
Gralin
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Single issue parties are problematic for many reasonsBut it doesn't mean they have to take up every progressive issue with gusto. You can be against horse racing (won't lose votes) without calling for an outright ban (will lose votes).
We've got the Legalise Cannabis Party and Animal Justice Party.
Perhaps there's the need for a party between the ALP and the Greens. Economically progressive, but socially centrist. An inverse of the Teals. Probably not. But there's a bigger gap between the ALP and the Greens than there has ever been, I think. The ALP have gone so far right (centre).
Apart from more medicare spending and reducing student loans, it wasn't a very progressive campaign. And the last 3 years of Govt wasn't progressive at all.
Acknowledging this is from my vantage point further on the left.....
you have no idea what the candidate things politically beyond that one issue
there's a lot of right wing chuds in legalise cannabis
AJP I have more time for but still they're really only there for one thing at the end of the day
I don't have an issue with the greens calling for a ban on horse racing, gambling as a whole is cooked
I think most people that say the greens lost them on xx policy were never going to vote for them to begin with
I actually paid zero attention to any of the campaigning by anyone, I voted early and ignored it all
I don't give a shit about campaigning, it doesn't lead to anything post election, learned that last time when the greens rolled over on labors dogshit climate policy at the start of the term