Blue Long - D Lango

Retired teacher. Left-leaning. Social conscience. Can get fired up easily, for a very good reason.
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[Dazza @Dazzaat]

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[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Every few years our political class goes looking for the “quiet Australians.” In 2019 they found a flattering fiction…..the aspirational mortgage-belt couple, the franking-credit retiree, the tradie worried about his ute that was being threatened by EVs. It was all BS. There was zero data behind any of it. But it told us exactly which Australians our political and commentariat class are willing to lend agency to. It’s almost never the people who actually are the real quiet Australians.

The real ones don’t read the opinion pages. They empty your bins. They wipe your parents in aged care. They clean the office after you’ve gone home. They work the night shift at the meatworks. And the political class treats their labour as the one cost that can always be squeezed and the one claim that can always be deferred.

Watch what happened when 7,000 ASU members stopped Melbourne’s bins this year. The councils blamed the state’s rate cap. The state said the councils were sitting on healthy surpluses and crying poor. Each side pointed at the other, and the garbo, a human being who just wanted to stop picking up weekend shifts to break even, dissolved into the gap between two institutions. That’s the bet our political class makes again and again: muddy who’s responsible, and the public will shrug and move on.

But voters aren’t fooled, and this is where the political class keeps getting it catastrophically wrong. In Hume, the council that told 17,000 households their bins were a casualty of state stinginess is the same council that found $24 million to restore the Broadmeadows Town Hall. The money is always there for the building, the precinct, the plaza, their own renos. It’s the people who keep the suburb from drowning in its own waste who are told the well has run dry, that there is no money to help them feed their kids.

This is why the system is being turned over. We keep telling ourselves the revolt against the major parties, the surge to One Nation, is a story about culture or grievance or misinformation. A moral failing in the voter to be fixed with better messaging. It is nothing of the sort. It is an entirely rational response from an outer-suburban, mortgage-stressed working class that has watched its political class find money and agency for everyone except people like them.

My article on why Garbos are just as important as health workers - below.

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

This woman likes laying the blame on others but keeps quiet when she is the centre of unwanted attention. She loves rorting the system.

Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie billed public to attend son’s wedding https://t.co/tPkyXsG27J

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The cost to be a decent person is $0

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

La la land 👇👋

[signtst @SigntstSigns]

#auspol Angus Taylor concerned for the "mum and dad" investors.😏

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@MbarkCherguia Cant offer an opinion without all the facts.

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@karlstefanovic You're just stirring up shit.

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@Gianl1974 Obama was a human being.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

The resemblance is uncanny.

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@Sofia50020Sofia How many hands does she have? She is really gifted!🤣🤣🤣

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@princess_kim_k A Pig!

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

Trump's latest great achievements...

[Michael G. @Michael53214735]

@strangerous10 Mr. Popularity…

[Margo @marggilroy]

Well done ,John Williamson. You are definitely, True Blue! #auspol

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@colonelhogans Those sort of dickheads vote. Enough to piss any one off.

[Rick @colonelhogans]

The face of stupidity in Australia.

“Labor’s done nothing for me”.

LABOR GAVE YOU A 15% PAY RISE.

Pauline Hanson voted AGAINST it!

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@MbarkCherguia Those people are weirdoes.

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

A racist bigot is the "most liked" politician in Australia now.... I am starting to lose faith in humanity.

Resolve Political Monitor poll: Labor primary vote slumps to 29 per cent after broken election promises https://t.co/4q2rieYdVS

[Blue Long - D Lango @BlueLong10]

@SprinterPress Good one!!!!!!