Life is full of paradoxes.

The general public know when they have been sold a crock, even if they don't fully understand all of its circuitous machinations.

Lorikeet,

The general public is mostly apathetic concerning the bigger picture, consumed with vitality only for his little patch of careworn responsibility.

" A world of ants with insurance policies." (Thomas Mann)

Lori, You say "I have been acquainted with the Greens, including an executive member, and a very high profile person." That's 2
Then you say . "I also know some Greens voters and members, who are lovely (but often misguided) people." These are obviously not the communist members, as they are "lovely people" and we all know from a right wing perspective communists by nature are not lovely people. Did the aforementioned 2 admit to you they were communists, or did you deduce that from the fact they kept calling you comrade and had Russian sounding names.
You say: "Most people who belong to various parties don't fully understand the agendas to which they are working." Does this apply to you, a party member, and the DLP?
How on earth, could you or me or anyone for that matter "know" what most people who are members of political parties understand or don't understand in relation to the agenda of the party. Please enlighten me as to where you have obtained this factual knowledge.

I have spent 8 to 9 years examining what goes on in the world. Our party leader, one Senator and an upper house MP in Victoria have let me know of their recent experiences of politicians in the parliament.

A lot are career politicians who simply go with the flow in order to keep their jobs. Some of the people elected know little of party policy and are simply driven by vested interests outside of the parliament.

At the recent by-election in Anna Bligh's seat, I spoke with people giving out HTVs for the Greens. I have found that a lot of Greens members support a clean environment, but not many of the other policies including:

Abortion (open slather)
Same Sex Marriage
Home Births
Euthanasia
Bestiality
Global Communism
Peasant Lifestyle
Excessive Empowerment of Animals (often supported by Vegans)
Devaluation of Human Beings (as above)

I recently received 2 plastic bags in which to put unwanted clothing, shoes, handbags and books for collection. One came from a charity supporting disabled people, and the other from the RSPCA.

On the collection days, I checked out how many filled bags had been left out by local residents, and here's what I found. The number of bags filled in support of animals outnumbered those filled for the disabled by at least 4:1. I think it is also significant that the disabled bags were delivered and collected first.

Similarly, according to a scientific project on the ABC, scientists are now holding 50,000 knitted body suits for the endangered Little Penguin, with 2,500 more arriving every week.

I think it is a dangerous situation when Australians are more pro-animal than pro-people.

Lexi,

Please point me in the direction of these Green policies you seem to want to peddle, you lob in rubbish with truth. With fair and reasonable policies that I personally support such as same sex marriage, home births and euthanasia
You go on then to add your own rubbish bestiality, global communism and something called peasant lifestyle.
You then add more of your own distorted view of the Greens with rubbish about excessive empowerment of animals (often supported by Vegans) and devaluation of human beings.
One policy many Greens support which I don't support fully is Abortion, I only support it in relation to life threatening danger to the woman as for your comment of supporting Abortion open slather, that is a view supported by a small minority of Greens. However I support sex education, and the available options for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies.

"At the recent by-election in Anna Bligh's seat, I spoke with people giving out HTVs for the Greens. I have found that a lot of Greens members support a clean environment, but not many of the other policies." On the day how many Greens did you actually speak too? is the answer one. I assume on this day you were handing out HTV's for another party. Let me guess which one, as I can't see that there was a DLP running you may have been pushing the HTV's for Family First Party, if that was the case you spent to much time grilling the Green and not enough time pushing the FFP who scored a huge 1.28% of the vote. I throw your own words at you:
"The general public know when they have been sold a crock, even if they don't fully understand all of its circuitous machinations." How true Lexi, just take a look at the support for the DLP and FFP, almost zero.

Lexi from your street survey of bags and then you add in something about body suits for penguins and you have come to the startling conclusion that Australians thing more of animals than people. Amazing powers of deduction