The ALP is the Friend of the Capitalists and the LNP is the Party of the Capitalists - how can anyone tell the difference?

In 2007 right-wing ALP candidates made much of the Seven Vultures that were feeding on the carcass of the Howard government as it flailed around shifting further and further to the right in its drive to populism with business and religious groups and with those who listen only to small sound bites from the mainstream media.

Those Seven Vultures of 2007 were: the denial of climate change; touting of the war in Iraq; WorkChoices; policy failure on education spending; poor vision of infrastructure; destruction of research and development; and refugees with the Pacific Solution.

Three years later and we still have Seven Vultures, but they are now feeding on the corpses of the Rudd government and the Gillard government as it lurches further and further to the far right with the same populism groups and intentions.

The only difference this time is the make up of the Seven Vultures has changed to: the homes insulation scheme; the permanently postponed energy scheme; the war in Afghanistan; the continuation of the ABCC and WorkChoices Lite; the mining industry deciding who will be Prime Minister in order to expand uranium mining; the school hall/library construction scheme; and refugees with the East Timor Solution.

I am sure this is not what government is supposed to be about: government by big business, hidden bureaucrats, vested interests and exploitative capitalism.

Once you take choice out of the equation you are left with a monopoly. Nothing but a change of the same old guard wearing the same old emporer's clothes.

"The long term left wing shift to the Greens is not an aberration but a consequence of the ALP’s abandonment of the pretence of leftism."

Yes, the green movement was infiltrated by the left and assorted Trotskyites decades ago, hence its "bizarro world" perversity and absence of originality, progress, understanding or tolerance of a dissenting view.

regarding the "abandonment of the pretense of leftism"

eventually everyone, with a functioning mind tires of the same old repetition of the working class mantra....

"Up the workers...."

Right "up", to the hilt!

It's ironic that Labor is dying at the same time that capitalism is dying. The old system of bosses and workers is redundant as is the current system of elitist billionaires and the struggling poor.

We are moving towards a crisis point where there will be revolution and chaos. Once the dominoes start falling, then will be the time to seize the moment, continue on with the work that the French Revolution began. They succeeded in getting rid of Decadent Royalty but the Wealthy Parasites simply took their place.

We must remake our world so that it accords justice, freedom and equality to all.

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David G “Once the dominoes start falling, then will be the time to seize the moment, continue on with the work that the French Revolution began.”

Ah the French Revolution....

Be careful of what you wish, David G,

The French which promised “liberty”, “ fraternity” and “equality”

But actually delivered

Tyranny

The Terror

The Great Terror

Mass executions

And eventually a dictator who ravaged Europe for a couple of Decades, before being caught and imprisoned for the rest of his life (still don’t understand why they did not just kill Napoleon Bonaparte in the first place)

So too the Russian Revolution with Lenin & Trotsky urging the proletariat to rise up against their masters, only to cheat them by starving them to death or imprisoning them in Siberia....

Capitalism is not perfect but it is better than the fanciful and demented rubbish you seen to be extolling

Regarding “We must remake our world so that it accords justice, freedom and equality to all.”

Better to vote Liberal at the next election – it will get you closer to that objective than a vote for the “liars of collectivism” (aka “Lenin’s useful idiots”)

One day the loopy Left will be amazed to find that not everyone is a "Worker'.

Howard was heavily supported by small ( micro ) business people.. the very people that Socialists will never be able to connect to, at any cost.

I agree , the old Capitalist System as well as the Socialist Left is dead.. but it will not be replaced by an ancient,academic, discreted Trotskyite Version