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Why politics has become so bad : Comments

By Syd Hickman, published 3/2/2015

The fact that leadership change within major parties is now an annual event shows the entire political establishment to be out of touch with the Australian public.

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Yes to this article, but an overlooked reason for voter disaffection is the world in which we live.

The noose of the economic nightmare called market forces, renders all before it powerless. Especially politicians.

Little is likely to change until the mass of the starving and disaffected, exceed the power of the wealthy to ignore it!
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 10:07:50 AM
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diver dan

Your belief that totalitarian government would make the poor wealthier is plain stupid. It has been disproved both in theory and practice many times, at the cost of untold deaths. But short of totalitarian government, there will always be the dreaded "market forces" you complain about, won't there?

The scarcity that human beings are faced with is not caused by market forces, and cannot be made to go away by abolishing voluntary transactions, no matter how much brainwashed, confused and stupid people believe it can.
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 10:45:25 AM
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JKJ:

Totalitarian V Democratic , show me the difference! In one starving is dictated, in the other, starving is mandatory and ensured by unregulated market forces! The end result...No difference!
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:09:12 AM
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Could diversity have anything to do with the collapse of Australian politics?
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/politics/papers/2005/NLetki_social%20capital%20and%20diversity_final.pdf

How many people are members of political parties in this country? 150,000? 200,000 at the most, so less than 1% of the population are active in politics,that 1% I bet would have a median age of 50 or older too.
I don't see any way that a party could build up a significant supporter base in a society...whoops, nearly fell into the trap of describing Australia as having a society, pardon, a population where people self identify according to Left wing identity constructs rather than developing their identity through interaction with their peers and and adherence to a set of widely held social standards or norms.
For a party to grow a supporter base it has to appeal to young men, the only way forward is through the energy and aggression of youthful, heterosexual males who have some sense of the value of their own posterity, when a party has that base the young women will also want to participate and a natural rather than artificial gender ratio will emerge.
This is a huge task when you consider that surveys indicate 40% of Australian men have no friends,no social circle and are not involved with the community beyond paid work:
http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/2/4/i/w/7/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.1248jq.png/1418381188691.jpg
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/lonely-men-lose-friends-when-life-gets-busy-study-20141210-1248jq.html
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:46:49 AM
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Jay,

I've been reading this forum for a while now, are you tacitly refering to White Australians there?
From decline new growth will occur. Annastacia Palaszczuk's electorate of Inala for example is around 50% non-White; mainly of various Asian ethnicities. As enclaves grow, the parties can focus on strategies for homogenized sectors. That's the natural path multiculturalism takes that the politicians know about but keep privy to themselves.
Posted by Gaudium, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:10:55 PM
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Jay, the article says 1 in 4. That's 25%, not 40%.
Posted by Aidan, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1:08:06 PM
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