Claytons Choice

It's scary that our politicians don't seem to *get* one of the main rules of politics.  Which is - "Don't piss off your constituents".

Or if you are going to do that then you had better make sure that your opponents are "pissing off their constituents" much, much more than you are.

Because the only way that an unpopular political leader and political party can get anywhere near the big seats - is if they are "much less unpopular" than their opponents.

And if no-one who votes is paying attention.

In the Australian version of pseudo democracy we have been reduced to claytons choice - the choice that you have when you don't have a choice.

At the next election - apparently we will get to choose between "Ms Gillard and the Labor Party" and "Mr Abbott and the Liberal Party".  That ain't a choice that I am happy about Virginia.  And judging by recent opinion polls - I am not alone.

One leader is hugely unpopular - the other is seriously unpopular.  Are we really going to install one of these characters as our next Prime Minister later in 2013?  I don't think so.

IMHO neither are up to the standard that we require of our leaders.  Both are consumed by power and both have put the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the nation and the people.  Post 2013, both will continue to pursue a crazy neoliberal ideology and a discredited austerity agenda and suck up to a foreign warmonger - along with other dingbattery.

Do Australian's really want this?  What are we going to do about it?

It really is way past time that we cleaned up our polity and discarded the rubbish that has accumulated across the political spectrum.