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  1. Young Australians reject budget as One Nation popularity climbs further
    By Sara Tomevska

    Labor's federal budget is falling flat with its target demographic as millennials say they'd rather vote for One Nation than Labor or the Greens, according to a new Redbridge poll.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-31/pau

    #OneNation #PoliticalParties #OpinionPolls #SaraTomevska

  2. The purpose of political parties is to create power elites and protect them.

    The Democrats’ 2024 autopsy fails to confront the truth | Norman Solomon | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The document is full of disclaimers and does not address fundamental issues, including Gaza and the Biden-to-Harris transition

    #democracy #PoliticalParties

  3. Reuters: China turns Taiwan’s own voices against it in information war. “Chinese state media outlets are increasingly amplifying Taiwanese critics of ‌the island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), including influencers and politicians linked to the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), according to five Taiwanese security officials and data from Taipei-based research group IORG that was […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/reuters-china-turns-taiwans-own-voices-against-it-in-information-war/
  4. Dutch News: “Eat the rich”? Dutch political parties slay on social media. “While some researchers are concerned about polarisation among young people and the huge reach of far-right parties such as Forum voor Democratie, Christians, Socialists and green advocates are taking them on.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/dutch-news-eat-the-rich-dutch-political-parties-slay-on-social-media/
  5. Thanks, @markhburton for your help with this piece in English that Degrowth-info has just published: degrowth.info/en/blog/dual-str
    "Dual strategies and the 'Mini effect'"

    🐌 Do you guys want to know what the heck is a "Mini effect" and why it is so relevant for Degrowth strategies? Well, you'll have to read the article to find out 😉

    #Degrowth #Strategies #MiniEffect #Politics #Elections #PoliticalParties #Anarchism

    (Illustration is by the great Augusto Metztli)

  6. "The eclipse of traditional parties has not led to the withering of political activity, however. On the contrary, it has gone hand in hand with much greater politicization. In this decade, politics seems to be everywhere, all at once. In America, the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were potentially the largest in the country’s history, with some estimates putting the number of participants at over 20 million. Turnout in European and American elections is healthy; protests are recurrent and intense; political violence, including assassination attempts, is making a brutal comeback. On social media, in turn, political discourse has become both omnipresent and diffuse. Clearly, “post-politics” has come to an end.

    This effusion often invites comparisons to Gramsci’s time, the high tide of political activism. One fact, however, voids the analogy: Western societies today, unlike during the 1920s and 1930s, are experiencing a continuous erosion of institutional structures. Trade unions, civic associations, social clubs, volunteer networks and churches: All are in abeyance. Both the Jan. 6 riots and the Black Lives Matter protests — to take the two most eye-catching examples of political contestation in America — were large and energetic. But they also proved very short-lasting and birthed neither durable infrastructure nor dues-paying memberships.

    The result is a peculiar scissor shape: on the one hand, intense political activity; on the other, continued institutional sclerosis. Where in the 1990s we had parties without politics, we now have politics without parties. This is the strange confluence I have termed hyperpolitics. For traditional political parties, the previous bedrock of Western political stability, it is a lethal tonic.

    Nowhere is this more visible than in what some consider the first mass party in Western history: the British Conservative Party."

    nytimes.com/2026/02/07/opinion

    #Politics #PoliticalParties #Hyperpolitics #PoliticalSociology

  7. Will Mandelson be Starmer's downfall?

    If it isn't, then British politics is a travesty of democracy.

    When a convicted pedophile has better access and more influence to the Prime Minister than most citizens, even when the PM is fully aware, you don't have a democracy.

    newstatesman.com/podcasts/2026

    > The PM knew about Mandelson's friendship with Epstein – but still appointed him US ambassador.

    #democracy #PoliticalParties

  8. In the U.S., meaningful centre and left alternatives to right-wing politics do exist — and they matter. This thread series highlights viable progressive parties and movements, their strengths, weaknesses, and how they could work together through coalitions, endorsements, and shared platforms to strengthen democracy and social justice. 🧵
    🗳️🌍#USPolitics #ProgressivePolitics #CenterLeft #LeftPolitics #Democracy #PoliticalParties #CoalitionPolitics #AntiAuthoritarian #RuleOfLaw

  9. A quotation from John Adams

    There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution.

    John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
    Letter (1780-10-02) to Jonathan Jackson

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/4853/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #America #division #divisiveness #factions #partisanship #politicalparties #politics

  10. China has just one shitty political party, but we in the U.S. have two -- does that make us better, or worse? #communism #capitalism #china #U.S. #politics #politicalParties