Considering almost half Tasmanian adults are functionally illiterate that seems like One Nation is doing pretty poorly in their core demographic. Maybe if more mining kicks off in Tassie Gina will give enough fucks about the balance of power and buy some electorates for her sock puppet party.
Oh it’s you… Seriously, why do you think you can see Gina Reinharts lips twitching when Pauline talks. She’s a sock puppet. But we as a nation keep falling for the billionaire backed line about how the people even worse off than us are causing problems, not the ownership class. Plus she doesn’t fucking run the party with her name on it, it’s a bunch of political mercanaries who are just following the money. One Nations was a dysfunctional grift full of money grubbers and PHON is exactly the same thing.
These people are ignorant, talk to them and hear them rabbit on with the same tired talking points they have been spewing forever, it’s racism pure and simple.
Choose to view them as noble savages all you like, it doesn’t change who or what they are. At least they could be honest and fess up to it. I’ve been racist in the past, I’m not proud of it, but I grew up and realised people are all the same, the language might be different, the cultural perspective might not perfectly align, but we all have the same basic wants and needs.
There’s a reason that these right wingers and pseudo right wingers align so closely with super partisan religions, its all feelings all that way down logic and rationality are actively shunned. While they stamp their feet, stick out their bottom lips and demand they are the only ones using “common sense”.
It’s got nothing to do with people who are worse off than us, but with the fact that we’re bringing in more people than we can sustain. It’s not hard to understand.
No one is asking to deport all immigrants. No one is saying to lock the borders forever. People just want the people that are already here - even the immigrants - to be able to have a chance to get somewhere to live before they import another 1000+ people per day who will compete with them for housing, while we’re building nowhere near enough new houses.
That’s not racism. Trying to paint it all as racism is stupid and why one nation is surging. Anyone arguing that stemming the flow of immigrants until we can fix the housing crisis isn’t “common sense” needs to take a look in the mirror.
And if you can’t see what a bunch of dog whistles all of that is you are as cooked as the people who posted all that in the first place. The numbers are already dropping from the spike after Covid. People are already losing jobs that interact with international markets, for example international education. We need to build more houses… Absolutely. Looks like the government is already trying to tweak the levers to incentivise investment into construction over hoarding existing properties.
You have been proselytized by the owner class, they own the property, they own the businesses and they own the media and they convince you that the only way to make the smallest of forward steps is at the expense of someone weaker than you. The more time we spend squabbling among ourselves the less time we spend thinking of ways to start taking back the wealth they have stolen from us, continue to steal from us.
As soon as there are no more Billionaires, no more corporations paying effectively zero tax, no more politicians that are owned by people who’s interests are the exact opposite of the public good I will accept there just isn’t enough to go round. That is common sense. Australia returning to isolationism will just prove the words of Lee Kuan Yew right.
We can aspire to be more than peasants. We don’t have to hand our government over to the mining companies and their robber baron CEOs. Plus you know once the PHONeys get their way with migrants, it’s trans people, then the rest of the LGBT community.