It is interesting when Bob Brown of the Green’s is reported as describing the actions of his minority party as representing democracy in action as he intends to use his small amount of numbers to frustrate the passage of a bill created by the majority elected government. The claim of a small minority to be acting in the best interests of the majority is not new as history can reveal. A more interesting question is why a minority bothers to claim it acts in the majority’s best interests when all it is doing is flexing its power to do what it wants to or alternatively force its ideas onto a far larger group when they have very limited options. If the minority group did represent the best interests of the majority why were they not elected accordingly? Or is it the majority don’t want them but they have found a way to inflict their ideology on the unbelievers. Again history is littered with minorities wanting to inflict their ideas on the majority and usually they use a totalitarian form of government to do just that. Is Bob a reincarnated medieval English King perhaps derived from Napoleons genetic stream or just another frustrated Adolf Hitler.
It is interesting how countries founded on democracy and the wishes of the majority have given way to pressure from minority groups until we reach the stage where governments who represent the largest group of citizens within that country are often being controlled by a few that only a very small majority chose as their representatives. Is this what we as a nation wanted or is it a compromise between politicians on how to share in the spoils of victory. I can’t remember being asked to vote for a situation where the chosen government of the day could be held to ransom by just a few.
Have we taken the rights of the individual to a stage where it overrides the rights of the majority and if so would not our society be better served to break up into the small groups which originally constituted our nation. This way we could give every minority group the opportunity to force their philosophy over another group of people. The people could then vote for the type of government they wanted by leaving one group and joining another. What is the bet we would still have a very small group trying to tell the larger group next door what to do and when to do it.
It was only a small time ago that the New South Wales upper house looked like a retirement home for disgruntled minority interests all wanting to feed off the public purse.
Not only have we lost a considerable amount of personal freedom and choice over the past fifty years to unelected officials who love to tell the majority what to do but we have compounded this mistake with allowing it to manifest itself at State and Federal levels. When are we going to take back our individual rights that we have lost to these minority groups of control freaks. Let as many parties as wish contest our elections but only the two leading parties form the government. The rest of the candidates could get a real job. Those that get elected are restricted to a maximum of two terms so we get some fresh ideas. We could do away with all State upper houses and spend the money on worthy projects such as Hospitals.
KME
