Ian Cook: Can we try to be smarter than the British and Americans and not think that we can deal with them by shouting at them or turning our backs and knowing these people are just plain wrong and maybe evil, and pretending they'll go away if we can deny them an opportunity to enter public debate?

Just because you think they are wrong doesn’t make them wrong. It’s your opinion Ian. No better or worse than theirs.

Cook: she has returned older but no wiser and that it was a pity that her supporters and people like them were not being represented by a more mature, thoughtful and just plain wiser Pauline Hanson. But I was wrong to think that.

You are wrong there. She was undermined by the LNP & the ALP etc, putting a third Column into her Party. The two Major Party’s were afraid of the “Voice of the Common People” upsetting the petty game of one upmanship they play between themselves.

Cook: She hasn't changed because our response to her over the years she's been out of the limelight hasn't changed.

She hasn’t changed because, in my opinion, she was on the right track. Now others who were on the margins have seen the truth, regarding the two Major Party’s & have found a “Voice.” in Pauline. They see Pauline as one of them, the voiceless majority.

Cook: I believe that people are fearful when they feel insecure.

& at the moment people are feeling insecure, & rightly so because the Government is pandering to the very people we are fearful about, just to secure Votes for their own Party from the Latte Set in Society.

Cook: the people like them who vote for other parties, feel threatened and cause them to respond with fear.

There are many in the two Major Party’s who support Hanson, Jackie & Xenophon but only vote for one of the two Major Party’s because that’s what they’ve always done & can’t change.
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Cook: Hanson and many of her supporters were raised in a different Australia and it is hard for them to feel they have a place in this changed Australia.

That has got nothing to do with the issue & is plainly just wrong.

Cook: Partly they fear because they were raised in monocultural communities, when assimilation was our response to immigration.

Wrong again. Most of us were raised in mixed immigrant Communities. It was the Pre WW2 that that thinking applies too. These people were mainly Christian & posed no threat. They were happy to assimilate & spread a little of their beneficial Culture around a well.

Cook: And it is the members of a society who decide what is normal and not religious texts.

Unfortunately the Socialist Left, PC, Liberationists have forced this acceptance on Society against their will.

Cook: We can call them racist or Islamophobic (and sexist and homophobic) and walk away, thinking that we've done the right thing. Or we can stop and listen and, yes, embrace these people.

Not to mention Infidelophobic, but I suppose the majority now have to accept that along with the bombing, knifings & shootings as being a part of a multicultural Society.

It's funny how people being soooo 'reasonable" and 'nice' about Pauline Hanson have to firmly disavow any personal support for the woman and her suporters before they say she should be tolerated. Jolly decent of them, what?

Well, guess what, all you , left wing, intolerant people who are always heehawing about the intolerance of the right, Pauline Hanson and her supporters do not give a stuff what you think about her and them. She could have 4 senate seats, so suck it up, comrades.

ttn: Pauline Hanson and her supporters do not give a stuff what you think about her and them. She could have 4 senate seats, so suck it up, comrades.

Quite right ttn & rightly so. I guess this, above all things, is what gets up the Socialist Left, Greens & the PC Latte Set noses the most. Well said.

Jayb,

I really don't understand the the mentality of these people who carry on like a pack of wild dogs when someone they hate is voted in. I think what they would really like is a 'one party' system, as China is now calling its communist dictatorship. I put Pauline second, being more of an ALA person, on the senate paper, and they didn't do very well, unfortunately. But I really admire Pauline Hanson. Her guts and determination in the face of mindless hostility more than outweigh the petty comments by the comrades about her lack of sophistication and manner of speaking. She is a person with commitment and courage, something severely lacking in the comrades and their masters.

So what exactly does the author dislike about ONE NATION?

Is it their policy to increase the aged pension by "$100 per fortnight for a single aged pensioner and $150 for a couple"?

Or is it their policy to give "Tertiary students with an allowance equivalent to the dole"

Or is it their policy of "cuts to politicians lurks and perks, and more accountability of travel costs and expenses."

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies

Nah!

People voted for ONE NATION because they are racist says the author.

I voted for ONE NATION because they are the only political party in Australia with a policy of citizens initiated referendums.

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies/cir

And ONE NATION wants to reduce the ridiculous number of state MPs in Qld from 89 down to 45 (which is no loss at all, and anyone who has ever had any contact with a state MP in Qld would know how totally useless these people are).

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies/reduce-politicians

So the author should go back to the drawing board and rethink, and then make up another story about why people voted for ONE NATION.