It's hard not to be depressed about our politics at the moment. Particularly the dingbat brand of pseudo politics that is practised by the Liberal Party.
The usual suspects in the shadow ministry pretend to "fret and worry and wail" about "asylum seekers" and their impacts on the nation. Not because there are any real impacts Virginia but because a large subset of our population are so bogan and racist and uninformed - that this B Grade behaviour appeals to their way of thinking.
And they lap it up. If you doubt that then check out the inane BS on talkback radio and scattered throughout the Murdoch press. Even the ABC does it.
Large sections of our media exist to pander to and ultimately capture these bogan and racist eyeballs and to sell them stuff on the never never. Harvey Norman built a big business around it. And now the Liberal Party have decided to adopt them as a core constituency. Maybe Joe Hockey is wavering a bit ;-)
The liberal thinkers will be mildly annoyed. The rest of us will be appalled.
How did we ever get to a situation where our alternative government is scrambling about in the gutter attempting to win the hearts and minds of dumb-arsed "One Nation" supporters? Seriously?
I would be quite happy to have the Electoral Commission initiate a project to identify every "One Nation" supporter and to ship them and the entire parliamentary Liberal Party off to Nauru or somewhere remote - where they can do whatever they like - forever. I will even donate a couple of bucks to make it happen.
While the rest of us get on with dealing with the big issues of the era.
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