Instead of competing with One Nation, the Liberal party under Angus Taylor is echoing One Nation’s divisive, hateful position on immigration and in Farrer is preferencing One Nation – a move that could put a One Nation MP in the House of Representatives for the first time.
Liberals in Farrer should ignore Taylor’s how-to-vote card and put One Nation last.
Pauline has been playing the racism card for 30 years. Nobody is going to compete with her on her own turf. Many of the people who support her think she is authentic in ways the rest of us cannot understand. To me she is an obvious opportunist career politician funded by big money to do their bidding. But to the sweet little old ladies in the local cafe who “aren’t racist but…” she is “Our Pauline” and she “talks a lot of sense”.
The Libs are fucking crazy. They have put themselves in a corner playing No True Scotsman on their members until they have gained the depth and competence of One Nation with none of the popular appeal. Its pretty clear right now that One Nation and the machine promoting them are setting the agenda. The Libs follow because they are a spent force.
The ALP can afford to stand apart because they have depth and policies and lots of supporters who want them in government as much as we want them to be more effective. While the ALP will lose many working class voters to One Nations simplistic populism they will also pick up Turnbull voters from the Libs. Meanwhile the Libs have positioned themselves to be unable to gain votes from anywhere.
Genuine question because I’ve never (knowingly) known anyone that supports one nation or Pauline Hanson generally, is there a strong demographic? I was surprised at the image of sweet little old ladies lol. Though how old is old?
I didn’t see her reach as just to little old people but again, historically, I’ve only ever known people who have always and still have a negative opinion on her. I’m mid 30s btw so I guess I’m talking about my parents (60s/70) and some of their friends.
I kinda thought her reach was just to…angry people, who are already or willing to be bigots. Similar to Trump, yeah he’s old but there are plenty of people younger than him that just bought into his shit because they were frustrated, angry people, regardless of age.