What the Bloody Hell Just
Happened in Australia?
Slate,
by
Rachel Withers
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/22/2019 5:23:22 AM
The polls were wrong. The pundits were wrong. The party insiders were wrong. The bookies were wrong. I was wrong. Even Burt the psychic croc was wrong.
Australia’s dysfunctional, unpopular, conservative government (the Liberal and National parties, currently in coalition, sit on the right in Australian politics) held onto power for a third term in Saturday’s national election. This happened despite the fact that most analysts expected it to lose a large number of seats; despite being (seemingly) out of step with the nation’s emerging consensus on climate change, marriage equality, religion, and race; despite a chaotic tenure in office that has seen three leaders since 2016; despite a threadbare
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 5/22/2019 5:37:28 AM (No. 68603)
Well perhaps an ‘insurance policy’ will be implemented.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 5/22/2019 5:53:03 AM (No. 68608)
When is a liberal ever right?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/22/2019 5:58:34 AM (No. 68610)
...despite being (seemingly) out of step with the nation’s emerging consensus on climate change, marriage equality, religion, and race
Another Leftist mistaking their agenda as being the same as the will of the people. I'm bone tired of being thought of as some kind of freak for holding traditional values.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LaVallette 5/22/2019 6:11:34 AM (No. 68617)
The conservatives Trumped the Lefty Collective "dead certainty to win", just as they did in the USA two years ago and there is no hint of Russian interference. And the lefties everywhere , as they did with the USA, and Clinton's 95% certainiyt to win, are blaming the stupid, selfish, narrow minded troglodytes "especially on climate change" electorate. The lefties would have a great time in elections if it were not for the voters and everything was left to Public Polling and the opinions of their own pundits. The Polls got it all wrong because of the way they went about organizing their 'samples" Relying purely on "mobile phone" contact since the landlines have just about disappeared, `and the phone identification system, naturally attracts those likely to respond to "unknown phone" contacts.: i.e. mostly the young, unemployed or out of school/college at the time. Thta is leaving aside compeltey how the survey is actually put to the respondent.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 5/22/2019 6:15:26 AM (No. 68619)
Make Australia Great Again
MAGA
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/22/2019 6:47:12 AM (No. 68635)
He who liveth by the poll shall dieth by the poll.....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/22/2019 7:16:30 AM (No. 68651)
Rachel, dear, if you’d get out of your leftist bubble once in a while, you would have seen this coming.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 5/22/2019 7:26:42 AM (No. 68658)
Could it possibly be that the general population is just tired or thr global warming, climate change lies, fake data and scam.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/22/2019 7:33:29 AM (No. 68662)
Go to Australia sometime... you'll be shocked by the heavy influx of "immigrants of color" to the nation. They also have a tremendous problem with illegals coming in, not over land (obviously), but over the sea from Indonesia and Malaysia, where they're dropped off at night from ships along the northern coast. The result of this unchecked leftist one-world, do-good-ism crap is that white Australians now bear a strong resentment to "people of color" and are not afraid to verbalize, or show it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/22/2019 7:58:25 AM (No. 68677)
Time to investigate Russian meddling and declare the election illegitimate.
And yes #2 in the true sense of the word what was once "Liberal" is now labeled extreme Right. Anything opposing totalitarianism is far Right. Then again some forms of totalitarianism are also called far Right so as to conflate liberty with a form of totalitarianism.
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WWG1WGA
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/22/2019 8:06:43 AM (No. 68682)
Few things are more refreshing than a flounder taken to a leftist's face.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/22/2019 9:47:06 AM (No. 68752)
Australia is fortunate in that there is no FBI nor CIA there to prolong the eventual conclusion by at least three years. No need to send our complicit media down under because it appears they have their own batch of mad cow Maddows.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/22/2019 9:57:40 AM (No. 68756)
What happened was the Aussie's were woke. Good one, mates. At the same time the Aussie lofo voters were the only ones who bothered to waste time participating in a poll.
The same thing of course has happened and is still happening here. Yeah, tough tacos, Rachel. The American msm isn't relevant anymore. Maybe try writing a book that your readers will buy.
MAGA here, MAGA there.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/22/2019 10:08:13 AM (No. 68767)
Well, Rachel, perhaps your “climate change, marriage equality, religion, and race” agenda is only an “emerging consensus” with media and political elites. Apparently, Australia’s conservative movement isn’t as “dysfunctional” and “unpopular” as you wish it to be. You have to give the devil his due, however. Even when writing an article stating the truth of what happened, the liberal mind is so disordered that it has to convince itself that the reality it is reporting on isn’t a reality. A fascinating and frightening psychological phenomenon.
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FTA by way of #3...despite being (seemingly) out of step with the nation’s emerging consensus on climate change, marriage equality, religion, and race
What they fail to realize is that it is not actually the nation's consensus. They have just created a toxic environment for anyone who does not agree. As a result, they believe they have won the argument, when, in fact, they are actually losing ground as people are aware that those who shout down, or violently suppress, disagreement do not have the ability to win the argument with logic.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
frew 5/22/2019 10:25:25 AM (No. 82042)
This partisan hack can't decide whether the Labor Party's climate policies are "not that bold" or are "serious". Here's how serious they are: Implementation of their climate policy in South Australia resulted in the highest electricity prices in the developed world and black outs and brown outs the year round. To this day they refuse to admit that putting wind and solar in charge of base load power is problematic. No wonder people don't want them in power.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
geoguy 5/22/2019 10:55:05 AM (No. 82058)
FTA: Australia’s dysfunctional, unpopular, conservative government...
Apparently they’re not unpopular because they won the election. Rachel, you’re not too bright.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/22/2019 11:20:33 AM (No. 82075)
I really enjoyed this article and found it very entertaining. #16 perfectly described the reason. Rachel does an excellent job of rubbing the rough edges off reality and easily transverses the terrain between the rational and irrational. Rachel's thought process reminded me of a beautifully choreographed ballet; graceful dancing and energetic leaping set against ethereal settings... and the swan still dies. This performance has put a smile on my face that will last all day.
MAGA - Its worldwide.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/22/2019 11:28:06 AM (No. 82079)
Global warming was not a good platform to run on. It is a false hypothesis and Australia is a major exporter of coal.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/22/2019 11:29:18 AM (No. 82081)
The globalist, socialist, scam believing Left got kicked in the teeth? Australian citizens have been trying to break out of the grip of the glowbull warming nonsense for awhile now. They are waking up, and that should be scaring the snot out of the Left worldwide right now.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 5/22/2019 11:41:27 AM (No. 82094)
This hit piece isn't something I will bother with. I got barely into it and the clearly leftist authoress
started off with multi-adjectival slander on the 'conservatives'. At that point, it was clear that no
value would be obtained from continuing to read the propaganda. The usual fare from Slate.
Yep, they are so 'out of step' that people voted for them in greater numbers than the others.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jorgecito 5/22/2019 12:15:12 PM (No. 82114)
Yet again, reality smacks the smug elite in the face. Just as happened with the Scottish independence vote, Brexit, and Trump's election in 2016.
Delightful to see one of their representatives, Rachel Withers, so discombobulated. One wishes she might learn something –rather than revert to the Left's usual "it's unfair" or "it's undemocratic" whinging.
No, Leftists, your triumphalism has again been shown to be premature. To use your own slogan:
"This is what democracy looks like."
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 5/22/2019 2:26:15 PM (No. 82161)
Pushback against the global warming scam and unlimited immigration.
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