Does the Liberal Party still exist?
The questions turns on the ETS and what it is constructed as representing.
Obviously it has nothing to do with resistance to tax and big govt
This is the party that gave us the GST after all.
No, clearly resistance to the ETS is steered by the notion that one part of the party would like to reject the rational calculation of ….
probability, harm, risk and expert knowledge that is simply part of the enlightenment from which liberalism was born.
Instead, Stalin-Lysenko style, they would prefer to subordinateknowledge to politics.
That is not a split around an ancillary issue. It is a division on how the world is viewed and interpreted. Politics is, in the last analysis, epistemology.
In that respect the Liberals will cease to exist as a party if more than 12 MPs cross the floor on the ETS vote.
More in the newsletter tmrw. The illustation si from the British Israelites, one of the largest portestant sects of the 19th c.
They’re staggering on somehow too.
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