Comment on Dutton to launch assault on Labor’s red wall. Can it win him the next election?

• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  oh no, that part is absolutely true. But you get the behaviour from politicians you vote for.

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thanks.

    But you get the behaviour from politicians you vote for.

    I don’t understand sorry. Can you elaborate?

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Labor has come again and again with the policies that people claim to want - closing tax loopholes, dealing with housing, dealing with the growing inequity between financial strata. And people turn around and vote liberal. They very clearly said at the ballot box “nonooo we don’t want those”. And so the window shifts.

      Remember Gillard’s speech? How it was a “groundbreaking speech against misogyny”? Who did we immediately vote in afterwards? The fucker who that was aimed at. We rewarded abbott’s behaviour.

      The more voters reward right wing behaviour, the more right wing behaviour they get from politicians after their votes. And now we’re here, with Dutton as a candidate. Fucking dutton. A man so far up Trumps arse he has a permanent orange belt. We’re a goddamn embarrassment.

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      • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Glad to see someone gets it, it’s been great to see so many people point out how to fix housing after they voted in 2019 not to, and after punishing labor with an election loss at an unlosable election are now complaining why they don’t make changes to housing now??

        George Carlin - The public sucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXekzwkz10

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      • UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Don’t get me wrong generally I see labour policies favourably. I vote prodominantly green for context. What irks me is that it’s party first, public second. With a razor thin majority, they water down policies to not rock the boat in WA or in coal mining towns. I get it, and their strategists have a job to do, but it alienates inner city voters. As the federal government they have a big megaphone, but they run away and put things in the too hard basket. The media play that negative gearing or stable house prices is political suicide and they fall for it.

        What is the Labor party, it lacks identity, and it feels like they are running on just not being Dutton. That’s a losing strategy.

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