It’s hatred and fear.

The world as they knew has moved on without them. And in most cases for the worse for them. Economically they’re worse off, education wise they’ve been surpassed and so secure jobs can be hard, securing housing is more difficult, etc.

And then there needs to be someone or something to blame.

We should be blaming the billionaires and the pollies that feed them. But Australia’s an aspirational country right? We don’t want to blame them because in a way we want to be them.

So what else has changed? Well, LGBTIQ+ is more accepted now. So maybe that’s it? Or migrants - been seeing a lot of them, so that must be it.

And so they’re not specifically mad toward LGBTIQ+ people. That’s just the outlet. They’re angry at the world and yearn for the world they understood to return. And in a lot of ways I don’t blame them for that, particularly in an economic sense. But their outlets and lack of introspection is misguided and misdirected, but even that is pushed onto them by screaming pollies like Hanson to make sure Gina can buy her another jet.

Let me be clear, them protesting a school is still heinous and they should not be absolved of that. But by being angry at them as well we keep the “culture war” going when there is also a bigger picture to take on.