By Tim Dixon
I’ve noticed South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas essentially blaming the left for the rise of the right. Yet when supporters of supposedly progressive parties – Labor here, the Democrats in the United States – get too close to questioning those parties’ corporate and Zionist backers, the response is to turn on the working class itself and declare us the problem. That dynamic helps produce governments of the Trump variety, and it risks doing the same for One Nation in Australia (even if the latter still looks unlikely to form government).
Years ago I learned that the Democratic National Committee in the US operates as a for-profit business. That opened my eyes to a wider truth: political parties often care less about who holds office than about ensuring their financial backers keep making money. We’ve seen this clearly in America. For years the Democrats did little of substance to rein in Trump or protect citizens’ rights, yet the stock market soared to record highs under their influence. The same pattern is becoming obvious here.
Labor has repeatedly refused to stand up for the poor and working class while we are being hammered by stock-market-driven corporations such as Coles, Woolworths and the energy companies. Those energy companies are now generating electricity more cheaply than ever thanks to renewables, yet they still claim renewables have driven prices through the roof. That claim serves their share-price promises, not the public.
In the United States the Democrats deliberately ignored the working class, and the result was Trump – along with further unrestrained stock-market gains. Anthony Albanese is now in similar territory. He is, in practice, a Tory. He will come tumbling down. The tragedy is that we currently have no one of real worth to replace him with.
Are we being conned? Unfortunately, the evidence has been staring us in the face for a long time.
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The leader of the One nation shitheap, Ms. P Handjob, is as enticing as a poke in the orifice with a poxed porkypole, for NEVER has as revolting an ignorant loudmouthed loser type ever floated up in politics like scum on a blocked dunny. What type of rational, informed, serious, decent person could ever support a filthy myth, a dirty dream, a forlorn hope, a grain of pain, an ulcerous anus of a dud. And B Joyce, dirty drunken dribbling drongo dreg, is there to shout support for the mad tart. Abbott, Morrison, Dutton were putridity enough, for we need some quality political leadership now and how do we hope for that? More than ever, owners and controllers sell us fog.., cloud and streaming, etc., so we do not have anything solid, even cash in hand, just bills, threats, worse positions, redundancies, sackings, electronic buggered slaves.
Although in theory we have a multi-party system, in practice we’ve been governed since Federation by a duopoly.
The two dominant political outlooks pass the reins of government back and forth in a semblance of democracy, but this is actually an exercise in entrenching a bureaucracy mind-set within the dominant parties.
Why?
Because the system is so predictable, so stable, that lucrative careers can be forged within the major parties with no danger that electoral misfortune can disrupt those careers.
The main priority of the careerists therefore becomes the stability of the party, and then the stability of the duopoly arrangement.
In such a system, governing for the people only comes in at third place on the priority scale.
The governing party, Labor or Coalition, does just enough for the people to retain credibility and support.
But such an outlook, while it has been remarkably successful for those involved for well over half a century, has the fatal flaw that eventually the voters work out that all is not well.
At that point, some will turn to any fool offering a better way.
The duopoly parties have ceded the power to govern to the imperatives of liberal economic theory.
If the voters kill off the duopoly, One Nation will do the same.
The only chance to kill the duopoly successfully will be to elect a coalition of progressive parties.
Would that be messy?
Certainly, but better than the relentless weakening of the country that we see now.
My lament post the last election of 2025 was that there would be buyer’s remorse!
Why? People still vote from the hip pocket, not for the good of the overall country, so it’s not just politicians that lack vision, ethics and good social policy, who vote for lobbyists and fossil fuel degradation.
Bitter medicine never tastes good.
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people
Oh I always blame the voter, Heather. The politicians just take advantage of the fact that most people have very low standards, expect very little, and happy to cop whatever foul policies the pollies inflict on us, so long as they don’t have to think about it very much. This has been the case for decades. Only now is there a slight stirring among the masses that maybe, just maybe, we deserve better. Better services, better policies, more ethics, less hate, more fairness. It may be dawning on them that if you keep voting the way you’ve always voted, you keep getting the same.
@ Jen: Agreed ….. especially in New England where a adulterous, alcoholic, bigoted, corrupt, deceitful, fornicating, philandering, self-serving misogynist is considered a suitable representative of the electorate. Sometimes I think that Merinos sheep are smarter than the graziers for having their brains located in their fleece, that gets shorn off every year.
Yes, NEC, good example.
Great article Tim, thank you.
Is there no alternative to Anthony Albanese as PM?
I think there are. Not within Labor if that’s what was meant, but within parliament there are.
The very, very best of them I would suggest is David Pocock. Yes, I know he is in the Senate, but there has been a precedent for a Senator to become PM, John Gorton.
@ Jen, yes indeed and some more food for thought for everyone if the cap fits!
A good friend and I were discussing the following….
When people negotiate, they take positions, and to make sure that their positions are robust they persuade themselves that they really stand by the position that they have taken, and sometimes they have to give a little ground because otherwise there really is no negotiation, just a kind of standoff, but we don’t let too much slip too fast, we know how to play poker, we know how to call people’s bluff, we know how to hide what we really think or feel, particularly what we think or feel may put us at a disadvantage, or if somebody else knowing what we think or feel may could be difficult in some way.
So, somewhere in this kind of great dance of negotiation, which by the way extends far more to commerce and trade, in relationships too, people negotiating all kinds of interpersonal involvements, they develop ways of discussing the pros and cons of various arrangements and agreements in an attempt to score points or to gain power, or to bring about changes that one desires, that the other is perhaps less keen on, but yet inevitably, if two people both want something they will find a way to work together to get it, problems come when you think perhaps you’re the only one that wants change, or perhaps, when you begin to feel that the position that you have adopted is one that you can’t stray from.
Sometimes we kid ourselves that this is the only place where we can feel OK about being, and thus we cheat ourselves of the ability to be fluid, and we prevent much needed evolutions from taking place.
Hence, we have this really stupid argument with ourselves that to date we haven’t won by a country mile because nobody is paying attention, projecting their issues onto the broader landscape and other people in various ways and we wonder why we can’t have a sane primary relationship with anybody, let alone ourselves.
@ Thommo, agree David Pocock is the best of the best, is a critical thinker and has what most in the place called Parliament lack, Integrity.
Same for the many other Independents and The Greens who know their compass.
The rest are just well trained seals at taxpayer expense in the art of deception, deflection and grand larceny.
@ Steve: Since 1945 the COALition has been the cause of ”relentless weakening of the country” by accepting the cultural cringe encouraged by the English, accepting high school economics and playing Deputy Dawg to the USa (Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid) and more recently joined by Labor governments responding to US defence whisperers and neglecting the obvious expressed so clearly by Keating.
Australia’s place is in Asia not becoming the 51st state of arguably the most corrupt society in the world.
Why is Australia spending billions providing free mercenary military personnel for US imperialist wars??
Why have foreign investors been given a favourable exchange rate to increase their purchasing capacity of Australian natural resources, property and corporations??
Australia has been made into a third world export economy like too many African nations, by a combination of unthinking bosses and unimaginative politicians.
My wish is for a change of fundamentals in national policy outlook, from now. We should approach all and any Asian relations, with China especially. We must be friendly, generous, forgiving in Pacific matters. We must expand our interactions with Europe where traditions, sense, good examples exist. The USA might be shunned, a huge ravenous parasitic blob. We need ministers with intelligence, spine, diplomatic skills, luck. We have few. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, nematode Hanson, what awful rubbish, along with AI, crypto, oligargachic thieves, liars, oppressors, cheats. Bye…
Have you noticed how One Nation are getting excessive amounts of access to public media including , and particularly, the ABC.
Hanson doesn’t even need to get out of bed to given free coverage for some our her outrageous and frequently historical utterances.
Barnaby Joyce appears on an ABC forum dealing with migration policy and tells us that one Nation will do this and will demand that.
This coming from a man who until recently represented another Party and all of a sudden is the loudmouth public spokesman for One Nation. Let’s not forget that One Nation have only one elected member in the Lower House plus Joyce who jumped the fence from the National Party. In the Senate they have four representatives including Hanson who masquerades as a representative for the people of Queensland as does Malcolm Roberts, a man my father would have describes as a twerp.
To the media: please stop promoting this rag-tag group of people as a future governing body, they are just a group of posers.
@ Terry Mills: I think PHONeys fits them very well.
Agree with NEC’s questions and comments.