Is Western Civilisation’s middle-class being pranked? The people we thought we knew – peers, colleagues, relatives, and friends – are repeating ever-more ridiculous slogans to remain within the ‘popular’ crowd.
Where, one wonders, can they go after nodding along to the ‘female penis’ and ‘global boiling’?
When did it become the height of culture to take a toddler to a drag show armed with dollar-notes to tuck into the fishnets of a middle-aged man?
Why has the definition of inclusion stretched to men cheating at women’s sport?
What is the diversity movement doing luring children onto the scalpel of the medical industry?
These are the questions I muse over while listening to bewildering conversations in the local cafe.
We’ve all heard the tiresome yet true observation regarding ‘communism’s long march through the institutions’ but the brainwashing of society’s children into a range of Leftist ‘isms’ does not explain what happened to their parents.
Sensible, successful, well-educated, formerly conservative, affluent, and politically disinterested Australians have experienced a sudden conversion into activism. Their mysterious zealotry, left unchecked, could permanently change this nation.
A clue may be found in their children. Mid-30s, the conversion of Millennials from Liberal to Teal is slightly easier to understand. Empowered and misled about their role in life, they went off to university imagining they would ‘change the world’! What began as raising money to ‘feed the starving African children’ mutated slightly into ‘sponsor a sea turtle and we will give you a fluffy toy’ – a subtle but notable switch from human-centric activism to environmentalism.
Delusions of salvation switched to boredom after the first week of university. Up close, the illustrious sandstone halls were actually hollowed-out termite nests infested with rotting ideology and hopeless lecturers that would struggle to compete with your average Wikipedia article. Anyone who went to an Australian university seeking knowledge had an allergic reaction and fled into the workforce. Those Blue Ribbon children who stayed came out the other end as climate warriors nursing anti-capitalist tendencies.
Imagine the messed up mind of a young adult bred to ‘hate capitalism’ as a ‘great evil of the world’ who also happens to love money and the trappings of their rich parents. Kicked out of the nest and forced to head off into the workforce, they were saddled with worthless degrees while being the least qualified person in the room. Their anger is understandable.
Part of the Millennial obsession with political activism comes from a deep sense that their lives at the bottom rung of the workforce will ultimately achieve nothing. Past generations engaged in more physical labour. If you plough and plant a field, something grows. Today, ‘work’ is often digital with the ‘fruits’ of that labour so far removed from the average worker that they are left feeling empty. This class of worker experiences a connection with fleeting declarations of ‘virtue’ on social media – resulting in ‘tangible’ likes and comments from their mates. It’s a twist on Marx’s ‘work is slavery’ lie that encourages people to devalue their jobs and shift their effort to social politics.
It is a mere nudge to convince Millennials to vote Green or Teal to shift their digital virtue into ‘real change!’ This setup was powerful enough to wipe out long-held Liberal seats. Since voting Teal, Millennials have evolved from their role as climate saviours into full-time Voice activists. Despite being taught to value equality among all citizens, regardless of race, they have abandoned these principles.
Allow me to rephrase that.
They still believe that racism is evil and equality is king (this is crucial to understand) – but they have been convinced by propaganda that creating a Canberra-based racial bureaucracy is equality. To achieve this, activists have successfully sold the idea that there is a disparity in rights between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, the evidence of which can be found in ‘the Gap’. The only way to fix this perceived inequality is to add another inequality, like a basic mathematical equation. Except race is not a math problem.
This misleading and fabricated argument is not challenged in the mind of the virtuous voter. To unpick this narrative is easy, but accepting it involves the person realising they have been supporting a racist proposition – publicly. Most would rather ignore the truth and double down on the lie, using the ‘consensus’ of the activist pack to protect their reputation. They have been trained by Climate Change to accept mob consensus as fact, so this is easily done.
If the referendum returns a ‘no’ vote, it will cause an enormous amount of embarrassment to these individuals, corporations, and politicians – which could explain why Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has (idiotically) decided to propose a second referendum as a consolation prize to ease people off their addiction to race politics.
To demonstrate the extent of emotional delusion involved, I have an old school friend on Facebook who has changed her profile picture to a ‘Yes!’ icon and Aboriginalised her name. That’s about as close to digital blackface as you can get.
If the ‘Yes’ movement is unmasked as racist, unpopular, and lacking ‘virtue’ the response will be anger.
Instead of accepting that the majority do not support vanity activism, some form of counter-narrative will be spun out by Labor.
That said, we might get lucky. Corporations that backed Covid and Rainbow politics have been in retreat. They are burying their affiliation. Quietly removing marketing campaigns. Changing brand deals. Re-painting the house, so to speak. That would be the safest outcome for the Voice. Collective amnesia. Hopefully the last trace of Albanese’s referendum will be a puddle of paint under a Qantas plane after someone scraped off the ‘Yes’ banner.
All of this helps explain the radicalisation of the under-40 Australian. It does not explain their parents and grandparents.
Cafes in Teal seats are populated by these creatures. A decade ago they were talking fashion while buying over-priced pastries for after-school parties. They bickered about their husbands and competed viciously with their children’s achievements.
Listen to their conversations now and you will hear soliloquies about the imminent climate apocalypse brought about by selfish, carbon-wasting climate deniers. They love renewable energy but do not expect to see a wind turbine or solar panel in their idyllic neighbourhood. Their privileged geography protects them from the consequences of activism. Other people, poorer people, have to make those sacrifices on their behalf.
These individuals took to Covid propaganda with a similar zeal. Zooming each other while double-masked alone in their home was a way of proving their dedication to the ‘Greater Good’. Commentators have taken to calling this ‘supporting the current thing’.
The Voice to Parliament is the new current thing. It is a way of showing that you support the Greater Good. But what is the Greater Good other than a cult of saviours? If we want our friends back, we are going to need a de-radicalisation program to go with that coffee.
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
