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davidc4430 · ‎15-02-2017

if i hear this woman say one more time 'i'm the leader' i think i'll explode

we all know your the leader its just most people would rather someone else was leader.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/if-you-dont-like-it-dont-stand-pauline-hanson/8273600

not_for_sale2025 · ‎16-02-2017

I recall during her "please explain" era in Queensland that many, many common people grew to support her. One by one they emerged and said they agreed with a lot of her views, especially in relation to racial issues. It concerned me at the time because I wondered how many Queenslanders were racists!

After a while it occurred to me that we all secretely harbour views that may be sensitive, if not questionable e.g. racial, religious and sexual views. But the difference between most people and those who are publically outspoken is that we choose to keep our views to ourselves, or only share them with people who are close to us.

Pauline Hanson seems to have a presence which influences people to feel it is safe and ok to open up and join in. It's almost a phenomenon! It's as if her presence encourages some people to brush aside social mores so they can reveal their inner anger and frustration.

My greatest concern however is the future in our country if she gains too much power. I don't know about anyone else but the vast number of American's who supported Trump, despite his racist views, makes me wonder if the deep racism in the US has just been dormant since the 60s/70s, and has now been awakened by their new President. There is nothing "great" about that if it is the case and I fear we could travel a similar path if we allow ourselves to become misdirected voters and empower individuals for the wrong reasons. Just my opinion though.

myoclon1cjerk · ‎16-02-2017

"Pauline Hanson seems to have a presence which influences people to feel it is safe and ok to open up and join in. It's almost a phenomenon! It's as if her presence encourages some people to brush aside social mores so they can reveal their inner anger and frustration."

Just like they did in Germany back in the '30's

By the way Pauline, it's 'definitely' not 'defenly'

johcaschro · ‎16-02-2017

I think that the Pauline Hanson "phenomenon" is a direct result of our two major political parties' duplicity regarding what they claim to be doing compared to what they actually do.

It's getting so that even the proverbial blind Freddy can see this.

I think that Australian voters have lost confidence in both Labor and LNP and their obvious lies, and are striving to find an honest politician to vote for who can be trusted to act on their behalf.

While I don't believe that Pauline Hanson is is going to be any different to the rest of them I can understand why people vote for her.

It's because of their profound frustration and disillusionment with our trough-guzzling, mendacious and duplicitous politicians who clog the seats of our parliament like so many atherosclerotic plaques, gowing ever bigger and fatter while at the same time causing massive amounts of sickness and resultant grief in the body of the larger community.

(a leech analogy would work well here, too)

Voters want to elect politicians who they can trust to act in their interests but what we get is politicians who act in their own interests; who are untrustworthy, and who say one thing while all the time doing another thing (usually to benefit themselves and their rich mates in big business who kick in a huge amount of dollars to buy real representation in govt, while the average voter can only look on in despair, realising that they got "fooled again".

and again and again and again. and it will never ever end until we stop giving these people our votes. none of them is worthy of our vote because all of them are liars.

all of us are reponsible in some way if we vote for people who place their own interests before those of their electorate.

if we remain too uneducated or too unaware or too complaisant or too stupid to recognise what is happening, then we get the government we deserve.

Meet the new boss? doesn't matter; it's the same as the old one. The apparent degrees of relative "sophistication" may be different, but substantially it's just an encore of the same song.