Thread by @GideonCRozner

Ah I see - It's not that public institutions are out of step with the community, it's that people are too stupid to realise that a bloke on AM radio is manipulating them into being 'afraid, cynical and distrusting' of the warm embrace of the state.

https://twitter.com/LaTrioli/status/1163996983301832704

And more to the point, the real 'privilege and power' here is vested in the taxpayer-funded, omnipresent media juggernaut.

Jones' voice relies on the goodwill of people voluntarily tuning in. The ABC derives theirs from other people's money obtained by force of law.

For all their sanctimonious bleating about the importance of an 'independent media', the left are staggeringly hostile to dissenting points of view.

(And before anyone @'s me, Trioli obviously has the right to criticise Jones, and Koala can direct their ad spend wherever they like - and would be far from the first company to engage in asinine virtue-signalling. But I draw the line at the lynch mob hounding Jones off the air.)

Now of course, Jones isn't everyone's cup of tea. But there is a simple mechanism for that: Don't listen to him.

But of course, it's not about that. It's not enough that the left have the option of not listening to Jones, they need to prevent the rest of us from doing so.

And that's the rub. It's not even really about Alan Jones himself, it's about his audience - About the Australian mainstream that the left can't bring itself to understand, let alone appeal to. The basket of deplorables for which the chattering classes have thinly-veiled disdain.

In other words, the frustration that despite the left's best efforts, people are voting with their feet and flocking to commentators who espouse common sense, limited government, fundamental freedoms, the dignity of the individual, and reject the dead-end of identity politics.

Phew. I feel much better now.

#CarryOn