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Left in Limbo 
Australia badly needs some independent formal, disciplined, political analysis.
From my experience, the so-called independent sites who imagine themselves the last havens of progressiveness are inclined to be reactionary in the extreme; homes for carping dogmatists, and downright liars, and crazy fabulists, who turn ferociously on any visitor who does not agree with the house doctrine. They can be sad and pathological.
I hope you may have the time to work on some analysis of the purposeless atmosphere of progressive politics in Australia – an atmosphere far worse in this regard than the U.S.
May I suggest an analysis of the insular and reactionary inclinations of one or two so-named independent sites that I know you have experienced. They harbour so much that is both listless and fanatical.
Their response to any disagreement is anti-intelectual and regressive.
It would be nice, just somewhere, anywhere, to have some constructive disagreement, where different sides in an argument could even learn from each other even – instead of the abuse and threats triggered merely by a visitor who does not follow the repetitive, formulaic consensus, and even dares to argue her case.
‘anti-intellectual’ – for some reason either spellcheck did not signal or I did not notice it.