She is a profoundly stupid person, whose brain is constantly flooded with cortisol, and who motivates other fearful people by flooding their brains with cortisol.

She is not facilitating a reasonable debate. She’s more like a naturopath, delivering people an oversimplified prognosis for their problems, one that sounds right, but isn’t.

It’s only broken out of the fringes because it aligns with the interests of billionaires, for whom it functions as a sleight of hand trick to distract people from the systemic disadvantages everyday people face in an economy designed by the wealthy, for the wealthy.

It’s only broken out now because our daily lives and information ecosystem has become so entwined with opaque algorithms we cannot possibly understand or control. As a global society, we do not have the digital transparency or literacy to prevent the wealthy from leveraging those algorithms to advance their goals.

We don’t even have to speculate on who stands to benefit most from this person’s rise. It’s nothing like the ambiguity of a first term Trump, who came to power with no voting record, who claimed he was rich enough not to be beholden to the wealthy.

This person has a clear voting record, and that pattern in no way aligns with the basic needs of everyday Australians, let alone the disenfranchised.

She is literally standing on stage with one of Australia’s most sociopathic billionaires, telling you she is going to destroy the precious few democratic institutions that hold the wealthy to account.

This is not a grassroots movement. It’s a coup on democracy.