Politics is a dirty word

 Hopefully we will have a truly independent government in Australia after Saturday’s federal election. A majority of independent members of parliament will be a great change from the sad party hacks who have controlled government in this country. Political parties should be banned, allowing members to truly represent their electorates rather than owe allegiance to their party machine. One of the stupid things that has evolved is the portrayal of each party leader. The only people who actually vote for the leader are the MPs in his or her party. The rest of us only vote for the local member we want to represent us. Political parties should be banned.

The case for banning political parties has been strengthened now a Victorian Government Minister has been sackedafter claims of corruption were made on a television programme. Secret recordings were aired about the misuse of money and Labor Party branch stacking (rigging membership to manipulate votes). There is nothing really new in the allegations, it has been going on for years with politicians manipulating party members to ensure support for themselves. Stacking party branches has been more of a Labor practice over the years, but the Liberal party has often used slush funds to hide the identity of donors who finance election campaigns and rorting electorate funds for personal gain has been common.

I have previously described the decline of our political system, and mentioned the benefits of anarchy. To push this a little further,our country is divided into two sides, the right and the left; Liberal/National Conservatives and labor/Greens The party system does not meet Australia’s best interests. Far from uniting us, parties divide and weaken our community. They are the cause of the ineffectiveness of government. They create mob mentality, corruption and pit citizen against citizen where the common goal of a better country is lost to party politics causing the dysfunction seen in Canberra. Our leaders can’t lead because they are not individuals, or even representatives of the people, they are servants of their political party, where the intelligent individual is replaced by a one-dimensional system easily susceptible to corruption. In the US, George Washington is on the record saying““Political parties may now and then answer popular ends, but they are likely in the course of ti...