liberal - worker's party?

By: kiley (Registered ) on 03-10-2007 21:58

This is the logic I find so hard to understand. To vote for a party even less interested in your rights is so alien to me. Just as people will vote Labor now just to get rid of Howard. 
 
I'm worried I've misconstrued my family here though. They would never vote Liberal. Ever. If anything they would vote socialist or green. 
 
Howard has appealed to fear and racism within the Labor heartland, wrapped up in 1950s sentiment of family values and nationalism. Brilliantly, this rhetoric runs thick through representations of unions, indigenous people, non-christians and heteronormativity that those once aligned with unions and Labor now vote Liberal. Politicians openly talking about their religion in a secular political arena should be alarming to us but fear and ignorance have contained our criticality.

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