Preferential voting in Australia is actually really cool. It lets you list the candidates on your ballot in the order of your preference.
So you can, for example, have The Fusion Party as number 1, The Greens as number 2, Labor as second last, and LNP as last, with any other candidates in between.
You are in control of who your vote goes to. The candidates and parties have no say in it at all.
Don’t let the media tell you otherwise.
@dgar In my druthers anyone not understanding basic civics like this should forfeit their voting rights. Democracy is wunnerful, apart from the morons. With the morons, we get warcriminal, madmonk, trumble, morriscum, & maybe even...
#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump
@MsDropbear42 @dgar No. If you deny people their voting rights for "good reasons", you will soon deny them for very bad reasons indeed.
The US history of vote suppression should teach us that.
@juergen_hubert @dgar Yep, the "thin end of the wedge" or "slippery slope" scenario, i know. But OMZ it's just so galling that so many choose to be so wilfully ignorant, & terrible outcomes ensue.
@MsDropbear42 @juergen_hubert @dgar we need to fix that by denying them their ignorance, not their vote. And not just civics. Much bad voting comes from not understanding economics
@cliffordheath @juergen_hubert @dgar Yes, fine & noble in spirit, without doubt. Sadly, here's at least one of the practical problem scenarios, as a fable.
- RWNJ Oppo party/ies promulgate/s a litany of wilful lies about opponent parties [including govt] & Indies, with big-budget saturation ad campaigns
- RWNJ Oppo party/ies promulgate/s a suite of horrendously bad climate, biodiversity, habitat, social policies, greenwashed by odious lies, & lubricated by false claims of Jobs Jobs Jobs
- RWNJ media enthusiastically bigs-up all the RWNJ party/ies lies, & ruthlessly attacks all progressive parties & Indies
- clueless cretinous credulous Great Unwashed swallow all the MSM & RWNJ party lies, & votes said party into govt.
- said new govt sets about further destroying public education, taking up from all their desecration leftover from their last time in govt, & unfixed in the meanwhile by constant parliamentary blockages instigated by the RWNJs when they were in Oppo
- vicious circle ensues... c c c G U become ever more c c c G U coz of ever decreasing efficacy of their rudimentary public education, & don't bother looking up for more than five minutes at a time from their permanent diet of farcebuck, twatter, idiotgram, tut tut et al, so keep moronically voting for the RWNJ arseholes doing all this malignant misbehaviour
Happily, in time, this awful species is wiped out by an obliging asteroid, & the cockroaches live happily ever after.
The End.
@MsDropbear42 @juergen_hubert @dgar I don't think I'm talking to you, because you have obviously already given up
@cliffordheath @juergen_hubert @MsDropbear42
Dropbears are known to be pessimistic… 