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Originally posted by pintohoo ↑

I don't believe that it was a system designed as you said --

I feel that democracy is a pretty good idea - worth a try

but, we stuck an election system in it - and, there IMO, lies a problem ---it is a character flaw of democracy as we use it - one which we do NOT need to have government by the people.

The election system in any political system - opens it up to all kinds of horrors - and I don't believe that any political system can be judged if it has an election system as one of it's bases.

For Australia - there are more problems ------- again, I don't think purposefully designed to fail the man in the street as you say -------------- I think it's just a tragic and spectacular lack of vision by people who we hold high as our 'founding fathers' -

many had good intentions - but, oh boy - were they short on looking forward

Federation - yes, a good idea ------------ in ONE way - why did we do that - we did that because it was clearly a bloody mess having separate states -

but federation wasn't a good idea ---------- it really was a band aid on a cancer - and all it did was to allow the cancer to continue

what IMO should have happened was that we should have all sat down and said - this isn't working - which, we did

but we should have had the guts to throw the baby and the bathwater out and start again - but, we did not

what we did - is what we do today still -------------- we overlay a shit system with - more shit

it's an atrocious waste of opportunity and a not too bad a block of dirt location wise

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I think you will find that democracy and elections are part of the same deal. It's the political funding/lobbying that throws the democracy train off the tracks.

Once you have something on someone - you own him and his/her decisions. That;s how things work currently and it's not in the interest of the political or corporate world to change that.

History has shown us that when populations are pushed to the limit - the masses rebel. The colonial Americans, French, Russians, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Cubans etc know a bit about this.
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