I haven't undertaken as much in-depth research into our political parties and their belief systems as I may have initially intended, but I have realised one thing.
Politics is just like sport: it's all about the team until something goes wrong then it's the coach's fault.
I've always had an issue with coaches getting sacked for poor team performance. They're not the ones constantly dropping the ball, giving away penalties, missing goals and ultimately losing the game, so why do they suffer the consequences?
I apply the same logic when voting for political parties.
Now of course the leader of a political party has to have a certain amount of gumption, be believable, partly likable and not sound like a flanno-wearing bogan when they talk (sorry J-Gill but it's true) , but what we really vote for on election day isn't the person, but the policies.
At least it should be.
One person does not a government make.
Think about it. Like a sporting coach, the leader of a political party needs to be aware of what each of their players is doing at any one time, and they need to make sure that those actions don't a) impede the subsequent/concurrent actions of their team mates, and b) don't give the opposition the chance to make a break and score.
And this doesn't just apply to the elected members of the political party, remember that all federal government public servants essentially become part of the party in power's 'team' following a election, so suddenly the coach becomes not just in charge of the top 11, but the support staff, hangers-on and #1 fans.
Bear in mind also that when you see a political leader delivering a speech on a chosen topic, the speech will have been written by someone else, and the work the speech is based on undertaken by different people again - generally specialists in the particular field - , plus the work may even have been started and commissioned when the opposition was in power.
At the end of the day, the more I consider it, read about it, and am exposed to it, the more I want people to vote for policies not people, because at the end of the day, it's the policies that impact our lives not the people -
The same way we remember that grand final game instead of the all the people who played it.
Politics is just like sport: it's all about the team until something goes wrong then it's the coach's fault.
I've always had an issue with coaches getting sacked for poor team performance. They're not the ones constantly dropping the ball, giving away penalties, missing goals and ultimately losing the game, so why do they suffer the consequences?
I apply the same logic when voting for political parties.
Now of course the leader of a political party has to have a certain amount of gumption, be believable, partly likable and not sound like a flanno-wearing bogan when they talk (sorry J-Gill but it's true) , but what we really vote for on election day isn't the person, but the policies.
At least it should be.
One person does not a government make.
Think about it. Like a sporting coach, the leader of a political party needs to be aware of what each of their players is doing at any one time, and they need to make sure that those actions don't a) impede the subsequent/concurrent actions of their team mates, and b) don't give the opposition the chance to make a break and score.
And this doesn't just apply to the elected members of the political party, remember that all federal government public servants essentially become part of the party in power's 'team' following a election, so suddenly the coach becomes not just in charge of the top 11, but the support staff, hangers-on and #1 fans.
Bear in mind also that when you see a political leader delivering a speech on a chosen topic, the speech will have been written by someone else, and the work the speech is based on undertaken by different people again - generally specialists in the particular field - , plus the work may even have been started and commissioned when the opposition was in power.
At the end of the day, the more I consider it, read about it, and am exposed to it, the more I want people to vote for policies not people, because at the end of the day, it's the policies that impact our lives not the people -
The same way we remember that grand final game instead of the all the people who played it.
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