Sanders wanted to make tertiary education free, and apparently the cost to do it would be 65 billion.
Everyone on both sides screamed, where will the money come from, we can't afford that, blah blah blah.
Then they all voted for 160 billion more for the Pentagon, at the drop of a hat. Who actually wanted that??? The military industrial complex, that's who.
The democrats were screaming that Trump was unhinged, unfit to be president, etc etc, then the next week they all voted for Trump to get extended powers for surveillance of american citizens! Yea that's what you do if you seriously think someone is unhinged, give them wider sweeping powers, well done dems, what a top bunch, "the resistance" HAHAHAHA yea sure.
Mainstream politics is a total swamp, 100% influenced by money, no one is actually making decisions for their constituents.
You can't tell me that if they had a nationwide referendum that said should we throw more money at war, or make your kids education free, that people would say throw money at war. These politicians are not representing the people, not one single bit.
It's not much different here either.
I voted TOP and I'm proud of it. Yes Gareth Morgan is disliked by many and can be a bit of a tool, but their entire ethos was evidence-based policy, full stop, which is what I bought into - not Morgan. This is where we need to be. Morgan can't do it, he's too polarising, but we need something like this. The entrenched parties and the lobbying system will do everything they can to prevent us from voting in real evidence-based policy, so it may never happen, but goddamn I wish it would.
The current government is too busy trying to look like Trudeau and put across this "look how much we care" vibe, and are not delivering on their actual promises. The previous government were just an extension of private industries, a huge exercise in demonstrating how "trickle down" policies don't trickle anything down at all. We're getting ripped off every which way we turn in my opinion.