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Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 weeks agoIt’s important to keep all right wing parties from power Lib or Lab.
The ordering of how right wing they are matters. That’s the whole point of preferential voting.
If you abstain from ranking all candidates, you are acting the same as US voters claiming that “both sides are the same” and then not voting, particularly if your preferred minor candidate(s) doesn’t have a chance of winning in your electorate.
And this is exactly why America ended up with Trump, people always wanting to support the lesser of two evils.
Don’t do what Americans do. Don’t blindly support a shit right wing party because you’re scared of a shit right wing party.
If Lab want my vote back, they can earn it instead of sliding further right every year.
Cause left wing has been working so well…….
We’ve had zero left wing, so wouldn’t have a fucking clue what you’re on about mate.
Labor are left wing.
No. They are center. They were way ahead of the coalition on market friendly economic reforms, floating the dollar, abandoning a many tarriffs, reducing subsidies, privatizing the comm bank etc. It wasn’t until Howard that the coalition started to catch up.
To be fair radical left wing politics has not been competitive in the world. They can’t maintain the economic productivity needed to deliver wealth and quality of life improvements demanded by working people so they always end up in autocracy or revolution. That is why social democracy thrived and why China has a successful mixed system. The problem is maintaining the balance between social policy and capitalist wealth creation. The social policy side is constantly undermined by the ultra rich, lobby groups and the flip flop election cycle and people start to take things like public healthcare and education for granted.
eureka@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Yes, and abstaining only gives them a larger proportion of the votes.
Find the left wing candidates (the senate has some even if your local ballot doesn’t) and preference them, if you want to help keep out Lib and Lab.