According to condescending and sneering Waleed Aly I'm uneducated because I voted "NO" in the referendum which cost taxpayers $450 million and would've created division and opened up the country to unintended consequences.
Discussing the failure of the Yes campaign, Waleed Aly explained that "the biggest dividing line seems to have been education." He went on to say that the "style" of the messaging from the Yes campaign failed to resonate with many voters from the lower socio-economic groups.
Yes, Waleed Aly, it certainly failed to resonate with me but not because of a lack of education. I voted with my feet when I left South Africa in 1969 because I didn't like their 'apartheid', and I voted "No" on Saturday the 14th because I don't want another 'apartheid' in my adopted home.
Perhaps the most important outcome of the referendum was that the ordinary Australians raised their voice collectively to tell The Australian Establishment — comprising political leaders, corporations, academia and the mainstream media — that they were totally out of touch.
They had the gall to tell the public that they voted wrong because of misinformation! Celebrities came out and expressed their outrage and browbeat the public because of the majority who didn’t agree with them. Their sheer hubris in the face of a crushing defeat was amazing.
Albonese, by presenting a blank cheque to the Aboriginal grievance industry, treated the choice of how to vote not as a simple academic binary proposition as did Mr Howard in the republican referendum of 1999, but rather as a test of each individual's moral worth and value as a human being. Albo was perfectly happy to stand by and see No voters described as 'stupid', 'racist', 'dickheads' and 'dinosaurs'. Thanks, Albo, you arrogant, lazy, moralising, and posturing lightweight politician!
Aly the Wa---leed best summed up how insufferable the elites are and the contempt they hold us in when he claimed that the messaging for the campaign was too complicated for the ordinary Australian, because there was a strong correlation between the level of education attained with how they voted. Put bluntly, he suggested that 60.7%, the majority of us, were too bloody stupid to vote as the elites had hoped we would.
Most of us would find this insulting, Waleed Aly, so take a running jump!
