Meanwhile here in SA, Weatherill is taking banks to task, taxing them to pay for roads, bridges, education, and so on. Good move.
Naturally, the banks are now throwing everything to Marshall and the Coalition. Turnbull and Xenophon are saying this will stagnate the economy.
I used to like Nick. I hate him now.
Then, can you answer my years-long astonishment to people liking Xenophon. He seems to be a autoritarian paranoid freek to me.
People thought of him as different. The stunts he pulled made him seem more real. He was the populist defender of the people that was needed during the Howard-Rudd-Gillard-Rudd-Abbott years. Part of the problem I think, is his obsession with his new party. He's more concerned with winning seats than he is putting the right ideas forward. Moreover, he has a certain magnetism about him, kind of like Trump in a way.
People thought of him as someone who'd stick up for the. Someone who'd fight to keep their jobs here. Someone who's populist rhetoric seemed real. I was one of them.
In the chaos a few years ago, he seemed to offer some semblance of stability. People were sick of Liberal and Labor, and he seemed to offer the only alternative to them.
Xenophon represents those Labor after Liberal, Liberal after Labor, etc., etc. has ignored. Say what you will about him, but he has certainly given a voice to those who have been voiceless for so long.
