I watched a couple of videos this morning.
And I couldn't help asking myself 'At what point does democracy itself become so toxic that it becomes the main problem'

Senior ABC journalist caught on hot mic making ‘astonishing’ COVID admission
http://youtu.be/ZH2Z1URrRwk

This bloke seems to be admitting that bias within the ABC (because of anti-trump rhetoric) kept him from looking at and reporting things impartially.

What’s Actually Happening At U.S.-Mexico Border Is MIND BLOWING!
http://youtu.be/Or-nL97vwU0

This one was RFK Jr talking about 7 million illegal immigrants crossing the US southern border with the help of, and after paying off mexican cartels to the tune of 10 to 15 thousand each.

Because of fighting between the Trump position and and the Democrats position, a problem has remained unsolved, and the border policy might as well be set by the mexican cartels, and the US may as well be funding them billions every year to manage it.

- And think about that in relation to Russian sanctions, the collective west has done a pretty good job destroying itself for those sanctions, all the while the US government is more or less directly funding the mexican cartels to bring million of illegal immigrants in.
- It's complete madness.

I understand that democracy means we have 2 main political parties, but what happens when they can't agree and can't work together for the best interest of the people.

At what point does democracy itself become hamstrung, and not at all in the interests of the citizens who already live in the country and by the ideals and purpose of democracy are supposed to be able to determine a future for themselves?

i.e not a future determined by party v's party fighting and inaction.

[Cont.]
A dictator, would just move to fix the problem and stop the illegal immigrants.
- The US has 2 parties, but neither of them can do that.
Even a dictator if one hypothetically ruled our nation, would just reduce immigration and build more houses.
- We have 2 parties and neither of them can do that.

And how are they ever going to fix the problem rather than exasperate it bringing in 400 thousand people a year?

How are house prices and rent not going to increase?

Think about the government giving Qantas 2 billion during the pandemic.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/22/qantas-on-track-to-collect-2bn-of-support-as-morrison-government-criticised-for-not-seeking-stake
What do we get - 1000 immigrants a day exasperating the housing situation for the whole entire country?

The government is planning on spending 10 billion to build 30,000 homes over 5 years.
https://www.dss.gov.au/housing-support-programs-services-housing/national-housing-and-homelessness-plan

6,000 a year, and who is going to get those homes?
Not Australians, given the woke nature of our government.
Those homes will go to the immigrants.
'vulnerable minority groups' will likely get priority.

So who wins under our 'democracy'?
Not us, it's the immigrants getting the majority of the benefits.
- At the expense of everyone else.

And who writes the policies for our country? not the politicians,
- That would be the bankers, industry and big business.

Paul wrote: "Why are you so adamant they didn't say those things...."

Because I bothered to check. You should try it some time.

Foxy said-
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the French
Revolution when told that the starving peasant
subjects did not have bread responded with - "Let
them eat cake."( Cake being more expensive than bread.)

Answer- I think that Marie Antoinette wanted to give the peasants cake- not sell it to them- hopefully ScoMo isn't likewise misrepresented.

Antoinette's failure perhaps was more that she wanted to give the scraps of their party- highlighting the peasants position in society. Perhaps Antoinette should have managed by walking around as later American business systems have advised- rather than give an opinion of something she didn't understand. She wasn't bad just foolish- perhaps the communists are more bad than foolish- and current technology enables slavery by the government surveilance state much more effectively than 18th Century France. As Sadam Hussein said even dictators need to be aware of the will of the people.

In a sense I see the system as a kleptocracy- the government co-opts elected into systemically unstable actions and then they are buffered against those attempting to reverse it. Just shows how law and policy can be used to move the mass on the scale every against the long term interest of a people. Like the mafia- but wasn't John Locke's Liberal Democracy designed to replace gang politics- it isn't doing it.

Armchair Critic said-

-You know why there's a housing crisis? - Because it suits the government for things to be this way.
They could fix things if they really wanted to.

-6,000 a year, and who is going to get those homes? Not Australians, given the woke nature of our government. Those homes will go to the immigrants.

-At what point does democracy itself become hamstrung, and not at all in the interests of the citizens who already live in the country and by the ideals and purpose of democracy are supposed to be able to determine a future for themselves?

Answer- Kudos. It seems that our so called democracy is not providing value to the people. It's been hijacked by special interests. Someone should do a "Julius Sumner Miller" and investigate "why is this so?" Famous for the adverts of the boiled egg in the milk bottle. Foxy will be keen to say that he was Lithuanian.

"We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate. We don't have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Sumner_Miller

I believe that communist woke-ism also writes the policies for our country. But yes also global businesses are strangely complicit in communism- until the globalist communist power brokers have taken over the businesses. This is "not a government of the local people" it is a dictatorship as the declaration says.

Also thanks Mhaze again for persistently holding certain parties accountable for their own comments

Perhaps a native monarch would be/ is more democratic than our klepto-democracy.