Political Elite Given a Welcome to Reality!

Australians are far more astute than the cultural elites who sneer at them

Welcome to Country loving elites copped a Welcome to Reality at the weekend when Australians overwhelmingly rejected their bid to divide the population by race.

And it’s fair to say that our cultural elites haven’t taken it so well.

How dare the “dickheads” and “dinosaurs” in the suburbs stand in the way of an inner city race fetish.

The meltdowns were epic, not least of which this one from contributing editor of The Monthly, Rachel Withers.

She tweeted …

“Based on what we are seeing, ‘No’ will be a victory for racism and conspiracy theories, for neo-Nazis and eugenics and assimilationist agendas, confirming for Peter Dutton that misinformation works.”

While actual Nazis were shouting “gas the Jews” on the Opera House steps, Ms Withers was worried about the ordinary folk whom she imagines could only have voted differently to her because they were neo-Nazis, with eugenics on their mind.

Meanwhile, ABC commentator Jonathan Green published this thoughtful analysis …

“F*k Australia. I mean seriously. What the F*k? How can you say no?”

Well Jonathan, I think you just answered your own question.

Writer and TV producer Kara Schlegl let it all hang out …

“F*k today.

“F*k this racist country.

“Saying no to First Nation’s recognition on the same day we enable the ethnic cleansing of an entire people. I have never felt more ashamed to be an Australian.”

Kara, like so many on the Left, likes to imagine that Australian Indigenous people and the Palestinians are peas in a pod.

Of course, none of that makes any sense at all. Neither does it make sense that listening to Indigenous leaders Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine makes Australia a racist country.

But then, when have emotional cry babies ever made sense?

ABC radio host and columnist for The Australian Philip Adams had a go at humour. The problem, naturally, is that no matter how Lefties might try, they just aren’t funny.

Here’s his zinger …

“LNP announces a piano with only white keys.”

He tried to B sharp. But boy was E flat.

Unlike Adams, I’ll be here all week.

The ABC’s Chaser team had a go …

“Opera House to be lit up in White to commemorate NO victory.”

Never mind that large numbers of Indigenous people voted ‘No’. Aussies are white supremacists.

Yawn.

Some of our cultural elite were just plain confused. Take this tweet from film and television star Guy Pearce who said …

“I’m perplexed by this referendum result & devastated for all of us, especially 1st nations people, but all of us who share this land.

“Are we so confronted by our history that we can’t face it? This is a great shame. Reconciliation will prevail in time. I am forever hopeful.”

No wonder Guy is perplexed. He doesn’t seem to have understood what the referendum was even about.

The vote was not about ‘facing our history’. The vote was about whether a special body, open only to people of a certain race, should be created within the constitution to …

… sigh …

… I can’t even be bothered.

Can we just agree that Guy was great in Pricilla Queen of the Desert during that golden age of Western civilisation before drag queens insisted on reading books to children?

TV star Magda Szubanski has had a big referendum.

In the lead up to the vote she warned that she was writing down the names of people who opposed the Voice.

Magda never said what she would do with those names, though it was safe to assume she intended to pass them on to Stalin, or was it Lenin? Whoever it is that runs the gulag these days.

After Saturday’s referendum result, I presume her naughty list now includes 60 per cent of Australians.

On Saturday night she cried …

“I’m so deeply saddened that this has been the result.

“To all our beautiful First Nations people…my heart goes out to you tonight I wish this had been different.

“Please know that there are millions of us who love and treasure and support you, that we hear your Voice and we will continue to walk with you.”

Does Magda really mean to suggest that the 60 per cent of Australians who voted ‘No’ to constitutional change do not love and support Indigenous Australians? Not even Kath and Kim made me laugh this hard.

Remember how Uluru Statement from the Heart co-author Marcia Langton promised that if we voted ‘No’ she would never perform Welcome to Country ever again?

Let’s hope she makes good on that promise.

She said at the weekend …

“It will be at least two generations before Australians are capable of putting their colonial hatreds behind them and acknowledging that we exist.”

Langton could unite Australia tomorrow by encouraging Indigenous Australians to join the rest of us. But she evidently prefers to swim around and around in her own bitter juices.

Far from refusing to acknowledge the existence of Langton, everyday Australians took note of her anger, and voted ‘No’.

Meanwhile, my beloved North Melbourne Football Club felt they needed to say something in the aftermath of the referendum.

The Kangas assured the nation …

“We will continue to stand with the First Nations community, and remain committed to elevating and listening to the voices of our First Nations past and present players, staff and community.”

I think we can all breath a huge sigh of relief.

But if the North Melbourne Football Club really want to do something for their Indigenous players and supporters, maybe they could try winning a game of football, having won just 12 of their past 83 games.

Otherwise it’s going to be a case of Always Was, Always Will Be bottom of the ladder for them.

Political Editor of The Guardian Katherine Murphy wrote …

“How I see the result.

“Head down in life, lost in a fog of conflict and misinformation, we failed an empathy test.”

It wasn’t the referendum that failed. No, no! It was the public. The public failed the Progressive project … yet again.

If only Progressives could keep the Voice and elect a new public.

Murphy, like so many of our political elite, seems incapable of introspection. It doesn’t seem to occur to her - not even in the face of a resounding defeat - that the referendum might have been lost because it was, you know, flawed.

No, no. It’s the public who are flawed. It’s the plebians themselves who are to blame.

Too distracted.

Too befuddled.

Too selfish to write the correct answer on their ballot papers.

‘Yes’ Campaign director Dean Parkin lamented that the vote was lost because of …

“ … what has been the single largest misinformation campaign that this country has ever seen.”

Let’s be honest. The misinformation narrative, pushed out by many (but not all) progressives is nothing but thinly disguised class bigotry.

When they say that people voted ‘No’ because of misinformation, what they really mean is that Australians are stupid and gullible.

In reality, everyday Australians are far more astute than the cultural elite who sneer at them. They have to be.

The average Aussie works much longer hours and for much less pay than those who label him an embarrassment because he doesn’t dance to his betters’ luxury beliefs.

Everyday Aussies live in the real world.

They want to enjoy a united Australia where Indigenous people flourish.

And they had enough sense to know that, despite all the pressure from above, the Voice would do none of the things they were promised.

On Saturday ordinary Australians went to the ballot box and performed for our political elite a generous, gracious, Welcome to Reality.

It wasn’t much appreciated.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong sooked it up, saying …

“It wasn’t the result we wanted.”

No. It was the result the people wanted.

Welcome to Reality.