Comment on Coalition's migration plan panned as 'Trumpian', likened to 'White Australia' era
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Ah the Howard era immigration policy.
Make a media spectacle about asylum seekers. Meanwhile Howard cranked immigration to record levels for the time in an effort to lower wages, union power and increase real estate value.
The liberal party donors will not accept lower immigration. Graphs must go up.
Question is, how short is the electorate’s memory on this.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Its not a matter of memory. Their voters don’t even know the immigration policies of the last quarter century. It makes trying to talk to this voting segment so hard, because they’re making their minds up based off half the known facts.
But they don’t know, they don’t know, and its so exhausting having to establish the same set of facts before you can even have a worthwhile discussion on something like immigration policy.
Then theres those disingenuous people, (or they’re that propagandised? I don’t know), that don’t recall the facts each time the subject comes up subsequently, and have reverted to their original set of statements. They’re exhausting people with less fruitful or interesting discourse to be had.