An Election With No Selection

As September is drawing closer and closer, I feel more and more torn about the whole Federal Election thing. This is the second time that I don’t really want to vote for anyone in an election.

Democracy gave us an illusion that we have a choice but in fact from the Australian politics perspective that choice does not exist. Well, it does exist but how do you choose from candidates who, one of them does not seem to know what she is doing or saying but just asking for more tax payer money and the other who only cares about adding the Prime Ministership to his CV and does not care a darn about the general Australians? In the last election, we still have a stronger but smaller party to choose from but this time round, that option is gone too as it seems that they have lost the plot too.

At the moment there is no best bet for the September election. If I chose Labor , then I will be participating in another round of fiasco of mismanagement and lack of vision. Probably more tax increase because no money for other things. However I am always surprised that when it comes to their own welfare there is always money. I still continue to question about why retired politicians who are receiving huge sum of money as consultants for private businesses need the Government to provide an office at Macquarie Street while they don’t need it. Also why do we need to pay for their airfares every year when they have more than enough money to fly business class or even first class themselves? Every time a new tax is introduced I question that. Even worse was the recent news that the Labor Government just increased the payout of severance packages for people in their offices if they did not get re-elected – which is quite obvious this is a hush hush approach to save their financial asses.

As for the Liberals, they are really nothing liberal about. They are against basic human rights such as marriage equality. Now I don’t want to get into the whole religious debate. For me it is not about religious righteousness but about basic rights. Faith and believe is a very personal relationship between an individual and God, and I do not condone using your religious agenda to achieve personal preferences. Not allowing people to get married because of your personal religious agenda as a Catholic is similar to what you attack about the Muslims. Yes Tony Abott I am looking at you. Further Tony Abott is not the most religious Catholic in the world for he nearly had an illegitimate son! Who is he to cast the first stone and cry foul to marriage equality? Also the Liberals lack of vision about the NBN project is a blatant way of putting Australia’s economic success in the future in jeopardy. Do they really care about Australia? Or they just care about whether they have enough money for their retirement funds in the future?

As for the Greens, well I really got nothing more to say about them except having my face’s colour turning green when I imagine them to become a ruling party (which they would not anyway). While I appreciate a lot of their efforts and their visions, nothing much was accomplished in the last few years apart from showing that they do have a say in the Parliament.

Seriously in the last three years, the Australian political scene showed us nothing but fiasco and stupidity.  Apart from more taxes being introduced and people yelling at each other and throwing names at each other each week, what has been done? Julia’s speech on misogynist will still go down as one of the great speeches for women politicians but Australia needs a Prime Minister who actually has a clear vision and at the same time the ability to bring this vision to reality. Julia Gillard might have a vision but at this stage she seems to lack the ability to carry that out. As for Tony Abott, he is neither a visionary nor a capable person from what he exhibited in the last three years. He just look like a spoiled brat who knows nothing about life but just want more from his supporters. If he became Prime Minister (which probably he would) Australia could enter a long period of dark age for nothing would be done because Tony Abott will just be focusing on staying in power and getting rid of differences in the party and the Parliament. Debates will become talk shows that don’t even scratch the surface of any social issues.

I wish the No Parking Meter Party was a federal level political party as at least its agenda is out there and I do genuinely do not like parking meters in certain areas.