I think I am (turning more right wing as I get older)
When I left uni, I used to think all these stupid things.
Now whenever Julia Gillard talks, I think she's just a twat and has no idea. Bob Brown's ok, but I'm not gay so I can't really relate to him, and some of his ideas.
I used to listen to Peter Garrat and do all those dumb dances to US forces and beds are burning - but now when I hear him - I think he's just a twatt too.
Australian politics has lost me over the years. I used to believe in a future - Is there any hope for us?
I don't think I could vote for Tony but I could for Malcolm.
My Liberal mates used to describe me as a "small L" and I didn't quite understand it until now - I think they are right.
I am not turning right or left wing as I age. I'm turning more anti war and anti big government. Both the ALP and the Lib/Nats believe believe in tax and spend to fix all our problems. They believe individuals can't be trusted to run our own lives and we need regulation to save us from ourselves. Meanwhile they take our money and then give some of it back, telling us how generous and awesome they are.
Australian soldiers die for no reason in the Middle Bloody East. They don't learn anything from history. Aussie soldiers died for no reason in Gallipoli about 100 years ago. Turkey never threatened or attacked Australia. Aussie soldiers die today in Afghanistan. Again a country that has never threatened or attacked Australia.
I think it depends on how much you own and what your life was like.
I am guessing that you have a good job, some sort of financial assets, and good health. Screw the government, what have they ever given you!
Of course, if you have nothing, no assets, and good health. Viva la Revolution.
Don't think I'm turning more right wing. Less idealistic perhaps, but I still don't like big power groups controlling our lives. Be it greedy multinationals or heavy handed unions.
Guess I fall into the green small L bracket myself, couldn't bring myself to vote for Tony, but maybe could Malcolm. Julia deserved a chance, but she's not making the best out of it.
^& Gwendy,
I have gone from making Ghengis Khan looking like a liberal to someone who thinks
This has taken 40 years
I came to shortly after arriving in Aus. Private school in South Africa and smothered with propaganda, short transition through the UK where Margaret was king (but too soft) and then a shock fall into working class life in Aus.
I was classed as a wog, not pom, not coon, but not from here, but they said it with a smile and I exerted myself and I was accepted. Within two years I was put forward as a Union rep..
The backbone of this country is the people.
Our values have been distorted by debt but at the end of the day it is only people that matter.
If something is skewiff, question why. The average Joe Blow is more likely to help you out in times of dire need than ever any naffwit who works for government be it parliament or Centrelink.
Peter Garrat is going to have a very interesting story to tell when he eventually backs out or Canberra
I agree with Decrepit, I think Malcolm has a more balanced and considered opinion, whereas the others are victims of populist politics driven by not only the media's insatiable appetite for "news",but also opinion polls and sportsbet, who has the best odds at any given time. I too, am becoming more cynical about how our values are being driven by superficiality and selfishness. the quest for growth at any cost, its time for a rethink, USA is having the worst recession in 70 years not to mention the bankrupt countries in Europe and still we have to keep the market analysts happy, tell them from me to get f.......
I never took up the job of Union Rep.. I got promoted to management and it took a long time for the scars to heal
Artistic licence and fark was not in the original post.
I'll get back to you. Just rolling a very nice, very long, perfectly symetrical Champion Ruby durry
I think I have become more anarchist with age. Just find it hard to trust pollies because there is hardly a bugger amongst them that will give a straight answer to a straight question.
An interesting development is the formation of the "Australia Party" by Bob Katter. Let's hope THIS message gets through loud and clear:-
"For those people that have been out there in a comfortable cocoon of big-party endorsement, well, happy days are at an end my friends.
"You're going to have to stand up and represent your people or you're going to lose your seat," Mr Katter said.
Full article here:- www.news-mail.com.au/news/katter-doesnt-scare-us-mps/869523/
. i do think we are a lackadaisical nation which loves to have a whinge but are too lazy to do anything about it.
More right wing for sure.
You realise more that the 'left' is not reality. I've been unlearning all this leftist information I was given.
"if you are not left when you are young, then you have no heart
and if you are not right when you are older then you have no brain"
Well I guess I was part of the love and peace generation, I liked the idea of living in communities and all the green lefty stuff that came with it. I am not right wing now but after I have been immersed in the rat race after I turned 20 and that for now just over 30 years I found that I became cynical and see all pollies as acrobats (blowing in their ass to become big and important they became contortionists)
Wish I could find refuge in a desert Island but at my age I would not go without all the creature comfort.
should we have a topic that reads "as women grow older they turn more like their mother" [}:)]I am not courageous enough to start that one. She could read it
