One of our readers on Facebook observed that a recent article about Greens Leader Adam Bandt and his ‘right to solar’ looked a bit like ‘click-bait’.
Fair enough.
In an election that ranks as one of the shortest and dullest in Australia’s history, we here at the Speccie are doing our best to keep you entertained as well as informed.
That’s a tough ask with this cast of players.
The only excitement we’ve had in the last week was when Jacinta Price shouted, ‘Make Australia Great Again!’ and the press flock took flight, screeching and flapping.
A few Labor faithful came out to scorn the Coalition for importing American policies, as if their obsession with Woke, DEI, globalism, and Net Zero aren’t imports… These people breathe hypocrisy.
Then I had a thought about the original click-bait claim. Under Adam Bandt’s guidance, the entire policy portfolio of the Greens appears to be designed on the premise of ‘click-bait’.
Click-bait is their policy substance. It is the founding philosophy of the modern Greens where the point of the party is to shock, not function.
They aim to steal headlines and to entice young voters into a movement that goes heavy on ideology and light on reality.
That’s why the ‘tax the rich’ line is so popular.
Other people work so that you don’t have to. It’s a hostage situation where the taxpayer is being battery-farmed for the comfort of climate warriors. It treads the line pretty close to slavery, which is surprising for a generation of voters who frame their worldview around the oppressed/oppressor narrative. They haven’t worked out that they are the new oppressors.
Any kind of environmental, tree-hugging, koala-hugging honesty has been starved into an early grave by the infestation of communism-lite within the Greens. Never explicit, collectivism seeps through in a subliminal but pervasive manner.
Would young Green voters go and chain themselves to a tree in the middle of the bush with all the spiders, snakes, and mosquitos?
No chance.
They’re cheering from their couch as bulldozers move through and the chainsaws crank up to clear a path for a new wind farm. The poor koalas must be so confused. Environmentalism that champions deforestation doesn’t make any sense, but then, it doesn’t have to. It’s click-bait. Green energy! Yay! Net Zero! You’re saving the world! Give yourself a green tick.
This inconsistency is why everyone was laughing at the Greens’ claiming that renters have a ‘right to solar power’. No, Adam, solar power is not a human right…
By making solar power a human right, it effectively makes Greens policy a human right.
Absolutely insane, not to mention arrogant.
There are other click-bait policies.
Shunning America, tearing up Aukus, and closing Pine Gap is designed to get a ‘Hell yeah!’ from kids who have no idea that their names will be the first called to war.
Tax the billionaires to pay for free everything! That is a Utopian piece of click-bait with no real-world application. Has the ABC asked the Greens about the UK where the billionaires are leaving and the middle and working classes have been left holding the bill? Taxing the billionaires makes everyone else poor.
What is the Greens’ solution to the billionaire evacuation? House arrest? Maybe Bandt could put his fingers in his ears and pretend he heard a different question? Ignorance is bliss, and Bandt seems like a particularly blissful politician.
There are others, but the best click-bait is, ‘No more coal and gas!’ Go on, I double-dare Albanese to take the Greens up on that one and make sure the entire nation knows that Adam Bandt is to blame. Then sit back and wait. Within 24 hours the entire nation will have come to a standstill. It would be a genuine apocalypse.
No coal and gas? No civilisation. No wind turbines, solar panels, or batteries either. No mines to dig up rare earths to build green things. No ships or trucks to install China’s renewable grid. Forget Medicare and free health. Without fossil fuels, there is no pharmaceutical industry. No agriculture. No food. Not even Netflix and chill.
Make sure Adam Bandt is the only politician available to answer the pitch-fork wielding mob. Why is everything broken? Because we let the Greens take charge.
And the Greens will take charge in a re-elected Albanese government. They keep telling us that they can exert power over Labor policy.
One week with a Greens Prime Minister and the country would be a ruin. The Greens as a party, as a concept, as an ideology, and as click-bait would be finished.
Leaving them sitting at the right hand of power is a huge risk for this nation.
Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
