Trauma - Part Four

The Australian political parties making most of the noise during election campaigns do not care about voters.  They care about winning at the ballot box.  

Nothing else matters in their game.  They merely want to gain good media coverage to help them win.

Most people employed by media organisations in Australia do not care about voters either.  The commentators mainly enjoy watching the game.

And so ordinary voters always lose, unless they happen to be beneficiaries of various rorts, with or without connections to sports. 

Instead of cheering crowds along the way to government victory or opposition oblivion, there are distressed voters, and duped ones.

Distressed voters are usually dismissed as ordinary punters.  Their distress is regarded as nothing more than a bad bet.