Yes, we basket-weaving, tertiary educated, inner city types are shit-scared that Abbott will get in - but he's still a fairly hated leader in general, according to most polls.
Mind you, you have a point that Labor is probably hated even more - despite Australia dodging a bullet during the recent GFC, something the Labor Party has not been able to get people to understand. I don't think they've even tried as they're so caught up in their internal strangulation.
What I feel has happened is that the political caste and the media caste have completely separated from the reality of their constituents and now exist in a free floating bubble. Abbott can clearly get away with having no policies and pure negativity, because it creates enough conflict for the journalists so that they don't need to write a real story. And he should know, he used to be a journalist.
The next election will probably be a race to the bottom - though if the Libs can keep Abbott away from a camera they may be able to romp it in.
But in good news - Mark Arbib has quit. Probably off to run the new casino James Packer's building.
What I feel has happened is that the political caste and the media caste have completely separated from the reality of their constituents and now exist in a free floating bubble.
Yep. And their constituents know it, and they know how much contempt these elites have for ordinary people. There's a burning desire out there in what used to be the Labor heartland in suburbia to give Labor a kicking they'll never forget.
The ill-advised alliance with that most arrogant and elitist (and extreme) of all political parties, the Greens, just makes that desire even stronger.
I look back on my Labor Party days with shame. They're like the Mafia but without the sense of honour. They're basically thugs.
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jack_ryder) wrote2012-02-27 08:23 am
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You have my sympathies.
Yes, we basket-weaving, tertiary educated, inner city types are shit-scared that Abbott will get in - but he's still a fairly hated leader in general, according to most polls.
Mind you, you have a point that Labor is probably hated even more - despite Australia dodging a bullet during the recent GFC, something the Labor Party has not been able to get people to understand. I don't think they've even tried as they're so caught up in their internal strangulation.
What I feel has happened is that the political caste and the media caste have completely separated from the reality of their constituents and now exist in a free floating bubble. Abbott can clearly get away with having no policies and pure negativity, because it creates enough conflict for the journalists so that they don't need to write a real story. And he should know, he used to be a journalist.
The next election will probably be a race to the bottom - though if the Libs can keep Abbott away from a camera they may be able to romp it in.
But in good news - Mark Arbib has quit. Probably off to run the new casino James Packer's building.
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have completely separated from the reality of their constituents and now
exist in a free floating bubble.
Yep. And their constituents know it, and they know how much contempt these elites have for ordinary people. There's a burning desire out there in what used to be the Labor heartland in suburbia to give Labor a kicking they'll never forget.
The ill-advised alliance with that most arrogant and elitist (and extreme) of all political parties, the Greens, just makes that desire even stronger.
I look back on my Labor Party days with shame. They're like the Mafia but without the sense of honour. They're basically thugs.