stui magpie wrote:Developing alternative markets rather than putting all the eggs in the China basket was always the smart thing to do...
Well, it would have been when some of us were calling vociferously for it. Which begs the question, of course: why have so many people excitedly, religiously and fanatically supported the Glibs
in aggressively pursuing the exact opposite for 20 years?
The record is startling: the mining industry-Glib coalition which opposed a mining windfall tax to be invested in the development of other industries; the undermining of climate science/green energy/green tech and pi$$ing away of Australia's natural advantages in this regard; the creation a corrupt revolving door between Glib HQ and Big Mining, ensuring corrupt mining thugs ran national policy solely for their own short-term interest; the desperate wrecking of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to roll out HQ broadband, the key underlying infrastructure of 21st-century industry and jobs; the appointment of that great hater of science, technology and economic base broadening, and mining's chief hand and propagandist, Abbott; the dismissal of the now globally dominant tech industry as a latte sipping cafe fad as if it were a trivial aside in the culture wars, not the major industry on many major global indices today; and much more. The Glibs have undermined economic broadening
at every single step and turn for two decades and are clearly its outright avowed enemies.
It's astonishing to think that the very same ideological extremists and quacks who created this narrow and distorted economy are the very same kooks who supported Iraq and fawned over Trump, and the very same whackos sleepwalking Australia into disaster in Asia because Alan Jones and the Send Somalians Home Facebook Group concur.
It's beyond comprehension and bears reiterating: the very same fanatics who have got every major issue wrong for 20 years have been handed the authority to deal with China and the region on your behalf; i.e., the dumbest set of people you could possibly throw a blanket over anywhere on earth have been appointed to deal with the most difficult, vexing and consequential problem arguably ever facing Australia.
Australia is sleepwalking into a dumb-arse led disaster fronted by utter human waste whose high points include: supporting Bush and Cheney's catastrophic and monstrously repugnant and expensive Afghanistan and Iraq war failures; creating massive economic sector underdevelopment by selling out the national interest to Big Mining for easy money and political power; undermining science, technology and learning in a desperate grab for the climate change denying, anti-vaxxing, conspiracy mongering, science-hating vote; and fawning after failed mass wrecker and international embarrassment, Trump, becoming the malignant narcissist's collateral damage in Asia.
It's as if people sat down and said: let's appoint the most drooling, foul-stenched Neanderthals we can find who have got every major issue completely wrong for two decades without fail, turning everything they touch into dog faeces, and wasting every penny the nation earned for two decades on lining their own pockets through the mining industry revolving door, because we are literally going with the most lowlife, ignorant, incompetent scumbags we can find to stick it to the universe in one last giant middle finger of destruction on China and Asia.
Honestly, utterly creepy crackpot Dutton as Defence Minister and suburban shoe store retail manager and weekend church pot luck master Captain Hillsong are the best you've got leading on China and Asian region policy? Are the Church of Scientology and the Taliban also making submissions? Perhaps the Westboro Baptist Church and al-Shabab could be called in to bring some sophisticated contemporary cultural awareness to bear on the challenge?
God bloody help us all. It's criminal negligence of the highest order, yet again. It would be slapstick comedy if it weren't so horrifying.
