Some Advice Moving Forward - Maintain Your Rage

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Morrison — installed and kept in power by the coal lobby — had the gall to add, “We have stood up to these terrible disasters before and we have come through the other side. We will rebuild and we will stay strong.... This is the Australian way.”

To which I say, Fuck off, you conniving bastard. I don’t believe you and I don’t believe in your government. If your version of growing up as a kid in Australia is not to surf at the beach but huddle there with your family, maybe with your pet if it was lucky enough to be rescued, and watch your country self-immolate and your parents lose everything they’ve ever worked for, then sure, there’s no better place to do it. I don’t believe Scott Morrison, I don’t believe Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, that unmentionable buffoon in the White House — any of them, frankly. They have run out of ideas.

As it happens, by my bedside on my vacation is a slim volume called, Why I Write. It’s by a fella called George Orwell, published under Penguin Books’ Great Ideas imprint. On the cover it says, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Morrison and his fellow climate change deniers are the worst of a bad lot, true, but Trudeau isn’t that much better — maybe even worse, given his claim to climate leadership, a deceit laid bare by his championing of the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline to help smear our tarsands bitumen around the globe. When it comes to ideas about healing the planet, all these men offer us is wind.

Tears. They’re not enough, clearly. Anger? Rage? What else do we have as citizens who are constantly betrayed by a system that produces quislings like Morrison and Trudeau? It was another prime minister, a real one, Australia’s Gough Whitlam, who urged Australians after the constitutional crisis that led to his sacking in 1975, to “maintain your rage” at the injustice of it all. My country is burning. Don’t believe for a moment that any government is going to fix this.

Maintain your rage.

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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/01/02/Maintain-Your-Rage/