15 May

Strip all the bullshit away from 'politics', which isn't even a thing anyway. It's different social groups in the community fighting for status. Modern conservatives are the old landed gentry and industrialists trying to strip away tax and regulation, which stop them accumulating even more wealth and power. Modern progressives shift status mostly to the highly educated instead. Both say they're doing it for 'the people'. The people is a fiction, it doesn't exist. It's a con to hide high status groups trying to get even more status. Ordinary people want to be part of one or other of the high status groups. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/coalition-to-repeal-labor-property-tax-changes/106681866