tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post4981184320473902117..comments2024-03-29T14:26:19.827+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Australia's Dysfunctional Democracy.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-7108560640015690172018-09-02T00:05:09.430+12:002018-09-02T00:05:09.430+12:00On the mark.
In the light of falling party member...On the mark.<br /><br />In the light of falling party membership, and so capture, I think leaders should be more willing to split parties to seek support among the people. Cunliffe, and Turnbull over the water.sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-51089327843086220312018-09-01T07:12:27.291+12:002018-09-01T07:12:27.291+12:00https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-de...https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-democrats-still-dont-understand-about-winning-back-white-working-class<br /><br />This is a very interesting analysis.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-52667849144175256422018-08-31T14:48:39.721+12:002018-08-31T14:48:39.721+12:00'He who lasts wins.''He who lasts wins.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-17380259007129613362018-08-31T12:48:35.555+12:002018-08-31T12:48:35.555+12:00Normally I'd be rubbing my hands in glee to se...Normally I'd be rubbing my hands in glee to see a conservative party self immolate. Particularly one as right wing as the Australians'. Australia deserves better. But I also have some sympathy with people abandoning party membership. Why bother working your arse off to get someone elected, when they get most of their money from businesses and business people, and they essentially don't care about party members anymore. I've said this before but it bears repeating I have not been canvassed by any political party for years, except a couple of years ago once by phone. They believe with some justification, that they can better tell the way people are going to vote by looking at social media than going round to their houses and asking them.<br />And if MPs are treated as just another highly paid public servant, that's pretty much what they are. They have become part of a political class that has very little to do with the people they are supposed to serve. I wonder how many of them send their kids to the local high school. Many years ago I remember talking to Fraser Coleman at a parents' evening. I guarantee this doesn't happen outside of the private system and Auckland Grammar or whatever these days.<br />Mind you I also sort of feel a bit betrayed having stumped a bit for Mike Moore years ago to find that he was a secret wingnut libertarian or something. You begin to ask yourself "what's the point?" I think the point disappeared sometime round about 1984.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com