This weekend, another political earthquake hit the establishment.
After trailing in every poll and being left for dead by liberals in the media, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the conservatives in Australia won a shocking victory.
But, just like with Brexit, Donald Trump’s win in 2016 and other examples, the New York Times on Sunday responded by sneering.
In this case, the paper offered up the worst insult coming from Manhattan liberals: Parts of Australia are now like the “American south.”
In a “news analysis” by Times writer Damien Cave, the Times headline lamented that voters didn’t care for the activist climate agenda of the left-leaning Labor Party: “It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?”
(NOTE: Australia’s conservative Party is called the Liberal Party. This can be confusing. However, it means classical free-market liberalism. Not modern political liberalism.) Cave wrote:
And yet the path to victory for Scott Morrison, the incumbent prime minister, will make agreeing on a response more difficult. He and his Liberal-National coalition won thanks not just to their base of older, suburban economic conservatives, but also to a surge of support in Queensland, the rural, coal-producing, sparsely populated state sometimes compared to the American South.
One can probably assume they don’t mean this last part as a compliment.
In a tone that sounded like how the Times reacted to other shock wins, Cave almost sputtered on how this Australian election was supposed to go:
The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem.
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But over all, Australians shrugged off the warming seas killing the Great Barrier Reef and the extreme drought punishing farmers. On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, they re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions and coal.
Cave concluded by seeming to suggest the conservative Prime Minister Morrison ignore the win delivered to him from the people he called the “quiet Australians“:
The question that now confronts the new government is how much sway to give the forces that led to victory. Climate change may be the first battle in the long war that is reshaping democracy all over the world.
Another Times article from Sunday on the “stunning” election victory made sure to describe Morrison this way: He’s “an evangelical Christian who has expressed admiration for President Trump.”
Look for the Times and other outlets to pile on Australians for daring to defy liberal conventional wisdom.
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I have a high opinion of the American South and the only reason I didn’t move there early in my career is I would have been too far from my parents and extended family. However, from the view point of the NYTimes claiming parts of Australia are like the American South is very similar to calling them Nazis. At one time it was pretty common for liberals to call those that they didn’t like “Nazis”. There is more than name calling here. It is a defense mechanism for the liberals. In order to deal with the fact that so many in Australia, or so many scientists, or so many in the general public don’t support the climate change agenda they have to put these people into virtual containers of extremists who’s opinions don’t count.
Canadian voters have been giving climate change the cold shoulder lately. Come October, would the NY Times dare to compare The Great White North to the American South?
“The polls said this would be Australia’s climate change election, when voters confronted harsh reality and elected leaders who would tackle the problem.”
Apparently voters in fact did make it about climate change and told the “elite” to take their destruction of the typical ausie’s life and livelihood and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
So, people in the South must be full of common sense, and folks educated in non-Liberal institutions of like-mindedness. How dare they?
What happned New York Pravda? Reality happened t hats what the Land Down Under isnt falling for this Global warming/Climate Change load of Malarkey so just go and scram and be gone your message isa fake one and people are catching on OLD GREY HAG and ALL THE LIES THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
The NYT is having a problem accepting most of the world does buy what they are pushing . Basic business 101 the customer(voter ) is always right yet the politicians and their bag men insist on shoving their own agenda .
Man made-up global warming isn’t even in the top 5 things people are concerned about yet the politicians keep telling people what to think .
Big mistake and some politicians are real slow learners .