Full fucking offense to the yanks on this website
But Australia, with it's mandatory election emrollement at 18 and voting until you die, is PROOF that your vote matters.
Last election, we had SUCH a swing from our local consevative party who had been in government the past 8 or 9 years, that they couldn't even form an opposition.
This is a party that 3 years ago acheived not just enough of a majority that they were elected, but so much a majority that they were almost unchallenged in the Lower House.
But this election. This fucking election, they failed to even make majority enough to be a single opposition party - instead, they basically share the cross-bench with the very far-left Greens party and a coalition of left-conservative Teal Independants.
It was unheard of. Absolutely stunning to witness.
You want to know who was responsible?
Generation Z and Millennials.
Because of us, not only was the "evil" defeated so soundly it's still weeping from the bruising, but also several left-wing candidates from "the radical left" were elected to a place of relative prominance.
Now I will admit, it's not perfect. Nothing ever is. But it's a start. It's something important.
Stand up for your rights, because if you don't, no one else will. They have their own problems to wrangle.
If you want change, you're gonna have to do it yourself. Change starts in the community and there's not much more community based than voting FOR the people who will do right by your community.
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