Something odd is happening in at least three of the Five Eyes nations, England, Australia and Canada. Despite being seriously disliked by the population in general, the left leaning parties have won landslide victories. Meanwhile, New Zealand, Ireland and the US by contrast, returned landslide victories to equally unpopular right leaning parties.

What they all had in common is the general perception that both major parties are different wings of the same bird, and what we as voters had in common was our widesrpread electoral contempt verging on hatred of both major parties and most minor parties too.

Australia last weekend just handed Labor a landslide victory. The UK, after years of floundering under a collapsing Conservative regime, is now capsizing under an equally pathetic Labour Regime. Canada, under its own centrist left banner, continues its hold on globalist leaning power so nothing changes there.

No one seems especially thrilled about these left-wing victories. Not even the left. And nations are terrified of their right leaning victories.

Meanwhile we - the people - hate them all - so what gives?

What are we voting for anyway?

The voter bases that once championed these parties are now disillusioned, fatigued, disgusted. They know the policies are hollow. They know the rhetoric is performative. They know the kindness they’re voting for won’t show up.

And yet... they vote anyway.

It occurred to me that we are no longer voting for policies. We are voting for a memory.

A memory of the left when it meant something—when it stood for human dignity, for the poor, the sick, the unlucky. When its leaders came from union halls instead of corporate boards. When being "left" meant believing people are mostly, doing the best they can, and that society should meet people where they fall, not punish them for not standing tall.

Once upon a time, that ethos mattered. And maybe it still does. But here’s the truth: the parties haven’t kept it. Not really. In practice, the stick has replaced the carrot, even on the so-called compassionate side. The bureaucracies are brutal. The safety nets are threadbare. The policies, when you strip away the slogans, are often just center-right agendas wearing progressive drag.

So why do we keep voting for them?

In Austraia, we have to keep voting - voting is manadatory and failure to vote can be punished by fines and even prison terms. But other countries don’t have that excuse, so why do THEY keep voting for cruelty with red icing or cruelty with blue icing?

Because on some level, many of us are still chasing the ghost of kindness in politics. The parties are empty suits, yes, but the suits still smell faintly of the people who once wore them. And the memory of those people, Ben Chifley, Attlee, Tommy Douglas, even a faded whisper of Roosevelt, still has power. It’s not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. It’s longing. For decency. For governments that didn’t treat their citizens as economic liabilities or logistical annoyances.

That memory, though, is fading. Each election feels like a last-ditch seance, a desperate attempt to conjure up the old spirit by voting for its costume.

But the spirit doesn’t answer.

And maybe it’s time we stop voting for ghosts.

Our Solution: A Kindness Party

We need a new "kindness" party, kind to all people, kind to all animals, kind to nature, kind to nationhood, kind to life. We need a party that looks at the evidence and truly establishes which is the kindest path that will result in all life being catered to in the kindest possible way.

In Australia, let the Labor Party and the Greens unite with the Liberals to form the Greedy Self-Seeking Cruelty Party, and also incorporate the hard nosed right wing minor parties for good measure. Let them vote on the only question that actually matters to them, on all legistaltive issues, vote Yes or No to the core question, “Is this the most profitable option for our mates?”. Nothing else matters after all. If there’s no consensus, move on to: “Is this the most punitive option for the poorest 50% of our nation”. That should flush out anyone with some closet kindness left in their DNA.

Then let all those individuals within those parties who want to be part of living in a kind culture pull away from their stick weilding masters, and form a new Kindness Party. They do not have to agree on anythying at all before they start, just agree to ask a simple question for all social and legislative change they seek to make. “Is this the kindest option available to achieve the stated goal?” What should our energy production mix be? Fight it out folks, prove your point and then put it to a vote in which you vote Yes or No to the core question, “Is this the kindest option available to all life in our nation, to achieve the stated goal?”

That’s all folks.

We are calling them the “uniparty” so let’s stick to that and start a parallel
Kindness Party, so that we can show how it works before the next time we are required to vote for people who hate us.

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