On 6/06/2016 1:00 PM, Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
This first-pass implication is that their ideology is so protean that they can't bear to articulate it :P
But, the LNP thinks the Internet is only for watching IPTV and other rubbish, it isn't important for anything else to them. Wikipedia is a great resource, but it does rely upon people to care about issues to create content and others to help ensure the content is legitimate.
It's been a long time since the Labor party strongly advocated for workers. Gough Whitlam was probably the last Labor leader who did so. Both the major parties have few principles and pander to the lowest common denominator (EG the "turn back the boats thing") as well as pandering to the super rich.
I could respect a conservative who said "we need to pay off the national debt so we must make the super rich pay tax too" or a conservative who said "we should invest in the country through education and research to develop business instead of raising taxes". But I don't think I've heard a conservative say either of those things.
Yes, I can agree with all of that; but our national debt is low compared to many other countries -- so too are our fraudband speeds.... And yes, I would prefer zero debt, but it is never as bad as the LNP makes it out to be when they can continue to get away with blaming the ALP (and the Greens when they do that do is a bonus to them). The deficit tripled under this rotten government? But who cares, the media doesn't seem to give a toss.
The ALP has some decent people in it, but overall they don't seem to do much good. Being less awful than Liberal isn't enough.
Perhaps so, but I think you see a great deal of honesty with the ALP that you never seem to see with LNP these days. Sure, ALP is far from perfect, but it's difficult to see a fair voice for them in ANY media, and sadly less so on the ABC than what is usually assumed and the abc is palming the vote compass issues off to other parties, so abc isn't even, themselves, fully responsible for the errors and problems in portrayal of facts. Cheers A.