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By Tony Smith, published 20/11/2007The grey vote should not be isolated from the general vote: older voters have precisely the same concerns as other voters.
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I actually like high interest rates to improve my investments. I think that around 40% of the population feels the same way, compared with about 25% of the population with mortgages who don’t. Interest rates are ‘high’ only because most people are fools with money and don’t know how to control what they have.
I don’t believe that I have “precisely the same concerns as other voters”, as the author opines and, for a fair dinkum conservative, there is really is no candidate in my electorate to vote for, particularly the sitting Liberal candidate who, like his party, is no more conservative than the ALP candidate who is a totally unknown female. There’s no point in mentioning the Democrats and Greens.
Now, I don’t expect people to wring their hands in sympathy for me. But I and other truly conservative people are effectively disenfranchised in Australia.
“You little beauty”, a high number of OLO posters would say. But the paucity of political choice in Australia is the reason we are such a soft, wet society where most labels say ‘Made in China’, and where national pride has all but disappeared under oppressive government multiculturalism and both major parties’ bone-headed high immigration policies and slack importation of so-called refugees totally unsuited to any Western society.
We don’t necessarily need a hard right government. But we should have enough realists in politics to restore the balance before it’s too late: people with more intellect and ability than the One Nation losers whom no self-respecting person could vote for.
No matter which party forms Government this weekend, we will continue on the same down hill run