You suggest both sides are the same when you say winning is less important than acting symbolically on principle. Principles give you a coalition government. A flagrantly corrupt, shamefully incompetent government, one that will not just do nothing to stop America from owning us but actively seek that out, one that undermines the unions and willfully cheers on extinction, one that's just recently come out with the policy of scrapping net zero.

You may suggest the Greens, but the Greens would 100% lose 9/10 elections if Labor disappeared tomorrow. And the Greens are the actual horrible people. They blocked the HAAF not to save people from homelessness, but from housing stress, because they wanted to pick up renters as a voting block. I remember Adam Bandt visibly seething in rage at having parliamentary rules explained to him, because he is a narcissist who wants everyone to know that he's a good and infallible person because he acts on his principles.

Acting on principles is the easy thing to do, but it's also dereliction of duty as prime minister, because it gets you the job title of "former prime minister". Whitlam and Rudd acted on principle, they lasted one term and were proceeded by a decade of Liberals. We cannot afford another decade of Liberals.

Yes, my entire point is obviously that we should just bend over and accept evil because someone else might be a bit worse. /s

Don't strawman me.

You can't go around giving people a free pass for being spineless and corrupt just because someone else is worse. That's literally the reason the system slides further and further right. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Would I rather have Albo? Sure. Doesn't mean he isn't a turd who's actively making it worse under the guise of electoral reform and it sure doesn't mean we should accept it. Do you want a two party system? Because this is how we get one.

I see. You aren't interested in engaging with reality.

Labor has no good reason to open fossil fuel extraction projects years after we're meant to be beyond that. The fact that you're just deciding the story is fake is incredibly telling...

The salmon farming thing was indeed an election promise. It was also pure fucking evil, that's my entire point. Albo sentenced an entire species to extinction for politics. How do you not see the problem here?

America does own us! Because of spineless politicians who keep bending to their will. We don't have to be where we are now, we don't have to keep propping up a self justifying system of death. We should never act like any of this is even slightly okay. I don't understand how you aren't outraged at the fact that this is all happening for nothing more than greed.

The systems you're using to justify this aren't actually justifications, they're mechanisms fullfilling their intended purpose.