Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy

We're all just getting along, now, ain't we?

Labor’s ‘values-based capitalism’ and energy policy echo Klaus Schwab’s ‘stakeholder capitalism’ that asks big government and big business to implement Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks. ESG is on the nose and so is ‘nature positive’, but with the Uniparty’s other leader agreeing to whatever Labor says about environmental policy, we’ll get it, and we will love it.

Every new policy and political event push us closer to socialism. Like cancel culture, you cannot debate it because then you are toxic or unkind or some other wimpy label. When you get cancelled or sacked for disagreeing, it is all about ‘empathy’.

Terry Barnes had this to say in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Michael de Percy goes hard against the socialism that now penetrates every pore of our major parties’ policies and messaging. I quibble with his ‘socialism dressed up as empathy’ argument, however: in Australia, major party socialism is rampant and it’s naked, not dressed up as anything other than what it is. He could, however, have mentioned Alexander Dubcek’s ‘socialism with a human face’, so we could add that there’s no Australian political leader who comes within a bull’s roar of the courage shown by Czechoslovakia’s Dubcek in 1968.

My opinion piece in The Spectator Australia, Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy.

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