There’s one thing nearly everyone can agree on when it comes to this election campaign. It’s hollow. Devoid of meaning. Cancerous.

What no one can reach agreement on is who’s to blame.

Today, Guy Rundle weighs in from another continent. He says it’s not the people we should be pointing the finger at:

“To blame the public for the changed conditions of their life, and the way that earlier decisions by an elite shaped their lives, is to finger the victim, not the culprit. A series of cave-ins, ducked battles, and soft options by the people who controlled parties, papers and powers, and a refusal to stand up to the genuinely maligned, has brought us to this point. It seems distinctive in the world — there is a collapse of political legitimacy everywhere, but only in Australia have I seen this degree of total exasperation and frustration, combined with an inability, at the moment, to imagine how it could be done any other way. “

It’s time for some serious soul searching to work out how on earth we got here.