AUSTRALIA'S MORALISING BULLIES FOIST IMMIGRATION ON US !

Recent polls show a huge gap between voters and the political elite which explains why we keep getting the mass immigration that most of us don't want.  

In 2016, the Australian Election Study found that 49 per cent of voters wanted immigration to be reduced. By August 2017, the Australian Population Research Institute found that 54 per cent wanted lower immigration, and by an April 2018 Essential poll, that figure had risen to 64 per cent. 

So why do the political elites continue to ignore voters’ unhappiness? One answer is that politicians ignore voters because they can. They believe that voters have nowhere else to go, except for minor parties such as Sustainable Australia or One Nation. 

The 2016 AES Candidates study provides evidence for elite indifference. Of candidates, 60 per cent wanted even higher immigration, including 67 per cent of Labor candidates. Labor candidates were much closer to Greens candidates and Greens voters than to their own supporters. 

But there is a second answer to the question of why voters are ignored. Taking their concerns seriously risks breaking a rule stronger than politeness. It risks courting immorality. 

It stems from elite origins in the growing class of university graduates, a class imbued with progressive [sic] values. 

A clear majority of professionals working in the media want even higher immigration, as do 49 per cent of university academics and teachers. Politicians and professionals are drawn from a similar pool of graduates, many of whom embrace progressive values including enthusiasm for cosmopolitanism, globalism, diversity and social justice. 

Within this world view, scepticism about high immigration easily equates to racism. For example, Greg Jericho writes in the Guardian Australia that “because there are many desperate to hate — (the subject of immigration) must be treated with extreme care by politicians and journalists”. 

This helps the greedy to pose as the virtuous:

The Way I See It.......that reflex helps to silence critics. It also gives the business lobby a free pass to enjoy the benefits its narrow constituency gains from population growth. As property developers bank their profits, they can claim to be on the side of virtue or, if that is too far a stretch, they can safely deplore any opponents as xenophobes.