Callum's Column’s review of The Good Fight: What Does Labor Stand For?; Quarterly Essay 100 > Likes and Comments
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Most voters do not pay attention to anything but the surface appearance of things. Thus, the situation has to get unspeakably bad (for those who pay attention) before the majority of voters will realize there is an underlying problem.
Worth mentioning is that the Labor party now has almost no actual working class people in it. They are the party of the latte belt and middle class University brats.
Peter - insightful as always.
Lewis - correct, but the pejoratives at the end struck a little too close to home haha
@Lewis—US has the same problem with the Democrats. Even at the grassroots level. Things have finally started to change, but it is a painfully slow process.
Peter wrote: "@Lewis—US has the same problem with the Democrats. Even at the grassroots level. Things have finally started to change, but it is a painfully slow process."
So for the forseeable future right wing populism will probably do well at the ballot box. Where things go after that I don't know.
Actually, in every local election held over the last eight months, the Democrats have outperformed their average, and the move against Republicans has been double digits. This is likely mostly due to the substantial gap between what voters were told to expect and what actually occurred. So people are waking up despite the moderate wing of the Dems doing next to nothing.
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Most voters do not pay attention to anything but the surface appearance of things. Thus, the situation has to get unspeakably bad (for those who pay attention) before the majority of voters will realize there is an underlying problem.
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Worth mentioning is that the Labor party now has almost no actual working class people in it. They are the party of the latte belt and middle class University brats.
Peter - insightful as always. Lewis - correct, but the pejoratives at the end struck a little too close to home haha
@Lewis—US has the same problem with the Democrats. Even at the grassroots level. Things have finally started to change, but it is a painfully slow process.
Peter wrote: "@Lewis—US has the same problem with the Democrats. Even at the grassroots level. Things have finally started to change, but it is a painfully slow process."So for the forseeable future right wing populism will probably do well at the ballot box. Where things go after that I don't know.
Actually, in every local election held over the last eight months, the Democrats have outperformed their average, and the move against Republicans has been double digits. This is likely mostly due to the substantial gap between what voters were told to expect and what actually occurred. So people are waking up despite the moderate wing of the Dems doing next to nothing.
