What message were the Mardi Gras organisers trying to send to mainstream Australia still processing the fall-out from the US election?
It’s clear. Unless you fall into line with elite opinion and give us what we want the way we want it, we will marginalise you.
For Australia’s rainbow activists to send such a chilling message to the population via none other than their Prime Minister shows extreme arrogance and intolerance.
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Support us or else, you bigots.
All this is quite extraordinary coming from a lobby which continually claims overwhelming public support for their cause.
They claim this is true but won’t let it be tested at a ballot.
That’s because elites believe democracy has to be managed. The masses can’t be trusted.
Not only can’t they be trusted, but they have to be put in their place. On the eve of the US election as the Australian Senate was voting down the plebiscite, all manner of names were slung from the Senate chamber at Australia’s home-grown deplorables.
Tasmanian Labor Senator Anne Urquhart referred to the ‘rabid right’ and the ‘vicious anti-marriage equality lobby’.
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Western Australian Labor Senator Susan Lines said Australia was being held hostage by ‘a Rump’ of right-wing conservatives.
And no surprises that Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young spoke of ‘ideologues and haters’.
It is unclear whether or not Trump’s shock election has caused any of these political elites to think that their characterisation of fellow Australians who simply believe that marriage is between one man and one woman might actually work against their cause.
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