Political Persuasion – Christian Influence

How you guide them is more important than who you elect

Guide the government that is elected

How voters guide their parliament (or congress) to do what they want is far more important than who the voters elect. Running the country is quite different to electioneering.

In Australia we know that for as little as a $55 Votergram reaching every MP, any voter can start guiding the parliament to do what they want, regardless of who is their local member or which party is in government. Thee are probably ways to do that in America too. Once the election is over voters can move on from voting to influencing.

Elected Representatives value voter input

Their Votergram is political party neutral, so all MPs treat it the same way.

It comes politely and in a friendly way from a voter serious enough to spend money on it and so possibly serious enough to vote according to how MPs respond or even to persuade other voters to vote according to how different MPs respond. MPs depend on votes for their jobs.

80% less wealthy own majority of votes

A tiny rich, powerful and vocal minority currently control federal and state Australian governments, because the silent majority allow them to. It makes the rich far richer far faster as they drain the money out of society and push the rest deeper into debt. But the general community holds hundreds of times more votes and so can use its persuasive power to influence parliaments to shape society for the benefit of the less wealthy 80% rather than for the 5% of super wealthy billionaires who pay big money to political parties. That money is used to buy votes. But 80% of the voters own 80% of the votes and so can control election results if they wish to share a bit more in Australia’s health, wealth and happiness.

Any Australian can become a very Influential Voter by using ultra-cheap Votergrams. Maybe we could help Americans do the same.

Big Business Bosses oppose “government for the people”!!

Read on to find out how you as a voter can get our parliaments, public services and society working for you!

“None of this serving the people nonsense!” says Big Business.

None of this Populism stuff, doing what the people want”, business leaders told our politicians this week. “populism is doing what is popular with the people, as in “government of the people, by the people for the people”. Ultra-rich Big Business Bosses want Australia run for them, not the rest of us Aussies.

That’s not hard to understand. Most of us tend to look after ourselves first. These guys are probably on $500,000 a month, so life works well for them.

How in our democratic society, can the Big Business Bosses, when they have so few vote in elections, control Australian society and make politicians do their bidding? Partly because they say what they want and ask for it to be done. But there is more to it than that.

Big Business Bosses also bribe, bully and threaten our politicians and political parties to make sure that the government does what Big Biz wants. It substantially funds election campaigns of political parties, lends parties money when needed and provides loans for homes. The old saying comes true, “Those who pay the piper, call the tune”. Political parties received nearly $200 million in donations in the year leading up to the 2022 federal election. Business people always look at the ROI ( Return On Investment).
Big business employs 1,000 or more highly skilled lobbyists to politely bully politicians into doing what Big Business wants. It pays hundreds of millions of dollars to political parties and MPs as “donations”. It threatens to run multi-million dollar advertising and public relations campaigns against any politician or party who offends it.

Big Businesses, small businesses and medium businesses do need a voice to government and they need to be able to run their businesses honestly, efficiently and profitably. But there is no need for them to shape government policy so that it enriches them and impoverishes or makes life hard for millions of other Aussies.

Let’s make Australia work well for the rest of us too.

What do we want?

Many of us want good affordable housing, public health services, Gonski funding for all public schools, Tafes and universities, public transport, environment protection, protection from crime, child and aged care and good public welfare services funded by our taxes.

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

Now! If we work together on what we want we can have it. It just requires us working together for common goals, using Votergrams to level the playing field.

People power

There are 17 million voters in Australia and they control 17 million votes that control all parliamentary careers. The Big Business Bosses would be lucky if they controlled 17,000 votes. We are the majority by a long way and that gives us everyday Aussies great power and influence when we agree on what we want.

Policies favouring Big Business have caused a disastrous situation in Australia by forcing governments to do what makes most money for the Big Business Bosses and I speak as a businessman.

People are homeless living in tents and caravans while business bosses live in mansions. Many Aussies are in unaffordable debt due to house prices and the cost-of-living-crisis, hospitals are hopelessly overcrowded and unable to deal with patient numbers, schools are being closed down or merged, education budgets and teacher training slashed, crime is prevalent on our streets with murders a regular occurrence, domestic and sexual violence in our homes is at frightening levels, doctors, nurses and teachers are overworked as politicians keep bringing in more and more migrants to enrich the Big Business Bosses. But those migrants expect, need and deserve lifetime services provided and paid for by the Australian people .

Parliaments are dependent on our votes. They need our encouragement and endorsement of strategies that will work to improve our situations. Our MPs are great people and very helpful. I have helped Australian voters deal with them since the Votergram service began in 1986. They will help us if we work together and then with them. For government to be “for the people” it needs to be “By the people” via a parliament we control, not “by Big Business” via parliament that Big Business controls.

JOIN NOW! Voters Network, input by the people for the people

To have Australia shaped to please you, join Voters Network now, free of cost and party politics. Voters Network, www.voters.au is a movement “by the voters for the voters”.

If you know what you want now, send a Votergram now.

It may be a hospital bed for a child, better facilities for a school, affordable housing or lower densities, a new hospital, a reduction in crime, mental health care, pay or tax rates, better banking services. Politicians always respond in some way and if what you seek is good, fair and honest the chances are that you will get it. If your need is urgent the chances are that you will get it quickly.

Voters can control Australian society for the benefit of the Australian people. When you want something done, it pays to go to the people with the power to make it happen. No point telling your family, friends and neighbours. Tell parliament, the body of people you elect and pay for exactly that purpose.

Votergrams

Votergrams were invented specifically to make that easy for you. You can send your 100 word message to all MPs in any Australian parliament via the website www.votergrams.au or by email to greg@votergrams.au. Votergrams are your cheap, easy and simple pathway to the most powerful people in Australia – Your Parliaments.

If you don’t big Business will continue to run Australia for its own benefit via the parliaments it controls even though they are elected and paid for by you.

Australia’s in a mess! Help find a way out.

If it is kindness that is wanted then Christians can make it happen a lot sooner by helping government make the right decisions and find the way out of the mess for everyone, particularly the most vulnerable.

Government depends on you to tell it what you want done!

Our democratic system of government depends on you who are living in the community and know what is needed. You can engage with ALL Members of Parliament and ask them to do what is needed by you and yours.

The Australian Voters Network and Votergrams

Free of party politics and government funding, the Australian Voters Network, and Votergrams are here to help you enjoy the greatest influence and impact, for the least effort.

It is little use just going to government MPs or the local MP. Government MPs obey the party. One local MP has little influence in a parliament of hundreds where the majority view prevails.

Your Votergram’s influence comes from its strategic wording that goes to each and every Member of Parliament.

Voters in control

One voter with good suggestions, ideas or requests can help guide parliament in the right direction. Inaction by good voters enable bad people to control our society instead.

Parliament is your best pathway to good government

You gain power and influence for the good of Australia and Australians. Parliament is the only part of government over which voters have any control. We have no control over public servants or bureaucrats, but we control the careers of MPs.

Begging bowls or Ballot boxes

Making change happen in Australia

Two notable failures feature in today’s media. They are the Close the Gap campaign and the Australian Legal system. The question is whether to use begging bowls or ballot boxes to effect the change.

The first illustrates how little the Close the Gap campaigners know about what makes democracy tick. They are pleading for governments to give Aboriginal Australians a fair go. Governments and their policies have resulted in the impoverishment of many Aboriginals whose land was stolen families murdered, raped and enslaved, children kidnapped imprisoned and sexually abused, education, housing and healthcare neglected and denied, all to build the pleasant affluent lifestyle that the rest of us enjoy on what was originally Aboriginal land.

Reform Package

There is a package of inter-related reforms required to provide basic safety, harmony and security within Aboriginal families and communities. Most of us would not tolerate less.

In the same media a very senior lawyer was raising the problems with the legal costs associated with court action. His point is that only the super-rich can now afford to pay for their own lawyers as big corporations are now so wealth that they pay lawyers a l fortune for good legal advice.

The rest of us depend on legal aid.

To deal with a Child Support case somewhat like the Robodebt scandal I referred a family to legal aid. I had already stopped the bank and child support from taking possession of their home and auctioning it off. But Legal Aid refused to take on their case. The senior lawyer writing in the SMH today was indicating that many Aussies are refused legal aid and so must endure injustice. Australia is going backwards in the justice area if these two stories today are any indication. Our justice system needs to be more for everyday Aussies than for the Big Business Billionaires who have priced it out of reach.

Smash the begging bowl and raise the ballot box

Campaigners mistakenly approach government pleading for the essential services like these that have been taken away or denied to our indigenous and other Aussies. That is the begging bowl approach.

I invite all those who honestly believe that all Aussies are entitled to a fair go, fair treatment and fair opportunities to help Aboriginal and less wealthy Aussies get that fair go.

Throw down the begging bowl and smash it to pieces

Put on your Voters Hat and fire up the Votergrams

Put on your VOTER’S HAT and let’s use our persuasive power as voters to make it happen. Our Votergram campaigns of polite persistent political persuasion in the privacy of parliament have encouraged and supported politicians to do great things over the past 38 years and they can accomplish these as well. It takes a bit of time money and effort but so does everything worthwhile.

The impression that these stories and the media in general might give you, is that our politicians don’t care. They care every bit as much as we do, no more and no less! We have parliaments jam-packed with the most powerful people in Australia. Most are extremely helpful when approached properly. When we show them that we care, they care. When we give them solutions instead of problems, they solve problems. It is up to us to take the lead. We elect “representatives” not “leaders”. They do what we ask to be done, if we ask for it the right way. Votergrams have helped Aussies to ask in the right way for the past 38 years. The results have been sensational.

Voters Rule!

If you care enough to help, please email me, greg@voters.au and let us work together to get things moving in the right direction in the next 3 years. By New Year’s Eve 2027 we want a real change in these two issues of fairness and justice. Only with your help can it be achieved, because in democracy “Voters Rule”. It is worth repeating – In democracy Voters Rule!

The Votergram Revelation

Government

Government bureaucrats, public servants and contractors are paid and resourced by your taxes to deliver good, honest and fair government services and infrastructure for your money.

Parliament

We elect MPs to Parliament and once elected Parliament is there to direct the bureaucrats, public servants and contractors to deliver those services and infrastructure that you need and want.

But in order to deliver to you and yours, the services you need and want, each Parliamentarian needs to know from you personally what you want and understand why. . Nobody can speak on your behalf to tell them, for they would not know whether that person had your authority or agreement. You must personally tell them if you want it done! You can easily and cheaply do that by Votergram. It is like sowing seeds of ideas in Parliament and works just like the parable of the sower.

By majority decision the parliament will generally do what is wanted by most people who give good honest reasons.

You and other voters

The careers of Members of Parliament and political parties depend on the votes of you and other voters. Every few years you can re-elect or replace them. That particularly applies when you vote in a marginal electorate or influence the votes of voters in a marginal electorate.

If you and those who think like you do not tell every MP what you want there are two outcomes:

1 The Parliament will not know what you want and will instead listen to what other voters like big business executives and rich political donors, ask for.

2 You will not be supporting your local MP who might speak in Parliament after meeting with you to seek the very things you need and want. If you have asked your local MP to raise something and you have also asked every other MP, then your local MP is far more likely to be supported by other MPs.

Credit for the result

This way the Members of Parliament can justly receive the credit for achieving what you have asked for and explained. MPs deserve that reward to counter the constant media criticism that they have to endure. If you then send a “Thank You” Votergram they are sure to give you top priority next time you want something

It is a far nicer way of achieving your goal than protesting publicly and making the MPs look stupid, for they may do what you want but next time they may well resent you for humiliating them and may ignore you.

Greg Bloomfield,
The Votergram Man

How can Christians stop violent men attacking women?

Suggest Solutions
In Australia suggesting solutions to each and every Member of each and every Parliament by Votergram is a good start

Polite Persistent Political Persuasion in the Privacy of Parliament has been Proven to Pay off as the best Path to Progress.

If you leave violence against women to somebody else, it will never stop! Individual voters have the most power, not their non-voting organisations or protest marches. Thinking that an individual is powerless is a serious mistake since Votergrams came into being 38 years ago

It is your vote that empowers your voice!

Your vote + your voice = political power. It needs to be used strategically. If you will not use your vote to stop violence against women then your voice is as a whisper in the wind – of no consequence at all. Votergrams help you speak up persuasively. That is how democracy works.

Then monitor what individual MPs and Parties do and vote in the next election in your electorate on what your candidates and their parties have done about violent men and violence against women.

If nothing has been done to stop it, you can effectively campaign in one of the many marginal state and federal electorates held by less than 10% to elect different MPs who will stop it.

That is how democracy works!

MPs are your greatest allies

Despite the media image of them, most MPs are very helpful and keen to solve problems. On the issue of violence towards women, many men are very happy with their violence and abuse against women, because other men would not tolerate it and mostly have the strength and aggression not fight back. Men hold just as many votes as women and politicians are aware that many men do not want the violence which gives them power, to be curtailed.

Women physically, mentally and emotionally have not the strength or aggression to fight back. They are mostly loving caring people. Frequently they do not want the men to be stopped by force , but to change themselves. Perhaps it is not the nature of the male animal to do that. So the violent men need to be stopped with whatever works. Votergrams giving all MPs your idea work well because parliament is a voting forum and the majority always rules.

Votergrams work well for those prepared to put in the time, effort and a small amount of money to cover the cost.

A Voice for Victims

“Ask and you will most receive”

Residents Rally
Residents in Queensland have rallied to form an organisation Voice for Victimsqld, to specifically deal with increasing youth violence by giving Victims a Voice. Sydney is currently in the grips of murderous gangland gun violence and deadly domestic violence. But there are also victims of population neglect in housing, education, health care, pay rates, aged care and family services as well as crime prevention. The two groups may be related. Increased housing density can cause violence and road rage, as people get fractured with each other in such close proximity to so many others. It impacts not only crime but, mental health as well.

Population Services
The federal government adds huge numbers to our population annually on top of our natural increase, without funding state and territory governments to ensure that those people have homes, good education, career training, well paid jobs and parenting training to help their children and teens. Child and family support services have been at crisis point for years but still the huge annual population increases continue. Why? To increase demand for goods and services and decrease wages, mainly to profit Big Business Billionaires and their Multi-millionaire executives.

Our democratic system of government gives us every opportunity to live well, but it requires guidance by voters . Politicians, bureaucrats, public servants and government contractors do not have super-brains to know all the answers or even all the problems, even if they do care at all, which many don’t. The only people in government over which we everyday Australians have any power, are the Members of Parliament who we elect and can easily replace. They can be most helpful.

Giving Guidance
Our governments, state and federal, need and do receive guidance from voters. At present the most active and vocal voters guiding government are a tiny minority of the population, the wealthy Big Business owners, executives and their paid lobbyists. The vast majority of Australians in suburbs, towns and cities, on farms or in remote communities, remain absolutely silent towards government.

The Silent Majority cannot, by definition, be heard. They don’t realise that also causes them to be neglected. They think that government knows all the answers and wants to help them. Dream on!

Success
The Votergram service enables every single one of those silent Australians and their organisations to have a very effective and influential voice for guiding government. For decades some of them have successfully guided government by Votergram. But with the help of the many who remain silent we could solve many more problems. Votergrams are highly trusted by those who like to work without great fanfare or notoriety. They use polite persistent political persuasion in the privacy of parliament to achieve their goals. Instead of confrontation this promotes cooperation.

The essence of a Votergram is that its message is short (100 words max) and is sent personally addressed to each and every Member of the relevant Parliament. Politicians are then honoured for the help they give to the senders. You too can send Votergrams or organise a Votergram Campaign. The problems you raise may be personal or national, local, state or territory related. Parliament can be your greatest ally, if handled correctly.