Buyer’s Remorse is commonly associated with purchasing something and then experiencing disappointment or unexpected consequences from the initial agreement.
Things like buying a house, car, even insurance are common culprits, especially if you thought you may have been selecting ‘peace of mind’.
Buyer’s Remorse is something thousands are being afflicted by when it comes to politics, partly because of an entrenched Australian ethos of always giving someone ‘a fair go’.
When voters sat down to vote for the same-sex marriage plebiscite, it was portrayed as an opportunity to enshrine the right to marry whoever you wanted regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Personally, I couldn’t care less who you lie down with, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. We were lectured to about the morality, fairness, and justice of the basic human rights of love and acceptance to all. Ah, the serenity of it all!
Fast forward to today and those same ‘buyers’ of the plebiscite are being denounced as heretics, bigots, and homophobes because they haven’t gone far enough down the ‘real’ inclusion, openness, and tolerance pathway that has arisen in the wake of the plebiscite.
Many of us ‘dinosaurs and relics of another world’ anticipated the Trojan Horse effect that this change would have on every left-leaning, victim-seeking, fringe-activist thought bubble.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I have heard ‘but I didn’t vote for that’ answers when discussing every lurch towards inclusion, diversity, and acceptance of radical ideology. Just like the pandemic, so-called experts and professionals have been trotted out to extoll their obviously superior intellect and predictions, some sincere but most just following the narrative, giving unchallengeable statements even in the face of obvious conflicting evidence.
I have interviewed Katherine Deves on my radio show before and found her to be anything but the person described by the Woke brigade of journalists, reporters, and social elites. Deves is articulate, compassionate, and thoughtful, which are three attributes sadly missing in the debate leading up to the plebiscite and plainly now missing in action.
To feign the smallest uncertainty against whatever the latest progressive ‘die at the stake’ groupthink is to invite the cancelling and polarisation of your beliefs and opinions.
When will right of centre conservatives realise that you can never be tolerant enough or inclusive enough to keep the Left happy? These days it appears as if their whole reason to live is to be seen as oppressed, marginalised, and permanent victims of uncaring societies.
Remorseful buyers have unwittingly shaved a tiny piece of salami off the stick thinking ‘it’s just a small bit’ but the tiny piece is never returned and all of a sudden you are left with something not even remotely like you anticipated at the start.
Remorseful buyers of Woke ideology need to accept they have been conned, used, and manipulated by the Left, just like pawns in a game of chess to maintain the march through our institutions and customs.
It is only these people who can administer their own cure for buyer’s remorse. They need to look at themselves in the mirror and admit, however grudgingly, that they were fooled into believing that all the progressives wanted was to be just like everyone else when in fact all they wanted was that everyone else be like them.
The next big test will be how we consider the so-called ‘Voice’ to Parliament.
The invisible cloak of plebiscite, like the one from the Harry Potter fandom, contained a range of unpalatable unintended consequences that were unleashed upon the naïve majority of tolerant, live and let live Australians and some appear shocked by this revelation.
A new awakening of conservative values is beginning to happen, even in the face of the capitulation of traditional Liberal political organisations and institutions which have deliberately chosen to walk away from their own bases.
