RaymondPierreL3“The Labor Party has, for the first time in its history, become the natural home of educated youth and it has done so while losing its grip on the outer-suburban and regional working-class voters who built it.”
I pulled this quote from #KosSamaras ‘article in #JohnMenadue ‘s Pearls & Irritations ( https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/three-australias-new-polling-shows-deepening-divide/)
It’s an interesting piece. It denies #Labor ‘s voting-base roots is a bulwark against #PHON penetration of the Lower House because Labor has vacated it and in so doing has left a vacuum of resentment, anger and protest grounded in the 90s which PHON will harvest in future elections. Labor’s support is growing in the the ‘class’ that the #LNP have left to fend for themselves as the #Noalition lurches further and further to right-wing populism bleeding support all the while.
Kos ends with sobering words:”
For three decades after 1945, Australia experienced something genuinely exceptional: shared, broad-based prosperity. That period is over. We are returning, more or less, to the historical norm. The politics of the next decade will be the politics of who gets blamed for it, and which bloc holds together long enough to find an answer, or not.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m not rejoicing at that pessimistic prognostic.
#AusPol #ChangingPolitics #PostWarEconomics #NeoLiberalism #FinacialMarketsDeregulation #Antifa #NoMoreBillionaires #RedistributiuonOfWealthNow
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