Murdoch publication calls protesters against conservative Aussie government “ferals”
by David Atkins
As the damage to civil society from conservative policies becomes increasingly clear, the Right is going to become more and more aggressive in its rhetoric toward those who challenge the status quo. The conservative Abbott government in Australia is doing horrible things on both the economy and the environment. People are protesting. The Murdoch press responds with this:
I’ve never been a big believer in street theater, and I’m extremely uncomfortable with pushing the reset button that is revolution unless literally every single other option has been utterly exhausted. None of the advances we have made in America over the last two hundred years necessitated that approach; indeed, eliminating slavery was the consequence not of revolution, but of the quelling of an insurrection.
That said, if the plutocrats want to up the ante by using words like “feral” to describe people upset with plutocratic rule, they may eventually reap the undesirable consequences. It’s not how I would play it, but then I don’t have the evil hubris that comes with a sociopathic personality and billions of dollars in net worth stolen from the people who actually do the work.
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