Political analysis of public governance in parliamentary democracy should note the failure of political parties to adequately explain to electors their party’s view of the task of the political party. Political science will struggle to explain the popularity of a party that wants to consign the bipolar “uni-party” to the fringes if it ignores this deep failure of our political discourse.
One Nation, like befuddled political science and apologists for Labor, Liberal and National parties, continue to avoid explaining how their own party views itself within Parliamentary Democracy. Why do the policy platforms proffered at election time forego genuine appeal in terms of the party’s open respect for the political party itself in our system of Parliamentary democracy?
Like the zero-sum clown show now dominant in the US, votes are harvested by simply dismissing candidates of the other side, leaving leading citizens who seek to be responsible electors concluding that “both sides” view a political party as merely an electoral combine harvester to satiate individual and corporate self-interest and so voting itself becomes viewed as an assertion of self-interest. One Nation rides on the back of this entrenched failure in our political discourse.