Domestic politics. OMG.

This brief post should probably be a video, but I have limited resources and time at the moment, and so the quill it is.

I am more suited to Federal politics based upon my experience, skills, education, personality, and goals. However, I'm going to try and find a local NSW or ACT seat (probably the former) to contend in the upcoming state elections, and then later nominate for the next Federal election (which requires me to resign from any local government post before nominating). The reason for the uncertainty about locale is that as an itinerant tutor and academic researcher, I have rarely spent much time in one place. In terms of local government I am politically 'homeless'. That being said - it's 'the' land of opportunity, and where there's a will there's a way, and so on. Right?

My confidence level in my ability to generate workable and meaningful policy at the Federal level is moderate to high. I have had both the Australian Republican movement and at least one independent 'borrow' my policy ideas and parrot my views (and I have chronologically and aetiologically solid documentary evidence to prove it), and so that's a kind of endorsement, I think.

To say that domestic, local, and state politics are often a quagmire of insane stupidity is in fact something of a cautious understatement:

Regarding the above SBS story: Hanson's less racist than she is hyper-nationalist ignorati. My ageing father - a sociopathic and psychotic hoarder who has always limited capacity for reason and was aways an emotional cripple and verbally and psychologically abusive - loves the imbecile. He's a classic misogynist racist who refers to Asian people as 'The yellow peril' and calls Chinese people 'Chinks'. That's my experience of the quintessential Hanson supporter. It's not good. Do I really want to publicly engage in politics with these piffle-headed loonies?

For those that care (few if any!) and didn't get the memo: I didn't nominate for the senate in the last federal election as planned because I did not have $2000 to waste on an endeavour which the data I had - total lack of support on the Internet and party website - indicated would have been gratuitously unsuccessful. The truth is that the online form for the public to register interest and to be on the list of 100 supporters got precisely 0 submissions.

Enough said, as the folk and the sages both say.