why he chose to believe the lies that I was skinny because I
was a drug addict out to steal everything from him even though I didn’t smoke,
drink alcohol, or even drink coffee or tea. Why he ignored my warnings. Why he
ultimately joined in the abuse and cut me out of everything.
In the end, he
learned, too late, that I had been telling the truth. He had known all along,
but to him I was weak for not being able to defend myself, and for leaving. He
died, broken and angry that they had used him, betrayed him, stolen everything,
made him weak, and made sure he died before he could change his Will back to
what it had originally been. That’s the price of indifference and inaction.
That’s the price of concealing and enabling predators – they turn on those that
help them too.
And
so we see too many of our politicians, police and public servants descending
into the depths of depravity and indifference. Predators and those who conceal
and enable them. Emerging from the sewers to find their way into the gutters. Indoctrinating
and manipulating fools into spewing forth their sick ideologies. There’s not a
lot of difference as far as victims are concerned. Predators play the victim,
project all their vile activities and hypocrisy onto others, blame the victims,
and help each other do it.
You go to bed with
the devil, you wake up in hell. And no matter what they do to extricate
themselves, when all else fails, they turn on one another, but still they find
themselves smeared with the same filth. Those at the top systematically purging
the ranks beneath them of any who will not mirror, conceal or enable them, and
promoting those who will. In recent events, we’ve seen too many examples of
this, even in this new age to stamp it out, the same problems that have plagued
us for decades.
Rick Flori gets persecuted over misconduct charges for
exposing police corruption in Queensland, and Brett Guerin, Head of the Professional
Standards in the Victorian Police, gets caught out inflicting corruption as an
online social media troll. Hell, there are even groups like that masquerade as
being there to help victims, like https://www.facebook.com/DomesticViolenceAgainstMen
that
are, in reality, actually making every effort to conceal and enable the
violence men inflict.
Those groups include
posts supporting right-wing lunatics like One Nation, Liberal Democrats and
Mark Latham. They include guides on how to get around or violate AVOs and other
Court Orders. Some even organise men to gather at Court to support one another
and intimidate their victims. A while ago, one even called for all men to
violate AVOs and other Court Orders in a mass act of disobedience, boasting the
police couldn’t stop them. In all cases, they blame their victims and try to
normalise their insanity.
And in this environment, we are convinced by idiots
that every parent loves their child, that police and public services are there
to help and protect the disadvantaged and victims, political representatives
are dedicated to the needs of others and benefit of society, and a hundred
other lies that are exposed by the evidence if we are willing to simply pay
attention. But we are all someone’s children. We are all someone’s
grandchildren. One day we may be someone’s parents, then someone’s grandparents.
Our society is a
constant struggle between those who live in the real world and those who are
insulated from reality by their wealth, circumstances, and over-abundance of
stupidity. In our society the victims are isolated and silenced by predators
who use their positions and abilities to conceal and enable their vile acts,
crime, systemic failure and injustice. People who deny this, who peddle bullshit
alternative realities, accuse victims of being liars, and behave like Barnaby
and his ilk, are part of the problem.
How can we affect
positive change? How can we make a better world when the people in positions of
authority are predators violating and silencing others? Who will break the
cycle? Who will take the stand and say “enough!” Someone needs to lay some
serious ground rules for politicians. No more doing as they please and helping
one another get away with it. Same rules for them as for the rest of us. If it
had been any other public servant they would have been suspended for the
duration of an investigation.
Maybe the notion of
endorsement should have some real background checks. Fine tooth comb. Go
through everything to ensure the candidate is fit for the role rather than have
all their stupidity come out after election. Maybe those same requirements must
be maintained after they are elected, with a regular check-up and dismissal
before the media gets hold of it or rival politicians use it to waste time
instead of doing their jobs, the public get angry, and that individual
eventually leaves anyway.
Maybe the Chief of
Staff should serve as an understudy. Replace a politician who is suspended -
and do the job until they, too, are suspended or the next Election replaces
them - rather than going to By Elections. Voters elect a Party or Independent
representative, not an individual. That way, if the individual acts like an
absolute dickhead they can be removed without causing majority issues. That way
the politicians can get on with doing the damn job they were elected to do.
Not the pretence of
representation, but actual representation. Consider the flyer Peter Dutton recently
sent out – his so-called “Biggest Survey”. It was aimed at the people in his
Electorate. He claimed that he knew that he was “most effective when I have a
clear understanding of what’s important to you… to help me better understand
your needs and priorities… provide information that might interest you,
depending on your individual circumstances.” It was all a self-serving piece of
shite.
The first question
listed ten issues and asked for the top four to be listed in order of what
concerned the respondent most when all ten were equally important – building a
stronger economy, tackling crime in the community, securing Australia’s borders
and tackling terrorism, creating local jobs, reducing cost of living pressures,
improving health care, support for local education, building new and upgrading
existing roads, supporting small business, protecting our environment.
He asked people to
choose. They would decide what was or more importance so the public would, in
theory, be responsible for things that got defunded. The next question was
equally loaded. “Are the current tax levels too high, too low, or about right”.
Which taxes? “Do you support the Australian Government’s tax cuts for small
business?” What tax cuts? All we’ve heard about is big business getting a $63B
tax break to add to their profit margins. Most may agree small business needs
help to compete with big business, especially when the big ones get an
additional advantage of a $63B tax break.
“Have living costs
put greater pressure on the family budget in the past year?” Surely he can’t be
that stupid? Given how easy it is for politicians and their extra-marital-affair-mistresses
to get high-paying government jobs despite monumental incompetence, it is easy
to understand the confusion, but the LNP is directly responsible for the
privatisation and other idiotic economic incompetence which has led to this
situation.
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