Category: Power

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.

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

Demonstrate in the nicest of ways, what you want done.

Educate your elected representatives about your needs.

Millions  want different things. Government can’t please all, but can please you.

One poor person has the same voting power  as one rich person.

Convincing politicians is a game changer for individual voters .

Remember that MPs are your  “Representatives”, not your leaders.

Aim for government Action. It mostly prefers to talk, discuss, confer and defer.

Challenging the status quo requires strategic thinking and communication.

Representation works on numbers. Majority, not fairness or justice, rules.

You can move metaphorical mountains the Votergram way if it is WJWD .