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Anthony Albanese says improving voters’ lives best way to fight rightwing populism and Pauline Hanson (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Firstly, I acknowledge that you're correct of course. Thankfully I'm not the PM and just some guy shooting the shit on social media so I can engage in this kind of reckless discourse. I'm frustrated and angry at the amount of harm people all over the world are enduring.

I don't want to diminish the suffering of the epstein victims, because they surely deserve to be acknowledged and they deserve justice, but sadly their suffering is infinitessimal to that caused by the current crisis. Billions of people are going to endure severe financial hardship. The fertilizer shortage has a good likelihood of causing famine. It's exasperating to point out the obvious things that everyone already knows and yet no one is willing to lay them at the feet of the buffoon that caused them.

My point is, that surely there's a point at which the repercussions we might face become worth it, just to be on the right side of history and refuse to enable Trump any longer.

Perhaps it's fanciful thinking but I'd like to see the middle powers take a combined stand on this.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Everyone votes and everyone votes in their perceived best interests. Which could look like anything across the political spectrum. For those of us who can agree with your sentiment, we need to recognise that there are those that perceive or recognise correctly these repercussions as insurmountable. So a combined stance is just yielding ground to whoever isn't a part of that stance. That said given how much ground Labor took last election, I don't think they would be yielding that much. But who knows, maybe most people were only 51/49 for Labor.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Actually I don't think that people do vote in their perceived best interests at all.

    My parents are elderly conservative voters. I honestly believe that if you had an earnest conversation with them about their voting habits they would ultimately concede that the left is more likely to provide better health care or better pensions for them, but God wants them to vote conservative because the left eats babies or something.

    I think most people would tell you that they vote for the party or leader that has the best chance at creating what they believe to be a utopia.

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