It's a bit like walking into a crowded Liberal Party function to try to convince them of the value of human rights. Unless not torturing people or imprisoning children behind razorwire might somehow increase their personal wealth directly, the Liberal Party crowd just won't be interested.
I'm becoming more amenable to the view of the cultural warriors that the Left/Right political war might be over: it seems these days it's simply the "selfish arseholes" (Liberals and the powerful ALP Right) versus the "community minded" (a few remaining parts of the ALP Left, Democrats, Greens, et al).
The problem there is, you can't convince a selfish arsehole to become more community minded, but, community minded people can be exploited and conflicted by the arses.
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It's a bit like walking into a crowded Liberal Party function to try to convince them of the value of human rights. Unless not torturing people or imprisoning children behind razorwire might somehow increase their personal wealth directly, the Liberal Party crowd just won't be interested.
I'm becoming more amenable to the view of the cultural warriors that the Left/Right political war might be over: it seems these days it's simply the "selfish arseholes" (Liberals and the powerful ALP Right) versus the "community minded" (a few remaining parts of the ALP Left, Democrats, Greens, et al).
The problem there is, you can't convince a selfish arsehole to become more community minded, but, community minded people can be exploited and conflicted by the arses.