How good was that?
Twenty years of culture wars, corrupt neoliberalism, and an ideology denying government’s role in improving society has smashed the Liberal Party’s dunny door to pieces.
Over the last four elections, Australia’s vote has crystallised into three blocs:
- ALP: ~35 per cent
- Greens + independents: ~20 per cent (progressive, no going back)
- Liberals + Pauline Hanson + other right-wing: ~39 per cent
Combined, the progressive bloc holds ~55 per cent. ALP can govern, but only by working with Greens and independents – or sometimes crossing the aisle with Liberals to block progressive change.
The Liberal Party has become an opposition-making machine for the rich, sucking up corporate votes but unable to win. Without radical reform, it stays unelectable: a crony capitalist zombie stuck in culture wars, divorced from the electorate.
Will donors double down, fund Labor, or try to remake a ‘softer’ teal-flavoured Liberal Party? Hard to see the passion or creativity for real change.
Without it, they’ll likely flail in fake media crises, economic scares, or war distractions – all the old tricks – and just keep losing.
How good is this?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
