The USA political system excludes the equivalent of our Greens Party completely from any serious political participation. So much for their democracy. In the US "Liberal" means slightly left wing on some issues, not extreme reactionary right, as here in Australia.

Climate denial is all about Class and Carbon warfare, in the defence of extreme wealth. Noam Chomksy joins the big dots of class wealth and climate change denial.

Ask yourself, how and why did Australian Labor Party manage to neutralize the Carbon Tax, a condition of the Greens support.

And minimize serious investment in renewable energy? Were the Greens brow-beaten down? Or was this just the political power reality?

How much did ALP contribute the popular watering down of the Carbon Tax?  And the mining tax. How many back steps and back downs to corporations can there be?

Its so the Coal and Gas wealthy class of Australia, and overseas investors, can continue reap the most.

The Australian Labor Party pretends to support the working class, but it is cowardly afraid of not supporting the wealthy investor and corporate lobbyist class, to avoid a pounding by the wealth controlled media.

A political balancing act, that they do, admittedly, much better than the Australian Liberal Party, who don't have to pretend at all.

And the Greens already know the wealth media hates them.  Their policies are all published online, and include the opposition to social inequality, and grassroots democracy. This is against the unpublished principles of the have-lots, who don't want to share wealth or power with the have-nots. In the U-tube clip link below, Mr Chomsky sums up the failures of US politics, including the failures of the union movement, and biggest failure of climate in-action. The haves seem to have won, but they still want more.

This mirrors the continued betrayal of the working class interests by the Australian Labor Party, ditching serious climate action in favour of pandering to the corporate ownership class. A major reason why I stopped my membership of the ALP, nearly a decade ago.  Atop the melting iceberg of ALP corruption, a flow of sleaze and slush includes:  Union Management corruption, evidenced by the Thomson affair, and the earlier slush fund scandal, that Julia Gillard experienced. The pattern seems to be that Union managers promise a controlled workforce to corporations, in return for political donations, personal wealth and power. That path seems to attract certain sorts of people. And its a qualifier for being a member of the balancing act team. This compromise does allow for much fine legislation, so long as it does not interfere with wealth acquisition.

The entire NSW Labor party, when in power, gave the blank cheques and all purpose licenses to print money to the Coal Seam Gas industry. Road and rail were enhanced with public money, to serve its export facilities, but counted as public transport. The attempts at personal enrichment by a cabal of Labour Politicians in high responsible positions of power, Eddie Obeid, and accomplices, can be seen as a sincere imitation of corporations, to get their perceived fair share of public and environmental pickings by Coal mine license enrichment. If the politicians think this is a fair game for them, how much are the corporations making from what the politicians have given away?

The ALP are getting so much benefit from the CSG and Coal industry, that they now want to give environmental approval powers away to Liberal State governments, at the behest of the Business Council of Australia, who are made up of the top 100 extraction industries and their wealthy CEOs.  This is class and environmental warfare combined. It may be made to appear to be as an economic necessity, but its actually a wealthy power class, and sociopath necessity.  If it takes people organizing, and getting out in the streets in protest about this, plus all the usual politician harassment, then that is what needs to be done.

The current ALP government has failed. The too cute adoption of Peter Slipper, who seemed to have used every trick in the entitlements book, for the supposed esteemed and responsible position of parliamentary speaker, for political convenience, says a lot about the ALP.  The Liberal Party has failed for a long time. They have recently tried to put over a legal "sexual harrassment" case, against Mr Slipper, who was previously long tolerated as being within acceptable Liberal Party practice, and whose vote was necessary to elect Tony Abbott as opposition leader.

The Business Council of Australia has been doing really fine. Its a really closed shop. Only billionaire corporations and CEOs need apply. its been boom times, but now the bottom is falling out of the global economy, the BCA wants to turn the screws harder on both people and planet. The BCA, I have been informed, are made up of the main government string pullers in Australia. It seems unlikely that any Federal Labour ministers in positions of power now, are not under its control. Due process seems to be followed in Parliament, but its a puppet theatre of due process, made by ridiculous self important people, for the bewilderment of the masses.