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Political arguments have been gloriously mundane throughout Australia’s history.

How much tax? How much welfare? How much should Canberra spend before pretending to balance the budget?

They were family arguments. And nobody doubted what the family looked like.

Today, however, the biggest political question isn’t economic. It’s civilisational.

Because something remarkable has happened inside the modern Labor Party.

It has become the political home of four ideologies that, on paper, ought to despise one another.

Socialism. Islamism. Globalism. And LGBTQ activism.

It’s the sort of alliance that makes less sense than a vegan barbecue hosted by a butcher.

These movements disagree on religion, sexuality, economics, borders and even the nature of freedom itself.

If you locked their philosophers in a room together, you’d soon need riot police.

And yet, in modern politics, they march together with astonishing consistency.

Why?

Because politics isn’t always built on shared beliefs. Sometimes it’s built on shared enemies.

And these four movements have discovered they all object to roughly the same thing — Christianity.

Call it coincidence if you like. I’d call it a coalition.

Socialism

Take socialism.

Karl Marx didn’t merely dislike capitalism. He regarded religion as “the opium of the people” and saw the family as another institution preserving unequal power.

The goal wasn’t to redistribute wealth so much as to redistribute authority.

Modern Labor politicians aren’t quoting Marx over breakfast. I don’t think, anyway. But the instinct survives.

Whenever society encounters a problem, Labor’s first answer is rarely stronger families, healthier communities or more resilient local institutions.

It’s another department. Another regulator. Another taxpayer-funded program. Another government agency explaining why your children now belong to a “stakeholder community”.

Childcare, education, speech regulation, workplace culture — even family life itself gradually becomes something administered by Canberra.

Government grows. Everything else shrinks.

Globalism

Then there’s globalism.

Now, before anyone hyperventilates, international trade has been wonderful for Australia. Selling things to the world is generally preferable to invading it.

But modern globalism goes much further than commerce.

It quietly encourages people to think of themselves less as Australians and more as interchangeable citizens of the planet.

Borders become awkward inconveniences.

National identity becomes vaguely embarrassing.

International bodies acquire moral authority that elected governments increasingly feel obliged to obey.

The assumption shifts from “What do Australians want?” to “What does the international community expect?”

To conservatives, that’s not progress. It’s democracy outsourcing itself.

LGBTQ activism

Then we arrive at LGBTQ activism.

Notice the debate has changed.

Most Australians settled long ago that every individual deserves dignity and equal protection under the law.

That isn’t where today’s arguments lie.

The new expectation is affirmation.

And so from schools and churches to sporting clubs and businesses – everyone is increasingly expected not merely to tolerate contested ideas about sex and gender, but to actively celebrate them.

Disagreement itself becomes evidence of discrimination.

Traditional Christian teaching, once simply another moral viewpoint, increasingly finds itself treated as something requiring correction rather than conversation.

Islamism

And finally, we get to Islamism — that political ideology that seeks to organise society according to Islamic political principles, as opposed to liberal democratic ones.

Many conservatives argue Western governments have become oddly reluctant to confront Islamist extremism with anything approaching confidence.

When rallies glorify terrorist organisations, demonise Jews and attack liberal democratic values… official courage seems to develop an unfortunate scheduling conflict.

But here’s where things become genuinely fascinating…

Islamists and LGBTQ activists profoundly disagree about sexuality.

Socialists have historically opposed organised religion.

Globalists celebrate open societies while many Islamists seek religious particularism.

None of these ‘isms’ are natural allies.

Rather, they’re political flatmates who’d normally fight over everything from theology to pronouns.

Yet they repeatedly end up standing on the same side because they all identify the same obstacle — the traditional West, with its love of the family and the nation state, all informed by Christianity.

It’s that shared hatred of Western culture that binds these four isms together.

Four Isms and the Australian Labor Party

And finally, we come to the vehicle by which these four ideologies can travel together wrecking havoc through our neighbourhood… this is where the Australian Labor Party becomes significant.

Because Labor has increasingly become the institution where these currents converge.

• A larger state.
• Higher immigration.
• Closer alignment with international institutions.
• Expanding activist definitions of rights.
• Growing scepticism toward religious exemptions.
• Increasing discomfort with overt patriotism.
• Greater willingness to accommodate progressive identity politics than to defend Australia’s Christian inheritance.

I could go on.

Labor MPs call all of the above compassionate, inclusive and modern.

I would argue it’s anything but.

What we see isn’t a progressive, enlightened government, but a body — influenced by radicals — steadily shifting away from families, churches, local communities and sovereign nations.

The destination is not difficult to discern. Larger and larger bureaucracies, with greater influence being given to activist groups, tribunals and international organisations.

No single policy changes Australia overnight.

Civilisations almost never collapse in a spectacular explosion.

They drift.

One curriculum revision. One tribunal ruling. One speech code. One bureaucracy. One religious freedom quietly narrowed while another ideology gains fresh legal protection.

Individually, each change seems almost too small to notice. Collectively, they amount to something much larger.

Not simply a different government. A different country.

That’s why the defining political argument over the next generation won’t be about tax brackets or interest rates.

It will be about whether Australia remains a nation shaped primarily by Christianity, liberal democracy and national sovereignty…

… or whether the unlikely coalition now gathering beneath Labor’s banner succeeds in replacing that inheritance with something entirely new.

And if you cast your eye across the West, you’ll see this same drama is being played out right across the world.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image via Facebook/Anthony Albanese.