5 April

I think all elections are pointless hot air. Strip away all the parties and just look at the material needs of societies, and see who’s actually doing anything about those. I think The Greens have some really interesting policies, like dental under Medicare, and wiping all student debt. They also want a lot more public housing, the only solution to the housing crisis. Those would all be major boosts to real problems people are living. Most won’t vote for them, because electoral politics is really just football. They have a team, often the team their parents and grandparents backed too, which they’ll back no matter what. Or they’ll say ‘but how can we afford this?’, while voting for their dimwit team spending a trillion dollars on nuclear submarines and reactors. Always about the team, never about the material reality of peoples’ lives.