Lazy politics
June 12th 2010 05:39
PM Rudd's popularity is down, and so is that of the ALP, but the Libs and Abbott are not really gaining. In effect, the pollees are saying they don't like either party, but perhaps more importantly, they don't like politics itself.
No wonder really, since politics has been gutted of any real meaning in a society now totally domiated by market forces and large corporations. They stopped Rudd doing anything about global warming and now they are making it very hard for him to make the needed structural change to the country's tax system.
The Greens will benefit from all this but they cannot form government so there is a real impasse. Will a new kind of grass-roots politics along the lines of the Get Up campaigns arise? Somehow I doubt it. Too many voters have become used to the media-driven lazy politics of the last two decades, and they don't care enough to change it. They can complain all they like, but in the end they'll just shrug, vote for what they see as the lesser evil and go back to their addiction of choice.
No wonder really, since politics has been gutted of any real meaning in a society now totally domiated by market forces and large corporations. They stopped Rudd doing anything about global warming and now they are making it very hard for him to make the needed structural change to the country's tax system.
The Greens will benefit from all this but they cannot form government so there is a real impasse. Will a new kind of grass-roots politics along the lines of the Get Up campaigns arise? Somehow I doubt it. Too many voters have become used to the media-driven lazy politics of the last two decades, and they don't care enough to change it. They can complain all they like, but in the end they'll just shrug, vote for what they see as the lesser evil and go back to their addiction of choice.
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