Election logic is actually pretty simple. Walter Lippmann used to say that a public votes in a new government…

Election logic is actually pretty simple. Walter Lippmann used to say that a public votes in a new government when problems overflow politics and start to enter their lives. Representative democracies delegate problems to politicians, they don’t want them back. /1 #auspol

It’s not about specific policies, or even ideologies. That stuff is for the true believers. If ordinary life has got too hard and too complicated because political problems aren’t being solved, the government changes. That’s it, the end. /end