Boy, its hard at election time, to know who to vote for!
And why is it in November 2026, we have people like Trump who exudes the confidence, not of competence, but of a self made man. One whose focus has been for most of his life on himself, and how he can accumulate wealth for himself. We must be mad , or at least some of us.
Perhaps, it's not all our leaders problem either but because we believe too much in the self made man ?
You think of a few, I know some who should have left Parliament decades ago. And worse, many of them never made anything but a story to get a seat.
Maybe time to look in the mirror?
Maybe we are all in need of a good look inside the system that's failing us in the West .
We absolutely must see it because other political machinery outside (especially other man is master faiths) us can see it.
The ineffectiveness of the West in recent times
One of the reasons why Western non believers are now worried is because they trust, not in God, but in government and the law. Such a faith doesn't work and even allows and denies moral choices.
In the case of the " many parties problem "( That the senate ticket allows suspect groups to stand) Getup has rightly identified the risk of abuse, but has no answer to its use because the abuse is due to personal stupidity ( Jung says the only problem is man) and not to do with the problem of technology; the many parties allegiance opportunity in Senate voting allows for diversity and recognises the corners where we touch base. The case for having something like it is sound - if the people were not so stupid and lazy thinking.
For example . I won't vote Green first because the Green political movement is totally in its infancy, and no house should be run by children, and I want to insist that our children work in the public service professionally. The profession is being squashed and dumbed down simply because the Greens and other parties think they know how to do our work. The worst kind of boss we can have is one who thinks they know what they are doing.
Here 's the paradox; I do like some of the Green's housing policies. I do believe in Parliament, not in mandates invented by parties. Labor leaders currently have only 30 +% of voters who would back them. Our current government have no mandates IMO
Children maybe right about what we do wrong, but they are not helpful when the tough job of doing right comes along. http://dogood.blogspot.com
Tom Holland, the historian, is very helpfully talking about the confusion of the West at the moment. His book Dominion.
The rebels in the West are trying to do things with half-baked framing when the engine and the fuel for reform is denied. Without it, he thinks post modernist reactionary doctrines will fail, Others who would take over our country and degree of suicidal empathy note the huge weakness and waste that the West cannot see.
We also always only ever see through a glass dimly. When Pauline Hanson's Please Explain modifies her allegiances, she is only doing what we should all do. One reason One Nation party has appeal ( I agree that she will draw plenty of simpletons and racists but so do they all) is because she is leading , like @ABC Hard Quiz does with the full frontal. Plain speaking is not everything, but it is what we expect of parliamentary reps and unlike so many in hiding behind the loud party people, we at least know much of what she thinks, she is not prepared to be PM and she has changed her position -if only more did! ( that would mean the Parliament was working against ignorance arrogance and crass public opinion)
We are IMO all compromised creatures with suspect allegiances and its amazing just how much Grace we live under. http://graceware.blogspot.com
