I was honestly glad that the nats got the last seat.
This was very much a case of bad vs. worse. At least this way when the lib-nats f@ck everyone up the @rse over the next few years, it will be all their own doing and not blamed on the workings of Family First.
Not that the policies wouldn't have been the same anyway. It is the blame that would have been different.
I am not saying that FF would rubber stamp everything. I am saying that the lib-nats are currently as much a bunch of right wing nutjobs as family first (unlike the liberals under, say, Fraser), and the two parties current policies are likely to co-incide in so many areas as to make the FF impact minimal. But at least this way the Lib-Nats can't put in a psycho christian fascist policy and then say Family first made them do it. They at least will wear the blame themselves.
This is why pauline was so good for australian politics: she devided the right wing. FF absorbs christians, and thus has the risk of unifying the right. I am much more scared of FF than I ever was of O.N. Religion and Politics *shiver*. Did you read that rather excellent New Yorder artictle about W's certainty and faith... very engaging reading.
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This was very much a case of bad vs. worse. At least this way when the lib-nats f@ck everyone up the @rse over the next few years, it will be all their own doing and not blamed on the workings of Family First.
Not that the policies wouldn't have been the same anyway. It is the blame that would have been different.
I am not saying that FF would rubber stamp everything. I am saying that the lib-nats are currently as much a bunch of right wing nutjobs as family first (unlike the liberals under, say, Fraser), and the two parties current policies are likely to co-incide in so many areas as to make the FF impact minimal. But at least this way the Lib-Nats can't put in a psycho christian fascist policy and then say Family first made them do it. They at least will wear the blame themselves.
This is why pauline was so good for australian politics: she devided the right wing. FF absorbs christians, and thus has the risk of unifying the right. I am much more scared of FF than I ever was of O.N. Religion and Politics *shiver*. Did you read that rather excellent New Yorder artictle about W's certainty and faith... very engaging reading.
Evan