yep, "vote early, vote often" they say...
"Have you voted elsewhere today sir?" is the standard question..
-Pause-
"um, there was.... ah... over at... umm......not including.......... No. Not yet"
-pause-
"I'll take that as a 'no' then sir"
Who do you vote for?
Presently there is NO ONE representative or party that ticks all my boxes....sure, there are some who claim to support gun owners, but to the extent that they dont propose FURTHER restrictions... thats not good enough.
Its all about compromise.
Those who are more so pro-gun, just fall over elsewhere, and frankly if the we are a nation of jobless families with masses who cant feed their children.....but we have less gun control - thats not a worthy solution.
Deals done to sell off a state's electricity asset for ever - while being thrown a very temporary pro-shooters bone..... that is unconscionable.
At the moment I see it as a case of voting for the devil you know, that who will place the commies who support gun control, immigration, open borders and further biasing personal tax toward the high earners to favor the 'proleteriat' LAST. LAST. LAST.
Your vote should ideally go to not a party, but an individual who will take your WILL and that of the electorate - to parliament. Then proposed laws and vote accordingly...novel concept.
Although that is the idea of our system, it has been so utterly corrupted by generations of party politics (along with hypnotised newspaper and tv 'believers') that the system is no longer recognisable. The system doesnt even provide for a prime minister, but we believe it because we told it is so. Its 'convention' which means that it is done... simply because it is done, and was done previously...
Convention covers a LOT of what these guys do.
But Who to vote in a rigged system where your WILL means less than nothing (suggesting such a frivolity would result in ridicule) so then in some cases that may mean voting Lib. but the preferences must be considered. These guys are expert at flowing preferences to achieve their ambitions. Vote to cause the least damage to our quality of life...
......pending the revolution
Labor, should be preferenced with the greens.....regardless of the discourse, they are 2 peas in a philosophical pod.