Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Peter McCormack" channel.

  1. I see a lot of people saying they changed their mind on Liz Tuss in these comments. That's unfortunate because it means they aren't really hearing what she's saying. They're just hearing some dog whistles and coming when called. Play out the scenario that Tuss is talking about here. Everything goes under government, the executive branch have full control over the entire country no questions asked, there's no independence, all the checks and balances are scrapped, appeals are scrapped, and your only way out is to wait for an election and hope enough people vote against the establishment. She's talking a complete fairytale if she things that ends well, just like she did with her economic policy. What she's saying here is a direct path to an authoritarian state. Let's not forget WHY those institutions became independent of government. To create new checks and balances in order to avoid authoritarianism. To strengthen, not weaken democracy. If there's a view that such organisations are now too powerful to be unchecked by the public, ok. The answer isn't to put them under the control of government. The answer is to build out new processes to make them accountable to the public. Perhaps that means certain positions are voted on. Perhaps that means there's a public recall mechanism whereby positions are granted on merit, but if they do a terrible job the public can vote to sack them once certain criteria are met. Perhaps one of dozens of other alternatives, or even a combination of them. Liz Tuss lives in a world of her own ideological making, separate from reality where things worked the way she wishes they did. It's no different than the wokeys.
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