Surviving until the election

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There are currently a number of people I am aware of, who are just going to keep an eye on what is going on with regard to our federal election but basically tune out from main stream media and follow things up independently to get answers and information. Why? We are saturated with the empty headed approach which has been increasingly foisted upon us. The adversarial nonsense of him against him, her against him, her against her. Goodies and baddies. A person is never perfect, thank heavens. Neither is a politician. So many people who have no time for Boris Johnson were so impressed he went and supported President Zelenskyy in Kyiv recently and walked through the streets of that city with him. Who people are and what they choose to do is a sum total of all they say and do. In Australia, we vote for a party. We do not vote for the leader. It is very important for us to have a good picture of the people in the party and what they do and represent. Since 2013 the LNP have run the country and have created a place some of us find hard to recognise. We hear so much from them and about them and then do not have a complete view of other parties and candidates unless we go looking for that information ourselves or our local candidate, like my one, keeps us fully informed through print, email and social media . I know what my local federal representative stands for, what they have been doing and what they want to achieve. There are so many other candidates we do not hear about. This is our loss. On election night  for our recent South Australian election  I found out about some of the issues which other areas around our state had been dealing with and they were issues worth knowing and discussing. Our news is far too limited and often we are being fed an opinion . I do not see it as the job of main stream media to form my opinion . It is their job to inform my opinion. We don't need adversarial stuff and nonsense, nor do we want to be told what to think or how to view someone. Maybe if donors to parties were not so influential we would have a more level playing field. As naive as it may sound, I do not want big business making decisions about health, education, the arts and science. I don't want it to be just about the things which will make the most money. We can't have this pro and anti climate action or pro and anti vaccine or pro and anti masks when there is some pretty good evidence on hand to inform wise decisions. Those are the things we should be talking about not whether someone has a big stomach or not. There are also questions of ethics and morality and those issues are not being dealt with well partly because of legal action which may ensue and partly because of the goodies and baddies scenarios foisted upon us. We need facts and information . So many are going to look things up they want to know and try and create dialogue rather than  petty arguments. It is all so much bigger than this , though. We have a lot to sort out federally, we really do.