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Bringing the conversation to a more fitting thread.
I have no idea how's the political division in Australia, but I get comments like yours from my friends on the Brazilian Left all the time. Despite their protests and lack of understanding, I side with the Brazilian Right.
My reply to them is always the same: "the Left doesn't have a monopoly on worrying about the poor." If over there is different, I cannot say. Here, it saddens me that they may actually think that.
I simply cannot stand anyone from either side who argues that his political side is THE virtuous one. Neither side is. When my friends on the Right criticize the Left as if left-wingers were up to no good, I step in against such a nonsense as well.
I am not a better nor a worse person because I am right-wing. I wouldn't be better or worse simply switching side. It all depends in what I do.
Politics is a conflictive-cooperative enterprise whose end is itself. The dispute is for everybody's sake. It is not supposed to end. Hence, both sides are necessary.
The far left side of politics here was for years dominated by unionists from northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, who brought their ridiculous class wars to this country, class wars that had virtually never existed here, and negotiating with their foot in the door BS was just about impossible.
The late Bob Hawke did a sensational job in bringing parties to the negotiating table, and usually with positive results when he was in charge of the ACTU, but some of his replacements, particularly a woman named Jenny George set the union movement back decades with her in your face, all employers are campaigners, over the top and couldn't speak without spitting attitude.
Now for someone who either wasn't born at the time, was still attending primary school, or has only had exposure to one of the milder unions, getting all fired up to dispute those comments.