• Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    Funny how 67%of Australians think Australia should be a world leader in finding solutions to climate change and 66% of Australians think the Australian Government should stop new coal mines but our government does the opposite. It’s like maybe our representative democracy isn’t that democratic and only representative of the extraction industries.

    • Nonameuser678
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      The fossil fuel industry pays for access to politicians that we don’t have.

    • Ilandar
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Who cares what Australians say they “think” when their behaviour suggests the complete opposite? People keep voting for these dogshit major parties because, deep down, they don’t actually care as much as they pretend to in anonymous polls and surveys.

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 year ago

        Or maybe preferential voting just makes even a protest vote work for the red and blue team? Maybe Compulsory voting makes the 30+% of politically illiterate people swing the whole system towards the main 2 parties? Maybe we only have dogshit parties to vote for because of the significant amount of money required to run a successful campaign?

        But no of course it is the fault of individuals for voting for shitty parties… because they have so many other options.

        • Ilandar
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          For decades we’ve had a third party with green colours, green in their name, that goes to every election with policies based largely around climate change and puts up a candidate in every seat. At the most recent election, only 12% of voters put them first on the ballot. You can piss your pants and cry about how rigged “the system” is, or pretend that 88% of Australian voters are retarded, or you can just accept reality. People really don’t care as much as they pretend to and when they are given an opportunity every three years to prove otherwise, they fail spectacularly.

          • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            If 30% of voters didn’t vote because they don’t care the majority of them would not be greens voters. so that would have the all the other parties splitting 58% of the vote vs the greens 12%. Then you factor in how many of the minor parties would out due their local red/blue regular because his support has dipped 30%.

            You end up with a green party that is on par with the reds and blues and a gaggle of minor parties/independents without even fixing the preferential system or the fucked up donation laws.

            The system is the problem not the people.