NicholasTribbia said:
Do you know anything about the CPA. They are a democratic party! If you would like to argue that they are just masquerading as a democratic party, you'd be wrong again. An example of this can be seen in Moldova. Moldova is a democracy and the Communist Party is the current democratically elected governemnt. So to say that the CPA wants to take away peoples' right to vote is madness.
wait wait, you're saying the moldova model is a good one? one of the most corrupt countries in europe, throw in the lowest GDP per captia and a breakaway military state(transnistria) and that's obviously a coutnry we should be emulating.
the nature of our political landscape at the moment means it's a race for the middle. the announced labor policy had been so conservative cause they need to attract the centrist votes away from the coalition. if they get power they'll probably be a bit more left but they always have to worry about the next election. if you want to go more left vote for the greens, with the demise of the democrats they're looking like the only real option for a third party. the SA or commies are never going to attract sizeable support unless there's a massive recession. they should realise this and instead of attacking labor to steal a few hundred votes and scare thousand more right they should be being as controversial and extreme as possible to drag the spectrum towards the left. people need more big picture thinking.