Burchell's comments are too extreme. Malcolm Roberts doesn't fit his characterization. I didn't go to CPAC as I was out of the country, but there are libertarians and One nation and Ralph Babet and George Christensen - none of these characterizable as mere time-servers.
I'm a genuine conservative, certainly gave up on the LNP for the reasons that Burchell stated. I have huge respect for Harry Richardson and have collaborated with him for years, and am a member of the BAC. What we do not need is defeatism and cynicism.
I don't doubt Malcolm's convictions. I doubt his and One Nation's capacity to capacity to do the basics properly and deliver. It's the same disease facing a lot of minor parties, independent candidates and political aspirants. How would they know what they should be doing when none of them have been trained properly? What are your metrics for success? What enduring impact, or legacy have the individuals you mention had on Australian politics? Of those names mentioned only George Christensen really impresses, what he has built with Nation First is actually substantive.
If you're in Parliament, you can't do anything unless you have numbers. George Christensen built Nation First after getting out of Parliament. That is certainly not a reason for not supporting the people I mentioned. I should mention also Gerard Rennick and Alex Antic. Gerard has been a huge contributor on important issues and I have no doubt he's educated and encouraged a lot of people. I'd certainly rather have Alex Antic than any number of other Liberals, like the tribal "my party right or wrong" idiot James McGrath.
Parliament as an institution is not a place where individuals can make much difference, given the uniparty system and the discipline even among the excremental Greens. But it's what we have. In the political scene, the left plays to win, and it plays dirty. Conservatives need to stop being "nice" and also stop playing "me too" with prevailing crap narratives spun out by the globalists and catastrophist doom merchants. The Right needs to engage ferociously in the culture war by arguing fiercely for its values (I wish many "on the right" had any) and educating the public.
The Right needs to set itself as overwhelmingly key objective to take back the drivers of cultural change from the left: the entire education system, the public media, and (because every judicial appointment is political), the judiciary.
Burchell's comments are too extreme. Malcolm Roberts doesn't fit his characterization. I didn't go to CPAC as I was out of the country, but there are libertarians and One nation and Ralph Babet and George Christensen - none of these characterizable as mere time-servers.
I'm a genuine conservative, certainly gave up on the LNP for the reasons that Burchell stated. I have huge respect for Harry Richardson and have collaborated with him for years, and am a member of the BAC. What we do not need is defeatism and cynicism.
My contribution is to run a pretty trenchant website https://freedomandheritage.org.au .
I don't doubt Malcolm's convictions. I doubt his and One Nation's capacity to capacity to do the basics properly and deliver. It's the same disease facing a lot of minor parties, independent candidates and political aspirants. How would they know what they should be doing when none of them have been trained properly? What are your metrics for success? What enduring impact, or legacy have the individuals you mention had on Australian politics? Of those names mentioned only George Christensen really impresses, what he has built with Nation First is actually substantive.
If you're in Parliament, you can't do anything unless you have numbers. George Christensen built Nation First after getting out of Parliament. That is certainly not a reason for not supporting the people I mentioned. I should mention also Gerard Rennick and Alex Antic. Gerard has been a huge contributor on important issues and I have no doubt he's educated and encouraged a lot of people. I'd certainly rather have Alex Antic than any number of other Liberals, like the tribal "my party right or wrong" idiot James McGrath.
Parliament as an institution is not a place where individuals can make much difference, given the uniparty system and the discipline even among the excremental Greens. But it's what we have. In the political scene, the left plays to win, and it plays dirty. Conservatives need to stop being "nice" and also stop playing "me too" with prevailing crap narratives spun out by the globalists and catastrophist doom merchants. The Right needs to engage ferociously in the culture war by arguing fiercely for its values (I wish many "on the right" had any) and educating the public.
The Right needs to set itself as overwhelmingly key objective to take back the drivers of cultural change from the left: the entire education system, the public media, and (because every judicial appointment is political), the judiciary.