After all this time I’m still undecided on Rudd but I’m sympathetic to this argument. He’s cautious to a fault but moves where he can and does make real progress, not always where it’s most needed but where it’s achievable.
Comment on Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
All the things people are saying he needs to be bold and aggressive on, Labor has done so in the past and it’s lost them election.
The fact is we’re all too immersed in the American social media ecosystem and so we expect bold action to solve American problems that would only be vote-winners in a non-compulsory voting system where elections are fought on turnout (usually as a centrist vs. nutjobs race). Albanese knows the Australian political system well, that being that nobody really cares about politics here and if Labor wants to win they need to stay out of the press because it’s run by private school kids who hate him (at best).
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Putting an election before lives is pathetic.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Putting lives before an elections means you lose both, if he even has sacrificed lives by being cautious.
Cutting arms shipments to Israel would be merely symbolic and would get Albanese immediately couped like Whitlam and Rudd (if he would even be able to do it in the first place), the HAAF was meant to solve homelessness rather than housing stress and it was delayed by a few years by the Greens, and climate change requires policy maintained over multiple elections cycles to address on a domestic level.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
If you really don’t think Also is directly responsible for people dying, there’s nothing I can say that will convince you. The shitty neoliberal system isn’t a justification for inaction, it’s a disgusting tumour that he’s actively strengthening. You’re assuming that he has to play the game, he doesn’t, it’s a choice.
I’ll add this one specific thing though. Albo is actively making climate change worse and ensuring that the country continues to be reliant on fossil fuels.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
The prime ministers that didn’t play the game didn’t last more than 3 years. Then we got the LNP who actually actively strengthen the neoliberal system. This whole “both sides are the same” argument needs to die, firstly because the LNP is corrupt and much more incompetent, but also because it makes the corruption and incompetence seem less bad when people say (or imply) that.