"Funniest" thing about this is that the local (white/mixed) community in this area consistently vote against the politicians from the capital cities thousands of miles away, and yet their voices are completely ignored, when these decisions are made.
There's like, half a million people in North Qld, maybe more - less than 10% would vote in support of this, they will be objectively disadvantaged by it, and yet they are so disenfranchised by "majority rule" and proportional voting, that what they think literally doesn't matter at all, and a tiny, woke minority wins out once again.
Insane, divisive, and completely unsustainable. Yet this is where we are headed as a country, apparently...
Yep, at least you guys have the “electoral college”, I guess. That seems to be one of the few things that makes this… Slightly less pronounced, arguably, in the US…
Spare a thought for NZ, which has more than 5 million people, yet no states, no upper house, and now, effectively no real opposition (because Ardern has an absolute majority in parliament)…
They also have special “Māori electorates”, where only Maori can vote for the representatives (Australia is looking at a similar model, with “The Voice”)…
It’s no wonder NZ is so utterly fucked.
Especially with a completely compliant media. As I’m sure our friend in this thread can confirm, if we, in our countries, thought it was bad? Spare a thought for our based Kiwi brethren, lol…
"Funniest" thing about this is that the local (white/mixed) community in this area consistently vote against the politicians from the capital cities thousands of miles away, and yet their voices are completely ignored, when these decisions are made.
There's like, half a million people in North Qld, maybe more - less than 10% would vote in support of this, they will be objectively disadvantaged by it, and yet they are so disenfranchised by "majority rule" and proportional voting, that what they think literally doesn't matter at all, and a tiny, woke minority wins out once again.
Insane, divisive, and completely unsustainable. Yet this is where we are headed as a country, apparently...
We have the same problem here in the US.
Certain cities in certain states have way too much influence on politics at both state and national level.
Yep, at least you guys have the “electoral college”, I guess. That seems to be one of the few things that makes this… Slightly less pronounced, arguably, in the US…
Spare a thought for NZ, which has more than 5 million people, yet no states, no upper house, and now, effectively no real opposition (because Ardern has an absolute majority in parliament)…
They also have special “Māori electorates”, where only Maori can vote for the representatives (Australia is looking at a similar model, with “The Voice”)…
It’s no wonder NZ is so utterly fucked.
Especially with a completely compliant media. As I’m sure our friend in this thread can confirm, if we, in our countries, thought it was bad? Spare a thought for our based Kiwi brethren, lol…
Guess NZ doesn't believe in equal protection under the law and I guess Austrailia is going to follow suit.
'Course we say we do over here in the States, but in practice we don't.