“Faceless Men” of both colours a fright
Miranda Devine hits the nail on the head of what could well be the nail in the coffin for the Australian Labour Party in today’s federal election: “the faceless men” (News Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August, 2010, page 9).
“Win, lose or draw, the unscrupulous gamble by Labour’s factional and union heavies to remove a democratically elected prime minister eight weeks ago and rush to an election has not been a triumph for Labour or Julia Gillard.”
But it is not just the “faceless men” of Labour … it is all such “men” of any political persuasion that horrify me in their power and ability to ride rough shod over the entire democratic process that we have fought wars to retain.
These power brokers provide the incendiary material for leaders’ speeches, catering for democracy at its lowest possible level. They make it their business to bamboozle readers who have only reached a reading age of eleven by couching their message in words of more than one syllable.