It is horrific to watch as contemporary youth commits economic suicide before our very eyes.
The Saturday Paper describes the noose:
For Dashie Prasad, a 25-year-old union organiser, activism literally started at home.
Prasad left Fiji with their extended family at the age of four, under an immigration program that offered their father mining work. They settled in Australia only to find that work was gone.
“That job was taken off the table and given to a younger person. And so it was a bit of a shock moment for us.”
Prasad’s parents navigated a labyrinthine visa system with various factory jobs, until their father was injured. Their mother, who was raising three children and caring for her disabled mother-in-law, requalified as a teacher. Prasad’s father now has a business as a driving instructor.
Prasad says their values were shaped by their family’s struggle to start a new life in Sydney’s western suburbs. And their later conflict, when Prasad came out as queer, reinforced that the personal is political. “Through a bunch of that struggle, we were able to have very honest and very serious conversations about the political state of the world.”
Prasad learnt the best way to build connection with community was through solidarity and understanding of personal struggles. “One of the biggest issues is not being patronising, like meeting people where they are and then they’ll meet you where you’re at,” they say.
The marriage equality plebiscite and #MeToo were the formative experiences of Prasad’s generation, which is harnessing gender rights, racial equality and sexuality as part of a reimagined socialism. It’s rooted in an acute awareness that young people today are in a far more precarious economic position than generations before them. They see the evidence everywhere: unaffordable housing, student debt soaring with inflation, systemic poverty and discrimination against First Nations people, and the recurring floods, bushfires and mass extinctions of the climate crisis, while the Labor government contemplates as many as 116 proposals for fossil-fuel projects.
Young voters are responding by shifting further to the left. The popularity of Greens leader Adam Bandt among 18- to 34-year-olds recently surpassed that of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll. And a study this year commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs and Canada’s Fraser Institute showed half of that demographic in Australia now supported socialism as the ideal economic system.
“The fact that everything produced in society is in the hands of a tiny minority that makes decisions about everything – what’s produced, how it’s produced, whether it’s sustainable or not, how much to charge for it – that has never been more apparent than now, in a cost-of-living crisis where wages are going backwards while corporate profits have massively increased,” says Cherish Kuehlmann, 23, education officer for the student representative council at UNSW Sydney and an activist with the Get a Room campaign.
Why not grow a mo? Or stick a red nose on your face? Or any other corporate-endorsed charitable nonsense?
Let me introduce to these kiddies some real politics:
In Marxist theory, society consists of two parts: the base (or substructure) and superstructure. The base refers to the mode of production which includes the forces and relations of production (e.g. employer–employee work conditions, the technical division of labour, and property relations) into which people enter to produce the necessities and amenities of life. The superstructure refers to society’s other relationships and ideas not directly relating to production including its culture, institutions, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state. The relation of the two parts is not strictly unidirectional. The superstructure can affect the base. However, the influence of the base is predominant.
The influence of the base is predominant. For change, any change of substance, that is where you will find the power.
The Greens are not it. They are barely left and certainly not environmental. Instead, they are the woke globalists of multinational corporations. Here to promote gender, race and whatever nonsense kids identify with to distract them from the real problem, a class war.
The number one weapon in that war, number one by so far that everything else is virtually irrelevant, is open borders mass immigration.
The Albo/Greens mass immigration policy is directly responsible for rising rents and house prices. It is directly responsible for weak wages. And it is directly responsible for crush-loaded public services.
It’s so maddeningly ironic. The Saturday Paper is produced by a blood-sucking property developer who will get richer and richer as he publishes about kids getting poorer and poorer, owing directly to the paper’s woke value set.
This gaslit powerlessness defines the woke press. The Guardian is the same:
They are fed up with a lack of new housing, they’ve read up on the technicalities of zoning and heritage protections – and they’re coming to a local council meeting near you.
Historically low building approval rates as Australia stares down a worsening housing crisis have led to a chorus of housing activists and economists rebelling against the traditional opposition to any proposals to increase density from nimby (not in my back yard) residents.
Groups have sprung up in Melbourne and Sydney in the past six months with the goal of encouraging communities to say yes to sensible increases in housing density, and converting nimbys into yimbys.
This will change precisely nothing. Australia has just been through two massive dwelling construction booms and the shortage has intensified. All YIMBYs will do is make property developers richer as the housing stock and public spaces deteriorate.
The developers long ago banked all of the land. They long ago bought all of the councillors as well. They will drip feed supply no matter what YIMBYs demand.
Or, take the woke ABC where other activist youth is talking folly to power:
Hemi Edwards and his family have copped three rent increases since their family home in Warrnambool in south-west Victoria was purchased by a new landlord in 2020.
Seventeen-year-old Hemi lives with his uncle and his nan, and the jump from $300 to $460 per week has caused financial strain for the family, exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis.
Hemi has taken his concerns to the Victorian parliament with Moyne NextGen, a youth engagement program run by Moyne Shire Council for young south-west Victorians.
Hemi joined Ella Sheldon,18, Mijika Lus, 21, Timothy Reesnik, 21, Ashton Maher, 16 and Sam Hall, 16 at the 37th Victoria Youth Parliament, a program empowering young people to draft and debate bills of importance to their communities.
The team presented a bill calling for improvements in public transport scheduling, connections and ticketing, increased availability of social housing and education options, and investment in food pantries and local charities.
Good for Hemi. But what is Sring Street doing about it? This:
In May, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged that a lack of housing supply for driving up rents.
“Anybody who is applying for a rental and finds that they’re one of 25 different applications or 50 even … they can tell you there’s not enough supply”, he said.
“That’s why we need to make better decisions and make them faster”.
Now amid an acute housing and homelessness crisis, Andrews has told Riccardo Schirru from the Italian-language community newspaper Il Globo that he wants the federal government to ramp immigration even higher:
“Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has called for a bigger Australia”, reports The AFR.
“Mr Andrews said the federal government, which announced in April that all temporary skilled workers would be given a pathway to permanent residency by the end of the year, as well as an increase to the minimum income paid to skilled visa holders, needs to do even more”.
“This comes amid a national housing crisis, with property executives warning that a plunge in new home building to a 10-year low will collide with the arrival of a record 1.5 million migrants”.
“We’ve got a skills crisis – we can’t find enough people to play all the different roles that we need”, Andrews said in the interview.
Hemi is being mercilessly gaslit by both Dan Andrews and the ABC, which will intensify Hemi’s economic marginalization while pretending to care.
There is only one answer to the agony of Australian youth and it has been brainwashed from it by capital, government, education, media and itself.
Open borders mass immigration is the number one weapon of the forces of production that ruthlessly force-allocates national resources away from youth.
Nothing will change for youth until it does.
