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George Orwell died quite young, just 47, so he never got the chance to make the journey into full adulthood, which is finally growing out of socialism. He was well on the way, though, between Animal Farm and the Orwell List. He just hadn’t got around to connecting the dots that there is no ‘real socialism’ that will ‘work next time’. But he was working on it.
Even by his mid-30s, Orwell had realised that most socialists are pretty horrible people. “All that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come nocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat,” as he wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier. Even then, the essential nastiness of the sort of middle-class ponce who prattles about socialism was obvious. Virginia Woolf and her circle of Bloomsbury sneering snobs were the quintessence of the type. Today, we see their heirs in the media class.
They can prate till the cows come home about ‘the workers’, but they don’t even make a fig-leaf to cover their visceral hatred of actual working people. Especially when the working classes refuse to vote as their ‘betters’ finger-wag them.
It took barely two hours for Australia’s elitist intelligentsia to take to social media last Saturday to tell poor people they were dumb for voting for Pauline Hanson.
As the votes started to pile in for One Nation in South Australia, the tweeting started in earnest as the righteous and pure bemoaned what was unfolding as a dark day for Australia and a victory for bigots everywhere.
As always, when it comes to the chattering left, their unhinged screeching about ‘bigotry’ is, in reality, just so many brain-dead budgies furiously attacking their little mirrors.
Jane Caro was one of many authors who helped scuttle Adelaide Writers Week this year with their posey boycott after SA Premier Peter Malinauskas had the temerity to observe that Jew-cancelling anti-Zionist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was both a divisive rabble-rouser and an accomplished hypocrite.
Caro could not stand what she was witnessing on polling day in SA.
So, naturally, she took to her leftist social media echo chamber to sneer at the hard working people who, legend has it in leftist circles, actually exist outside SA’s taxpayer-funded ‘arts’ festivals and the wineries of the Adelaide Hills.
Also on X last Saturday was SA Treasurer and Labor Right pugilist Tom Koutsantonis, taking time out from what for him was an enjoyable night, to have a crack back at Caro: “Denigrating voters for their choices never works,” Koutsantonis replied. “In fact, it’s rude and counter-productive. Hillary Clinton should’ve taught you by now.”
While he’s right, he’s also Labor, so I hae me doots that this is really heartfelt, rather than just an attempt at damage control.
Despite the admonitions of Koutsatonis, Caro found plenty of friends on X with a legion of tweeters joining in to bemoan the ghastliness of it all.
There were all the usual suspects including former Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton, people for whom X has become a retirement village where they can sit around agreeing with each other […]
This wasn’t a discussion. It was a pile-on. It was also a reminder that one of the best things the so-called far right has going for it is the far left.
Pardon me while I pick myself up off the floor after reading a legacy media piece that actually used ‘far left’.
But what we see in operation on the left is the same mindset that had the Bloomsbury set sneering at just how awful and vulgar the working-class really were, and wasn’t it hard to find good help now that Cook has got ideas into her head and gone all uppity.
As with rejected US presidential candidate Clinton, aptly name-checked by Koutsantonis, these people are repulsed by the low-educated poor.
(Although not so repulsed as to forgo tax dollars from the working class to prop up their festivals, letting them wander the land like literary carnies in search of another publicly funded writers week, so they can sell books no one would buy at Big W.)
Satirical rock band TISM made much the same point, back in the ’80s, when they mock-advertised bus tours of the St Kilda Fringe Festival. ‘Marvel, as the cream of Australia’s fringe artists line up to tell you that you’re an uncultured yob – while they steal your wallets.’
But the more they do it, the better. The more the left-elite sneer and screech in fury at One Nation, the more ordinary Aussies listen – to One Nation.
Saturday night’s result showed that the tactic is not only not working, it is having the opposite effect. The sum total of 30 years of derision of Hanson is that one in five people in a state as historically progressive as South Australia voted for her candidates […]
She has given poor and low-educated people a voice. She has succeeded in doing so because she respects them.
And this is the thing: the left-elite denigrate ‘low-educated’ as if it’s somehow an indicator of moral worth, let alone actual intelligence. Some of the wisest people I’ve known never finished high school, while the army of fuckwits with multiple degrees grows by the day.
