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Feb 2, 2023Liked by Joel Jenkins

Thank you for your well thought out and dissecting article Joel. I ask myself how do we get here? There are enough Australian voters who put the LNP into power for nearly 10 years? Are these voters stupid? Are they ignorant fools or just plain morons? Do they think they are going to get rich? What motivates their voting? What do they believe in? The LNP are only really serving the interest of the top 10% wealthiest voters, and they don't give a shit about the rest of voters who get them there unless they're in marginal seats! Morrison delivered this Robodebt monstrosity to the people when social services minister and its carriage lasted all this time, How???? Are we as a Society a pack of distrusting venal individuals and always looking to punish the alleged unworthy? I think back to Paul Keating and his dislike of the Public Service and then introducing Contracts to senior positions and now we see the end results of this with this horrific scandal! Finally, i think of John Howard who spawned the birth of a new extremist fascist like right wing LNP and with his Sprog delivering us Reith, Downer, Ruddock, Alston, Minchin, Andrews, Abbott and now the likes of Morrison, Porter, Tudge, Cash, Fletcher, Payne, Ley, Taylor, Hawke, Joyce, Dutton and so many more. Such a pack of cretinous, venal. lying, corrupt, soulless, heartless, scrupulous, cunning, born to rule, thugs, war lusting mongers, and bastards you will ever find. Please Australian voter think hard about your vote and keep these evil and nasty mother fuckers out of power for ever and vote genuine progressive independents to turn Australia into a more caring, fairer and decent society were everybody matters not just the rich 10%. Thanks Spiros.

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Thankyou for that acerbic, pertinent and valid response, Spiros. There is an element of the decades of conditioning this has had over us.

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