While the ALP is the main political opponent of the Liberal Party, the ABC is its main cultural opponent. Culture is upstream of politics. So, from the point of view of the right, it is ultimately fruitless to occasionally defeat the ALP without also defeating the ABC. The ABC frames the issues for the opinion-making class in Australia, thereby defining what is politically possible. For nearly five decades now the non-left, even when in power, has not been able to implement most of its agenda. It is constantly playing defense. Politics has been like a ratchet: leftist accomplishments are rarely reversed, while election of a Liberal government merely slows down the left’s progress for a while. The cultural left has even subverted the Liberal Party, half of whom now go along with political correctness as often as not.