The other has been used so much that is now has a life of its own as a self parody or nearly a meme...
That in reference to a failed Socialist state it wasn't proper socialism or generally its never been tried properly.
There is another support angle that pops up. That is socialism brought us great things like a police force, national armed forces for our protection like Army. Navy, Airforce. Brought us hospitals & fire fighting services and public transport.
Strangely though, many of them predate Karl Marx & later socialist writers but none are actually found within Marxist manifestos or platforms. Virtually all are a result of parliaments which changed & turned into parliaments of public servants when the name PUBLIC SERVANTS actually meant those who served the public. It was elected law makers made up of REAL Conservatives vs WISE Progressives. None of which were Socialist or Marxist based.
Well worth remembering that those elected law makers, primarily real legislators & some politicians were elected. They were not appointed & selected by a ruling class at the top & nor was that ruling class in power for life.
It wasn't perfect, not is it ever likely to be perfect & the structure of any Government is likely to be swings & roundabouts, positives & negatives. The very idea of regular elections is to empower the people to change a government without bloodshed. But it is the ability to change of government. In the past we've seen all opposing parties try to change boundaries (Gerrymanders) to retian seats to retain government & now the WA Upper House Electoral Reform to give metropolitan seats more power or rather less say to the regions.
It was brought in to give us One Vote One Value because thats 100% EQUAL.
Downside is, there is not 100% EQUAL hospital services in the bush. Nor policing. Nor public transport, nor a thousand other things. People in the bush had an electoral weighting so all benefits they should be getting weren't reliant on metropolitan based governments with metropolitan priorities. Thing is, now there are far more seats in the metro area & the house of review is going to also be dominated by metropolitan seats...which Labor will hope to dominate.
In effect, one party is likely to benefit from this, the WA Labor Party. They controlled both houses & were able to usher it through straight after their election during COVID & it was pushed through as a COVID priority. It didn't affect COVID & the Act, passed in 2021 would not be used or able to be used until March 2025. It was a huge priority. And yet just weeks earlier it was stated as being "not on our agenda"
One Labor MP messed up & later said it wasn't on the agenda during the campaign because they didn't know how many seats they would win. Clearly, it was to remain hidden & unspoken until they were sure they could secure both houses...and they did. And it was suddenly a priority & it was passed. One of the bigger legislative changes & the electors prior to polling day weren't just not told, it was hidden from them.
Quite a thing.
You change the playing field, you can claim the massive dominance in the legislature is all democratic.
That leads us to the WA Labor Party & Socialism.
It is by its own consitution a Democratic Socialism Party & therein we see the devil is in the lack of detail.
Socialism is not made better by adding a word in front like Democratic.
Ready for Democratic Khmer Rouge or Democratic Nazi Party?
No & the same applies to Democratic Socialism because all the Marxist offshoots were designed to kill & replace Capitalism. Now you cannot have democracy without capitalism.
Its just the way it is.
If you want to democratically move the means of production away from individuals & companies and over to the state, that just means you have democratically voted to do away with capitalism & deomocracy.
Take a minute on that, you would be voting to do away with the right to vote, the right to own assets & property & the right to your own individual freedoms and rights.
You would be aiming to usher in Socialism/Communism without a war & once its there for it to be "done properly" by the Marxist Manifestos you will need the State To Be All & There Is Nothing Outside The State. Meaning you would eventually reach a point where you cannot vote it out.
If you think Governments can run businesses & run them well then that's a failed argument. They run on massive largesse & terminal waste with their only safety line being higher taxes to pay for more waste.
It is a huge concern that so few successful businessmen & businesswomen go onto a life in the Parliament.
Those that do, tell me how many are in WA Labor.
Most are ex-employees of the Union movement or the new generation of Chardonnay Socialists who see a quick career pathway into politics & probably not very good at running a business & have an equally appalling understanding of Socialism. But they do know how to do a great selfie for social media, visit a school, old age home, sporting event, hand over a giant cheque they had no input into at all (or they've broken the law if they did)...all about the fake rockstar optic with quick smile bombs and no time for discussions or questions. Most are entirely out of their depth & rely solely on the higher tier one MPs closest to the leader or on Bureaucrats who are either party members or party supporters/enablers.
In fact if Socialism were to run its natural course all workers, that is all employed staff would eventually become Government Employees. The line between Unions & Government becomes blurred & potentially as one. But then they're not really that democratic either, they're very factionalised & sketchy fiefdoms.
If you're a worker, yes unions can serve a veyr vital function. Abused though, they become a cartel for their ruling elites who all rub shoulders with the socialist government elite or in the case of one recent couple...the husband was a Union elite & his wife was a Labor MP elite.
When you're in that position you're able to amass a vast personal fortune that is not possible for either were they employed in normal jobs based on merit. It is very anti democracy & the working class are getting thoroughly ripped off but passionately stay there.
If WA Labor is a "Democratic Socialist" party they certainly go to great lengths to never explain what that means EXACTLY and what its limits are. It does support redistributing the means of production, its in their consititution so I'm not exactly sure how that, aside from semantics & word tricks differs from any failed Socialist regime.
Where WA is at now is the pendulum will swing. It always does. Its how much more damage is going to be done when it finally swings & how much damage the next non Socialist government has the will to fix when they take office. That which they don't fix will be ratcheted yet again when the Socialists regain government at a later date.
Take the 2 planes the WA Government uses. One is a proper plane, the other a jet. They used to be contract flights owned by private operaters. Not now. Now they're government owned. So there's less out in the open reporting on miles travelled & costs. WIll a conservatoive government revert that back to non government operators under a regular tender process or will it remain with an ever increasing budget hidden within the budget? Premier Mark McGowan flew the jet to Carnavon to give the abducted child who was found, a stuffed toy. Children have been abducted since, one in Perth & was thankfully again found unharmed. The Premier did not visit that child. There wasn't the same huge public story attached. Cynical? No.
Ambulance ramping was going off the charts & it was caused by a failed Hospital System. One of the Labor Governments big solutions was to mount an inquiry into the St John's Ambulance with the view to closing that tender & making Ambulance Service a fully Government operation. The proponent Pierre Yang MLC is from the union that would cover all those new Government workers & guess what...monthly ambulance ramping figures would no longer exist.
There's your democratic socialism in full glare.
Oppose it or at least get your nearest Labor MP to explain what Democratic Socialism is becuase it sure does look like much more & much bigger government in every walk of life.
It was brought in to give us One Vote One Value because thats 100% EQUAL.
Downside is, there is not 100% EQUAL hospital services in the bush. Nor policing. Nor public transport, nor a thousand other things. People in the bush had an electoral weighting so all benefits they should be getting weren't reliant on metropolitan based governments with metropolitan priorities. Thing is, now there are far more seats in the metro area & the house of review is going to also be dominated by metropolitan seats...which Labor will hope to dominate.
In effect, one party is likely to benefit from this, the WA Labor Party. They controlled both houses & were able to usher it through straight after their election during COVID & it was pushed through as a COVID priority. It didn't affect COVID & the Act, passed in 2021 would not be used or able to be used until March 2025. It was a huge priority. And yet just weeks earlier it was stated as being "not on our agenda"
One Labor MP messed up & later said it wasn't on the agenda during the campaign because they didn't know how many seats they would win. Clearly, it was to remain hidden & unspoken until they were sure they could secure both houses...and they did. And it was suddenly a priority & it was passed. One of the bigger legislative changes & the electors prior to polling day weren't just not told, it was hidden from them.
Quite a thing.
You change the playing field, you can claim the massive dominance in the legislature is all democratic.
That leads us to the WA Labor Party & Socialism.
It is by its own consitution a Democratic Socialism Party & therein we see the devil is in the lack of detail.
Socialism is not made better by adding a word in front like Democratic.
Ready for Democratic Khmer Rouge or Democratic Nazi Party?
No & the same applies to Democratic Socialism because all the Marxist offshoots were designed to kill & replace Capitalism. Now you cannot have democracy without capitalism.
Its just the way it is.
If you want to democratically move the means of production away from individuals & companies and over to the state, that just means you have democratically voted to do away with capitalism & deomocracy.
Take a minute on that, you would be voting to do away with the right to vote, the right to own assets & property & the right to your own individual freedoms and rights.
You would be aiming to usher in Socialism/Communism without a war & once its there for it to be "done properly" by the Marxist Manifestos you will need the State To Be All & There Is Nothing Outside The State. Meaning you would eventually reach a point where you cannot vote it out.
If you think Governments can run businesses & run them well then that's a failed argument. They run on massive largesse & terminal waste with their only safety line being higher taxes to pay for more waste.
It is a huge concern that so few successful businessmen & businesswomen go onto a life in the Parliament.
Those that do, tell me how many are in WA Labor.
Most are ex-employees of the Union movement or the new generation of Chardonnay Socialists who see a quick career pathway into politics & probably not very good at running a business & have an equally appalling understanding of Socialism. But they do know how to do a great selfie for social media, visit a school, old age home, sporting event, hand over a giant cheque they had no input into at all (or they've broken the law if they did)...all about the fake rockstar optic with quick smile bombs and no time for discussions or questions. Most are entirely out of their depth & rely solely on the higher tier one MPs closest to the leader or on Bureaucrats who are either party members or party supporters/enablers.
In fact if Socialism were to run its natural course all workers, that is all employed staff would eventually become Government Employees. The line between Unions & Government becomes blurred & potentially as one. But then they're not really that democratic either, they're very factionalised & sketchy fiefdoms.
If you're a worker, yes unions can serve a veyr vital function. Abused though, they become a cartel for their ruling elites who all rub shoulders with the socialist government elite or in the case of one recent couple...the husband was a Union elite & his wife was a Labor MP elite.
When you're in that position you're able to amass a vast personal fortune that is not possible for either were they employed in normal jobs based on merit. It is very anti democracy & the working class are getting thoroughly ripped off but passionately stay there.
If WA Labor is a "Democratic Socialist" party they certainly go to great lengths to never explain what that means EXACTLY and what its limits are. It does support redistributing the means of production, its in their consititution so I'm not exactly sure how that, aside from semantics & word tricks differs from any failed Socialist regime.
Where WA is at now is the pendulum will swing. It always does. Its how much more damage is going to be done when it finally swings & how much damage the next non Socialist government has the will to fix when they take office. That which they don't fix will be ratcheted yet again when the Socialists regain government at a later date.
Take the 2 planes the WA Government uses. One is a proper plane, the other a jet. They used to be contract flights owned by private operaters. Not now. Now they're government owned. So there's less out in the open reporting on miles travelled & costs. WIll a conservatoive government revert that back to non government operators under a regular tender process or will it remain with an ever increasing budget hidden within the budget? Premier Mark McGowan flew the jet to Carnavon to give the abducted child who was found, a stuffed toy. Children have been abducted since, one in Perth & was thankfully again found unharmed. The Premier did not visit that child. There wasn't the same huge public story attached. Cynical? No.
Ambulance ramping was going off the charts & it was caused by a failed Hospital System. One of the Labor Governments big solutions was to mount an inquiry into the St John's Ambulance with the view to closing that tender & making Ambulance Service a fully Government operation. The proponent Pierre Yang MLC is from the union that would cover all those new Government workers & guess what...monthly ambulance ramping figures would no longer exist.
There's your democratic socialism in full glare.
Oppose it or at least get your nearest Labor MP to explain what Democratic Socialism is becuase it sure does look like much more & much bigger government in every walk of life.
No comments:
Post a Comment