To go back to this. The spin is that we restricted transmission of Covid while we got everybody vaccinated,…

To go back to this. The spin is that we restricted transmission of Covid while we got everybody vaccinated, to protect the vulnerable. But actually the vulnerable kept right on dying. Politicians had no intention of ever protecting them. And now ‘the vulnerable’ has entered…/1 https://t.co/ouFTimdedN

…the lexicon on both sides of politics, the PM and his Cabinet trot it out across multiple issues now. It’s another example of how conservative framings end up dominating politics, independent of who wins elections. The ALP are too stupid in 2023 to realise that it’s a trap. /2

It’s just the old conservative line about ‘safety nets’ for people who are left behind. They see public hospitals and schools as that, for education and health, for example. Not as comprehensive options for all Australians. Look at the statistics for the shift…/3

…away from public schooling, particularly high schools, under their rules, if you don’t believe me. Cost is now biting and creating some correction. Modern N=1 politics has no ‘public’. It replaces it with minorities and majorities. /4 (https://t.co/aLeWC3QPTy) https://t.co/S2XkUNEm16

It’s called ‘majoritarian democracy’, for the technical term, which people have been fooled into thinking is the only kind of democracy. Majority rules. It’s not democratic at all, it’s the strongest survive, everybody else (the vulnerable) have to look out for themselves. /5

And worse, it’s their own fault, they didn’t ‘have a go’. How a modern ALP can expect to be taken seriously and rescue its laughable primary vote at upcoming elections, by adopting this openly libertarian rubbish as policy, is beyond me. 6/6