Vlad n U 2
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Mind blown.
it's like america! ...with sausage sizzles at some polling places, of course.I cannot believe that we have the choice of Abbott or Rudd.
Loved some of the non sequiturs Abbott dropped last night...
"Well ah, David, we're all about building infrastructure, I want to be the infrastructure Prime Minister, I love the smell of fresh asphalt in the morning Dave... and by the way, we will stop the boats."
No you won't, Tony. You can't. Nobody can.
... Or badgerys Creek! That bloody airport. Since when the hell did this stop being a NSW issue and move to federal? Haha, no wonder he had no idea.
Labour's asylum seeker policies, in gif form
Or that the readers of the Courier Mail are in danger of accidentally bringing a boatload of the desperate to Australia.
I am genuinely baffled how the wheels are falling off here, or why the hell the polls are swinging to the Liberals. Abbott's offering practically nothing except fear, extremism, vague nebulous hints at policy, an unwillingness to actually interact with the public, and an inability to articulate much of anything, and somehow this is working even when the ALP lurches to the right. I can only conclude that the Australian people are experiencing a serious bout of incredible fucking stupidity right now.
Frankly, I think what might help the ALP is if they stopped trying to encroach on Abbott's turf, stopped trying to beat the Libs at their own game of appealling to bigots and racists, and articulated a clear leftwing policy. Perhaps that's what's costing them - you can try to snare all the votes you can, but selling your soul and trying to be the lite version of another party is no recipe for popularity. If they articulated an alternative vision for Australia, something seriously opposed to the Libs' brand of fearmongering and greed, then perhaps they'd get more traction.
Or maybe it'd just kill them completely in this bogan country. I don't know.