This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:

“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”

In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.

Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg

#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis