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By echoing the hateful policies of One Nation, the Liberal party risks becoming a recruiting agent for extremist groups | Malcolm Turnbull (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

That's where majoritarian politics fails. Sometimes unpopular decisions need to be made to help those who aren't in the majority. And leave off with the patronising language. I'm not shocked, I've lived through it and it's what I've come to expect.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    By "majoritarian politics" you mean democracy right?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Arguing that this is democracy when most of the media is owned by Murdochs fash news, otherwise billionaire propaganda (vote coal!), and the majority simply believe whatever they're told to believe... is like arguing that my pets don't have stockholm syndrome, and legitimately chose to be with me.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Are you proposing an alternative to majoritarian politics?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    No. I'm arguing that "democracy" is an illusion when your level of speech and representation is proportional to your wealth; when 99% of the political class, and journalistic establishment that controls and manufactures the information the working class are exposed to their entire lives, is owned and operated by billionaires/oligarchs.

    But sure, continue believing our political system can be democracy while the entire economic system — every corporation — is structured as an oligarchy. Nothing fundamentally contradictory there. You can have any colour you want as long as it's black!

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Very strong "im 14 and this is deep" energy.

    Everyone is aware of these problems.

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