Lots of election drivel today but some frighteningly poor analysis from AFR over the weekend that says it all:
Their timing was accidental. Their motives questionable. Their executions undignified.
This week three angry men, Michael Towke, Matthew Camenzuli and Raymond Drury, made small but notable contributions to the undeclared campaign’s obsession: the prime minister’s character.
The mission to frame Scott Morrison as devious, dishonest, and disingenuous has been a joint and substantial project by his political opponents since it became clear the election would not be fought over policy.
Unwilling to fight a contest of ideas – not without reason given the trauma of 2019 – Labor is waging a war against a personality.
Talk about cart before horse.
It is “Psycho” Morrison that has made the election all about himself, not Labor. The latter has piled into the irresistible void presented by the gigantic blundering of the former.
How has this happened? Simple:
- Off to Hawaii during catastrophic fires.
- Off to Hawaii during a collapse of parliamentary behavioral standards as rapes and assaults became commonplace.
- Off to Hawaii on spending integrity and corruption.
- Off to Hawaii on climate change and gas.
- Off to Hawaii on quarantine, vaccines, RATS, aged care, with two unnecessary recessions.
- Off to Hawaii on flood relief.
- Off to Hawaii on party unity.
- And lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie about it all, always.
Each of these shows a total lack of understanding of individuals, the community, the economy, leadership, policy, of the very role of government.
As individual moments of the Morrison Government, they might be put down to tactical errors. As a body of work, they are a staggering oeuvre of personal prime ministerial miscarriage.
This should not surprise us. It is precisely what we should expect from a “complete psycho”. Such personality disorders always make everything about themselves. They thrive upon division and drama with the end result being that all swirls about them while everything else is destroyed.
In short, the election is about Morrison’s character because there’s hardly a person within Australia that the PM has not abused or violated in some material fashion.
“Psycho” doesn’t need to be voted out, he needs to be taken away by the white coats, and anybody that can’t see that by now should probably go with him.
