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It's not me, it's you - Australians ready to break up with Trump's America
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Interesting numbers on the One Nation voters there, I'd have expected them to be ride or die Trumpers. Good to hear some of them have some comprehension of reality. Some.. They were still the highest percentage of responders that supported Trump & the US across all questions.
Seems to be quite consistent with the theory that they are yet to form a reliable voting bloc. The largest, or at least the most vocal, in their confederation seems to be MAGA-influenced racists, but there are all kinds of things that draw people to an anti-establishment protest party which is probably part of the reason they have suffered from infighting in the past.
That's interesting. I hadn't thought of ON in that way. The supporters may in fact be very splintered in policy and priorities, and just voting ON as the alternative.
Another aspect is that ON is a nebulous party with not much solid in the way of policy in the first place, let alone ideology. It's clearly syncretic, and I won't even call it populism because some clearly comes from niche interest groups (SovCit/"Freedom" movement, energy lobby, etc.). Their policy pages on their site have some pages with decent detail while others are the vaguest things I've seen from a party, or completely bizarre (like "Aim to slash electricity bills by 20% immediately." on Reduce Cost of Living).
From an informed voter perspective, I really should go and check out their info.
But......
There's enough hard-no garbage from that party that there's no policy that could make me vote for them. So there's no obligations as far as an informed voting perspective goes.
That said, there were a few interesting policies. It's easy to stereotype some of these reactionary parties and assume they'll be 100% wrong about everything - and they are about so much - but some selected counter-examples are:
And you can cherry-pick almost any policy list like that: even the horrific 25-point plan had some decent ones in the middle. I'll give Palmer a go next time and see if anything floats.
I'd only really give it a squizz if you're likely to get into a discussion (or argument...) with a ON supporter, it can help you see points of shared interest and build political rapport, and show you're not some LeFTY LooNIE blindly-oppositional caricature.