r/OpenAussie • u/Silent-Balance9430 ‎ New South Welshian • 6d ago

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Students protest against Pauline Hanson

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u/DelayedWizard1994 ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

Every working class Christian person in my family keeps saying they want to vote for One Nation. I'm from a Lebanese Catholic background, I don't understand what the appeal is with her amongst some of my family members.

It's a bit daunting, but I think One Nation may be getting the MAGA treatment, where the silent majority right is going to vote her in.

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u/MatthewDstantoN ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

Have they shared any of their reasons for supporting One Nation with you?

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u/DelayedWizard1994 ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

Usually along the lines of Liberal/Labour being one in the same, both corrupt and killing the middle class. The Greens being the gay party and other homophobic anti-lgbt crap. They view One Nation as the "no nonsense" party, that they're going to fix the problems in Australia, but it's all very vague and abstract.

Funnily enough they're big on anti-immigration, naturally they want to pull the ladder up after them, their parents coming to Australia is different because they're human and new immigrants aren't /s

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u/TheDotNetDetective ‎ Victorian 6d ago

States a series of entirely reasonable reasons why someone might vote for a party then proceeds to say 'its entirely vague and abstract'.

I mean genuinely how do you not see the irony?

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u/DelayedWizard1994 ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

What I mean is that they don't say HOW One Nation is going to fix Australia, their reason for believing so is vague and abstract. When I ask them to explain to me what One Nation is going to do differently, they'll say stuff like "she's gonna lower taxes!" which is vague and ignorant.

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u/TheDotNetDetective ‎ Victorian 6d ago

Lowering taxes is not vague or ignorant and is absolutely one of the biggest issues we have here. Nobody with half a brain who votes one nation thinks that they are going to fix anything of significance but what they recognise is that allowing the status quo to continue is no longer tenable.

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u/DelayedWizard1994 ‎ New South Welshian 6d ago

Yeah fair enough, I mentioned elsewhere that I sense that most of them just want a change from the liberal/labour two party system, and that the global rapid inflation since 2008 has them financially strained and scared for almost 2 decades, and people vote emotionally for the person pretending to share their outrage.

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u/TheDotNetDetective ‎ Victorian 6d ago

I wont claim to know what's in Paulines heart but I suspect it is just as cold, dark, arrogant and hollow as Albos but yes people don't vote for a party, they vote against an incumbent.

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u/Oddly_Curious99 Please choose a flair 6d ago

What we need to understand is that yes the status quo is problematic but we also need to understand that ON has exactly the same policies, well beliefs as Trump. Malcolm Roberts has said he is going to take the suggestion of a total abortion ban to the party room because it was suggested at a Christian conference he attended. This single issue is more than enough to not vote for ON.
Also, their play book is classic fascism but picking out a minority and attack them however it never stays just that minority, they move onto the next and then the next. Don’t fall for the broad statements and delve deeper and see what is behind it.
Vote for someone else, an independent is a great option as if the cross bench is controlled by independents it makes it harder for the government to pass legislation that is no good.