Not Voting

I've already copped a lot of flack over this from some well meaning friends. "Lizzie, no, you have to vote, it's how you protest this regime!" was heard from an idiot who thought I was not voting because I'm a disgusting socialist like she is. I'm not, I'm probably more conservative than a lot of people, but for loads of reasons I wouldn't vote for the Libs. Apparently my beliefs are Liberterian in nature, but they're a bunch of fuckwits anyway, and are they even running anyone? Not likely, and with preferences my vote will always go to someone I don't agree with. So fuck voting. I'm not a "battler"; I'm not a step up on the ladder, a part of a middle class family with a $400k mortgage and three kids I'm milking the family welfare system for; I'm not rich and going to benefit from property tax changes or other shit. In short, I just don't think I matter. As someone who's supported by her parents, has her education payed for, has health insurance and hasn't used a bulk billing doctor in eons, I'm pretty a non entity to whoever's in power. It doesn't really bother me as I'm grateful that my family worked hard so they'd be able to support me in my "meh" stage. I realise how lucky I am. However, it really pisses me off to see each party trying to grab the bogan vote and promising all sorts of incentives and sweetners that amount to nothing more than middle class welfare at the expense of any real reform.

I know jackall about politics, but I'm fairly sure that instead of wasting money reimbursing westies for road tolls and advertising services like roads and hospitals as geared towards families rather than the residents of NSW, the government should be working towards fixing up shitty schools in poor areas and giving a big fuckyou to the federal government and funding dental care for those who can't afford it. Oh, and crazy planning laws and fuckwit local councils? Man, I'd love to see them taken to task.

I hate bogans as much as the next person, in fact, probably more. They really shit me. But if certain areas are horribly disadvantaged and looked over for help because the working bogans with their enormous mortgages and furniture packages from Fantastic Fuckwits don't want to see those who are really down get a leg up, how is that fair to anybody? Really poor people with bad teeth are not good for society unless you're driving a tank of a car and living behind a security fence.

I have no idea where I'm going with this, and I just don't know enough about how this shit works to articulate my opinions properly. But I'm annoyed, and I'd rather pay the $50 fine and tell them to kiss my arse than vote for any of the parties who are running. It's either about keeping rich cunts happy, or enabling middle class cunts to get even more of their tax money back through the welfare system. And always, always, always they want to kick the single mothers, and the Aborigines, and all those Muslims. It's not fair and I don't like it, so there. Screw voting, I'll go to Wellington for the weekend and ignore it all.