Australia: MP lashes 'anti-male' Child Support Agency in valedictory speech

For the USAians - the australian "liberal party" is the conservative party. The left wing in australian politics is the labour party (+ the greens, of course).

Alas here in the US, we're not quite as familiar with the ideological tendencies of political parties in many other countries as people outside the US are with American parties. But with ours, well, it's simple enough: we only have two, and they've completely dominated our political system now for over 100 years. It's easy to know about our two parties because they're the same damn thing again and again. You need only read about them once and toss it. On top of that, they're an effective duopoly, which in economic terms means they are a lot more likely to be an implicit monopoly than anything else. If you think of political 'services' as goods, what kind of competition to meet or exceed market demands or expectations (i.e., the voters'/citizens'/taxpayers') will duopolists evince? Very little. Same thing happens in duopolistic political economies as happens in duopolistic production economies: low quality due to implicit or explicit collusion to dictate the terms of the marketplace.

Look how low it's gotten as a consequence. If Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn were alive today to see how incredibly bumbling and wasteful our governmental apparatus has become, and how thoroughly feckless the two parties have become in representing the interests of the people in the 5-6 decades since their passing, they'd be utterly appalled. As for the Founding Fathers: Well, after the shock of the bizarre new world of inventions around them wore off, once they knew what level we had sunk to in tromping all over the Constitution they so carefully wrote for us, they'd have nothing good to say about us I am sure. The unlimited campaign finance donations now corrupting every election of any importance, the constant sleight-of-hand in adding pork-barrel clauses to every bill getting passed, the secret hearings and secret judgments and secret tribunals... is this what the men who died during America's War of Independence (commemorated tomorrow, I might add) died for?

At least other countries have *real* third party options. They have parties that are not tromped down even as they try to stand up. They have parties that exist as correctives, that help keep the dominant parties at least a bit more honest. Us, we have the Republicrats. They get together behind closed doors and laugh up their sleeves at us as they pass legislation that they don't bother reading, burdening us with ever more onerous tax and regulatory requirements, and create ever more policies that only serve more to separate men from their children and strip men further of their rights.

Think I sound annoyed? Yep, you got it right. Annoyed, and very unhappy about the whole awful mess.

"more onerous tax and regulatory requirements" as well as being pro-feminist (which by nature is anti-male) sounds more like the democrats to me. I don't want to go down this political party discussion as I don't think it serves a good purpose for advocacy groups such as MANN, so I'll leave it in neutral terms: I guess it's a matter of one's individual perspectives as to which political party is best for men's rights and father's rights. Some might see it as the reps, and some might see it as the dems,and some might be neutral or wish for a third option.

Just to clarify, it is the general bashing and name calling I don't like as it tends to spit and isolate members of an advocacy group made of a mix of political party affiliations. But I think a specific politician or a specific bill are fair game for critisism.