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The other way round not so much.
Related: there’s a thing out there on the Left, manly amongst the young on the Left. That if they’d been in Hitler’s 1930s Germany, they would have Resisted. The would have been a part of the White Rose underground. It’s a nice conceit. We’d all love to think of ourselves that way wouldn’t we?
But: all these luvvies were the first, in the pandemic, to buckle down to the mandates and orders-from-on-high, all the lockdowns, all the government’s rules and demands and police brutalities. (I saw them, in Melbourne, kicking and beating old ladies who’d let a mask drop below the nose). And putting up with, supporting, people being kicked out of jobs. Of people having their bank accounts stopped, because they hadn’t had the vaccine. Of hating on parents who wanted their children to go to school. All of that nonsense. No resistance.
So, they say, but that was necessary for the benefit of us all. It was responsible. But that was a small demand, relative to that of Hitler in the 30s. Yet you gave in to it. No questions asked. And to those that did ask questions -- and yes, there were many -- you called them the “covidiots”, with “blood on your hands” from “killing grandma”. So why do you assume that you’d be “resisting’ when the demand to buckle is much stronger? As it was from Hitler. And Goebells. Who told us about the perfidy of the jews, who made you poorer, who took the food from your children’s mouths, who were rapacious, who were squids with tentacles on the body Germanic? And you think, you now claim, you would have resided that?
I got to thinking about this from listening today to the ABC Radio Canberra, reporting on a Canberran, Jasmin Pool, who is in England and has been invited along to the Coronation of King Charles III, tomorrow, 6 May. She told us -- as if she was “resisting” -- that she was a republican, and didn’t support the monarchy. The host, Anna someone-or-other on the ABC, clearly agreed with her, but wasn’t quite allowed to say, and I thought that all of Anna’s and all of Jasmin’s and, I’m guessing, all of my friends in Canberra would think the same. They’re all republicans. Because they’re all republicans! They all “Resist”. They “resist” in lockstep, showing their solidarity, with each other. When they’re not otherwise busy signing online petitions.
It’s easy to be a Leftie. Just go along. And say you’re a staunch resister. Speaking truth to power. And then you’re in good company. With all your friends. And no-one will hate you. You’re fine.
