Robert Gottliebsen’s excellent in the Australian today about Bill Shorten’s 10 blows: self-funded retirees to bear the brunt concludes with this statement, “It’s a sad time for the community that the young are pitched against their parents and grandparents in an election.”
Yes, a sad time, but it’s also immoral. Those who seek to run the country have a responsibility to unite, not to divide. This election more than any I’ve voted in is a real test of our Australian society. A society based on fairness and a fair go, recognising effort and rewarding it and in striving to stand on our own two feet. That society has been under threat for sometime now but, it takes a new level of evilness to drive the wedge that shatters it.
My comments may sound dramatic but I believe we have reached that point. I’ve said many times we are at the crossroads and the decision we make next month will be the key to either clawing back our ‘give and receive a fair go’ society or one that’s based on envy and division.
I hope and pray that people are waking up to Shorten. He is a man driven by blind ambition to be Prime Minister at any cost. But he is a man being used by those with far sinister desires for our future.
Shorten is banking on the younger generation buying into his culture of envy.
Those behind his ‘throne’ are banking on him succeeding. If they’ve failed the younger generation will give Labor thumbs-down in May.
If he has been successful in creating the embryo of that society one based on envy on turning ordinary hard-working people into pariahs, an ageist society he’ll romp in next month but society will be the loser and the Australia we once knew gone forever. The younger generation who supported him will learn a very bitter lesson that family are not not your enemy but a government that pits them against their family most certainly in the long run are.
Yes, we are at the crossroads we all better pray we choose the right path.
