On donations and staff allocation I can see the temptation to build parties. I’d rather they not fold to the government’s coercive practices.
LurkingMars on
This new party might give its members much more autonomy than Labor or even the Libs. It would more readily collect gravy lined up by LibLabs. But apparent ease of brand recognition in electorates would be illusory. I don’t think there’s a quality shortcut past a local “voices of” process, BEFORE a local candidate is selected.
Addarash1 on
The author seems to have an extremely blinkered and romantic view about independents vs parties that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Supposedly adding a few independents to parliament is taking back democracy from party machines, when parties were formed in the first place because effective democracy and governance doesn’t function by having several dozen feudal lords only representing the interests of their own constituency. Any policy agenda on a larger scale needs these groups of feudal lords to have a shared agenda. And people vote for these groups, known as parties, because that’s how they know they can deliver the policies that they promise to enact. That is what parties were built for over history, and the teals are rehashing in real time the formation of parties and their necessity across just about every democracy in the world.
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On donations and staff allocation I can see the temptation to build parties. I’d rather they not fold to the government’s coercive practices.
This new party might give its members much more autonomy than Labor or even the Libs. It would more readily collect gravy lined up by LibLabs. But apparent ease of brand recognition in electorates would be illusory. I don’t think there’s a quality shortcut past a local “voices of” process, BEFORE a local candidate is selected.
The author seems to have an extremely blinkered and romantic view about independents vs parties that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Supposedly adding a few independents to parliament is taking back democracy from party machines, when parties were formed in the first place because effective democracy and governance doesn’t function by having several dozen feudal lords only representing the interests of their own constituency. Any policy agenda on a larger scale needs these groups of feudal lords to have a shared agenda. And people vote for these groups, known as parties, because that’s how they know they can deliver the policies that they promise to enact. That is what parties were built for over history, and the teals are rehashing in real time the formation of parties and their necessity across just about every democracy in the world.