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[Craig Sanders]

(i wasn't sure whether I was going to bother posting this or not, and
then i saw Noel Butler's latest post mentioning carbon tax and govt lies
and the decision was made for me)

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:25:35PM +1000, David Boxall wrote:
> Perhaps Rupert _wants_ them to be not real. To a certain mindset;
> repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

repeat a lie often enough and it doesn't matter if it's the truth or
not, as long as people believe it.

hence the relentless pushing of the line that Julia Gillard is a liar
- after all, she said she wouldn't introduce a carbon tax but was
determined to put a price on carbon....and, look!, she didn't introduce
a carbon tax and did indeed put a price on carbon.

this somehow makes her a "liar".

this "fact" is so firmly established in people's minds that there's no
point in even trying to convince them otherwise - she's a liar because
everyone knows she's a liar. nothing you can say, no evidence, no
transcripts of who said what and when will make any difference at all.

Truth is irrelevant.

of course, her real crime is being PM while female. that's unforgivable
- the things that people have been relentlessly programmed to hate her
for are no worse than anything ANY other govt. or opposition leader has
done.  She became party leader by ousting the incumbent, same as almost
every Labour AND Liberal leader ever (uncontested succession is the
exception, not the norm).

She did exactly what nearly every other labour and liberal leader, but
somehow what she did is somehow different or worse than what they did.
They were showing their decisive leadership qualities but she was the
evil bitch from hell who was horribly mean to that nice Mr Rudd and ooh,
look, she's got red hair and isn't her dress ugly?


craig

ps: i'm not a huge fan of Gillard, Labour's way too far to the right
for my liking, but I like her a hell of a lot more than any of the
alternatives - Abbott's bloody terrifying, Turnbull probably wouldn't
be too bad if you didn't mind a Malcolm Fraser updated to 2013 (depends
on whether he could keep the rabid right wing lunatics in the party
under control or not...unfortunately, probably not otherwise he'd still
be opposition leader now), and Rudd was both boring and incapable of
getting anything done.

Rudd, in fact, was the exemplar of everything that is wrong with what
the Labour party have become - they've lost their roots, and lost their
relevance along with it. now they're mostly just grey-suited political
drones that see gaining and keeping power as an end in itself, rather
than a means to an end.

(i was glad to see Gillard replace Rudd....when Labour won the federal
election in 2007, the fact that she was Deputy PM and would eventually
replace him made having Rudd as PM more tolerable)

Labour are just a less-bad option....someone to put before the Libs on
the ballot (just as the Libs exist so you have someone to put before the
amusingly horrifying nutters)

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>