Reactionary Populism

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4615260.html

"Labor's embrace of economic rationalism precipitated its current identity crisis."

 "Hawke and Keating's embrace of economic rationalism wrong-footed the Liberals in opposition and they  too struggled to determine their agenda in an era in which Labor appeared to have stolen their thunder."

Tony Abbott it has adopted a new course; that of reactionary populism. While Abbott may well support many of Howard's policy prescriptions, this doctor is more about "no".

Abbott's Liberal Party is committed to destroying the Labor government, whatever it takes. If this means disowning initiatives of the Howard era or contradicting long-held Liberal policy, so be it."

Both political parties have reached a nadir of market differentiation that makes a mockery of the barest concept of democracy. If you vote for either of these parties you get the same set of policies in all important areas.

Could the Greens form government as the new progressive party of the left?