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Michael Duffy theorises that the dullness and selfishness of “ordinary people” brought Mark Latham down:
Latham discovered to his horror that most voters are not interested, that “the disempowered don’t really care” about politics …
The diaries even reveal that Latham came to regret promoting the cause of aspiration, because those people who climb the ladder of opportunity lose their concern for community.
My guess is that in the end it was not the politicians and the media but ordinary people who destroyed Mark Latham’s faith. He’d spent his adult life trying to save people who no longer want to be saved.
The lost election was merely the last step in this disillusionment.
Please, Michael. Get a grip. This is sickening.
UPDATE. Add Queensland Labor MP Craig Emerson to Latham’s pieces of work list:
Emerson – an untrustworthy piece of work.
UPDATE II. Melbourne Age reader Eli Nossbaum:
Mungo MacCallum’s ‘What if Latham had triumphed?’, surmising the utopia Australia would live in had Latham won, seemed to me at the time as typical leftist delusion. Now Latham has proved it so.
That piece was published on September 4. MacCallum has since had second thoughts:
Latham truly was the wolf in sheep’s clothing that his detractors had always feared … He fooled a lot of people, including me.
Just as well journalists aren’t responsible for electing Prime Ministers (me included, seeing as how I was fooled into voting for John Hewson, who turned out to be a sheep in wolf’s clothing. Another bullet dodged.)
You forgot to include the article’s punchline:
Alan Ramsey is on leave.
Is this the same Michael Duffy whom Radio National considers its token conservative?
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 09 24 at 12:59 PM • permalink
According to Latham’s first wife, Gabrielle Gwyther, he would often put on Apocalypse Now after a rough day in politics. He knew some of its lines by heart. Watching it would refresh him, she said…
Latham finds Apocalypse Now refreshing? Does “refreshing” mean something different Down Under than it does here in the States?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2005 09 24 at 01:21 PM • permalink
- Dave S… “Civilize ‘em with a Krag
Murder ‘em everyone,
And return us to our beloved homes!”In the interests of global amity, I shall refrain from observing which of our current allies our boys in khaki were marching over when they sang that…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 24 at 04:11 PM • permalink
Apathy? No, I think it was more of a ladderal shift, to the other side of politics. You know, the one that says holding down a job and improving productivity is good for you, and the country. The ALP now has such a stink of class-envy, pandering to moonbat pressure groups, voodoo economics and dodgy foreign policy, that getting elected will be quite a challenge.
Do you think this will teach the ALP types anything about the flakiness and self-destructiveness of their leftism, that by mouthing the shallow, tired cliches of class envy a vicious lunatic could get them to elect him their leader?
Nah, me neither.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 09 24 at 07:01 PM • permalink
This is typical Leftist rejection of personal responsiblilty for anything – it pervades the workplace, it pervades their personally philosophy, it forms the basis of the existence.
After all therer is no individual initiative in the collective mind set because they believe that all individuality is the result of conditioning.
Decades of post-modernistic claptrap in our our education system along with the implementation of their non-responsibiility agenda has come home to roost.
And be prepared for complete denial as Bernard Goldberg noticed in the US.
The arrogance of this position is just so, well, (several words deleted due to being rude).
I am an ordinary person and Mark Latham and Michael Duffy can kiss my big butt.
Some people cannot spend their lives pontificating about politics because they are too busy living their lives.
People also show they care by doing a range of things like volunteering and paying tax.
Just because such activities don’t suit Latho and Duffy’s worldview doesn’t mean people don’t care about stuff.
Get stuffed the both of you.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 09 24 at 08:59 PM • permalink
This just proves Mungo is dumber than I thought.
Seriously, Latham’s psychoses was there for everyone to see.
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 09 24 at 09:00 PM • permalink
To be fair to Duffy, he might be using the word “saved” in a facetious sense – more of a criticism of Latham that he would believe people needed to be saved, particularly by him. I haven’t read the whole article though so i’ll defer to others better judgement. i have found Duffy to be usually ideologically-sound according to standard centre-right protocols.
The little cartoon of Mungo in the Byron Bay Echo looks like he’s playing with his doodle.
Posted by Young and Free on 2005 09 24 at 10:31 PM • permalink
- Posted by William Bowe on 2005 09 24 at 10:44 PM • permalink
- #20. True. I was shocked to read that Mungo supports the U.S/Aust alliance as well!
Now if Mango can just get over his pathological hatred of John Howard, his powers of logic and reasoning may return.
(every day that John Winston Howard remains the P.M of Australia, a little bit of Mungo dies.. and that’s just so sad and unfair:(Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 09 25 at 01:42 AM • permalink
I’ve even heard Mungo acknowledge in public that the Whitlam government may not have been terribly beneficial for the country, and probably deserved to lose the 1975 election. All right, bleeding obvious to even the most ideologically blinkered, but some lefties haven’t even managed to acknowledge that much.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 09 25 at 02:53 AM • permalink
I suspect Biff’s opinion of Emerson is motivated by the green eyed monster. After all, Emerson was wielding the sword in Julia Gillard’s direction and we all know how Biff was and still is infatuated with Gillard. Jealousy, pure and simple.
Don’t know what it is that they see in her that they find remotely attractive. Perhaps it’s her massive ear lobes or is it the sound of her dulcet tones???
Posted by TruthHandler on 2005 09 25 at 08:37 PM • permalink
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Damn those stupid proles. Don’t know what’s good for ‘em.
Civilize ‘em with a Krag is what I say. White man’s burden.