This site is apparently ten whole Karl Marxes worth of leftiness. I'm leftier than Tim Blair is righty (9). I'm leftier than what Crikey calls "the hard left" (8). If you went any further left you'd break the "bias-o-meter".
Can this really be true? Crikey's description:
The blog moniker is not ironic. An onymous lefty, formerly anonymous lefty, is the brainchild of Jeremy Sear, aka the blogger responsible for Boltwatch , “where Andrew Bolt's Deranged Polemic ... Gets What's Coming To It”. Onymous rarely departs from an ironic mocking tone which he adopts to tackle all things conservative. Although there’s a tendency to rant as he rails against “hardline free-market righties” and anything to do with [insert reference to the US/Howard/Liberal Party here], Sear is indefatigable in his defence of the poor and disenfranchised. The Tim Blair antidote, if you’re looking for one.
Well, although I'm proud to be a lefty, to be honest I'm a little concerned that the summary makes me sound like a bit of a tool.
"There’s a tendency to rant as he rails against... anything to do with [insert reference to the US/Howard/Liberal Party here]" - really? It's not as indiscriminate as that implies: I only "rail" against them when they do something that makes the world a worse place to live. (Which, unfortunately, they seem to do reasonably frequently.) I'm happy to praise them on those occasions where they do something honourable, principled or just.
And of course I'm also critical of Kevin Rudd and the ALP (see my last post, in fact), although admittedly I'm usually coming at them from the left. I'm scathing regarding abuse anywhere around the world - it's not as if I condemn Guantanamo Bay whilst endorsing North Korea. And that critique is against anti-democratic and authoritarian behaviour. Is that really an exclusively lefty approach? I don't know that the right has ceded that ground entirely - perhaps they'd see my perspective as libertarian. On law and order and social justice issues, for example.
Also, apparently I need to vary my tone a little. (See? That wasn't mocking and ironic, it was passive-aggressive. I HAVE RANGE.)
But there are leftier blogs around, aren't there? Aren't there? Christ. Has the militant left disappeared entirely? Man, those communists were not only beaten, they've been erased from memory.
Imagine if the center in politics was defined as the middle ground between me and Tim Blair. Sorry, half a Maggie to the right of the middle ground between me and Tim Blair. Is that really the political landscape in Australia?
Doesn't that worry anyone? It scares the heck out of me.
UPDATE: LP reproduces the Crikey story.
