Politics Does Australia need a new progressive political party?

[kranky al]

I predict this party will go nowhere and be disbanded within a few years.

The new Conservative Party?

 

[Gethelred]

Absolutely.

There is a new party based on centre conservatism called democracy first that is championing a return to the centre for the conservatives with policies much more in line with older style Liberal party ideals and rejection of cronyism, living in big businesses pocket and having people in power who have actually done something in their lives outside of being a career politician.

This thing you're describing, it will fall to monied interests because all right wing political parties do. Entropy is a thing in organisations, and principles erode over time; by dint of the fact that they exist within a capitalist context - one specifically designed to play to the flaws within moderate politics - they will always fight a losing rearguard against the corrupting forces both within and without.

Success and its accompanying wealth accumulation is the all encompassing tide.

The left needs to actually be unapologetically left wing

FTFY.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

FTFY.

Pretty much. I'd be curious to see what people think left wing politics really is, beyond buzzwords like woke of course. The obsession of centre left parties with taking the moral high road, compromising without argument, avoiding a change in living circumstance to any part of the voter base means anyone left of a small l liberal has no mainstream political representation at all.