31 August

The religious freedom debate and legislation has had the excellent result of flushing out what the real battle lines have been in politics these last 30 years. It's the re-emergence of very old battles between Church and State, and this issue has made the players show their actual hands. (As an aside, the fact the Minister tasked with doing it is called 'Christian' is amusing.) It makes sense of all of the craziness, for example conservative parties all over the world have been doing completely un-conservative things in terms of economics and policy. That's not their interest, their real interest has been undermining the State in favour of the Church. Also why the 'free market' took off as an idea I think, it wasn't really about economics, it was a Trojan Horse to undermine the State further.