One Nation Vote In South Australia Cuts In Half : Another Proof Of The Failure Of Mainstreaming.

The South Australian election has, in some ways sadly of course, validated the stand taken by Australia First Party against any idea of "mainstreaming" the patriotic movement.

Our friends in the One Nation party saw their State-wide upper house vote cut in half from the last poll in 2006. In 2006, the One Nation party polled 7,559 votes ( 0.8 % ). This time around it was 3,759 votes ( 0.51 % ). At one half of one per cent, the result could only be considered poor.

It is true that there are policy and political differences between Australia First and One Nation; however, at the level of presentation, One Nation set itself on the road of "mainstreaming" many years ago. Australia First has said a lot about that in the past and we make comment on parts of the mainstreaming formula:

Mainstreaming means reaching for the very people still enthralled by Establishment ideas and values-and parties. What mainstreamers usually don't get is that political change, real change, is not a product of mass electioneering with competing party "imageries" put before the public. Change cannot occur while the great mass of Australians is prepared to support the regime itself, the system itself. Grumblings about this or that government, or party boss, or erroneous state policy, do not mean a rejection of the liberal globalist society and its politics. Clearly, some 70 % of Australians most certainly support the regime because they refuse to change it and of the rest, there are varying degrees and qualities of radicalisation and ideological persuasion. The liberal globalist regime has weaknesses, but it rests on still-secure economic, social and legal ( and yes, we must also say, physical force ) props. No mainstreamer ( and yes, at this time, no nationalist! ), is going to change this at least not now.

The mainstreamer is overwhelmed by cosmetic appearance. Any person, any action, any symbol, any issue etc, who/which can be held ( by media and our political opposition ) to be non mainstream, sends him into a frenzy of denial and repudiation. Hence mainstreamers will abandon friends, maintain public facades that they may or may not believe in, confuse their associates who can no longer decide what they do actually believe, create fluffy programmes and adopt non threatening ( sic ) imagery. Our problem with this, is that it is not a clever game ( sic ) to get big support, big votes and acceptance, but a process that finally leads to the transformation of the mainstream would-be-nationalist into his exact opposite. He becomes a version of what he says he is supposedly fighting, just a nice-guy in a party with feel-good policy.

We say that mainstreaming is a recipe for political death! We have principles and we intend to convert people to them.

We know that right now the mainstream follows what is wrong with Australia. We say that we stand for Real Australia, those who have in one way or another stepped outside of the mainstream to stand up for themselves, their communities and livelihoods, with new associations and new parties. We aim to become the voice of Real Australia. Real Australia may also be divided about which way to go and who to follow, but at least-thinks for itself.

In our view, One Nation may find itself wiped out after the next Federal poll-and we do not mean that in terms of votes received. In the last Federal poll, One Nation's average was 1.82 %. Even though the climate is very favourable to a nationalist type message, it is likely that One Nation will continue its course, saying what it thinks "reasonable" people want to hear about problems for which the solution is hard and unbending.

Of course, there are nationalists inside One Nation who wish to take the path of an activist politics. Good luck to them, but we cannot escape our own logic; there is no future for them inside a mainstreamer group because there may not be time to reform it.

The mainstreaming path was repudiated by Australia First in 2007 after a small cabal of persons tried to take over the original Australia First Party ( inc ) and "mainstream" it, causing the old party real damage. However, the nationalists reconstituted the party and moved forwards. We welcome all genuine nationalists who would serve Real Australia-into the ranks of Australia First!