Death of a Salesman?

Election 2022

“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

I’m not promising anything.

There are no predictions here.

I’m wallowing in exhaustion at the end of this vile campaign, and I don’t just want it to be over: I want change. I want to keep faith with my country. I want some respite from what it has become. From what they have made it.

They the political class. They the media. They this government in particular. They all the other sources of power and influence in a society shaped for their convenience.

Whatever happens, we go on, but dear god…

We know what another term of a Morrison Government will mean for the country because they have already shown us.

We have been through a pandemic (are still in it) and have seen the devastation of climate-related fires and floods. We have, in other words, experienced, and are experiencing, the sort of catastrophes for which the very idea of government was developed, the coming together of a people in the …