Luxury Beliefs, Luxury Elites: Australia’s Overproduction of Useless Politicians

Australia has too many politicians that have never actually done anything in the real world.

And no, graduating with an Arts degree from a sandstone university and parlaying that into the Young Liberal/Labor posse followed by a job as a bureaucrat doesn’t count.

In fact, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.

We have a bunch of politicians who have spent practically no meaningful amount of time in the private sector (exclude consultancies here too, since they’re also useless).

And we have an overproduction of politicians who view their role in government as a ruler, rather than one to help the people themselves rule.

The job of a public servant is in the second half of the name: to serve.

They are supposed to serve, not lecture us with delusions of grandeur about their alleged moral superiority.

They are supposed to serve, not divide us and then gaslight us into thinking we are the ones doing the dividing.

They are supposed to serve, not piss our money up against the wall for causes that benefit themselves after stealing our money through 50,000 taxes and then coming back for yet another… ‘oh, what haven’t we taxed yet? Maybe we should tax oxygen so there’s less of them?’

These people are thieves.

Actually, that would be too kind, for a thief would be able to competently steal something; our politicians are utterly incompetent.

And I for one am sick and tired of having to listen to their diatribes about how Australia should be run, when these people couldn’t even run a pie shop.

If Albo was running a pie shop the first thing he would do is ask the government for free pies.

He’d hire 15 staffers to collect the pies, another 15 to produce a powerpoint presentation about the business plan, and 15 more to stand around in the store smiling and waving at the 0 customers coming through the front door on the opening day.

He’d have the cameras all set up, his makeup on, and the actors walking through the door to greet him with a smile and a limp handshake, followed by a quick selfie.

Then he’d eat all the pies for himself and claim it was a success.

‘Great work everyone, see you tomorrow’.

None of his employees would ever see him in the store again after the ‘success’ of the opening day.

And if anyone disputed the success of his business he would call them a fascist and a racist.

Anyway, you get the point.

Albo has never worked a real job.

His entire life has been on the public purse.

In fact he’s been on the public purse since childhood, since he grew up in social housing.

Is it any wonder that he views reality through the lens of ‘government as provider’?

It doesn’t surprise me at all.

And this is not unique to Albo.

They all view the world the same:

They want you to enter their reality distortion field.

Their reality is one where they set the moral standard for society, they parent your kids, they decide what work you do, they decide if you have a right to privacy on the internet, they decide what language is acceptable, they decide what goes into your body, and they decide how much of your own money you get to keep.

They decide.

You’d be forgiven for thinking:

‘Hang on a sec, did we slip into communism without someone officially declaring it?’

Why are we importing record amounts of immigrants during the worst housing crisis in the history of this country and then being lectured and called racists for wanting our border to be protected and our culture not diluted?

Why is the government spending taxpayer money on a fraudulent jobs scheme called the NDIS that is completely unsustainable financially yet offers them a way to claim the economy is growing by effectively ‘printing’ fake jobs?

Why is the government aiming for ‘sustainable house price growth’ and using your money to do it via subsidies and other demand-side policies?

When did it become the remit of the government to supplant the role of the private sector?

When did it become the job of a public servant to lie to the public about all of this to protect themselves and their own party?

And why is there not a single mainstream journalist - not one - with the critical thinking skills nor balls to ask any of these basic questions? I know literacy rates are down, but are they illiterate? Do they understand what their profession is supposed to be? They are supposed to seek the truth, not their truth.

There’s nothing representative about this democracy.

There is an enormous difference between disagreeing with someone’s policies and claiming they shouldn’t even have the right to advocate for such policies.

The government now has the ideology of people on the latter path.

Just look at what Albo said a few days ago at a UK Labor Conference.

He stated that he doesn’t want to see the rise of populist movements.

Yeah, well you know what?

That’s not your call to make.

You’re not a dictator, you’re an incompetent politician with delusions of grandeur about your place in the world.

These people all speak with a distinct smugness: like everyone should respect them, that their view is the only view that matters, and that the facts no longer matter.

Albo sat there on a panel and had the audacity to claim:

‘You can be strong on borders without being weak on humanity’.

Sorry, what?

Take a look at the charts below - the story tells itself.

You are weak on humanity, and you are not strong on borders.

You are weak on the Australian citizens who you’re supposed to represent.

Please tell me, Albo, how you are being graceful to your fellow Australians who are now dealing with the increase in violent crime in Victoria thanks to your insane mass immigration policy?

Or how about the renters who are stuck in an endless cycle of competing for overpriced, mouldy dogboxes against people who barely speak English? Is it fair they should have to line up with 50 other people just for a crappy place to rent?

Or what about the first home buyers who want nothing more than somewhere stable to live where they can have a family and lay down some foundations for their future? Is importing infinite immigrants fair on them?

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, moral about importing everyone from everywhere and then wiping your hands clean of the problem.

In fact it’s worse than that - he’s bragging about how morally superior his position is.

Because he doesn’t live in reality.

The man never has.

And neither do the rest of them.

Allegra Spender told us all how she feels about mass immigration last week, in a lengthy post on Twitter where she proclaimed Australians have always had a say in our immigration policy and that it was inflammatory to say we were becoming ‘strangers in our own home’.

Really, Allegra?

Surveys show the majority of Australians do not want mass immigration. They want it much lower. So they clearly have not had a say in it, contrary to what you state.

She also managed to claim ‘we are a country which shows the world how people from many countries can live together in peace and harmony’.

Oh really? Tell that to those in Victoria dealing with the machete gangs. It doesn’t seem very peaceful nor harmonious over there at the moment.

A key problem is these politicians don’t even believe in the very premise of a nation state - that a nation is a people of shared ancestry and values.

To them, every person is fungible - you can ship them in from anywhere and they’ll comply.

Allegra proceeded to get ratio’d into a thousand different pieces, then blocked many who disagreed with her.

The common theme between her and Albo?

They think their position is above yours, the people of this country - those who elected them.

Allegra Spender has a net worth of $129 million.

She doesn’t live in your reality.

She doesn’t live in the reality where she has to decide whether to get a second job to pay for the mortgage.

She doesn’t live in the reality where house prices are completely out of reach no matter how high you climb on the corporate ladder.

She doesn’t live in the reality where getting fired from a job could lead to her being homeless within a month.

She doesn’t live in the reality where all the immigrants she advocates for live in her suburb. There’s no machete bins in her suburb and there never will be.

She doesn’t live in reality.

Period.

Why do we listen to these people?

Better yet, why are they elected?

These people want nothing more than to treat you as a pawn in a game of power they are playing to keep themselves busy.

That’s all this to them - a game.

They really don’t care.

If they cared, they’d enter reality like the rest of us.

They’d look at disagreements in good faith, stop calling their opposition inflammatory names like nazis, fascists and racists, and objectively look at the facts. They would try - in good faith - to improve things.

But that’s not what they do.

The overproduction of these useless politicians has become so ridiculous that we now have a 21 year old in parliament.

Truthfully, I don’t know why Wikipedia decided to include anything under the Career section, because she hasn’t had a career. And I don’t say that to disparage her, merely to point out the reality.

It’s not even her age I have a problem with, it’s the fact that she has done nothing in her professional life - like most 21 year olds - to warrant being a representative of you, the people who pay her.

It is a gross plight on our system of ‘representative’ democracy when someone like this is getting paid over $200K despite having never worked in the private sector.

Another one that’s never experienced reality.

It’s clear that these luxury elites have luxury beliefs.

They have opinions that do not reflect reality, but reflect their own desire to appear virtuous to gain status.

Yet it is fake virtue, and fake status.

For real virtue is built through struggle - through grit and sheer tenacity, in advocating for that which is true and just; for that which is difficult yet right, over that which is easy yet wrong.

Our politicians are the antithesis of this - they do what is right for them, not for you, and they don’t care if it has any grounding in reality.

JK Rowling summed up the situation perfectly, speaking of actor Emma Watson:

‘Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.‘

And this perfectly represents the useless politicians that occupy the Australian government today:

So little experience of real life they are ignorant of how ignorant they are.

These luxury elites have luxury beliefs, and it must end.