One person’s analysis of the election drama – the debates et al
- Talking heads calling each other, or inferring, liar!
- So-called facts are manufactured to either make oneself look good or the other bad
- Mustn’t answer the question put, but lay back on rhetoric
- Rely on the ‘rusted on’ voted to sheep-like – follow
- Pretty much ignore the reality that people and circumstances have changed
- The majority of these comments never followed up – the actual truths never laid bare
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Letterbox drops – at least 75% of homes have signs saying to the effect, ‘Australia Post’ only
Most letter boxes this close to election day are stuffed with electoral promotional material (regardless of the sign – no respect)
The majority pick up householders, the mass, dump striaght into their bin – many pages in the daily papers, lots of TV and radio coverage blasting us without mercy
Volunteers are ‘spent’ walking the streets in this trivial exercise
Polling (&Pre-polling booths) – people are accosted with numerous volunteers shoving papers into the hands of voters, or at least trying to.
In my experience, considerable, over many elections, is at least 40% walk past without acknowledging the offer (in fact being quite brisk in their refusal), 20% pay some respect to the volunteer, and 40% take from everyone, 1st in last dressed as theirs will be at the bottom and after all, only a few metres before they encounter the booth with all the same info – does anyone ever see anyone stop and look at the, consider the info on the handout – a complete waste of time and moment and volunteers energy!
Electorate – paying respect to a candidate, I volunteered to help,a great, professional, and capable candidate having to rough it out at all kinds of expense, to try and be seen, to be heard. Is all this nonsense (as yet not outlawed by parliament – thank heavens the stobie pole signs have gone – is that just step one)designed to make it all too expensive – money and people – for the independents to have a go?
- I asked 144 people what electorate they were in – four new, almost. No one knew the name of the sitting member or their party. They all knew ‘their choice’ (?) of party, not that they recall the seat or member? Informed voter – tons of money spent putting forward thoughtful cases, strategies – oh yes, worthwhile! NO!
Regardless, we are heading into a democratic right of people, uniformed, regardless of the futile attempts of all parties to paint their pictures to try and gain our vote, not that many of these promises are likely to ever see the light of day, at least in the form or timeline ‘promised’. Not that the promiser is even in a position to take the promise to fruition– maybe not even in parliament yet.
After all this, we live in a privileged society and really at all levels have a good life – even the ‘battlers’ have a better life than in many countries. If only parliament (politicians) didn’t keep exempting themselves from the need not to misrepresent etc