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Neoliberalism wants to convince us that life itself is simply reducible to working life and that work will provide life with 'its best opportunities for joy.'
Long gone are the leaders and administrations governing from a vision. Visionary politicians have been replaced with those who seek power only to manage.
The issue is whether the fissures which the recent election loss have so exposed, can be contained within the Liberal Party's current 'broad church' of agreed beliefs and values.
It is akin to going to Bunnings Hardware with a competitor’s product and price tag and asking them to beat it by 10 per cent as part of their lowest prices guarantee.
A considerable majority of us will express our profound disgust with a decaying political establishment that has long since ceased to serve our nation. We will vote in huge numbers for candidates who do not belong to a political party.
A dangerous gulf exists in liberal democracies between people's concerns about their lives, their countries and their future, and the priorities, proclivities and pre-occupations of mainstream politics and media.
