Imagine fucking yourself with brexit, then voting for the guy again. Like Americans with Trump, wowee.
I heard some pre-election excitement around their Green Party. While they did make notable gains, their vote share:councils ratio is unfortunate.
If Australia is about 10 years behind the US, and 15 years behind Europe, then we are pretty screwed...
I feel like things rhyme, they don't repeat is appropriate here.
For example,
"Stop the Boats" was a slogan here long before it hit Britain. But its really not a thing anymore, and a large policy shift would be required from Labor or the Greens to see a path for that to have a resurgence.
Thats one example, but a lot of the drivers right wing populists have in other countries to play on are less common, or have been dealt with to varying degrees here.
So i really don't support this idea that we're politically behind the US or Europe. It doesn't make sense to me as a framework to think about One Nation's risen popularity.
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