Comment on 'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week agoJust because one party is bad doesn’t mean we should settle for the slightly better one who are still actively burning our future, that’s an absurd argument on the face of it.
THIS IS WHAT YOUR VOTE IS FOR.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I do vote?
Doesn’t change the fact that voting generally does fuck all in terms of meaningful change, especially as we watch both of these major parties destroy the ability for smaller parties and independents to challenge them.
And so we are essentially left with a choice between being killed, and being killed but they smile while they do it. You change the options you can vote for by protesting, this is an exceptionally important part of modern democracy and it cannot be ignored.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
ok no.
That is not how voting works in Australia. At all. Preferential voting means you directly put smaller parties and independents in the house and in the senate, meaning they then have very real power in the Australian government regardless of who is actually PM.
You know how there’s always those articles about the party in power having to negotiate with members to get things happening? Yeah, that’s because of our voting system that put those members from small parties and independents into the seats of power. You’re reading a script that applies more aptly to the US than anything else.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Oh I’m aware, I said as much in another comment. Sorry, I’ve mislead you on what I meant.
My problem with voting is that the entire system of government in this country does not do anything to meaningfully address the problems of entire swathes of the population, and voting does very very little to address that.
It appears to work, if you’re sufficiently privileged to not be among those persecuted, oppressed, raped and murdered by those in power. There are individual issues that are sufficiently mainstream so as to be addressible in this way, and climate change is one of them, but even still we needed to have made major change a long time ago.
Nbard@aussie.zone 1 week ago
that’s not accurate to the Australian voting system at all, are you sure you’re in the right instance?
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yes. I am.
The system is preferential, but the outcome of many an election is indistinguishable from a two party system. The system is not good enough, just because it’s able to work sometimes isn’t enough, especially when it “working” still results in an awful lot of unnaceptable shit happening.