Conservatives literally run on a platform of fear. Fear someone’s gonna take your shit. Fear of your comfortable life being uprooted. Vote for us or these will happen!!!
…which parts of those fears apply to liminals downwards? That’s been our SOE for two fucking decades.
Fear someone’s gonna take your shit
Can’t be conservative if you have nothing to conserve.
That said, I do have things to conserve but I still vote Greens because I have enough and I’m not utterly devoid of empathy.
For example, the Liberal Party is the party of home ownership…
More like the party for people who already own homes. All of their policies have been geared towards increasing the value of existing housing stock, transferring as much wealth to existing home owners as possible. Some examples of policies for existing home owners are capital gains tax discounts, first home buyer grants (lol, hand tax payer dollars straight to established owners) negative gearing and mass immigration.
Millennials watched this kick in to gear when Howard got in and it’s just been a giant f you to us from the major parties our whole adult lives.
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They’ve actively worked to undermine our very existence, while gleefully removing advantages that they often had that could’ve helped us - HECS, undermining medicare, creating housing crises because there’s no other way to make a buck in Australia since they went full neoliberal…
Yeah. Leopards, meet face.
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TBH I don’t see a way back for them.
They’ve wedged themselves with this culture war nonsense. They’d need to wind that back to become popular enough to form a majority, but that would drive away their ‘core’ voters. I suspect they’ll soon be relegated to the electoral effectiveness of One Nation. Especially as the media landscape continues to evolve.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see someone like the Greens forming the official opposition within a few years.
This reads like satire:
growing up in hyper-individualised contexts – an auto-play, after-pay environment – which differs greatly from the lives of their parents and grandparents, for whom the realisation of aspiration often involved planning, sacrifice and deferred gratification
Even when they are trying to appeal to young people, they don’t even attempt to hide their condescension and contempt.
