Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians
by inopinatus on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:11AM
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Giving me a choice of two or three mendacious, self-serving, incompetent cliques and then saying the one I grudgingly picked as the temporarily least appalling is what I /wanted/, is a bit of a long bow to draw.
Point soberly taken and understood through the scarring of experience. But then, what's the alternative to the cookie-cutter alternatives?
Start yet another micro political party doomed to the fringes? Even Nick Xenophon gave up after a few years.
Revolution? If you can't succeed as a political party how are you going to build a revolution? And does the ends justify the everything-in-between, along with the very high likelihood of potential failure and after-effects of such failure?
Maybe the silent majority have just done the maths already?
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians
by marcus_holmes on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:46AM
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Never underestimate the huge authoritarian streak in Australia. The Wowsers have always been a powerful force in politics, and the average Aussie loves the smack of firm government.
Most of the problems in Aussie politics can be laid at the door of the Boomers, who vote in idiots because they don't understand the issues and are scared of change.
Is there an option to call an election void if no candidate gets enough votes? Have to rerun a special election, and maybe get a solid percent for a writein who actually has a different plan?
Australians have become, in my view (happy to be proven wrong), very conservative because of the fact we've had it so good for so long, and therefore are a bit weak / soft and will cling to whatever excuse is presented by politicians that will appear to keep the good times rolling a bit longer, no matter how illogical the premise or how much it sacrifices a future just too far away to be scary yet.
Climate change and broadband as two divisive examples. They cost too much. Standing athwart history yelling Stop!