Suffice to say imo most rational empathetic people want betterment for all. I dont see Poorline or her alcoholic sidekick Barnaby having that in mind.
It's a good policy to have.
Don't wait up too long to hear Hanson sprout a policy that helps everyone without collateral damage, it isn't coming.
The ON policy engine specialises in victimisation and excuses, pointing the finger and distraction.
Are we surprised that "What About Me" was such a big hit in Oz and globally, in a different light it's a piss take about narcissism and must rate well with Looksmaxxers, Influencers and Joe Rogan?
Our society sells it's soul to be married on telly!
A big risk really is the candidates going underground because of repeated leaks, badgering and exposés.
I know some might think this is trivial, but I'd draw your attention to the recent election on the Mornington Peninsula. There was a candidate who campaigned for mayor as a staunch independant, chastised most opponents as either Liberal, Labor or Green lap dogs, then part way through the elected tenure resigned to nominate as the Liberal parties preferred candidate in a by-election.
We are seeing this more and more, candidates deliberately masking the personal politics to get elected, I understand it's not just a local problem, like Pauline's Nazi boosters it's a global problem, for example Reform UK. I genuinely think it's time to change some of democracies laws to cripple minority rule and hung parliaments from being the preferred outcome, because the fringe live and die on that very political feature which allows them to divide the vote.
btw., This is nothing new to suggest such change is required, this has all happened before, around the rise of the fascists before The Great War and WWII. I'm not sure many of our sovereign citizens know much about history, I've read some of them quoting the Alamo!
Just an example of the above and how it is manipulated.
Hanson defends the abuse of Lambie by claiming it's just a joke, she has to get over it, have a sense of humour.
If a similar cartoon or joke is made about Hanson she rallies her social media stormtroopers claiming it's just another example of oppression from the mythical "deep state", the "big end of town" defending it's turf, she is for the little people, for the loners, the true Australians (as long as your name isn't Lambie it seems) and she does this at a rally funded by someone like Gina Reinhart.
The media love it, they suck it up and propagate the myth for profit, while social media beats the drum completely blind to hypocrisy.
You can see how easy it is for the lunatics to cross the line beyond reason, they incapable of separating emotion from fantasy.
But the problem isn't resolved by normal politics or public discussion, because much of what is rally against is fantasy, and the ultimate driver is rooted in the professional media. Sycophants like the Karl, Kyle and Joe who beat a drum for obscene profit. Then you get the absurdity of social media, which will often attack those who call out the sycophants by labelling the critics "Jones pedo sympathisers", incapable of seeing that the problem exists in the extremities.
That is a little window into the mind of the nutter. Perceiving a world which to them appears that 'everyone else' is an extremist, a Andrew Tait or an Alan Jones, with someone like themself and Kyle Sandilands in the middle ground!
The fix is to hold the media and social media giants to account, make them responsible for the riots they incite, make them pay fines in billion$ not just million$, much as some regions have already started doing with the likes of Apple and Microsoft. The only language they understand is cash.
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.
