politicians are stupid
Sep. 12th, 2010 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eAmazing! Now that the government has finally been installed they are concerned with trying to get together "the best team" to work on the same old crap. Don't any of them get it?
The reason it took so long to work out what party lost the election is that people generally didn't want either of the big parties. Both represent the big corporations (particularly big energy and big media) instead of the public. They are absurdly out of step with the Australian people.
I was kinda hoping that the big parties' leaders would make their first action an apology to us all. Fat chance! Seems they are as deluded as ever.
Oh well, in a way it is a good thing. This way it is made thoroughly clear how useless they are. If they'd been smarter and talked about actually listening to the population instead of the powerful companies then people might have been taken in.
The biggest worry in all this is that I think the major use of government is in being a force to slow the predations of giant corporations and to help redistribute wealth to the wider community. If government is failing then we need some other way to slow them. But what?
The reason it took so long to work out what party lost the election is that people generally didn't want either of the big parties. Both represent the big corporations (particularly big energy and big media) instead of the public. They are absurdly out of step with the Australian people.
I was kinda hoping that the big parties' leaders would make their first action an apology to us all. Fat chance! Seems they are as deluded as ever.
Oh well, in a way it is a good thing. This way it is made thoroughly clear how useless they are. If they'd been smarter and talked about actually listening to the population instead of the powerful companies then people might have been taken in.
The biggest worry in all this is that I think the major use of government is in being a force to slow the predations of giant corporations and to help redistribute wealth to the wider community. If government is failing then we need some other way to slow them. But what?