Who was the dumb person who insisted everyone in Australia had to vote ?

Clearly there is always a large portion of the people who never take any interest in what happens or could happen beyond their territory.
So why aren't just interested people given the vote?

I'll give you one. If the interested people know they have a good chance of getting their own puppets in,  they will be there and active on masse. They will control us. 

Like now, the city tells us how to run the country. Rural and regional people  have lost faith in the democracy. Our children don't care either .  


How can democracy last when it serves only one group and people with any integrity give up on it ?  
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How long before progressives realize that their impractical idealism can't bring progress

 Its 4th November 2020 and we are yet to hear what's happening in the US  with the elections .  I am hoping and expecting that the people will tell those who have held too much power ( especially in the public service ) that all they have done ( as all  they have done in Australia)  is make real power unproductively  expensive for the poor .
The hidden costs of big ideas is not something dreamers face easily . 
Sometimes nothing works properly in a democracy until the people are ready to really listen and observe reality again. 





How many reelections of Trump or Morrison will it take to make the Sir Humphreys of the left wake up to the waste they have created? .Who has the courage and wisdom to move them on ?  

As the Victorian dictatorship will eventually  show,  Conservation can't be imposed , it must be taught. If countercultural conservation that works isn't taught , it can be expected to live on in name only . Such tokens can be expected , as they have done for the last decade , to be so expensive and unproductive idols,  that they continue to bring the houses down.   

Small is beautiful

I used to work for an organisation that got things done by co-opting people it thought would help resolve things in a practical down to earth way - onsite. It was the best .
 Many managers have the good sense to know the idea but are stymied because of the heirachy of organisation they work in .

• The bigger they are the worse they often are .
• The bigger the problems the organisation tries to work on the higher the risk of failure - the big problems are only human and the real problems ( human) only grow with more human elements esp fixed and title ones.
• Wannbes are always creating new organisations mega departments - worst idea ever 

I could do my job because the organisation I worked for was small . "You work for SCA - well what would you know ".
That little organisation modeled environmental planning in Victoria like none since . If you are tempted to start a mega department or committee you would do well to study its modus operandi. 

If wannabes are going to preach--- they must bring heaven back to earth, or be dismissed

In a paradox of profound proportions today's new religious left are going to try to drag us through their endless purgatory of carbon bashing by focusing on the world beyond . Will it work on Q and A tonight ? .Probably not - the producers are trying to control something they don't understand . Time our polys told them to properly let scientists speak . The wonder of the universe is indeed wonderful with wonder increasing with each new view, but to deal with wicked real local world problems we need focus.
Most of us have been waiting for our public broadcaster to stand aside and let the scientists fight CC out in front of us ( I have asked for it heaps of times ).Never happened in 2 decades on non debate.  . It even looked like it was going to happen tonite but its closed shop The same old same old echo chamber as usual

 Even with  the profound rebuke of the last election the worry warrior politicians  within the ABC ( is this right???) select the panel, the questions and largely control the outcome . ho hum  zero sum game

Even when a  bomb goes off , there is usually enough scorn and cynicism sprayed on by the ruling class to keep limpet like ABC audiences from switching off .
But switching off the thinking ones are and have been - the country is watching Sky news  and if you think that means we are stupid you are being regionalist and you would be wrong .
Sustainability issues 
Most importantly,  the only religions that last , offer a sense of freedom and a future that works . Not one that is pie in the sky . where the heroes  talk of batteries w e haven't got yet , a world we can't control .  Worse a worship type world which requires us to sacrifice ourselves like Jesus ( but no lasting personal reward ) as a token to solve the climate crisis.   No sale .

So whatever happened to the Climate Catastrophe?

ABCTV's Tony organised it so all the heavies would be there,  but somehow - all the angst about
the impending climate catastrophe went off like one big fizzer on last nights Q and A 
The asteroid may have hit , but noone felt it
Maybe it was just guilt passing by , as Bauerlein is saying
Who in their right mind would allow any of that  confused and confusing panel of wannabes to rule.
More pain is clear,  but for what Gain is definitely not clear. 
The whole thing seems to be just a lot of hot air . Nothing new in the offering by the worried parties 

Nothing at all from the Opposition Coalition .

If Labor gets in,  it will be on the basis of deception,  deceiving the people. Worse, Labor and the Greens ( the most unstable and unpredictable coalition in Australia's history ) will use that hot air to waste another ten years taxing us more to just hand out  solar panels for middle class roofs ( and stupidly-- as the Greens do on their site)




What irrational rhetoric allows these DIMWITS to proclaim such incompetent , unjust  and ineffective meddling.   Great evil done in the name of the best intention . 

Not even a prod from Tony about the reef gave Richard more than goosebumps
The Greens went to water with Tanya and Helen following on.
Richard was desperate enough to avoid the reef , but made the worse mistake of mentioning another Green labor fiasco ,. The MD plan ;

Tanya ,Burke and Richard might be better to go back to worrying about the reef , or protection plans for warming or rising water    Take another 6 years and develop a plan . No just confess you don't know what you are doing and find something more productive to do . 

I am not as smart as I think i am .

When I forget that,  I observe how others get carried away with their wisdom , abilities and power.
When I forget that,  I note that there are none so blind as them that will not see .
And when I forget all of that . I might be tempted to pray that  I be shown a few things to help me out of the pit.

Observe how some Australians still think they can walk on water; That Darling river .

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eSNQdLNCXNUfDXZ2baygNyS3xolbnhxE-VHufcmZV6Y/edit?usp=sharing

Progressives are in trouble - nothings progressing

The biggest group of optimists in politics ( all parties have them) are in trouble because their  expectation that  the revolution will just come with time is not proving to be correct .
The biggest nonsense progressives promote is that politics is powerful.

Progressives believe that if you have the right govt and the right amount of money the world will be supremely blessed. No more grace alone , faith alone ( incl education ) just process alone ,

As with the lazy Fabians the simple idea of a natural evolution beats the old tough idea of constant vigilance.  The simple idea of  natural evolution suits all those who want an excuse to do nothing - and thats a lot of people in our failing( not believed in - take both young and old) democracies


So progressives from all parties don't get that now taxes hit 45 % of  income there is no more room to run their saviuors line.
Nowhere is this nonsense more evident at the moment than in the accepted rhetoric of Hilary Clinton

"Democracy hangs in the balance on both sides of Atlantic and we need to save it. Can’t just keep doing the same things. For more, check out my Oxford speech: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/keynote_speech_by_secretary_hillary_clinton_20181009_0.pdf …

This is exactly why the left is on the nose. They offer sweets but the sweet taste does't last because the sugar supply is all one way .

They think they are gods, but don't have answers ; they think experimenting works .
If you don't have a solution or understand the connections you don't  know that the next experiment is likely to work . 
.....and a new house full of hopefuls will only speed up the progress towards the next wall.