What would a Dutton Liberal leadership mean for the Liberals and the country?

[SBD Gonzalez]

Nah.

Just enough educated and reasonable people sitting at the true middle of society who place a high value on honesty, decency and fairness but who are not yet politically active - finally being motivated to take action in the ballot boxes.

The teal vote in the last Federal election shows it isn't a pipe dream. The means to engage and activate their concern about where society is heading is the key.

Climate 200 has shown the blueprint for how it can be done.

Ironically its the former safe Labor electorates in what were once traditional working class electorates which pose the greatest threat to change. Their flip from Labor to far right ideology shaped by anger and resentment about being left behind by globalisation and the mass loss of manufacturing jobs. That resentment aided and abetted by the faux outrage of the Murdoch media.

Trouble is, Climate 200 (and before them, GetUp) are the inspiration for nasties like Advance.

GetUp briefly made the Tories’ media strategies look foolish and out of touch, but something like Advance looks a lot more sophisticated than that.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

….. every country Murdoch has a media presence in, has an unstable political environment.

It’s often been observed that the two least deranged countries in the Anglosphere - Canada and NZ - have the weakest Murdoch presence.

The question of course is chicken or the egg.

I suspect it’s a bit of both.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Nah.

Just enough educated and reasonable people sitting at the true middle of society who place a high value on honesty, decency and fairness but who are not yet politically active - finally being motivated to take action in the ballot boxes.

The teal vote in the last Federal election shows it isn't a pipe dream. The means to engage and activate their concern about where society is heading is the key.

Climate 200 has shown the blueprint for how it can be done.

Ironically its the former safe Labor electorates in what were once traditional working class electorates which pose the greatest threat to change. Their flip from Labor to far right ideology shaped by anger and resentment about being left behind by globalisation and the mass loss of manufacturing jobs. That resentment aided and abetted by the faux outrage of the Murdoch media.

The working class move to right ideology is quite an interesting development that is happening elsewhere as we know.
It's why prosecuting the culture wars is such an important part of the LnP platform. I don't think even the most resentful would think the Coalition would deliver higher wages, so therefore what lures them in is attacks on immigrants and the indigenous

 

[Festerz]

The working class move to right ideology is quite an interesting development that is happening elsewhere as we know.
It's why prosecuting the culture wars is such an important part of the LnP platform. I don't think even the most resentful would think the Coalition would deliver higher wages, so therefore what lures them in is attacks on immigrants and the indigenous

Yep. IMO three 'R' words best explains the rise of identity politics and support for the populist right across the globe:

'Resentment'
'Revenge'
'Retribution'

The great tragedy for them is thinking that punching down on the basis of ethnicity, skin colour or beliefs will lead to the 'restoration' of their former, mostly imagined, 'rightful' economic position in society.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Yep. IMO three 'R' words best explains the rise of identity politics and support for the populist right across the globe:

'Resentment'
'Revenge'
'Retribution'

The great tragedy for them is thinking that punching down on the basis of ethnicity, skin colour or beliefs will lead to the 'restoration' of their former, mostly imagined, economic position in society.

And to flip it, the great achievement of modern conservatives is convincing this group that they are their saviours

 

[Festerz]

And to flip it, the great achievement of modern conservatives is convincing this group that they are their saviours

That's the irony.

But history is littered with lying, cheating, bullying, and narcissist frauds who were able to convince the masses that they were only interested in the best interests of the working class. The outcome is always the same and its always those at the bottom who are left to suffer the long term consequences.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Yep. IMO three 'R' words best explains the rise of identity politics and support for the populist right across the globe:

'Resentment'
'Revenge'
'Retribution'

The great tragedy for them is thinking that punching down on the basis of ethnicity, skin colour or beliefs will lead to the 'restoration' of their former, mostly imagined, 'rightful' economic position in society.

In a way, they have a great sense of history.

Unfortunately, it’s a completely erroneous take on their history.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

What would a Dutton prime ministership mean for the country?

Endless debt and crippling, completely unnecessary costs from politicising the scientific fact of climate change and its dire consequences to the nation.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

www.smh.com.au

 

[nut]

What would a Dutton prime ministership mean for the country?

Endless debt and crippling, completely unnecessary costs from politicising the scientific fact of climate change and its dire consequences to the nation.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

www.smh.com.au

All the LNP want to do is transfer tax payers money to their mates….
Decreasing services means more money to their mates.

 

[kalex6251]

What would a Dutton prime ministership mean for the country?

Endless debt and crippling, completely unnecessary costs from politicising the scientific fact of climate change and its dire consequences to the nation.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

www.smh.com.au

add to that an endless prosecution of culture topics obsessed over by his lickspittle mates in the msm

black mirror take - he hijacks anzac day and starts implementing individual purity tests on how patriotic we are

 

[nut]

 

[peetoo]

Unsurprisingly, Dutton wants to talk about Howard costello years not the Abbott Turnbull morrison years when he was a major part of that govt.
Especially as Abbott is now openly stating his govt was a fail

Election 2025: Albanese and Dutton steeling for ‘future war’ — The Australian

The PM has declared the next election a ‘future war’ between Labor and the Coalition, as the Opposition Leader vows a return to Howard and Costello-era economics while calling for a rejection of identity politics in classrooms.

apple.news

 

[MPMonkeys]

S

Suburban pub lol, so all the illinformed nuffies who only really care about Sport and cars. Ask them anything political they pretend they know what there talking about but have no clue at all. They mostly watch Sky News as well. If they have decided Albo is terrible that shows how disengaged from it all they are.

You need to get out more.
And no, they don't mostly watch Sky News. I doubt most would know what channel it is on.

 

[Vindicater]

You need to get out more.
And no, they don't mostly watch Sky News. I doubt most would know what channel it is on.

I like how you are the expert on all things suburban pub.

 

[Festerz]

And to flip it, the great achievement of modern conservatives is convincing this group that they are their saviours

Excellent article on that very issue in the New York Times today harping back to 1994 US midterm elections where the Clinton Democrats suffered a huge electoral backlash. Clinton’s very liberal labor secretary, Robert Reich, issued a prophetic warning about how it happened and what might be coming.

Struggling workers were becoming “an anxious class,” he warned. Society was separating into two tiers, Mr. Reich said, with “a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment is easily manipulated.”

“Today, the targets of that rage are immigrants and welfare mothers and government officials and gays and an ill-defined counterculture,” Mr. Reich cautioned. “But as the middle class continues to erode, who will be the targets tomorrow?”

His message went largely unheeded for 30 years, as one president after another, Republican and Democratic, led administrations into a post-Cold War global future that enriched the nation as a whole and some on the coasts to staggering levels, but left many pockets of the American heartland deindustrialized, dislocated and even depopulated.

Its a warning that applies to changes in Australia too. As does the manipulation of that resentment by divisive politicians.

The great irony of course is that so many of the working class feel such resentment and dis-connection at a time when the measured unemployment rate has been at historically low levels for sustained periods - but the national/state economic figures rate can mask the deep resentment and fear lurking within individual suburbs and regions. And the sense that some 'other' groups are thriving at their expense.

Which is why the conservative right is focussed on the intangibles of culture wars, attacks on climate change thinking, immigrants, the indigenous and 'wokeness'. It was central to the political agenda of Trump and is central to the political agenda of Dutton.

How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind.

www.nytimes.com

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Excellent article on that very issue in the New York Times today harping back to 1994 US midterm elections where the Clinton Democrats suffered a huge electoral backlash. Clinton’s very liberal labor secretary, Robert Reich, issued a prophetic warning about how it happened and what might be coming.

Struggling workers were becoming “an anxious class,” he warned. Society was separating into two tiers, Mr. Reich said, with “a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment is easily manipulated.”

“Today, the targets of that rage are immigrants and welfare mothers and government officials and gays and an ill-defined counterculture,” Mr. Reich cautioned. “But as the middle class continues to erode, who will be the targets tomorrow?”

His message went largely unheeded for 30 years, as one president after another, Republican and Democratic, led administrations into a post-Cold War global future that enriched the nation as a whole and some on the coasts to staggering levels, but left many pockets of the American heartland deindustrialized, dislocated and even depopulated.

Its a warning that applies to changes in Australia too. As does the manipulation of that resentment by divisive politicians.

The great irony of course is that so many of the working class feel such resentment and dis-connection at a time when the measured unemployment rate has been at historically low levels for sustained periods - but the national/state economic figures rate can mask the deep resentment and fear lurking within individual suburbs and regions. And the sense that some 'other' groups are thriving at their expense.

Which is why the conservative right is focussed on the intangibles of culture wars, attacks on climate change thinking, immigrants, the indigenous and 'wokeness'. It was central to the political agenda of Trump and is central to the political agenda of Dutton.

How the Democrats Lost the Working Class

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind.

www.nytimes.com

Robert Reich sees through the political crap.

 

[peetoo]

Can’t work out if conservatives spend more time renouncing culture wars or actually revving them up

Doing the usual Australia Day finger pointing before Christmas even arrived this year was a new low

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Mate I've lived in different parts of Melbourne so I've been out an about and I know exactly what the outer East for example think in regards to the Labor Party so any excuse to not vote for them they will. As illinformed and as uneducated as you can get. All they care about is getting pissed on weekends, Sport and Cars. Cut and paste the South East. I'll reiterate what I said, if they think Dutton is the better choice we are in real strife as a nation.

You need to get out more.
And no, they don't mostly watch Sky News. I doubt most would know what channel it is on

 

[Festerz]

Robert Reich sees through the political crap.

Yep.

As others have commented, US voters place a lot of emphasis on the height of their Presidents as opposed to their depth of character so there is a deep irony in the fact someone only 4'11" stands head and shoulders above most of them in seeing the reality of things.

 

[peetoo]

Mate I've lived in different parts of Melbourne so I've been out an about and I know exactly what the outer East for example think in regards to the Labor Party so any excuse to not vote for them they will. As illinformed and as uneducated as you can get. All they care about is getting pissed on weekends, Sport and Cars. Cut and paste the South East. I'll reiterate what I said, if they think Dutton is the better choice we are in real strife as a nation.

Have they got over tolls on east link yet?