With the conservatives, it's ideology over reality

September 23, 2025

With the conservatives in Australian politics, it is truly difficult to overstate their utter dependence upon ideology over any observable reality. They have truly reversed the scientific method in their attempts to create a fantasy reality to replace the real one.

In the scientific method, you develop a theory, test it against reality and if they don’t match you discard the theory and develop another in an endless cycle until you get one that matches reality and is accurately predictive.

With the conservatives, they have developed a long line of theories. These have then been tested generally by the scientifically minded against reality and they failed to match reality. Instead of discarding the theory, they then discard the reality and double-down on the theory.

This might be seen by the ideologically less indoctrinated, to be curious behaviour, but there is method in their madness. If they can, through propaganda, convince the average punter to prefer their theory over the reality that confronts them, they have been successful at preserving the order that enriches and empowers them. It has worked well for them for centuries. Why change a successful habit???