Popular vulgarian journalist Andrea Vance has written this:
"With every lurch toward the extreme, politicians become more brittle, reactive and combative... Ministers no longer explain or debate. They post. They lash out at critics in increasingly personal, petulant terms. And they don’t even pretend to hide contempt for the media....
Whether it’s tantrums, teardowns or rule-breaking, the result is the same. Compromise is out, consensus is dead and the behaviour trickles down.
It corrodes public trust and in turn feeds cynicism and ultimately disengagement.
Voters are left wondering: if nothing lasts, and no one listens, why bother participating at all?
There are no rules anymore. In their place, we’re left with grievance, score-settling, and a political class increasingly reckless with power."
Two months ago she wrote about how the Finance Minister did "girl math" and of course famously:
"So long as you are prepared to be a c*nt to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet"
Who is brittle, reactive, combative, lashing out, engaging in a tantrum, grievance and score-settling now?
3 comments:
Andrea just another muck raker along the lines of Duncan Garner and Paddy Gower (before he tapped out with ptsd after covering the 1st Trump election back in the day). As Peter Dunne would say, lovely woman, always willing to have a chat or text at anytime of the day. Nek minute.
the difference being, she is a muck rack journo so her vitriolic writing is expected and encouraged by her editor. Her 'Cunt' article single handedly stopped the opposition in their tracks during question time as Brooke can attest to. She is not a politician but does write about them. The point of the article is not expectations on how she should behave, it's about how she thinks Politicians should behave. I'm no fan of Andrea, but constant playing the man (or woman) instead of the ball by Govt supporters is getting tiresome. Maybe just leave that to Farrar and his posse.
We need to remember the only truly offensive ‘C’ word is communist.
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