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Now I don't know how exactly we get from where we are now to Greg Rudd's nirvana without political discord, jockeying and ending up with still more politicians. I don't want to see a technocratic dictatorship - seems a bit like what they have in China and I am sure Australians wouldn't find a lot to interest them in that.
There is a lot to be said for having people run certain areas who actually know what they are doing - but there will still be debate on details even if people agree on what the end result should be. Because of the human condition, I don't see how jockeying for position and using nefarious methods to win against opponents will be eradicated from any system. And, finally, Greg Rudd doesn't mention how we - as individuals and communities - get to have some self-determination and input in his system.
We supposedly have a democratic system whereby individuals and communities can have input. This always was difficult but politicians have become smarter and smarter at heading us off while pretending to listen to us. Increasingly, I feel like sheep.
We are mustered into the drafting yard and then headed off for various purposes.
If, Networkers, you have ever seen this happen in real life you will recognise the skills as someone sits atop the gates opening and shutting them quickly to separate the sheep - who have been forced, almost single file, to move down into a narrow race - into different yards.
Politicians only want our input every three years and we are now in the middle of the triennial narrow race - after which the process becomes one of skillful manipulation into different sectors to minimise the risk of infecting each other.
Better way of doing the political process?
Yes, please.
How?
Don't know.
I truly don't know either. Watching the blatant manipulation of the public consciousness through fear and muck throwing is getting sickening to watch.
ReplyDeleteKind Regards
Belinda
I think that in the 70s with less privatisation people had a fair go and there was less glory in it for politicians perhaps. I think though that the glory thing comes from all living in either Sydney or Melbourne etc. in groups who all think the same. Perhaps I am thinking about Victorian state politics there?
ReplyDeleteI think the voters shouldn't vote for people to throw mud, it doesn't say much for them as a person, neither does treating people who seek asylum in an appalling manner. Trouble is that is all of them isn't it?
I think the Australians themselves are the answer. Often the ones who voted for the party that privatised things are the ones who complain loudest about the government not stepping in to fix things. They expect things to go on like in the 70s when there has been a fundamental change to utilities.
Why do Australians not want to treat the asylum people fairly. Do you think the labour party has a reason to fear what Australians think about that or are they being overly cautious?
We have less debt than America. I heard a person on Adam Brand's facebook say that the reason Vegemite was sold to the Americans is that we are in debt. America is more so. Maybe we need educating. I know I only found out about America's debt because my husband reads the papers.