Election outcome in my home state

The anti-ALP media beat up has been proven wrong by my home state returning the current government as a majority government - see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, here, here, here, here, and here, and here, and also here.

The anti-Daniel Andrews band kept frantically beating their hysterical drums, and this destroyed the mainstream media’s credibility a little further. 

The pandemic response wasn’t perfect, but it kept people alive. 

And it helped exposed the frenetic obsession with being humans doing rather than humans being. For a long term sustainable future, we need to get our economy off its addiction to growth, and to create a people-focused system, rather than an elites- and corporations-focused system. 

The other major advantage of yesterday’s result is that it stopped the transphobic and other human rights abuses that were being promoted by the neoliberals - and the evil of some minority parties and people that seemed, to me, to be driven by conspiracy fantasies.(I touched on some of that here.)

If there is more of that dangerous behaviour without any overt and effective response, in my opinion, our society as a whole risks becoming even more psychologically unbalanced than has been created by the last ten or so millennia of materialism and social inequality that was eventually refined into the current perversion of capitalism (it’s not actually capitalism).

And the mainstream media bears a large portion of the responsibility for that.