Via Domain:
“I don’t know what the platform is,” says one despondent activist of the Greens’ campaign. “I don’t even know what the f—ing slogan is.”
…Now a long-term parliamentary staffer, Jack Gough, is also resigning, telling the Herald that he believes those scientists who say the world has only a dozen or so years to act on climate change. In his view, a hard-left faction in the NSW Greens is determined instead to focus on a quixotic campaign to dismantle capitalism in the cause of revolutionary socialism.
In a Facebook post announcing his departure to members last week he wrote: “While the global Green movement represents me and my political philosophy, the NSW Greens no longer do.”
…Given that heritage, it is not surprising that tension has long simmered within the party. Some prominent figures, such as former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne and the party’s first NSW MP, Ian Cohen, were always identified as being driven by environmentalism. Others such as the former NSW MP and senator Lee Rhiannon, the serving MP David Shoebridge and the former MLC John Kaye, who died in office in 2016, were seen as proponents of the social and political reform. Rhiannon, whose parents were active in the Communist Party of Australia, edited the magazine Survey, a monthly digest of trends in the Soviet Union from 1988 until it closed in 1990.
No wonder they are dying. Rhiannon, Jenny Leong and others don’t even know what communism is. It may be internationalist but it’s not about open borders to the benefit of globe trotting corporations. The so-called Green left are nothing more than the useful idiots of the open borders right whose only reason for being is the arbitrage of labour costs across different countries and jurisdictions.
For The Greens, this is made all the more confusing by the conflicting demands of addressing climate change. Carbon mitigation has to be addressed via the extant mechanism of the nation state or it will fail worldwide. You can’t and will never succeed in imposing a ‘human identity’ in time. Neither people nor the system is built that way.
At the same time carbon mitigation must be addressed by some form of global governance. That will necessarily entail sacrifices of sovereignty by states. And, if they fail to bow to the greater good, enforcement by global will (government).
As the Garnaut Review put it, it is a diabolical challenge.
But for the political party formed and charged with prosecuting the cause, to allow this multi-polar ideological challenge to supersede the priority of simply keeping climate change and conservation front and centre of everything that they do is fatal.
That is the fault of the Fake Left Greens and their deeply confused media cheer squad.
