Samuel’s voting recommendations for 2022
May 21st, 2022 at 01:44am
A lot of people have already voted. I am one of them as I voted by post before prepoll even opened. Still, today is Election Day and many people will vote today.
I find this election to be a bit of a conundrum. It’s no secret that I am a very conservative voter. In fact the National Communist Broadcaster’s Vote Compass almost puts me off the edge of the map and I sometimes wonder if they’ve skewed the map to make the gap between The Greens and Labor look larger than it actually is, and even make the gap between Labor and Liberal look larger than it is.
The dilemma for me is that a Labor/Green government is a dreadful prospect whereby great strides towards socialist all-powerful UN-led world government will be achieved, but a Liberal government sadly will do much the same thing but at a slower pace. In fact it seems to me that, as a party, perhaps not true of all of the individuals within the party, it cares about freedom and liberty and sovereignty during election campaigns but then largely goes missing on the subjects between elections, and even helps to implement the opposite of those ideas. Indeed the Liberal Party, once a bastion of truth when it came to exposing the expensive scam and fraud of global warming has signed Australia on to “net zero” nonsense which is designed to destroy freedom and economic prosperity. So a Liberal government is only very marginally and slightly better than a Labor/Greens government.
I used to be a member of the Liberal Party. I wouldn’t say I was ever perfectly ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party but it was, for a time, a close enough match. Alas the Liberal Party has drifted away from my values quite significantly, and I have probably drifted away from it a bit too. I don’t really see that any of the minor parties completely align with me, but there are a number of smaller parties which are a closer match to me than the Liberal Party; not close enough for me to join them as a member but certainly close enough for me to vote for them.
Alas none of the smaller parties are likely to have the numbers to form government at this election, and probably not at an election in the foreseeable future under the current electoral system, but they can be greatly influential in small numbers.
So my hope is that there is a minority government. It doesn’t matter much which party forms that government although the Liberal/National coalition is probably slightly preferable. Importantly the minority government needs to have to contend with a crossbench filled with minor freedom-loving parties (not those awful “teal” Greens posing as independents) who can sway the government on every vote and get Australia on to the right track and away from globalist control.
To that end, my recommendation in all parts of the country is to vote for these groups, in whichever order is best based on the candidates available where you live:
- One Nation
- United Australia
- Liberal Democrats
- Informed Medical Options
- The Great Australian Party
- Sustainable Australia
I specifically endorse:
- Craig Kelly, United Australia in Hughes
- Dean Mackin, United Australia in Dobell
- Pauline Hanson, One Nation in the Senate for Queensland
- Campbell Newman, Liberal Democrats in the Senate for Queensland
- George Christensen, One Nation in the Senate for Queensland
- Clive Palmer, United Australia in the Senate for Queensland
- Rod Culleton, The Great Australian Party for the Senate in Western Australia (* there is a question mark over Rod’s eligibility for election, so be sure to preference other freedom-minded candidates)
- Jim Molan, Liberal Party for the Senate in New South Wales (he really should be the minister for Defence)
- Gerard Rennick, Liberal Party for the Senate in Queensland (consistently pro-freedom in regards to tyrannical COVID rules, unlike many other Liberals)
- John Ruddick, Liberal Democrats for the Senate in New South Wales
As for how I voted and how I recommend people vote where I live:
For the electorate of Canberra
There isn’t a lot of choice in good candidates here, so I have put the obvious freedom party candidates first, giving United Australia priority as I believe they have a better chance of achieving 4% of the primary vote in the electorate and thus getting some reimbursement for their electoral costs, followed by the Liberal candidate, and then the awful candidates in order for least awful to most awful.
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- Catherine Smith, United Australia
- James Miles, One Nation
- Slade Minson, Liberal
- Tim Bohm, Independent
- Alicia Payne, Labor
- Tim Hollo, Greens
For the Senate in the ACT
I have voted below the line to allow for maximum optimisation of the placement of preferences. Once again I have gone with the good freedom parties first, but there aren’t many of them. Then the Legalise Cannabis Party who, while I’m not a cannabis user and don’t particular care about the topic, they are generally on board with many aspects of freedom. Then we get to the Liberal Party although in reverse order as I believe Kacey Lam has the potential to be a very good elected representative one day and, as much as I like Zed Seselja personally, I don’t support Australia’s excessive foreign aid spending which is something he now oversees a fair bit of as a minister, and he is the only incumbent from the Liberal Party on my ballot papers so I must on principle penalise him for the actions of the Liberal/National government which stood by and put up effectively no fight while states enacted all kinds of draconian measures throughout the COVID scamdemic. After this we get to the bad options and Labor are largely better than most of the rest so their second candidate gets the next preference as Katy Gallagher is a very dreadful person to have in parliament, then we run through the second candidates of the very terrible parties in a vague order of least awful to most awful (strategically the second candidates go first here to try to avoid any of them reaching a quota), followed by the Communist Chinese independent bloke, then the top candidates of the very terrible parties, once again in a vague order of least awful to most awful, and finally we come to Labor’s Katy Gallagher who the nation would be much better off without, and then the loopy Greens with their bizarre Nasi Goreng Goreng woman absolute last.
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- James Savoulidis, United Australia
- Tracey Page, United Australia
- Michael Simms, Informed Medical Options
- Mary-Jane Liddicoat, Informed Medical Options
- Joy Angel, Sustainable Australia
- John Haydon, Sustainable Australia
- Andrew Katalaris, Legalise Cannabis
- Michelle Stanvic, Legalise Cannabis
- Kacey Lam, Liberal
- Zed Seselja, Liberal
- Maddy Northam, Labor
- Jannah Fahiz, Animal Justice
- Stephen Lin, Australian Progressives
- Kim Hunyh, Kim For Canberra
- Clare Doube, David Pocock Party
- Fuxin Li, Independent
- Yana del Valle, Animal Justice
- Therese Faulkner, Australian Progressives
- Kim Rubenstein, Kim For Canberra
- David Pocock, David Pocock Party
- Katy Gallagher, Labor
- James Cruz, Greens
- Tjanara Goreng Goreng, Greens
All that is left to do now is to wait for the votes to be counted, hope that they are counted correctly, and pray that Australians have the good judgement to vote for a good outcome.
To satisfy Electoral Commission requirements: Authorised by Samuel Gordon-Stewart, Reid ACT 2612
Samuel
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