01.20.06
We must feel ashamed and engage youth?
Natasha Stott Despoja isn’t the smartest of lasses, afterall, Canada is a republic she tells us. I think she ought to at least inform the Canadians of that fact.
So in an opinion piece in the Adelaide Advertiser Natasha has spoken fondly about the latest republican campaign. Of course it proposes little, backs nothing, and only tries to convince us that we need to dump Australia’s working constitution by suggesting Australia’s future really depends on it. Woe is me, shall we turn into pumpkins if we don’t dump our constitution Natasha?
Anyway, as fun as it is to poke fun at her, one points of interest caught my eye;
We need to engage young people, not just because of votes and percentages but as a matter of identity, to ensure they feel engaged in the future of their country.
That’s right, the republic non-issue is all to engage the young people. We young people need it. It’ll be good for us. Yes, I’m a sarcastic sod.
If young people need a republican to engage them then our country is already pretty lost. Not only because people really don’t care about it (bar those who fancy themselves as a president), but because it simply isn’t going to happen.