It's Everyone's Fault

Mark Latham is insane [please note that Mark Latham is not actually insane].

But as I said: insane. If you were going to donkey vote, would you really leave it blank? In encouraging electors to leave their ballot blank he has shown to be completely bereft of imagination. The ‘ultimate protest vote’, is he kidding? Has this man never heard of a C & B? An intricate doodle of the candidates playing sausage and clam? A write-in vote for…I don’t know…Mark Latham?

For all the sneering press and crazy-eyed-lunging-at-the-PM grandstanding, Latham’s special report was a boring pile of old toss. He pined for times when politics meant something. Like in 2004, when it was exactly the same as it is now.

Oddly he didn’t really blame the media, presumably because he now believes himself to be one of them. In the end he took the easy route and just blamed the major parties. Well woop-ti-fucking-doo. Because the parties control everything don’t they? They want campaigns to be like this, because soul destroying six week trudges through fields of bullshit is exactly why they got into politics.

It’s easy to blame the major parties, and the media, for the lack of policy information in election campaigns, because they are the ones who deliver the verbal excrement. But what of the individuals who lap it up like some sort of deranged, coprophagic animal with a $500000 mortgage? Why would the parties behave like this, why would the media report like this, if there was not an audience for it?

Are they doing it because they hate us? No, they are doing it because they understand people and their pathetic, small minded culture. This is the strategy that works, and you can’t blame them for using it.

The fact of the matter is that the first party to run a positive, fact-based, intelligent campaign with well articulated policy would be blown out of the water by the next boat that pitches up in Australian waters full of people who have the audacity to want a better life.

It’s the major parties’ fault, it’s the media’s fault and it’s your fault.

We’re all fucked, God is dead and we’re alone. Leaving your ballot blank will not change that.