Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Not One Vote.

I want to start a campaign.

And by that I mean mention it once on my blog and leave it at that.

It's called the NOT ONE VOTE campaign. It's intention is to rally up those who would like to place pineapples into inappropriate places of our Dear Government. And also those who just would like the IR/sedition/media ownership/whatever else they've got up their sleeves to never happen again on their watch.

NOT ONE VOTE should be given to The Coalition at the next election, that's the idea.

The premise is that on the edge of a public Cry For Help, such as the rally, is in danger of just deflating into nothing. With the secrecy of AWAs, it'll be near impossible to know who is paid what, what conditions they've lost, etc, even if they start popping up in your own workplace.

So, the momentum will have petered out. Unless we hold the bastards accountable, by encouraging the public to make sure that not a single vote of family, friends, people in the street, co-workers, goes to the coalition.

But who to? The point is, it doesn't matter (although preferences should be considered.)

Perhaps the Lower Excise Fuel and Beer Party? That's a winner.
The Fishing Party? Who doesn't love fishing?
The Four Wheel Drive Party? That may sway a few of the conservatives.
The Nuclear Disarmament Party? There's quite a few on this list.

There is really only one winner in a Federal election, the people. They can only lose if the Liberals get in again.

NOT. ONE. VOTE.

10 Comments:

At 11:05 pm, November 16, 2005, Blogger Mikey_Capital said...

Dude, it depends where the preferences flow.

In my first ever election I voted for the 'Grey Party' - who I thought were lovely duffers - and cause I knew shit all about politics.

Their preferences went to Fred Nile...

By all means yes. But then you have to convince people who are wallet conscious of the merits of our grand plan. Any ideas?

 
At 11:42 pm, November 16, 2005, Blogger Larry Bonewend said...

Preferences are a problem. But, the parties that preference the coalition highly can be identified.

The wallet conscious can have the obvious explained to them - the Liberal party does not care about their financial position one iota. If they can get you paid $1 an hour, they would. If they can make it easy for you to get paid less, they will, and they are.

Y'know, facts like that. Trade deficit, the average home loan percentage of income, interest rates rising, average debt.

NOT ONE VOTE. Convincing right-wing people of their folly used to be a past-time, now it needs to be a national priority.

I dunno, I don't think sitting idly by, and letting the foolish learn the hard way by voting in politicians that do not represent them, is an option anymore.

 
At 11:01 pm, November 17, 2005, Blogger Mikey_Capital said...

We could start up that Michael Moore plan of offering to sex up liberal voters that made the switch. Except I'm an ugo.

Curse my plain features !

I think Operation 'Moth out of Wallet' will be a goer in 2007. Assuming of course the government hasn't cancelled elections due to a state of emergency after a pack of Cornettos was found on a train.

 
At 11:54 pm, November 17, 2005, Blogger Larry Bonewend said...

Was discussing politics to a self-described prole today. (Obviously he didn't call himself a prole, because he doesn't know of the term.)

He voted Liberal, because he felt that with the Liberal's in power, he has got a few nice tax cuts, and life was good.

So he voted, and all of a sudden the shit hits the fan. He didn't understand that they could have control of the Senate, or what it meant when they did.

He wished he could change his vote after the election.

He professed he had no idea of what they would do with absolute power. No knowledge of how the industrial relations changes had pretty much all been tried in parliament, and blocked by the hostile Senate.

But, as is usual for pretty much everyone in this fucked up society, had several jabs at me for being a 'Greenie', which must seem like an easy target, with some 60's hippie references. And pot smoking comments.

(I think most Greens have to get used to this sort of crap, I guess when someone builds your parties name as a derogatory term it's going to happen.)

But politics is boring. They use nice twisty comments that those of an attention deficit struggle with. Plus, they really just don't give a shit.

It's not too complicated, for a small minority it is, but the rest are content with letting someone else lead, and assuming that the guy they ticked the box of won't fuck them over, simply because they ticked their box.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

On the 7:30 report, on the day of the rally, they had footage of Greg Combet, walking the wet, cold, drizzling streets of Melbourne. He made a comment about how all his work is because he simply cares for the people of the country.

This prole I referred to earlier, admitted to selfish reasons for his Liberal vote, because he got a $60 tax cut, and didn't give a shit about those around him who got $6. (He does a LOT of hours.)

He will own his house when he is 62 - at the current interest rate - and assuming he doesn't get screwed over with wages. On Sunday he gets to see his kids awake.

All I can think of, is how I should set up the spare room for his family, because he cannot economically survive anything resembling a rough ride.

I don't think you can explain politics to the average Joe. He just doesn't seem to care.

 
At 4:51 pm, November 18, 2005, Blogger Justine said...

I think the Help End Marijuana Prohibition party is a winner. Being enrolled in Farrer, I thought I might as well vote to make a difference, you know.

 
At 7:18 pm, November 18, 2005, Blogger Gam said...

"He voted Liberal, because he felt that with the Liberal's in power, he has got a few nice tax cuts, and life was good.

So he voted, and all of a sudden the shit hits the fan. He didn't understand that they could have control of the Senate, or what it meant when they did."

"When i bent over in front of the lady with a strap on, and cuffed myself to the bed, I didn't know she'd have her rough way with me. I know it said 'Jane's Academy of Dry Forcible Sodomy' on a sign outside, but how was I to know? Oh well, I got $60 out of my violent butt raping, so it wasn't all bad, now help me walk..."

It's all fun and games till someone decides to destroy our society as we know it...

 
At 7:54 pm, November 18, 2005, Blogger Larry Bonewend said...

Perhaps a Help Remove The Liberal Party, where the how-to-vote card doesn't preference itself at all, but directs them based on who's giving the least prefs to the Liberals. (I think that'd put Labor first, Liberal last.)

I think the problem is that the average person is simply not aware of just how evil and destructive the Liberals are. If John Howard walked around with the serated strap-on from SE7EN, and had an iron maiden with 'AWA signing inside' it would be a little more obvious.

"Be careful with that, Johnny, you could poke a democracy out!"

 
At 10:42 pm, November 18, 2005, Blogger Mikey_Capital said...

LOL !

Part of me suspects the economic climate of unaffordable houses meets low interest rates was a political aim in some quarters.

You got it in one man. Friends and colleagues don't see the big picture - just what the impact is on them. And it's all fear based impact.

Maybe it's because I'm a renter and nearly unsackable? And know a bit more than the average Oz about terrorism (having studied it at uni lo these past few years)?

Maybe it's cause I have an interest?

The irony is that I used to only buy the newspaper (the SMH) for the TV Guide on Mondays. Then one day I read the rest of the paper and discovered I was actually interested what was happening around me.

Complete fluke.

 
At 1:31 pm, November 23, 2005, Blogger Cass said...

"Be careful with that, Johnny, you could poke a democracy out!"

LOL!

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter of the not one vote party.

I am going to do this by voting below the line. I always do that - it's so much fun, I can't understand why everyone doesn't do it!!

 
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