The Herald Sun, another screaming headlines tabloid from the Murdoch stable has
suggested that this whole "democracy" thing is a rather bad idea.
Massive electoral swings in Queensland and Victoria, plus leadership instability in Canberra, suggest democracy isn’t working right now. It’s time we temporarily suspended the democratic process and installed a benign dictatorship to make tough but necessary decisions.
He's referring to Tony "climate change is crap" Abbot's increasing unpopularity and the fact that he's been hamstrung from being Australia's Margaret Thatcher because of people in the houses of parliament that pesky Australian citizens voted for. When Tony's LNP party rushed to the parliament with their breathless libertarian wishlist they didn't double check to see if they had the numbers first, oops.
...our democracy is failing. As voters we’ve developed short attention spans and high expectations. Consequently our political masters are beholden to opinion polls.
They tell us what we want to hear rather than that which is necessary for the country’s long-term good. In short, our prosperity will soon nosedive unless we make some difficult decisions.
Damned peasants just don't know what's good for 'em.
There is a solution. Let’s agree on a set of truly important problems — mounting debt, population growth, lack of jobs, rising health care expenditure, inefficient welfare and an inadequate defence force — and appoint a committee of eminent and competent Australians to sort it out. A benign dictatorship if you will. This committee would consist of experts in their fields without political axes to grind. It’d need at least five years to complete its tasks during which time elected governments could administrate, but take no major decisions. At the end of five years the committee members would stand down and be objectively assessed on their performance.
And your benign Junta that's displaced democracy will gracefully step aside once their five year plan gets evaluated? Righto mate. No worries. She'll be right, coupla days mate and a thousand other corny Aussie aphorisms right at ya!
I've got too used to conservatives simply talking shit and pretending to have morals, when they choose to be honest it's both refreshing and fucking terrifying!
