George Christensen's Facebook post. Credit:Facebook

George Christensen’s tactics are undergraduate, silly, and downright thuggish. He and his band of hard-right brutes try to bait their political opponents into anger, then turn around and make fun of them for being angry. Bait, and switch.

But in light of his Facebook post over the weekend, where he posted a photo himself, feeling tough and holding a firearm with the caption, “do you feel lucky, greenie punks?”, we still need to talk about what he’s done.

I don't agree with Christensen on much, but the fact he keeps putting his hand up to represent the good people of Mackay suggests he and I agree at least that there's power and privilege in being a representative of your electorate. There's a lot you can do in Parliament, even from the backbench, and it gives you a platform to say and do things that people listen to.

It’s because politics gives us all a platform that we should all be careful what we do with it. What people do with power is revealing. Christensen is using it to make jokes about pointing guns at his political opponents and suggesting those who might be intimidated by such behaviour are simply '‘triggered snowflakes’'.