Everald is certainly suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. You would think with egg all over his face he would just shut up, But no like a good leftie he continue's to defend the swamp, push his rhetoric and ignore America's economy, unemployment rate and cheap energy. How can people be so deluded.

'My Government will invest heavily in Climate Change and together all Australians will become far more prosperous than we are today".

That's the kind of standard unrealistic academic quibble that turns the average blue collar wage earner away. Idealism bleating Govt handout depending theorisers with not a clue of the daily challenges, are gradually having their irrelevance exposed. It is only natural that working voters turn away from such elitist but incompetent wannabe saviours who have saturated the Labor party. Everyday people want & need practical policy makers & administrators not tax Dollar guzzling hangers-on with their insidious perpetual sabotage of anything beneficial to the working community by persecuting the doers & rewarding the hangers-on !

The centre-left will get its chances again once the electorate tires of the centre-right's struggle to meet the many policy needs in a much more competitive world than ever.

I don't think any side of politics can seriously claim to have the answers. I mean take a look at Australia with its growing policy difficulties.

And, yes, the days of a centre-left seeking to please every community sector with its simplistic feel good approach are probably over.

The left has left and are now further to the right than Mezies's liberals!

The right has reacted by lurching far further to the right, and no longer listen to anything but the echo chamber and deb laden, tax-avoiding, price gouging, profit repatriating, foreign investors? Their string-pulling masters?

And therefore are welded to coal? And price gouged, privatized power?

Like all extreme right-wing thinkers incapable of understanding that every western-style economy rests on just two pillars, energy and capital?

Think instead, how much the market can bear as they seek to impose economy wrecking privatisation, in the mistaken belief that private enterprise can always do it better!

And it can, just not the monolithic monopolies they preference and allow!

What we need instead of their prefered destructive, extreme capitalism is cooperative capitalism. On the understanding that co-ops stood almost alone during the Great Depression as the only free market, private enterprise business model that largely survived the great Depression mostly intact!

Why?

Because it beats the pants off of every other business model in efficiency and productivity! Hated by the price gouging exploitive, extreme capitalists because it rules them out and eliminates their investment opportunities!

Likewise also hated by trade unions because it completely negates their necessity or involvement, given co-ops pay top dollar and share all the profits, and have conditions also decided by the entire workforce!

And eliminate the drones and the bottlenecks!

That's why those on the right systematically dismantled them to the detriment of the deluded former shareholding partners.

Dairy, sugar, fruit and wool come to mind as co-ops that suffered at the hands of conservative governments with a born to rule mentality and a master-servant mindset?

Instead, should have been used as a template for our energy supply paradigms and manufacture! TBC.
Alan B.

Ponder: Agree and well said!

Runner: You should know!
After all, you are our resident expert!
Y'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Alan B.

Oh dear, poor Alan is moving even deeper into fantasy land.