Via The Australian:
The Greens face an electoral backlash as voters concerned about climate change and asylum-seekers — and enticed by Bill Shorten’s softer policy agenda — refuse to shift their support to a minor party beset by dysfunctional campaigning and infighting.
Private polling from the major parties shows the Greens’ national vote remains below its 2016 federal election result of 10.2 per cent, despite the anti-Coalition sentiment that has helped bolster the overall Left vote in this parliamentary term.
…Grahame Morris, a former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard, said it appeared the Greens were being squeezed out of the contest as progressive voters decided it wasn’t time for a protest vote. Instead, many voters would be weighing up whether to elect a new Labor government or stick with the Coalition, he added.
Meh. What’s their point of difference to Labor? None.
It’s not that Labor moved left. The Greens moved right. Far to the right. The embrace of open borders globalism is synonymous with the crush-loading of the Australian environment, as well as the killing of wages and worker conditions.
I’ve dedicated much of my adult life to the cause of carbon mitigation and sustainable economics and should be a natural constituent for the Greens. Yet I find them repulsively hypocritical to the point of laughter.
They are the baptists that will enable bootleggers to suck the planet dry. The sooner they die the better so a genuine environmental party can rise again.
