[romanr]

Political party elected for money reasons that ignores science is a symptom of the problem, it is not the problem itself. Outdated laws and electoral two-party system is the problem.

Why no “top researcher” ever urges to look at the root of the problem? Why researchers of political science do not sound the alarm to change outdated laws that were written 100 years ago when they couldn’t imagine shameless lobbying, mega corporations, manipulated social networks, and climate emergency that clearly requires different political system to manage it.

[joe_the_user]

Political party elected for money reasons that ignores science is a symptom of the problem, it is not the problem itself. Outdated laws and electoral two-party system is the problem.

I disagree. Powerful people and institutions actively protect their interest. Laws and precedents are protected when there are interests that benefit from them.

IE, anti-democratic institutions survive because people protect them. They are the symptom and money driving the system is the cause.

[bamboozled]

The other issue I see is that, traditionally, it wasn't a matter of the end of civilization if governments took 3, 4 year terms to do something about an issue. For example outlawing smoking in public places.

This issue is so dire and serious but it doesn't fit in the headspace of these politicians and the voters that like them, it doesn't fit their traditional model of urgency.

My tl;dr version; it's too late to wait any longer. We can't wait till these politicians retire for action.

[hndamien]

We don't have a 2 party system though?

[paranoidrobot]

Australia (as well as the US, UK, NZ, and I'm sure many other countries) have a two-party system as defined by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-party_system

In Australia, in recent times that's the Liberal Party and the Australian Labour Party.

While there have been influential minor parties, and even independent persons who hold the balance of power on occasion, the executive leadership is always from one of two major parties. Those parties may change over time, fwiw.