Agreed, absolute bummer when he took over. Aesthetically he’s also a huge pushover and a goofball. I can imagine many swing voters going for Morrison, despite him being the worst Aus PM in my living memory, simply because he takes things ‘seriously’ and says the word ‘economy’ over and over, as opposed to Albo who has a goofy chortle and barely seems interested in any many crises occurring atm.
He’s even a shit leader of his own party, failing to seize on any potential attacks against Morrison. I’ve made this same point a while back in some other post but the point still stands: Any half-competent politician would have ridden Morrison’s Hawaiian holiday to the next election or at least milked it, but Albanese did civility politics like an absolute fuckwit.
Australia needs a legit leftist leading the ALP, because the Australian chuds are becoming indistinguishable from American chuds.
Sorry mate but I don’t think there are any of those left in the ALP after Whitlam crushed the Victorian leftists like this guy:
In Australia, especially in NSW and Victoria, a genuine Labor left existed in the 1960s and early 1970s. They argued for more militant unions, participated in the anti-Vietnam War movement, campaigned for a socialist Labor party and rejected pragmatic electoralism. For example, addressing the Victorian ALP state conference in 1969, outgoing president Bill Brown argued:
“Only conscious organisation of social production in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way can save the world from destruction. This cannot be achieved by simply winning seats in Parliament and seeking to change capitalism into a morally good society. It can only be realised by a complete break from capitalist institutions, culture and morality.”
Comrades stop trying to do entryism into bourgeois parties challenge
Never been more disappointed in a pollie than in albanese. I’m not an idiot, I know the ALP sucks and will continue to suck, but I thought he’d be an improvement on shorten. How wrong I was.
