Liberal Decline

Will the Liberal party withstand or fall under the weight of its failure? Here's why we don't care. [4 Minute Read]

Written by Matthew Fischer, co-host of the Backbench Drivers podcast

Last week’s New South Wales State election and resultant Labor victory has led to a flurry of activity, the media punditry have spared no time in giving Australians their spin on this elections consequences for the Liberal Party.

On Sky News, Peta Credlin lambasted former Premier Dominic Perrottet’s lack of ‘conservative values’. Particularly egregious to Credlin and fellow host Andrew Clennell was Mr. Perrottet’s stance on privatisation, attacking him for his departure from party orthodoxy. This line about the former Premier’s lack of ‘conservative principles’ was repeated frequently throughout the election night coverage, being held up by Australia’s ‘right wing’ media as the primary reason for the Liberal Party’s loss.

Meanwhile, audiences of left-wing publications were told the exact opposite. The overriding analysis by ‘left wing’ media was that Perrottet’s election flop comes as a consequence of the Liberal party being too ‘conservative’. While channel surfing Foxtel this week I stumbled across Channel 10’s current affairs show The Project, on which an unrecognised pundit was parroting the ‘too conservative’ diagnosis verbatim. The breadth of this assertion is showcased best by David Llewellyn-Smith’s recent post published in MacroBusiness elucidating that the Liberal party’s problems all stem from their “... (becoming) more troglodyte socially, more hostile to science, and more corrupt”. Going so far as to predict that their next electoral victory will not occur until 2040, with Matt Keane as Prime Minister.

The contradiction in the punditry between the ‘right’ and ‘left’ media raises two questions pertinent to us members of the ideological right that fall outside the Liberal party’s narrow boundaries of acceptable thought:
First, what was the true cause of Dominic Perrortet’s election defeat?
and Second, what is the future of the Liberal party?

To address the first; insofar as Perrottet’s election defeat was a product of his ideological conservatism, it is this author’s opinion that Dominic Perrottet is a honourable man in a dishonourable time. No one can fault Mr. Perrottet as a Catholic or as a man, his faults lie in his role as a politician. The nature of politics is inherently feminine, where compromise is frequent though never reciprocated, where greed and envy reign over fortitude and prudence. I cannot blame Mr. Perrottet for trying to navigate through the vexing and turbulent sea of politics while holding onto the faith. Nonetheless, there comes a point where we all ought to realise that Australia’s political game is thoroughly rigged against anyone who’s faith or beliefs run countercurrent to social liberalism. Despite any mans best effort to infiltrate and reform parts of the system, failure is inevitable. Time and again well intentioned Australians have attempted to reform our system only to discover the insurmountable barriers that guard the political establishment. Whether by election loss or party expulsion the status quo seems to win every time - and any reforms made are only a vote away from being unravelled.
In other words, so long as Perrottet wasn’t in complete alignment and submission to the modern liberal status quo, his ousting was inevitable.

This leads into my second question, the question of the Liberal party’s future. The question of whether the Liberal party has a future after loosing federal government in 2022 and now every state government on the mainland has become unignorable. A collapse of the Liberal party would be very beneficial to right wing minor parties along with any Christian, right-winger unrepresented by the supposedly ‘centre-right’ Liberal Party.

To me, this question is ultimately meaningless. I can only offer speculation as to whether the Liberal party will disintegrate tomorrow or last 100 years, so I will not give my opinion.
What I can say for certain, however, is that the same choices presented to good men throughout all of history are still present today. For a young right-wing, Christian there are two paths available if he wishes to take his beliefs into the real world. The first is to perpetuate the status quo, fall for the smoke and mirrors of Australian political theatre - join a major party or establishment news network and play along. This is the path most choose, it presents no real threat, no real danger and requires minimal sacrifice – not to mention it can be quite lucrative.
The other path, the road less traveled, is unwavering opposition to the established system, a radical stance opposed to any form of compromise. Such a path requires material sacrifice on the part of the man who chooses it, and presents next to no opportunity for reward.

You’re probably wondering why on earth someone would willingly choose this second path. The simple answer is: because the second path is the consequence of telling the truth - and we refuse to lie. Demographic change and ever-growing restrictions on right wing thought mean the time to steer our nation away from disaster is rapidly running out, soon Australia’s decline will become irreversible.
Our generation may be the last that can alter Australia’s destiny and bring forth the Kingdom of Jesus Christ on Earth - For in the same way a city built on a hill cannot be hidden, neither can the truth of Jesus Christ be hidden in our hearts and minds. We must be courageous, we must act honestly. We can no longer afford to cower, afraid of the material costs of truth - let us hold at the forefront of our mind the fact that the treasures of Earth are susceptible to rust, consumption and theft, the treasures of heaven are not. We ought not be afraid to give our lives to Christ, like St John the Baptist and all the martyrs of the Church, we must stand firm in the faith, and “not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

We need not concern ourselves with when a political party might fall, or if a political system will provide us an opportunity to affect change. Rather we need only focus on doing what is right, whatever the consequences will be. The outcome of our struggle with earthly powers should not concern us - for through Christ the victory has already been won. God has promised He will never present us with a challenge we cannot overcome, and so long as we never lose faith in Jesus Christ and follow his commandments at every turn, there is no one who can stop us. After all, if Christ is for us, who can be against us? Liberal Party be damned.