Rache said

"No right wing parties in Australia?
I think rather there are no left-wing parties.
There's something called The Overton Window that explains it.

Labor was dragged to the right away from their traditional values because they tried to capture some of neo-conservative Howard's turf but are now trying to get back to the centre - an area where the Liberals used to occupy.

What used to be conservatism is now neo-conservatism, transferring public assets and public wealth into private hands while cutting back on services and removing protections through rampant deregulation.

There is now no party to the right of the Liberals and One Nation are just a reactionary hate cult riding on the coat-tails of disaffected Liberals - always angry about something but in the end voting along Liberal Party lines and producing nothing of substance.

Likewise the Greens are just a populist conscience-driven group and like One Nation are inherently powerless to implement meaningful policies."

Answer-

Looks like Rache hates a lot of people- she even seems to think that the Green Watermelons are nothing more than "useful" idiots that aren't Left enough for her. This seems to indicate that Rache sides with the far left socialists like "Socialist Alternative" on the border of what the AFP would call Marxist Terrorism.

An understanding of the Overton Window does seem critical to an understanding of politics- on that I agree- but...

But sadly some governments seem to support Marxist Terrorism in the form of support of Dengist China. There has been a lot of talk in certain circles about banning so called right wing extremism- but not much talk about banning left wing extremism. At least the Federal Agencies under Scott Morrison were acting against China and advising state governments of the dangers of agreements with China.

I believe PM Albanese is taking a different position with respect to China.

Just for the record. I believe that rache is a male.

Question: Could the 25% be not only informal votes but people registered on the rolls who failed to vote. I was in Hospital at the time and no votes were taken from Hospitals or Nursing Homes as were usually the case in the pre-covid days.

It's not just the Overton Window,
People also get bombarded with with info they cant easily process,
- and then move to a position of cognitive dissonance.

Hey mhaze,
"Renewable energy fantasies will evaporate as the lights go out. Massive over-spending, massive debts, massive deficits, won't look quite so appealing when inflation approaches 10% and mortgage rates double (or worse). A generation used to never ending 'wealth creation' via rising housing prices, will look askant as prices fall."

The pain hasn't even begun yet, but it's coming.
And when it does, they will change the whole entire system.
Cashless society, digital currency.
They spoke about the coming Fedcoin at Davos
- 3 years away possibly.
That's why we had the main forum topic a few days ago about plans to change the way money works, maybe after they get a war going first, who knows, but changes are definitely coming.

The US is in too much debt to stop printing money
I got the info here a few days back.

"The Fed Will Seize All Your Money In This Crisis" — Robert Kiyosaki's Last WARNING
http://youtu.be/zrSzxGsinZg

Michael Burry's Warning for the 2022 Stock Market Crash
http://youtu.be/Cpq7T-v52n8

- People should probably check out the bail-in laws if they have any significant amounts of cash in the bank.

I actually don't "hate a lot of people". Hate is what fuels a lot of right wingers and can easily be witnessed in some of the comments they make and the things they do.

Lefty extremists tend to blockade roadways, chain themselves to objects and inconvenience the public with their protests but globally it's the right wing extremists that shoot up Mosques and Synagogues, bomb abortion centres and seem all too eager to violently overthrow governments as we have seen on TV.

Foxy is right. I am a male - in my late sixties in fact and have seen and experienced a lot of politics and can spot self-interested fakes quite well and when politicians are "yanking peoples chain". The strategy of dividing people up into groups to fight among themselves as a distraction is a proven political tool.

I've seen the Liberal and National Parties of the sixties and seventies turn from bland middle-of-the-road conservatives into corporate-controlled self-serving power mongers interested in personal advancement and the execution of power for it's own sake and the ALP blindly drift into the space the conservatives vacated and sadly it's a global trend.

Trumpism and it's fake news and fascist media-hating tendencies wasn't a political aberration, it was an inevitability.

Regardless, I feel happier and more at ease than many of the angry people that prowl the world of social media and lap up conspiracy theories.