Katherine Deves is a drama

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I don’t want to write this. I swore to myself that I would not address Katherine Deves in any way. It’s unbearably irrelevant to an election campaign with a backdrop of existential national threat.

But, alas, the idiot media is now obsessed with it so I am now forced to ask why? Is it trans people? Is it Millennials. Is it identity politics? Is it policy formulation? Is it a moral crisis?

It is none of the above. There is no proposal or policy change to discuss. It is what we can label a “drama”. A fabricated and emotive shitfight that serves the ends of the person that started it as a distraction, an instrument of coercive control or bullying.

That is, it serves the interests of “Psycho” Morrison by enraging loons of the left and right. Corrupt media of the right follows its leader. Useful idiots of the media left buy-in. This creates a chaos of unreason and hysteria that, ironically, makes Morrison appear a centre of stability as the group he leads tears itself apart.

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This is a personality disorder substituting for governing in the national interest.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.