This is just a casual observation. Obviously the situation is going to be different in different places, but I don’t think this is unique to where I live…

I’ve noticed this in particular with regard to recent local government elections, where the candidates, and the coverage, was far more focussed on global “culture war” stuff (Climate Change, “queer” shit, statues, dual naming, etc.) than on any local issues relatively unrelated to that stuff (population growth, infrastructure, rates, transport, roads, the local environment, planning, etc.)…

Culture wars defined these elections. Nearly every single candidate statement in my council mentioned them. But the media was the worst bit, particularly on the “queer pronouns” shit…

I’ve also noticed this in media coverage of shit like “defense”, and manufacturing. Everything is pro-globalist, and if you dare to support local jobs, or indeed suggest that, say, defense should be focussed locally, instead of effectively acting as a giant airstrip and dockyard in the coming WW3, you’re seen as a “traitor”/“against national interests”…

We see this also with other relatively local issues, like the national park closure I posted about last week, where most of even the “conservative” press, which are the only ones to even mention it, are, naturally enough, on the side of the virtue signalers and the bullying bureaucrats, rather than the local “whites”/non-Abos…

We also saw this during Covid, we see it in the coverage of state and federal elections, and we see it with, for example, the fact that fucking Kanye, or the UK political crisis, or the Lebanon refugee crisis, get top billing on all news, while outbreaks of water-borne diseases in the towns recently ravaged by floods (again, as I said, city folk just don’t give a shit) barely rate a mention…

It’s just fucking depressing. I hate all this “any global issue or event is more important than anything affecting local people” shit.

No wonder people feel so disillusioned with the media and political classes. No wonder…