A good start would be not to vote for the duopoly parties either in the USA or Australia. Good alternaties would for example be Jill Stein (green Party) or Australian Citizens Party in Oz
Erwin Warth, I am glad that we have the Greens in Australia. It is amusing - if it wasn't tragic - the spectacle of the two main parties vying with each other in a contest of " who best to serve the US empire "!
Certainly the differences between the major parties in both the US and Australia are small in relation to what drives their policies and what it is critical to change for any significant improvement.
Unfortunately the electoral systems make it extremely unlikely that any minor party can achieve government, though I agree that can never change unless voters give them support. However, it is hard to persuade people to do that unless they see a significant prospect of it accomplishing positive change. Media ownership and skewed fear-mongering usually works against that. At the last Australian election, for instance, the Greens were the only party to put out a comprehensive policy platform but though they increased support, it was still far too little to give them any chance of forming government.
It's not just the political parties, it's the foundational way the entire system operates. It's the structure of the hierarchy that has fascism baked into it.
There's no way to get this system designed for oligarchy to become an agent of peace. It has so many laws on the books from a local to a federal level that reinforce the status quo. To see any appreciable change even with the right people in charge you'd have to also replace most of the sitting judges in the country and strike down thousands of legal precedents.
A good start would be not to vote for the duopoly parties either in the USA or Australia. Good alternaties would for example be Jill Stein (green Party) or Australian Citizens Party in Oz
Erwin Warth, I am glad that we have the Greens in Australia. It is amusing - if it wasn't tragic - the spectacle of the two main parties vying with each other in a contest of " who best to serve the US empire "!
Certainly the differences between the major parties in both the US and Australia are small in relation to what drives their policies and what it is critical to change for any significant improvement.
Unfortunately the electoral systems make it extremely unlikely that any minor party can achieve government, though I agree that can never change unless voters give them support. However, it is hard to persuade people to do that unless they see a significant prospect of it accomplishing positive change. Media ownership and skewed fear-mongering usually works against that. At the last Australian election, for instance, the Greens were the only party to put out a comprehensive policy platform but though they increased support, it was still far too little to give them any chance of forming government.
It's not just the political parties, it's the foundational way the entire system operates. It's the structure of the hierarchy that has fascism baked into it.
There's no way to get this system designed for oligarchy to become an agent of peace. It has so many laws on the books from a local to a federal level that reinforce the status quo. To see any appreciable change even with the right people in charge you'd have to also replace most of the sitting judges in the country and strike down thousands of legal precedents.