Q: Who votes for One N💩tion?
A: Racists votes for One N💩tion
A friend told me there's no point making banners for a night time protest...
So of course I had to prove him wrong 😄
Which meant ANOTHER visit to @bunnings to buy their reflective tape.
I spent last night making the banner.
Which gave me plenty of time to think about why Australians are supporting Pauline.
Which really shouldn't come as any surprise.
We prefer talking about how multicultural we are.
But sadly we live in a deeply racist country.
And there are still very strong undercurrents of feeling nostalgic for how things "used to be".
It's an uncomfortable truth but these hard topics need to be talked about. Especially as we see the numbers climbing in support of
One N💩tion.
If you're not aware, there's going to be a fund-ra!ser dinner on Friday night in Moonee Ponds with Pauline Hanson & her sidekick Barnaby Joyce. If you don't want racism to thrive in Australia, it would be great if you could join us.
📍 Moonee Ponds Junction, 5:45pm
Great poster - and while it’s true the trap here lies in attacking One Nation voters rather than One Nation itself - thereby buying into the social divisions that the elite ruling class actively creates.
One Nation’s populist soundbite that immigrant are the cause of the housing and cost of living crisis is simplistic and easily digestible (hence its popularity in the West). And while you can argue that this feeds into the underlying colonial,imperialist racism of their voters, the fact is that these socioeconomic issues are very real, impacting the majority of Australians across the political spectrum.
One Nation may be a bunch of racist cooks but both the current government and opposition (excluding the Greens and a few Independants), are happy to funnel billions into the bottomless money pit of forever wars to prop up the US Empire and its elites, rather than use those funds to improve the living standards of Australians. The threat to jobs by AI dwarfs anything immigration could pose and yet our corporates and politicians are rushing to pour billions into data centres with little or no oversight.
They are all liars.
We should be fighting the system - not each other.
What we should be arguing is :
One Nation uses Racism to Gaslight its Voters
I find it actually mind-numbingly, head-shakingly, gob-smackingly, dumbfounding that they have raised $1m in 48 hours on the basis of “send me $29 to Fire the Liar”. And people still don’t see the grift!