From Centre Right To Far Right Downunder
The Liberal Party is badly named in light of what it has turned into of late. There being few liberal minded people left in the party. Newly elected president, former PM Tony Abbott, is Pauline Hanson’s leading cheer leader. Abbot was also the bloke that sold the Port of Darwin to the Chinese. Abbot and his Sky News Australia former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, have taken the Liberal Party from centre Right to far Right downunder, via their influence, in recent times. The un-electability of the Liberal Party, on the basis of this move to the fringe, has cleared the way for One Nation to fill a vacuum. Right wing Aussies require a political vehicle for their zero sum game way of looking at the world. A world of winners and losers, rather than the progressive conception of us all being in this together.
Far Right Racism Rises In Australia
What drives folk to fall for the old saw of blaming the immigrant for their woes? Blame it on foreigners has been around since time began. One Nation has only ever really had one iron in the fire – fuelled by Anglo white supremacy. To demonise everybody else as unAustralian and make the problems of the world the fault of the foreigner or those that look or act different. It is childish and stupid really, but lots of folk fall for it out of expediency and gutlessness. These racists are too scared to take on the big end of town, where the real power resides. The oligarchs and billionaires running the show. The Gina Rinehart’s, the mining companies, the multinationals and the gas cartel. The lack of competition in the marketplace, where oligopolies and monopolies have neutered consumer buying power and wage growth.
Far Right Racism Does Not Stay In Its Lane
In the UK, we are witnessing a billionaire funded anti-immigration campaign. Reform and the fascist nationalist groups are being funded by oligarchs intent on undermining the centre, via protests and violent mass eruptions directed online from social media accounts based in America. Elon Musk’s X has been waging a constant barrage of support for far right positions for many months. Musk has more than 200 million followers online. Most recently, in Belfast militant far right activists have been burning cars and homes in reaction to a stabbing by a dark skinned refugee or immigrant. Whatever the crime there is no excuse for then going around burning the homes and vehicles of innocent folk in some sort of broad spectrum payback campaign of terror. This is the thing about racism and white supremacy it never stays in its lane for long. Those Aussies flirting with One Nation as a protest vote would be well advised to heed this warning. Racism is a crime and should be prosecuted.
One Nation Feeds On Hate Speech
This whole anachronistic belief that white people have more right to respect and human decency is crap. Parties like One Nation feed on the wrong headed prejudices of parts of the community. We fought wars to stop Nazism and fascism but it is back in Trump’s America and Pauline Hanson loves Donald Trump. The dog eat dog, zero sum game politics of Trump is bad for everybody. He will get his comeuppance sooner than these folk realise. One Nation gets most of its support in regional and outer suburban areas, where there are fewer migrants living. Funny that. A lack of real experience fosters room for fear campaigns demonising foreigners. This kind of backward thinking shit has been going on for years. An old lady like Pauline Hanson should know better. Grifting off the poison of hate speech is a nasty way to make a living. Drumming up anxiety on the back of statistically miniscule amounts of crime committed by refugees and immigrants and exaggerating it is their modus operandi. Don’t fall for the hype.
Hey Australia Grow Up & Don’t Follow America
The move from centre Right to far Right is a degeneration for Australia and those pandering to this trend. Tony Abbott is an odious person who was booted out of office and his electorate by the voters. Pauline Hanson is a nasty piece of work, now being used by Gina Rinehart, who lives in the US, to undermine the sensible nature of Australians. Going down the rabbit hole of extremist American hate is not going to be good for Australia. That these far right activists wrap themselves in the Aussie flag is a disgrace. What have they ever done for the country? Spreading poisonous hate is no civil service for the nation.
One Nation Who Is Pulling The Strings?
“Trump and Hanson have to pay back their billionaire backers and, therefore, it is the oligarchs calling the shots and not the people. Populist politicians campaign upon culture war issues to get their votes at the ballot box. Anti-wokeness plays well to dyed in the wool folk who fear change. This stuff is only window dressing for politicians like Hanson and Trump. The real deals are with their wealthy backers and what they want. Support for One Nation is a protest vote in many instances and these voters would do well to dig a little deeper. Do your research to find out who pays the piper in the end. Millions of Americans regret their votes for Donald Trump, as the US economy descends into the doghouse. Populists rarely deliver what they promise and that is what we are seeing in the US.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer; The AI Heresy; What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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