Albo’s problem is that he wants to be liked. He wants to be Hawke, nationally adored. But Hawke achieved that…

Albo’s problem is that he wants to be liked. He wants to be Hawke, nationally adored. But Hawke achieved that on the back of major policy reform. While both Albo and Biden target ‘division’ in politics, as if the problem is people just not being nice to each other. /1 #auspol https://t.co/aJfpe56xgb

There is a way in which this is also smart politics. Conservatives use continuous outrage and crisis as a way to energise apathetic voters. It’s why they fund FOX News and tabloid newspapers. It’s strategic. So taking the sting out of that continuous outrage is good politics. /2

But you have to DO something too. On top of that. So far the ALP term has been dominated by the waving through of continued inaction on Covid, and budget-destroying nuclear subs, both key planks of the LNP’s strategic arsenal. Doing that in a friendly, ‘bipartisan’ way only…/3 https://t.co/7gWDghVzmd

…accelerates the LNP’s strategic objectives. Then we have Jim Chalmers talking about values-based capitalism. Which just means adopting the entire fantasy of society-is-an-economy, the major conservative strategic weapon of 5 decades, and adding warm and cuddlies to it. /4 https://t.co/mXAPpekOIU

Again all it achieves is making the toxic conservative agenda more palatable to ordinary people. Yes it’s very hard to escape all of those conservative framings, of society as an economy. They’ve been building them for 50 years. Try and push that too far and you’ll have…/5

…the LNP opposition heading out to the GG to ask for another dismissal. To hit them where it really hurts, a task Keating understands as the ALP’s core platform, you have to use strategy. Be like the LNP, just blatantly lie about your true objectives, and introduce all…/6

…sorts of weasel metrics which actually destroy the thing you praise in public. Like private health insurance rebates (designed to destroy Medicare), or postcode-based school funding (designed to destroy public schools). Praise all the things the conservatives praise, but…/7

…reframe all of them and white-ant them with clever strategy. The ALP has only one job, and that is to destroy utterly the conservative hijacking of democracy, and its replacement with a fictitious ‘market’. That was conservative strategy, the market, the ‘economy’. To hide…/8

…its own hijacking of democracies. You can’t just come out and say ‘down with the economy’, again that’ll get the GG out for another dismissal. You destroy the whole farce in other ways, strategically. With rat cunning, and mongrel. Not niceness. /9

The reason the country is ‘divided’ is because it’s NOT divided. A tiny handful of parasites are hoarding all of our common-wealth. To just address the anger that causes, by being nice, and to do nothing about the underlying cause, is criminal incompetence. /end