Pete’s not a fascist.. ?
“Duttons right to dismiss this claptrap.” .. ah this may be true but its no credit to him. He isnt shall we say, cerebral enough to be a fascist. Fascism has ideals. Pete’s just an old fashioned reactionary. A Bjelke-Petersen cop, and a bully. Good traits to have for a fascist.
The real fascists, those with ideals, in this band of muppets we are unfortunate to have to call our government, are the Tudges and the Porters and the Cashs etc. The ‘New Guard’ of the neo-liberal Nationals. Its not so hard, even for an old anarchosocialist like me, to hear the ideals they pretend, the idiocies they talk to their mates.. they give you the links themselves on their own websites. If some new author was to reprint some tome on Corporativism, on Defense of Feudal Culture, on Fear of law from the previous century under an interestingly obfuscating title such as, ‘The Rules of Humanitarian Progress in the Future of Man’ ..for instance, they’d all be clutching it to their breasts on their Facebook profiles. Wonderful stuff.
It wouldnt be fascism though, this corporativism; it would be ..oh, say Market Liberalism .. Neo-liberalism ..corporate leadership, or in our Chiefs words, ” ..they’re rich, they know how to stay rich they know whats best for you, when they get richer they will make you rich.” End of questions.
‘Here’s to the Queen, here’s to Australia.. smile for the camera’