Comment on To defend our democracy, PM must disavow and abandon Segal report | Richard Flanagan
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 week agoWell, it’s been that way for 25-30 years and the handful of us aren’t changing any thing (long time Greens voter and Independent before that)
I don’t vote Green to have them win per se (albeit their policies are miles in front of the ALP and LNP but to try to move the Overton Window to the left to see tje rose of the truly radical politcans we need. Labor lost the plot after Whitlam and the Overton window has been moving to the right ever since.
eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
10 senate seats and 12% of the vote is a bit more than a handful mate. My primary vote usually goes to parties around 0.1% before ending up at the Greens. Greens actually have some institutional platform and power, and the two main parties are no longer a majority of primary votes.
The electoral change has been slow, and too slow to have faith in if we want to save the planet (like you said, radical politics is needed), but it’s real and indicative.