Isn’t politics a wonderful waste of time and money? Thank God we have two major parties who aren’t that far apart and are, for the most part, full of people who want to do the right thing for Australia.
But, then there is politics where good intentions are flailed to a short term focus specifically on getting re-elected. The hard decisions are not being made.
If politicians only accepted the fact that it’s the ‘hard’ decisions which guide our country through and by strategic thinking creating confidence and trust. Take ‘floating the dollar, ‘superannuation’, ‘GST’ or ‘covid border protection’ as defining policies along with a myriad of other unpopular policies which people came to realise were and are essential.
Tacky election promises such as offering a dollar a day as cost of living relief in 5 years is laughable. This ‘look at me’ rhetoric supplants any sort of trust in a politician’s ability to actually change core thinking. We are not that shallow. Worse, an incumbent government making these sorts of promises proves their own incompetence as they have had a number of years to make these same promises happen but failed. Empty promises made just to get re-elected.
Hopefully now at least some of the influencers and usurpers have been decimated by and through this election because we are not that stupid.
Why are we endlessly discussing negative gearing and lack of housing when it’s bleedingly obvious that if negative gearing benefits were solely on new dwellings there would be thousands being built today? Matching incentive with proper strategy seems a long bow for politicians.
Why are we ‘committing’ millions on false election promises and getting elected when kids are homeless and sleeping rough? $30,000,000 admitted for just one candidate with no result!
Why don’t we have fuel security beyond a few days and why are we selling natural gas when we need it in Australia? Why do 30+ countries rely on nuclear as a clean base load of reliable power but here politicians throw up their hands in horror?
Why do we have an ADF totally unable to even defend Australia let alone support our ‘friends’?
Why aren’t we offering free education to anyone who can muster enough neurons to help ‘the lucky country’ succeed?
Why do we listen to the despots, the disruptors and the self obsessed pronoid morons around the planet all of whom are bent on me me me.
All it takes is a focus on strategy without compromise and burying all the mealy mouthed political crap.
Do we have any such people? Nah.