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Andraste ([personal profile] andraste) wrote2013-09-07 04:31 am
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Because My Compatriots Need Cheering Up ...

This is the most depressing election campaign ever. It's 4:30am on election day, and I still don't know what I'm going to do when I get into the booth. I don't want anyone to win. It's awful.

However, if I was voting based solely on advertising campaigns, it would be the Australian Sex Party all the way:



I don't like how they're distributing their preferences, but I'll be putting their candidates high up on my Senate ballot.
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[personal profile] labingi 2013-09-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This is quite wonderful! I sort of wish we had this in America.
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[personal profile] andraste 2013-09-07 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that America could definitely use a Sex Party of its own! There is definitely too much fucking there as well. If you see what I mean.
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[personal profile] labingi 2013-09-08 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Many of the same kinds of fucking, plus some special American ones, like health care.
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[personal profile] andraste 2013-09-09 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The American health care system is indeed jaw-droppingly awful. Not that the Australian one is perfect, but I don't know a single person here who has gone bankrupt because of medical expenses. (And if it was going to happen to anyone, it would be me and my relatives.)
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[personal profile] st_aurafina 2013-09-07 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
They ended up quite high on mine, too. There is so much evil on that ballot paper, it scares me.
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[personal profile] andraste 2013-09-07 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The amount of overt racism and fundamentalism seems to increase every year with the size of the ballot paper :(. I honestly had trouble stuffing the bloody thing in the box, as did several people in front of me.
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[personal profile] lizvogel 2013-09-08 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You guys have way cooler political parties than we do.
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[personal profile] andraste 2013-09-09 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Partly because we have so many of them! Our Senate uses a proportional representation system and preferential voting, so minor parties or independent candidates get elected all the time. Alas, this also means we have a lot of small parties much less cool than the Sex Party :(. (Don't google 'Rise Up Australia' 'One Nation' or 'Family First' unless you enjoy learning about horrible political movements from foreign lands.)

[personal profile] lizvogel 2013-09-09 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, this also means we have a lot of small parties much less cool than the Sex Party :(.

Well, we've no shortage of lunatic fringe over here, either. (I'm pretty sure there's an American "Family First" party too, though I'm not googling to confirm.) But somehow we never seem to get the correspondingly fringe-but-cool groups like your Sex Party, or the Pirate Party, or even the Monster Raving Loony Party. Or if we do, I never get the memo. ;-P
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