Greeting Geniuses of the Highest Order,
I want to share my thoughts on this election. Something about it bothers me a lot: the cult of the leadership. I mean party leadership, people have stopped considering who will be voting on the Bills in Parliament. All they consider is who the leader of this country will be, and that position actually holds little power. The Australian People have been sucessfully distracted from the actual law-making process. This has been happening world wide, there is little focus on the process that creates law and thus there is no focus in the media on individual members of parliament. People in Australia at the last election and this one have decided to vote blindly. I think I can make an accurate prediction off of this: terrible things are going to happen.
Mediocre individuals become representatives of the Australian people without being properly checked by the electorate. Nobody cares about the Liberal Party or the Labor Party anymore - only the leaders of these parties and a select few influential members. All of the focus and hype is on Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. Julia Gillard is an atheist tyrant who has a personal history of looking down on people and believing they cannot think for themselves. That is what gets Julia Gillard out of bed in the morning: believing that you need her visible hand in all auspicies of life because she believes she is the only person who can get it right. Tony Abbott most certainly gets out of bed in the morning because he believes the Australian people are too stupid to use reason to roll back the visible hand of Government and that his special wisdom is required in curtailing the Government's size without much explanation.
Yet, from the case of where the vote counts primarily, neither of these things matter to me. People voting blindly for the secondary cause of the vote: who leads - has distracted people from the primary purpose: who their representative (MP) will be and who will be part of the law making process in this country for the next three years. Since nobody, not even Liberal Party supporters are paying very much attention to this part of the process I don't think Australia will leave deficit spending and the erosion of liberty behind anytime soon. Considering polls are incredibly close I believe we are at a political crossroads. Both major parties have responded by self-mutilation where they both steal the policies of one-another damaging themselves in an orgy of compromise. The Liberals are against Government action of any kind in benefit to the poor and instead subsidize the rich with corporate welfare, the Labor party are willing to rob my children to prop up my purchasing power now without concern for the long term.
Considering the orgy of compromise in Australia, I think it is best symbolized by the new budget promises of the Liberal Party. They claim we cannot escape the Government debt, and have given us similar treasury expectations as the Labor party with the only difference being that the debt remains the same size rather than growing perpetually. There is no defense of frugalty and austerity on moral grounds, on the grounds that unborn Children who will be paying this debt hold no responsibility to it nor free will in its creation, yet they get the debt and we get the benefits of their future labours. To break this down some more: Chinese lend us money IN EXCHANGE for the taxes collected from these unborn children. Where does the money go: not infrastructure but modern day consumption. Most Government money is spent on a welfare apparatus that allows the do nothings to afford LCD-TVs and great things with none of the effort of people actually living today - all of it is gained from the unborn generations of the future who will have to hand over more of this country to China to cover our past greed for the unearned.
So I've decided I am going to Donkey this election, it doesn't matter who I vote for, and because voting is compulsory I have the choice between either consumption tyrants (the Labor party) who want to rob Children so we can live outside our means now, or the corporatist tyrants who have a history of providing: corporate welfare even to foreign corporations, subsidies, cartels, monopolies, and all of it without any long term vision at all. Both want to consider selling vassalage in the form of bonds to foreign countries and central banks impoverishing our own children so we can have a little extra crap from China than usual.
Greed for the unearned is serious, and I won't have a bar of it so I release now my intention to donkey vote at this election. I will probably draw a giant cock on my vote.
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