Australian Politics
Red/Labor: Voted for by wage & salary earners, and public dependents. Benefits corporations thriving on monopolies, subsidies, public spending and regulation.
Blue/LNP: Voted for by aspirants and strivers. Benefits entrenched, middle-class, inter-generational passive income earners and their employers.
Greens: Voted for by vaguely educated idealists desperately trying to belong. Benefits no one.
Orange/One Nation: Voted for by the change-adverse, uneducated, stupid and the angry. Benefits nouveau mega-wealth.
It’s only now that One Nation, in its own self interest, is moving to properly wrap up the “loony right” into one party. For example, they’ve got Barnaby now.
I like the fact that every Australian is now represented by a proper party. Better one noisy paddock than a dozen little fires. Containment through preferential representation is Australia’s genius political invention. Give everyone a microphone and a compulsory vote, and they’ll build their own fences.
It’s not efficient nor effective but we are only looking after our own interests and no one else’s.
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