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I am, of course, referring to the Election.

This time round, I find myself in a quandary.  I've been a life-long Labor voter.  I always believed they could run this country to an acceptable level, whilst still considering me to be a human being with (mostly) equal rights.

I recall when Kevin Rudd was ousted from the top job, and Julia Gillard slotted in.  Oh, how Australia's feminists crowed about how wonderful it was to finally have a woman Prime Minister.  I kept my mouth shut, for the most part, because the truth is that I'd rather have a smart man in power than a dumb woman.  Also, I'd rather see a woman voted in on her own merits, than slotted in because some boy got kicked out.  Now, I don't know if Gillard really is dumb, but she's given me nothing, nothing, to make me think otherwise.  I haven't kept up with her career aside from recent developments, but I think I have a sufficiently large sample of her behaviour now to draw some conclusions.  This chick doesn't have a spine.  Her opiniona and attitudes change with whichever way the political winds happen to blow.  I know this is largely true of most other politicians, but most other politicians manage to hide it.  I'm now being OVERTLY hoodwinked by spineless politicking.

She strikes me as a slimy, used-car salesman.  She'll say whatever she thinks she needs to say to make the sale.  For me, the "Moving forward" campaign was the writing on the wall.  She took an already-overused corporate buzzphrase and foisted it on the people.  If I never hear that phrase again, it'll be too soon.  What irritates me most about it is that it is completely unimaginative.  The election campaign is when politicians are supposed to put their best foot forward.  They're supposed to give us their absolute best performance.  We're supposed to see them at their peak.  Gillard, of all the things you could've run with, this was the best you could come up with??????? What were the other slogan contenders?  "We're progressing... slowly"?  "At least we're not going backwards"?  "Labor.. we're better than.. umm.. the other guys."?  Her campaign slogan is the best of a bad lot!

But the nail in the coffin was when Gillard, the spineless bint, declared that Labor would never change the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples.  She actually said:

 

Gillard told the newspaper she appreciated Australia’s “heritage as a Christian country”, adding that “the Marriage Act has a special status in our culture” as a heterosexuals-only institution.

 

(http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/08/20/gillard-you-will-never-marry-under-me/29731)

Fuck you, Gillard.  You're an unmarried woman, technically living in sin with some man, and you have the audacity to bang on about Christian values?  FUCK YOU.  FUCK YOU HARD.  You've lost my vote, you silly cow.

Never mind the fact that our only openly lesbian representative, Penny Wong, has herself toed the Party line on gay marriage.  She's against it!  WHAT.  THE.  FUCK.  If ever there was an example of party politics fucking over the people, it's this.

There's no way I'm voting the Libs/Nats/conservatives.

This time round, I'm voting for the Greens.  It might be true they don't know how to run a country, but hey, the first ever PM probably didn't know how to do that either.  But I'm pretty sure there's a few fast learners in that group of people.  They'll figure it out.  Meanwhile, they'll probably change the definition of marriage, and this country's government can finally pull its head out of the sand.

Meanwhile, here's some Gillard pics that were sent to me a while back.  Enjoy!