If your supermarket trolley has a dodgy wheel, blame migration
WARNING: MAY GIVE CAUSE TO CRY
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Pauline Hanson has declared to the world that Australia is stuffed.
Whilst not actually mentioning taxidermy, the denigration of her own country was fierce. The problem is that if Pauline got her way, we would be well and truly stuffed. It’s a scary scenario because Hansonism is on the rise.
The One Nation leader delivered a speech at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as the only Australian invited by the Conservative Political Action Conference to speak at its exclusive ‘Circle Retreat and Gala’. For Hanson, it was a simple case of preaching to the converted.
Immigration by “hateful, radical migrants” is supposedly responsible for almost everything that is supposedly wrong with Australia.
In her absurd, lie-riddled speech, Hanson declared, “high migration numbers have had a brutal effect on our hospitals, health system, our roads, education standards, nursing homes, aged care facilities, and general infrastructure.”
These claims are not only absurd, but the opposites are the case with big thanks to immigration.
“Mass immigration is one of the key reasons inflation remains higher than normal in Australia,” she told the oh-so-agreeable Trump faithful. But it’s total claptrap by all key indicators.
According to Pauline, man-made climate change is “this century’s greatest hoax”. But if it proves to be true, it will probably be caused by migration.
If your supermarket trolley has a dodgy wheel, blame migration.
If your kids start smoking dope, blame migration.
If your house burns down, blame migration.
If your football team loses, blame migration.
If your internet drops out, you can blame China because the Chinese are the root of all evil including cyber-attacks.
Hanson supports AUKUS and wants an unaffordable (and unnecessary) increase in defence spending. There seem to be two reasons. One, to suck up to Donald Trump who wants Australia to lift its game and two, to pay for the war that we and the US will apparently wage on China.
That’s a strange way to treat your most valued trading partner. But wait there’s more ! Pauline wants to impose tariffs on Chinese imports. How Trumpian !
This conveniently overlooks the higher prices consumers would be paying.
But inflation has already been blamed on migration, so tariffs won’t earn a blame guernsey under this logic.
To have gotten from being a fish and chip shop owner in Ipswich, to addressing a CPAC Forum in the US, Ms Hanson cannot be treated as a fool. She is cunning.
She knows that whatever misinformation and blame she dishes out, she will be heard and believed, because she is simply telling her growing faithful what they want to hear.
Facts and the truth are of no concern. Baseless fearmongering and the breeding of hatred and division have always been her bread and butter. That so many people love to hate, is a given for Pauline.
We can wonder why our Australian ‘populist extraordinaire’ accepted the invitation to speak in the United States.
Was it a big ego trip? Very likely.
Was it to be assured of coverage globally, and especially in Australia to build “credibility”? Absolutely.
But there is a very scary possibility, if not probability. That is, she went there to garner funding for One Nation, and what more perfect audience could she have? Like-minded, rich, influential ultra-conservatives.
If One Nation became highly funded and armed with advertising propaganda produced by frontline influencers, the outcome of next election could prove groundbreaking. A lot depends on whether the Coalition continues to implode.
One Nation is now polling at 15% according to Newspoll. The Coalition is at
only 24% primary vote. That’s only 9% difference. (The Greens are 11%)
One Nation could become the new Opposition.
If One Nation rose to be the Opposition, Australia would have a serious migration problem in the form of mass emigration.
Then we will be well and truly stuffed. It sure is scary !