Since the recent election there’s a lot of commentary saying the Liberal party needs to reconsider its policies and re-align with its core values which, when enumerated sound very centrist.
I just watched ABC’s q&a, there was a few interesting points. There was a strong consensus that Trump style culture wars are toxic in Australian politics, and that it’s unlikely future candidates would take that route.
I don’t want to gloat infront of the seppos, but I think what’s happening during this aftermath is very salient for all of those “both sides are bad” Americans.
In October last year there seemed to be a lot of users saying that they didn’t want to reward the dems with their vote, and that the only way to communicate with the party was to withhold their vote.
I think what’s happening right now in Australia demonstrates the importance of voting.
Labor might not be left enough for you personally, but each time the libs are defeated they need to move to the left to be viable, and Labor will have to move further left to differentiate themselves. That is to say, the spectrum of acceptable opinions is moving to the left in an observable manner, right now.
Degrowth & Transport Carbon Offsets may be difficult to balance until there is a huge shift away from consumerism.
It will take a lot of convincing the electorate that they can’t have their latest consumerist bauble unless they make it themselves, or find someone local to make it.
Even if they find someone to make it, decentralised manufacturing is usually more expensive (from an environmental impact view) than mass-produced goods.
A million individual people making a jacket each produces more waste than 10 people working together to build a million jackets.