Should the Labor Party disband?

[Adam Griffin]

It's kind of amazing how right-wingers think dissolving Labor would actually improve their prospects. LOL.

All you have to do is look at the first months following the last Duopoly Dissolution, but for those too lazy to care about history: what do you think the aggregate of left-wing voters will do if there is no bogeyman remaining that hurt their fee-fees?

I'll tell you: virtually every D avatar and left-leaning voter will ultimately preference a left-leaning candidate over a right-leaning one, instead of the relatively consistent and measurable number of them since 2013 preferencing right-wingers over Laborites because we were just too good at the game and/or didn't put up with their meandering nonsense. Without the bogeyman, no actual left-of-center voter will have a reason to vote for a right-winger (unlike now).

Let's make it simple for the dullards: the existence of the Labor Party has increased opportunities (measured by % performance) for the Right over the past decade rather than harming them, while arguably handicapping those same opportunities for the Left at-large. In years past, it was because we had a hard-left ideology that alienated moderates. In recent years, it's more due to the gradual and predictable build-up of resentment among those who didn't want to be part of a machine or have some other personal beef toward us.

Take that away and the Left wins every national election going forward by double-digits without trying.


This of course ignores the fact that whether it was a double dissolution of the duopoly or (especially) a sole dissolution of Labor, the duopoly would be back in full-force in 6 months tops. The dynamics that made it take a year for the duopoly to return after the last Dissolution are far weaker today for a variety of reasons.