Auggie wrote on May 20
th, 2019 at 7:16pm:
freediver wrote on May 19
th, 2019 at 9:39pm:
Auggie wrote on May 19
th, 2019 at 7:50pm:
freediver wrote on May 19
th, 2019 at 7:44pm:
You are turning a possible flaw in the current system into the basis of yours.
Incorrect, I am simply stating that if you're against my proposal then you're essentially against our entire system of government.
You cannot even be honest about what you are saying. You claim to be improving the system, but all you are doing is discarding the good bits and turning the flaws into the basis of a new, truly terrible system.
You can come up with excuses and justifications all day, but you cannot come up with a good reason. It's and entirely arbitrary change that could only make things worse. I cannot figure out why you want it or why you are carrying on the way you do in response to criticism. You don't know why you are improving the system. You don't know how your proposal makes the system any better. You don't know what better even is. You spent about 5 seconds coming up with a scheme and want us to explain everything to you.
It's a better system because it's creates stability.
I would prefer instability to absolute control by any of our current parties... chaos is the normal state of being - your kind of order is Nazism and Stalinism...
We, the PEOPLE that once were, do not want one party to have absolute control as it did in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia...
You're a foreigner, Augie - you do not understand democracy as it is exercised HERE.
Would you rather a Singaporean style of 'democracy' in which the rich get to stand and get the votes, and there are draconian punishments for silly 'infringements' and so forth, and in which the rich only use political position for self-advancement and not as service to the people?
You, from past posts, are an advocate of market capitalism - that never-ending Darwinian fist fight.... and you wish to extend that to the political sphere.
I must inform you - politics has no place in business - and business has NO place in politics.
NOBODY in his/her right mind wants some party dedicated to market capitalism in total control... as our recent history has shown, even with the rather watered-down approach to market capitalism of the LNP.
Softly softly may catchee Tiger - but not HERE, son. Australians are not going to stand by and watch a takeover of our entire political and economic life by market capitalists.... get used to the idea. Boiling Australian frogs does not work - they're too smart, and the tiny amount of actual violence in the recent election shows an underlying discontent with the entire political process.
Watch this space when the 'government' sets out on its market capitalism sellout....
It's appalling to see, already, that the media are spruiking some 'rise in the housing market' following the election...what a farken disaster for Australia and Australians. That market needs to crash and be replaced by one that actually benefits the nation.
2019 - Year Of Decision..... make or break time in many ways.... I expect to see violence enter politics...... unless the government toes the line properly....