I don’t disagree with your frustrations, but it’s easy to say something is not good enough without also providing something that is.
I’m not a politician and it’s not my job to write environmental policy.
Even if I were to write you a policy that was flawless in every way, what good will that do 3 levels deep, on a small community, on an obscure social media platform? I don’t have the power to enact it nor the platform to promote it.
What I can do is call out policy that isn’t good enough, both publicly and privately to the parties and representatives, letting them know that I’m simply not going to vote for them if that’s all they’ve got. Without people grovelling around their feet and thanking them for crumbs, their choices are to either do better or never hold power again.
And like I said, with preferential voting there is no excuse. You’re not going to waste your vote if your first choice doesn’t get in. You don’t need to run damage control for Labor to save us all from Liberals. So why celebrate “slightly better” just because it’s not slightly worse?
I’m not a politician and it’s not my job to write environmental policy.
Even if I were to write you a policy that was flawless in every way, what good will that do 3 levels deep, on a small community, on an obscure social media platform? I don’t have the power to enact it nor the platform to promote it.
What I can do is call out policy that isn’t good enough, both publicly and privately to the parties and representatives, letting them know that I’m simply not going to vote for them if that’s all they’ve got. Without people grovelling around their feet and thanking them for crumbs, their choices are to either do better or never hold power again.
And like I said, with preferential voting there is no excuse. You’re not going to waste your vote if your first choice doesn’t get in. You don’t need to run damage control for Labor to save us all from Liberals. So why celebrate “slightly better” just because it’s not slightly worse?