Sorry for the layout of this post. I am new to fastmail and have yet to play with the this mail user agent's config . A couple of points about the discusion. People have been complainng the powers to be are going to the dogs since at least ancient Greece (480BC or there abouts). Second point a study of history of most of the human race shows the people with money and land have always called the shots. For most of the time the governing body was a so called all powerfull king, but in the end he/(very rarely a she) only kept office becasue he/she did not do anything to upset the nobiluty, plenty of royality were killed becuase he/she upset the nobility. Its largely still business as usual although now at least in countries like Australia the population at large can be heard with out to much fear of retribution. Lindsay ----- Original message ----- From: "Russell Coker via luv-talk" <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> To: luv-talk@luv.asn.au, Peter Ross <petrosssit@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [luv-talk] An interesting article - and an interesting oversight Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:57:48 +1000 On Thursday, 5 April 2018 4:33:05 PM AEST Peter Ross via luv-talk wrote:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-fundamental-operating-model-of-a ustralian-politics-is-breaking-down-20180322-p4z5o9.html
It claims that things get harder - because we are more polarised.
I recently read an article (I can't remember where) claiming that nations are becoming less powerful and the increased polarisation in national politics (of many countries) is partly due to corporations and super-rich people escaping governance. Both Labor and Liberal (and similar parties in many other countries) seem happy to allow corporations to dodge tax and to tax us more instead. So they start a bitter war about who exactly among the non-rich Australians pays tax and use refugees as a distraction from the main issue of why big corporations don't pay tax. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-talk