A new system of government is on the way

On the question of polls personally I prefer print media polls to telephone polls despite some politically influential but biased, pompous, snobbish journalists and commentators, including some from the electronic media, who try to condition voters, most of whom they regard as intellectual inferiors - if not dimwits- to vote for the person they want as Prime Minister. It seems to me that such attempts merely encourage voters to buy pigs in pokes.

Not that Rudd and Turnbull are pigs in pokes. The former seems more like a Conservative Bishop: illiberal and authoritarian, while Turnbull seems more liberal and less authoritarian.

Australia also should count itself fortunate the dimwits won’t allow themselves to be conditioned but unfortunate in that they have limited opportunities to put their dissenting views forwards. Indeed, in a newspaper article I published some time ago, I wrote that dimwits would find it easier to level Mount Everest using a pick, shovel and barrow, than make their views known. Of course, they could use web sites, but unless they have a benevolent sponsor a web site would be beyond their reach.

This leaves them only letters to the editor or calls to talk back radio as avenues of dissent. And therein lies another problem. If the letters’ editor doesn’t like their views their hopes of getting a letter published might rate four on a scale of one to ten. The same applies to talk back radio programs if their views are contrary to those of the producer or presenter.

Don’t believe me? Well I’m sure a poll would say I’m right!