Australia’s Newest Party Supports Trump 100%!

“Good Afternoon, in the studio today we have Alfonso McGillicuddy, candidate for the Arts Party who has just issued a press release saying that Donald Trump hasn’t gone far enough and wants all Muslims to be compelled to wear a yellow crescent on their clothes. Mr McGillicuddy, what do think this would achieve?”
“Absolutely nothing.”
“Then why do you think it should happen?”
“I don’t.”
“What about your press release?”
“Well, I’ve been saying intelligent things about the Arts for twelve months now and you keep interviewing nuph-nuphs like Malcolm Roberts, so I thought if I said something totally ridiculous then I’d be able to get on your program where I could point out how many people the Arts industry employs either directly or indirectly…”
“But that’s dishonest.”
“Oh, so I should have waited until you asked me how I support the same sorts of policies that Hitler used, at which point I could have said that when you put it like that, I’ve changed my mind and with the dead air time I could have quickly asked you if you knew how many people make their living from the Arts?”
“Hang on, comparing things to Hitler is a little extreme. He killed six million Jews, after all.”
“All right, let’s get back to talking about the Arts…”
“No, I’m not prepared to give you airtime to put forward your policies when you’ve misrepresented them in order to get airtime!”
“Oh, so I was genuinely an anti-Islamic idiot or a climate change denier, you’d give me time, but not if I’ve only done that to try and get an interesting discussion about the role of the Arts in our society! Ok, then, how about if I ask why no Christian leaders have condemned the shootings in the Quebec mosque by a white student? Is that extreme enough to get me a chance to express my point of view?”

All right…
I’m one of those wankers who’s joined the Arts Party, so you could consider the above a political ad.

But – and this is the really important point – you hear almost nothing about them. Or indeed, you don’t hear arguments from lots of people. There are lots of people out there with important things to say, and we rarely hear from them. We ignore significant sections of the community. But suddenly, we need to hear from the less than ten percent – according to a poll, not any election – who voted for One Nation. Because Malcolm Roberts can assert things. And demand evidence from others. Real evidence, not evidence from people who are manufacturing stuff that doesn’t back up what he believes. That makes for a good program.

And Pauline Hanson can tell us that she’s not a puppet, that was right wasn’t it, James, I’m not a puppet, I’m just here standing up for people like us who got screwed by the Liberal Party, and, sorry, I didn’t quite catch that, but let me just say, people, love Trump because he’s the same colour as me… in the hair, I mean, I’m not a racist, in spite of what those foreigners say…

Trump’s team managed to do this all the way to the Whitehouse.

When I wrote this last year, I thought I was joking…

But after he just sacked the Attorney-General today, I have to wonder if I wasn’t closer to the truth than any political commentator who tried to predict the way things would happen.

This may be why the Arts is important. It gives you a concept of how absurd things can get if you don’t pay attention. Although George Orwell wrote “1984” years ago and it doesn’t seem to have helped beyond giving the Trumpets a “Fascism for Dummies” guide…

COME ON RUSSELL, WHERE’S YOUR REVOLUTION WHEN WE NEED IT??