I recall the lines becoming very blurred around socialist, conservative and anti-communist policy, which I think gave birth to the DLP out of ALP roots. I did learn a bit about this at school, but that's a long long time ago!
Did we have some recent invocations of the DLP allegory that turned out to be veiled fundamentalist Christianity, all linked to more radical conservatism?
Baggers her popularity has skyrocketed on the back of people being sick and tired of the inept current mob that have ran us to the ground.
With who @shawny, they seem to me to be such a small minority making the majority of the noise! I see many analogies to Hansen and Palmer, which isn't surprising given links to Reinhart.
Out of curiosity I tried to make a vox pop at work, that is a mixed demographic, liberal, labour, national, socialist, left, right you name them we have them, certainly some communists as well. Only one person declared a vote for Hansen, a young female, and ironically a person who is an immigrant but heavily influenced by social media, the very category Hansen wants to send back to where they came from! She seemed to think voting for Hansen would help get her a house.
You're a funny one, MBB. Though it is important for malcontents to have their representatives. Better to have them in full view and out in the open
I agree, but as each day passes another seems to fall, the more open they become the faster they self-destruct, which I fear will push them underground on the policy / agenda front. They will talk but with a forked tongue, hidden agendas.
Good luck getting elected in Australia then continuing to defraud the public!
btw., On many big issues, a simple majority isn't enough to pass major reform in Australia, be it Federally or by State.
My election fear is that the populist vote will be along such stupid lines and we'll end up with a dysfunctional parliament, we will be opening the door to foreign influence while the entity that is supposed to be the key holder is effectively crippled. Even worse still we can end up in an election loop.
Alarmism is part of the right-wing political brief, a tool used by proper tools to foster anarchy as a way to make people react emotively without justification or thought, just act on fear or panic and it is usually mob based.
It will appear everywhere even a thread about vegemite if someone starts one!
It's quite ironic for RedTrump, Putin's diesel fuel shill, to point at France and complain that the very political tool he uses in his own backyard is now apparently evil in socialist France. Capitol Hill happened!
Very very unlikely, and such assertions I just see as alarmist scaremongering.
Let's not forget these started in Paris primarily as socialist party student protests, protests that the reporting of which has been hijacked for political purposes by right wing extremists.
It would not be surprising to find, given EU border freedom, that many involved aren't even from France.
You have to laugh when the feminist left come out and claim Katie Zacharia getting the chop is a clear cut case RedTrump misogyny. Now I hate RedTrump as much as the next person, but asserting he is anti-female in that event is a long stretch.
When RedTrump called that reporter Ms Piggy, yes misogyny for sure, but not in the case of Zacharia getting the chop as she was an incompetent fraud.
If there was any prejudice or bias in the Zacharia series of events, it's how she managed to get the job in the first place, which is ironic for an administration that has disassembled DEI.
Just as RedTrump's supporters role out to defend him, he puts his stinky size 10 in their mouth, he's one of those friends that social workers and psychologists tell you to avoid!
After the last weeks Russia deals, is there any doubt remaining about why I call him RedTrump?
I dare say his plan to avoid jail, is to flea to the Soviet block or similar sympathetic communist connected region as soon as his time his up.
Well, it seems that the world's condemnation of the barbaric proposal to livestream the execution of the convicted terrorist mass-murderer has convinced Taco to overrule Whiskey Pete.
Lie down with cats and you sleep with the fishes, or something like that!
I can't help but be amused by the MAGA abandonment of RedTrump, he's become the embarrassing uncle they sit in the corner and do not mention. Having lost the locus of their discussions that reverted to talking about Biden who is now apparently the cause of all their pain. I fully expect when that switch in focus fails to gain traction, that MAGA will wheel out Hillary or Obama next.
There are analogies between this MAGA behaviour and the situation in Victoria, pro-liberty the claim is they do not tell you how to live your life, unless of course you are female, teenage, gay, transgender, transvestite, agnostic, atheist, vaccinator or feminist, excluding lesbian, lesbian is OK because they all harbour lesbian fantasies.
Apparently the ideal MAGA woman is a youthful, slender, blue-eyed, blond haired bisexual trad wife who wears a pineapple skirt.
It's been asserted RedTrump's appointments follow a conservative fundamentalist policy, in which females have a specific place and role in society.
I couldn't help but think of that discussion in context of @Thryleon's tongue in cheek comment about RedTrump.
The debates I refer to stem from the recent "Unsteady State" series published on The Philosopher's Zone, starting with the recent Alan Saunders lecture, well worth a listen.
