Instead of competing with One Nation, the Liberal party under Angus Taylor is echoing One Nation’s divisive, hateful position on immigration and in Farrer is preferencing One Nation – a move that could put a One Nation MP in the House of Representatives for the first time.
Liberals in Farrer should ignore Taylor’s how-to-vote card and put One Nation last.
That’s where majoritarian politics fails. Sometimes unpopular decisions need to be made to help those who aren’t in the majority. And leave off with the patronising language. I’m not shocked, I’ve lived through it and it’s what I’ve come to expect.
By “majoritarian politics” you mean democracy right?
Arguing that this is democracy when most of the media is owned by Murdochs fash news, otherwise billionaire propaganda (vote coal!), and the majority simply believe whatever they’re told to believe… is like arguing that my pets don’t have stockholm syndrome, and legitimately chose to be with me.
Are you proposing an alternative to majoritarian politics?
No. I’m arguing that “democracy” is an illusion when your level of speech and representation is proportional to your wealth; when 99% of the political class, and journalistic establishment that controls and manufactures the information the working class are exposed to their entire lives, is owned and operated by billionaires/oligarchs.
But sure, continue believing our political system can be democracy while the entire economic system — every corporation — is structured as an oligarchy. Nothing fundamentally contradictory there. You can have any colour you want as long as it’s black!
Very strong “im 14 and this is deep” energy.
Everyone is aware of these problems.
Everyone, huh? If you’re so aware of our fake democracies how come you perpetuate the narrative that they are real? Is numbering some boxes every few years all that’s required to pacify you into defending the oligarchy?
Don’t play with it to much or you might go blind.