The thing that conservatives say is the bedrock of their politics - the family, the household - is also the…

The thing that conservatives say is the bedrock of their politics - the family, the household - is also the thing all of their policies screw relentlessly. Attacking wages, working conditions, driving up the prices of these same homes. This is key to everything. Home. /1

The solution to our last economic crisis in Australia, the GFC, was to target these same households. Economy politics always targets support to business, and banks, because that’s why it was invented. It never fixes problems, it just bails out the pirates, ready for their…/2

…next plundering raids. But targeting households caused a dramatic (in size and speed) change to economic conditions. This is because, unsurprisingly, an ‘economy’ does well when people have money, and it doesn’t when they don’t. Shift now to the energy crisis. /3

Australians solved most of it already, over the past few decades. They ignored elected pollies brandishing bits of coal in parliament, and went out and re-built the entire electricity generation system in Australia. With their HOUSEHOLDS. As with the GFC, households drive…/4

…rapid and effective change. If we ignore the usual distinctions between ‘local’ and ‘global’ (another economy-driven fiction), and focus on putting power and resources in the hands of households, problems get fixed. And fast. No need to wait for anything to ‘trickle down’…/5

…from the plunderers. The electrification of households is a good example of how targeting households right now gives massive bang for the buck, driving down household costs while addressing major climate change goals. And creating thousands of jobs. We’re still thinking…/6

…in economy ways, that we need to just update our old centralised distribution system with solar farms and wind turbines, and then we’re done. We need to do that too, but it’s very slow. A household can go full electric in a matter of months, with subsidised programs. /7

Focusing on the thing the economy strips away as a first priority - ‘home’ - look at the fights over working from home, it’s offensive to the economy to grant agency to your own home - fixes nearly everything, because it ignores the fake divide between local and global,…/8

…which economy politics invented to justify continuously displacing people and resources from where people live. They were being ‘globalised’, said to be a necessary thing. Bollocks. The universe exists in every home and backyard. Re-direct our politics there. /end