Mangled Thoughts

This is what $20 millions plus in donations has bought.

Continuing an interesting exchange, Mr. Steve Edwards remarked:

“I think it’s highly unfortunate that these MPs are making such nakedly collectivist arguments in Parliament. However, it’s not so much a function of listening to the CIS, but of failing to take on board any of the CIS’s actual positions.”

This is a candid admission of failure. $20 million plus later between the CIS and the Institute of Public Affairs for failure. A success achieved over nearly 12 years under the Howard Cabinet, and a decade of Kennett. The wash up is failure, marked by the blind, deaf and dumb dunderheads occupying Federal and State Parliaments who resemble nothing so much as a Brahmin version of Helen Kroger’s salon for collectivist Brahmin and this isn’t that far from the truth:

The wealthy Wootton family funds hard Left fronts. Here’s another blithering, handwring fool, RICH: Victorian Socialist Left plot to milk millionaire’s moolah. The heir to a fortune can’t dirty his hands in engaging in the hard muck of production, so instead he idles away playing at politics, having thrown his lot and money in with diseased Leftists.

The CIS scoreboard
- Defence of free markets, an unmitigated disaster. Failure.

-Demanding Co2 taxation, and lobbying on behalf of interests, for Co2 taxation. Failure.

-Confronting the ACTU and the hard Left. Failure

-Promotion of talent. Failure.

-Engaging the public. Failure.

-Failure to engage in activism to reach out to the voting public. Failure.

All these failures have two things in common: Intellectual failure and moral failure.

Intellectual failure

Having raised the relationship between economics and law in previous articles, the former is the ground of the second, let’s sum it up:

Economic laws is the rule of law. This is what common law reflects, upholds, and asserts against larcenous Cabinets and bureaucrats.

Perfect competition is not the rule of law, it is the assault and overthrow of the rule of law in favour of lawless statists. This is why reading fine exponents of the Austrian school, Jackson, and Shostak, one also reads men who are seriously concerned about principles. This is why, Mr. Edwards, one bangs on about the unprincipled “Right”, they are devoid of principles, the rule of law.

This is why States and Federal Parliamentary wings of the Liberal Party are wastlands filled with the walking dead, zombies, and they are Statist zombies. This is why the scrofulous Right flung Bracks, Brumby and Rudd into office. This is why, as incredible as it appears, Rudd and his Cabinet of Soviet style planning cretins are kicking their heads in daily.

Moral Failure:

This follows intellectual failure. No principles, no fight, or certainly not the right fights. It is also reflected in their statism, what they did with the STO and OPA. Indeed, what Bracks and Brumby have deepened is not Victoria, but Vic Inc. and it was the Kennett Cabinet and their advisers who set this up and made Brackistan possible.

It is why Rudd and his fellow fascist thugs are in office. It is why Australians thanks to Bracks, Brumby and Rudd, are forced to own forced labour in Chinese prisons, as I related yesterday. It is why thugs in NSW freely go about threatening firms and staff, as in Iguanagate. It is why the Liberal Party pursues none of the scandals and culprits responsible for them.

It is why the CIS is lobbying for Co2 taxation.

Cowardice

From the above two failures, the third failure follows, Cowardice.

Not once do they go for the Left’s jugular. They know, Steve, because they are intellectual failures, the diseased Left would simply break their fingers, legs and backs in any public confrontation. Yet it is worse than this.

It is despicable to see these “Rightwing” bruisers run crawling to Leftists, and apologising to them whenever they offend the sensitivities of the Left. The same is to be observed in Parliaments: Liberal MsP, or rather MsP pretending to be Liberals are as likely to hurt opponents as pet mice.

Politics is a fight over principles. Voters must be convinced. Fighting means there are some who must be hurt and yet no diseased Nazi Greeny, or hard Leftist in the ALP has ever been throttled by Liberal MsP, CIS, IPA and HR Nicholls Society.

Vice
Follows.

The treachery of the nepotistic Left:

They don’t hit the hard Left in public. They run away at the mere sniff of trouble. Instead, they slime and backstab genuine Liberals. They, Mr. Edwards, are a pack of vicious old housewives.

The hard Left are cultists, they believe in their cause and work to realise it. The Right, not giving a stuff for principles, are only out for themselves, position, money and feeling oh so important. This is why in Victoria a talentless mediocrity in one Michael Kroger was able to seize control of the Liberal Party, and he doesn’t even hold an office in the Party. This is why he bestowed on the long suffering members Julian “Iron Man Jules” Sheezel, who is so thick he has to be instructed in how to use email; a bungler whom Kroger decreed members be compelled to pay $4,000 a week. That’s a large sum to pay for the constant daily stream of cock-ups that flowed out of his office.

Then, there’s “Potty Mouth” Barry Russell “the toy dog” Hanan. But the greatest disaster is the sheer number of ignorant boobies Kroger and Costello have imposed as MsP. They are in blue and safe seats. The only seats that can be defended in the forthcoming elections because, thanks to Kroger and his Brahmin backers, and their contempt for members and principles, they have blown the membership away. Oh, and this means many of those seats will be turned marginal or lost because they are heading south. Blue ribbon seats such as Corangamite and Portland have been reduced to marginal, held by 1 or 2 percent. Oh, and ALP seized Corangamite in 2007.

Corangamite was a blue ribbon seat, and was a Liberal Party dynamo of Western Victoria until Kroger and his stick puppets destroyed it. City blue ribbon seats will follow and an indication of this is the once blue ribbon seat Alexander Downer held in Adelaide. It’s now a marginal, held by a measly few percentage points.

While Western Australians loathe the WA ALP for what they are, Leftist destroyers, in the recent State election they did not run to mummy, the Liberal Party. The Libs, devoid of principles and possessed of contempt for the man in the street, do not believe the effort is required, voters will do as they are told or out of fear. Voters didn’t run to mummy. The Libs agreed to an extortionate deal with the Gnat Nats who jobbed them into office.

No debate

There is no debate in the Liberal Party, it’s forum and think tanks, for all the above reasons. This also means there is no feedback mechanism to check for mistakes and to hammer matters which are not the private province of a self anointed elite. It is about principles that are the reason why Liberals join the Party, and ultimately have force for Australians. Principles have to be constantly hammered out and debated.

Those destroying the party exist in a loop, bound to undergraduate texbooks buried in the anti-free market falsehood of perfect competition.

The closed loop, lusting for power, seats, and two think tanks with $20m plus in their vaults, make sure it is set like a slab of concrete on top of Liberals. This entrenches why the Party is being destroyed and great causes undermined and blown up. New talent is not encouraged, it is squashed. This is why the Party and forums are filled with the same aging bodies, new talent ups and leaves when it dawns upon them that they are meant to be good serfs only.

Kroger manifests another aspect to this. The mediocrity fears talent. With his tight grip over the Party, it is mediocrities who have been promoted within the Party. No-one with brains, learning, spine and guts has been allowed anywhere near any post. This is a small and cowardly man. Brave, generous men do not fear talent, they seek it out because it brings success. Kroger typifies the nepotistic “Right”; moral, cowardly pgymies.

It is why the CIS and the IPA have not applied the $20m plus funding fronts run by talent, and drawing in talent to assist them. Talent is a threat to Greg Lindsay and his band of witless blunderers. It is why the lot of them, Kroger, IPA CIS and HR Nicholls Society sooner destroy good causes, it’s themselves first and sod Liberals and Australians.

Principles have to be constantly hammered out and debated.

Before even contemplating offering for candidacy, even bright man has to be armed. This is why MsP are beaten up daily, they are not armed, never were armed and refuse to arm themselves. It is why they lose elections, they cannot take the fight to the man in the street. They are incapable of engaging the man in the street and opening up what Libs should stand for. Thus he fails to convince. Not only protean MsP either.

Members must be armed. They take the fight to electorates, or should and cannot. They are treated as serfs, gofers dumb help. It showed in recent elections in Victoria. They were as helpless at answering voters who approached them during campaigns, as were Kroger stick puppets jobbed in as candidates. This told, in the reactions of voters. This was in stark contrast as to how the ALP went about things. Voters were lost on the streets to the ALP; apart from all those Hugh Morgan and his fellow idiots in the HR Nicholls Club, Minchin, Sheezel, and Kroger lost because they destroyed the solid, sound campaign for labour market reform.

The above are not failures, Mr. Edwards. They are shocking disasters that unfolded out of the failures of the sclerotic “Right”. Worse, more disasters are unfolding now, and new ones are to follow. If this is success, it is a stunning achievement - rather as rabbits caught in headlights and flattened. The difference is, no-one sane goes out of their way to throw rabbits under cars but the lot wrecking Liberal causes do, except it’s the Liberal Party and they keep throwing it under a ruddy great road train.

Resumed
This will be continued tomorrow. Pleasures, such as slow lunching in good company, should never be hurried. For today, in sum:

The singular point to the disasters and looming disasters, and Australia is now in deep trouble, is the origin, intellectual failure. The CIS and the IPA are not advancing free market economics, they are discrediting what is thoroughly sound, thoroughly principled, with the weight of history, and the weight of the history of economics behind it: Mr. Jackson, bye the bye, demonstrates this in his articles. He shows it in the quotations and citations he supplies. Jackson is saying nothing new.

What is telling is the material published by the clunker tanks, IPA, CIS and, HR Nicholls Society, are devoid of such grounding. Then, we’ve given the reason why they are intellectual voids above - they are stuck in undergraduate textbooks shot with fictions and fallacies and nothing else. Walking Blanks, and this lot pretend to be defending Liberal causes, pretend to be advancing free markets! Donors should be honest: if they want to fund Mickey Mouse then they should have the spine to come clean and go to Disneyland and hand over the $20m plus dollars to the mouse, instead of his close cousins. At least Mickey will earn some of the funds, because he is honest about what business he is in and sticks to it, entertaining children.

They are destroying the effort required to advance it and for what? The lawless, statist, anti-freemarket rubbish of perfect competition. With it, they smear economists such as Mr. Jackson, whose grip is thorough and grounded in solid scholarship and reasoning in economics. They do it for the above failures. This is why the likes of the CIS wind up pushing capital mass destruction, and the absolutist measures required to impose it, through Co2 taxation.