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A socially-progressive but fiscally responsible third-wave feminist is today just as outraged by the prospect of a Trump presidency as she was in 2016.
At 59, Audrey Bader has worked in the arts for over 30 years, her main duties include processing funding applications and attending film premiers and gallery openings. It’s the type of work that helps keep her across social justice causes.
With her two kids now out of school and catching the light rail four stops to their closest sandstone university, Audrey is even more fixated on the twists, scandals and consequences of American politics.
“They can’t possibly elect him again” she says, while scrolling through social media this morning.
“Who would vote for Trump!?”
While the millennials who taught Audrey words like ‘intersectionality’ and ‘diversity’ are now more consumed with gruelling generational wealth disparity and early parenthood, it’s up to the resin-jewellery lefties of Australia’s inner-city to remain disgusted by Donald Trump.
Because Audrey knows too well that when America coughs, Australia sneezes.
“Just look at these interest rates” she says.
While Audrey and her family remain well off enough to spend their Easters in Byron and every second winter in Europe, her multiple investment properties in the high-rise developments 5 suburbs away aren’t exactly safe from his irrational politics.
Just this year alone she’s had to increase rents by 50% – she doesn’t want to do it, but foreign wars and an unstable global economy means she’s had to – otherwise she’d barely be making any returns after covering the rate increases.
But it’s not her back pocket that she really worries about. It’s the changing political landscape that means someone with a brain will never put her hand up to run for President again. As always, it’s the minorities like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi who will suffer.
“I hate to say it. But America really is it’s own worst enemy” she laments.
“I’m glad Australians don’t vote against our interests like they do. Except for Queensland and WA obviously”
“It could be really scary if Australia had the same kind of discontent and inequality in our towns and cities. America has gone mad!”
