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24-06-2010, 02:17pm
Ok, ok, I've had a think and come back to edit my post and take out some of the shouting and name calling. SEE! That's what happens when you give a ranger any power.
The way the Australian political system works, is you don't vote for the PM.
You don't vote for a person, you vote for a political party. The PM is chosen by the party in the party room, because we gave them the right to pick the person to lead the party when we voted them in. Yes you vote for a party that has a leader up, but you are voting for the party and the party's political platform. If you are voting for a personality then you deserve what you get. You trust them enough to run the country, you trust them enough to pick the leader.
Before you all go nutso and say, well I want to chose my own PM, look at the American system where they have that. In that system, the President is popularly elected. What that means is the person with the most money and the best political and financial contacts wins. It means you don't get the best and brightest, you get the richest and best connected. It also means the President can be in the ridiculous position of not being able to push policy through because he doesn't have the numbers on the floor and is constantly blocked.
Yes, I am aware cheap retoric is easier to digest.
Today on Sunrise, person after person kept saying, 'I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but (insert stupid comment here, mainly about Gillard driving the knife into the back of Rudd). Clearly they don't pay any attention to politics because it was a leadership spill. They happen. Whether you agree with the spill or not, they happen, they've happened before, they'll happen again. They are a part of politics.
Here endeth the rant. PHEW, I feel better now. I might send Koshie a sternly worded email.
The way the Australian political system works, is you don't vote for the PM.
You don't vote for a person, you vote for a political party. The PM is chosen by the party in the party room, because we gave them the right to pick the person to lead the party when we voted them in. Yes you vote for a party that has a leader up, but you are voting for the party and the party's political platform. If you are voting for a personality then you deserve what you get. You trust them enough to run the country, you trust them enough to pick the leader.
Before you all go nutso and say, well I want to chose my own PM, look at the American system where they have that. In that system, the President is popularly elected. What that means is the person with the most money and the best political and financial contacts wins. It means you don't get the best and brightest, you get the richest and best connected. It also means the President can be in the ridiculous position of not being able to push policy through because he doesn't have the numbers on the floor and is constantly blocked.
Yes, I am aware cheap retoric is easier to digest.
Today on Sunrise, person after person kept saying, 'I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but (insert stupid comment here, mainly about Gillard driving the knife into the back of Rudd). Clearly they don't pay any attention to politics because it was a leadership spill. They happen. Whether you agree with the spill or not, they happen, they've happened before, they'll happen again. They are a part of politics.
Here endeth the rant. PHEW, I feel better now. I might send Koshie a sternly worded email.