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I’m reading a Guardian article by Amanda Mead about Lucy Zelić, and I’ve just got stuck here — because it’s an examplar::

‘Zelić joined the Daily Telegraph as a columnist in May, and this month branched out as an afternoon host on Nine Radio’s 2GB. At the Tele she has written extensively about her opposition to trans women competing in women’s sport and attempting to be housed in women’s prisons. She has argued that childcare is harmful for children: “You’ll have to forgive me for longing for the days where our fathers went to work, our mothers spent our formative years at home with us and blocks of land cost as little as $400.” ‘

That’s is isn’t? That’s the definition of a conservative mindset, an #LNP mantra, ‘longing for the days when <insert whatever nostalgia comes to mind here>.’ I’m no psychologist (They’d have much more to say on this) but I’m guessing the kind of people afflicted with this lack of imagination, lack of optimism, unable to assimilate the lessons of the past and afraid of all challenges emerging from an evolving society aren’t exactly the kind of people you’d want to help solving contemporary problems. In fact, nostalgic curmudgeons are the only people who would vote for them. We all know someone like that. They have nothing to offer to our future well-being but less of the well-being.

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