Three days out from the state election and I've finally looked up my local candidates. I don't want to vote for any of them. I have a Liberal, a Labor (the two major parties), an SA Best (the Threat Party), a Green and an independent with
the most hipster beard you ever did see.
I can't stand Labor, who break things, fix them with a Band-aid then brag about the Band-aid (case in point: the state-wide blackout, after which they bought the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere and bragged about it. YOU'VE BEEN IN POWER FOR SIXTEEN YEARS. HOW DID YOU LET IT BREAK IN THE FIRST PLACE? Also the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, which at $2.5+ billion is the most expensive building in the southern hemisphere and yet it still has ramping for hours and hours in Emergency) and holy shit you'd think our state was just rolling in it, the way they spend money. We're not.
Liberal has some good ideas, like sending the train network out north, where the land is flat and y'know, not the Hills, but dear god they're weak as piss. The eastern states already walk all over us and don't think anything west of themselves exists, and I don't reckon the current leader has the guts to pull anything out of them. If Isobel Redmond was still there, then yes, but Marshall's just a wet rag. Also my candidate, and also the candidate for the electorate bordering mine, don't seem to know their electoral boundaries. I've had three years of Sam Duluk advertising at me, with calendars and fridge magnets and newsletters and the whole bit, and then suddenly two weeks ago I got a flyer from Steve... something... like who the shit are you? Oh
you're my Liberal candidate? Where the shit have you been the past three years, and why's Sam Duluk posting his face everywhere?
I physically can't vote for him because I'm not in his electorate. So I mean. Care factor from the dude seems to be quite low.
SA Best... frig I don't know. Nobody knows. Nick Xenophon, sure, know exactly what he's about. But my local candidate? Mitcham councillor, which automatically makes me sour, because Mitcham Council doesn't give a shit about the Hills part of their council. Also Googling her seems to come up with headlines like "being sued for defamation" and "reported for catch-up at home" so that really instils trust.
Greens are just idealists who have no idea how to actually implement any of their policies.
I don't even know what Dan Golding's plan is. He just has a Facebook with photos of himself putting letters in letterboxes.
That's it, those are my choices. I mean. I haven't felt this disillusioned since the Federal election, where I also didn't want to vote for anyone running. Sigh. They're all giving me reasons not to vote for them, but nobody's given me any compelling reasons to vote them in.
