I find this immensely disappointing

Hanson is a stain on Australia, but like Drumpf is to 'Murica, she's a symptom of how many hateful ignorant cunts there are here, not a disease in and of herself

I'm still looking forward to reading her obituary.

I wonder how much of this is true and how much of this is massaging the polls for a narrative. The media has tried to spin every election since like 2011 as if it's going to end up in another hung Parliament. It will be interesting to see how many people actually vote for ON when the time comes

People are that Pissed with major parties they are more than willing to vote for Pauline. Really shows how much the parties are failing to read the room.

My gods, just vote independent.

Australians are humans and do human shit. We aren't actually blessed or geniuses. Just kind of lucky and generally chill. Both can easily change.

Unfortunately reverse our good fortune by increasing wealth inequality and undoing the progress of working Australians pushes people to the angry camp. And the angry camp can spread like a bushfire with influencers, social media companies and old media pouring fuel on it.

It's not that a peoples party is a bad idea. We had one once called the Australian Labor Party. Born under a tree in Queensland by and for the benefit of hard working Australians. Thanks Queensland. Now they give us Pauline and she is something else entirely. It makes me sad.

I think we should be better. But we are the same as everyone else aren't we. Muslims, Americans, Chinese. We are all capable of doing bad shit to each other for insane reasons. It has just been our luck that unless you had the misfortune to be born indigenous most of us had it so good we thought we were above a lot of that shit or at least getting better. Hopefully One Nation will self sabotage as they do tend to attract incompetent people. But I thought the same about both Trump administrations and they are still fucking things up.

Even if PHON yells some things that resonate with us, I just can't trust them because of their associates.

Anyone who hangs out with the NRA, Gina and Trump will absolutely not serve my interests.

If PHON is polling well, it's more likely that they've reached a new level of corruption and have been captured by the tech oligarchy.

Many people follow the crowd and simplistic ideas, including putting blame on others (this does not happen only in Australia). Challenges with simplistic solutions are easier to understand (of course). They also reflect the ideas of people without enough political education who draw skewed conclusions from their personal experience and from their 'crowd' mind set. One Nation reflects these prejudices back to people and so they feel listened to, like ON is one of them and not like other politicians which present as removed from everyday reality and from ordinary people. They do not seem to understand (or perhaps want to) that Hanson is hob-knobbing with billionaires and will work in their interest because they will financially support her at election time. We must be aware of this and keep this front of mind with people considering voting for ON.