Can’t afford to live in Australia? Stop complaining because you get what you vote for

If the value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it, who then can afford to spend 1.2 million dollars for a house in Sydney?

Certainly not the average Australian. Considering the median total income in New South Wales is $55,000, after accounting for tax and cost of living, it would take close to 20 years just to save for a down payment.

This disparity extends beyond Sydney. With the median house price in Australia's capital cities at $937,592, excluding Perth, the average person would need about 10 years to afford a down payment alone. To no one’s surprise, this trend remains the same in Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, all countries that claim to be ‘free and fair’ democracies.

Now, let’s juxtapose these housing prices with politician salaries in these Western democracies. The base salary for an Australian MP is $217,060, in Canada, $194,000, in New Zealand, $170,000, and in the UK, £90,000 ($170,000). What a coincidence that those elected to represent the people are the only ones who can actually afford houses in the places they represent.

Isn’t it funny how the political elite, seemingly unaffected by the cost-of-living crisis, are also the ones responsible for governing in a way that perpetuates this divide? Logic dictates that if citizens can't afford homes, the buyers must therefore be from outside the country. I know they don’t care, but I for one are just a smidge bit concerned about non-citizens acquiring all the prime real estate while the working class struggles to achieve any chance at home ownership anywhere.

Of course, it’s then no suppose that the issue extends well beyond the housing crisis. The political class, predominantly chosen from within, thus ensuring the wealth stays in the family, consistently enact policies that disproportionately impact the working class and apparently, based on voting patterns, most seem to think that’s considered good governing?

From divisive referendums to economic downturns and climate policies that only burden everyday Australians, it doesn’t take a genius to realise that the wealthiest of the wealthy are the sole architects of policies detrimental to the majority.

If citizens have no land, they have nothing to fight for…

So I ask you this - what are we even fighting to defend? Our way of life? Our freedoms? We aren’t even allowed to celebrate Australia day anymore…

Let me remind you, when wars break out, it's your sons and daughters who will bleed on foreign soil, sacrificing entire generations for a way of life you can’t even afford.

Ohhh and you mean those same rights and freedoms that can be stripped away in an instant because a non-elected, non-Australian organisation says it’s necessary?

It is the same privileged elite class that is driving us apart, imposing restrictions, and making decisions that only favour their interests over the well-being of the majority - and still people come with the same old ‘she’ll be right’ mentality.

Guess what… she won’t be right…

Don’t get me wrong… if you want to keep being poor, living under constant surveillance in restricted cities, governed by social credit scores and digitals ID’s… by all means, keep voting for the same toxic political class that have completely ruined every ‘free’ society’ in the western world using the same corrupt and divisive strategies to manipulate and gaslight their people.

Stop complaining because you get what you vote for…