Australian politics

Let’s see, I need to summarize this thinking and move on….

The problem with our representative democracy is that it entrenches two useless parties of rent-seekers that are only responsive to lobby groups and marginal seats. The role of media technology and the control of the media by certain lobby groups doesn’t help one little bit.

There isn’t a single MP that genuinely represents the people that elect him or her. They represent the party line, which is a conglomerate of wishes of the lobby groups that pay the party, media-owners interests and what the self-interested fuckers want in the swinging seats.

There are simply no incentives for people who genuinely want to achieve real goals to get into politics. When I say achieve real goals I mean, say, save the planet, grow the economy or introduce massive new social rights.

If people have the intelligence and skills that could make a difference then they are also smart enough to know that they can’t under our current system.

So we are stuck with the system and the idiots that we have and it will take one massive fucking disaster for anything to change.