On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 09:27:16AM -0400, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > Russell, > > > This is because academics, worldwide, tend toward the left, and they tend to > it like a religion, but its more an ideology. An ideology being a faith > movement. In the US, the academics (nominally all leftists) lean strongly in > favor of islamists, worldwide. This could, in part, be that the Saudis > (America's best friend!) have thrown their money around to greedy pols. I > could send you news reports of the welcoming embrace, and statements of the > islamists, but if you're a convinced leftist, you won't budge a millimeter-to > quote old, adolf. I have the sales capabilities of maggot and thus, will > never be able to sell stocks and bonds or widgets. The people that do like > your current Rightist guy, in Australia, are likely not in academia. In the > US, this is called flyover country. Your clique are academics, thus everyone > you know bends left, and the rest are seen as ignorant rubes. I mean, > somebody elected elected Tom Abbot, correct? >
The general election was more of a protest vote against the previous government, which had become so odious (whether real or perceived), that the majority decided to go with Tony Abbott's lot. Tony Abbott's personal popularity has never been above about 30%, well below the the opposition leader as preferred prime minister. But personal popularity often doesn't have much to do with it, unlike a presidential system, I guess. Yes - someone elected Tony Abbott. The Liberal party of Australia elected him, by one vote over his rival Malcolm Turnbull (a far more popular leader). Since gaining government, Tony Abbott's popularity has sunk dramatically, so much so that the Liberal Party recently voted on a spill motion, which Tony narrowly won (ie was not spilled). We live in interesting times indeed. Yes academic people do tend to be "centralist", or "progressive", which in the current state of politics lies somewhat left of the Labor party, the traditional "leftist" party in Australia. But I mix with a variety of people, not just academics, but most tend to be fairly well educated nevertheless. I would say all of them are left of Tony Abbott, however, even though they may be natural Liberal Party supporters. But to restate - nobody I know is a jihadist or islamist apologist, not even the muslims I know. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
