Hard-right conservatives: Mental defectiveness due to black holes

WARNING: NO HOLDS BARRED HERE

We hear talk about left-wing intellectuals, but I can’t recall ever hearing about a right-wing intellectual of any merit. To me the term is an oxymoron with the emphasis on moron.

For politicians, to be right wing is to be conservative by definition, and the more so, the less intellect, to the point where hard-right conservatives lose all sense and reason. They do understand that socks go on before shoes, and undies before pants, but thought processes are seriously deficient.

There must be vital brain lobe cortices that never developed, leaving black holes - emotional and mental voids.

This sounds brutal, but when this mental defectiveness translates into brutal treatment of one’s fellow man and the environment, there are no holds barred for mine.

In normal people, these cortices are filled with the attributes of kindness, goodwill and fairness, to name a few. Ethical and moral behaviours are derived from these lobe regions. The list is as long as there are positive human qualities.

To me, a true political intellectual is a person who objectively challenges traditional assumptions and the status quo in pursuit of legitimate democracy, integrity and social justice. Opinions are evidence-based and the product of earnest thought. Ideological depth is a natural by-product.

Sadly, the qualities of intellectualism are of scant concern to most politicians, and the dearth of ideological integrity is depressing. These days, ideological pursuit across most parties has been replaced by the quest to fill voids with policies that polling dictates – unless powerful lobby groups say otherwise.

By blowing in the winds of polling directions, parties lose sight of what their voter bases are or should be or eventually, were.

Consequently, the electorate is left confused about what various parties actually stand for, because the parties themselves don’t even know. Little wonder that traditional voter base delineations have disappeared.

Enter the Liberal Party where conversely, far-right members are so lost in their own black hole syndromes that they even ignore polling. Seemingly they are “born to rule” and the opinions of the masses matter nil – except at elections, but even then, voters sent clear wakeup calls to deaf ears in 2022 and 2025.

According to these strange Liberals, it is apparently perfectly reasonable to hold and express views of social inequity, racial vilification, divisiveness, sexism, gender inequality, homophobia, xenophobia (and climate denial).

Of course, the far right does not hold a monopoly on being morally bankrupt. Think of recent centre-right Liberal prime ministers Abbott and Morrison as exponents of these abominations.

Pauline Hanson as champion of Australian bigotry, continues to attract far more media attention than she deserves. She is renowned for her opposition to the Racial Discrimination Act Section 18C. To have told a fellow senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” is allowable, Hanson claims as she appeals a Federal Court ruling.

Hanson’s One Nation holds a polling approval of 15%. We can take it that 85% of voters disagree with her. But she is newsworthy, and her excessive coverage only emboldens her bigoted ratbag base. Such is the Hanson brand of populism.

Incredibly, the May election Liberal conservative remnants are scrambling to steal Hanson’s votes. They should know that nobody does far-to-extreme-right better (or worse) than Pauline. And yet, they still have not a clue about which voter demographic they belong to. Truth is, they don’t belong anywhere.

And now in November 2025, having learnt nothing from the May election disaster, they are openly posturing to get rid of moderate leader Sussan Ley and take over the front bench. They are making their already serious women problem far worse, and making themselves look like a political species fast approaching extinction.

To put it another way. These black hole conservatives possess strange desires to destroy their own party in the belief that their way is the only way for the party, which will not exist, to survive. Very weird !

The Liberal Party’s “born to rule” ethos will be its own nemesis.