Mastodawn

WTAF is wrong with voters in these constituencies?
Are they all filled with the same venomous hate as the ignorant Pauline ?

From The Guardian live
Seats where One Nation is firmly in front include; Fairfax (QLD), Fadden (QLD), Canning (WA), Forrest (WA), Wright (QLD), Lyne (NSW), Monash (VIC), Capricornia (QLD), Dawson (QLD), Hinkler (QLD), Wide Bay (QLD), Grey (SA), Nicholls (VIC), Flynn (QLD), Parkes (NSW), Wannon (VIC), Cowper (NSW), Gippsland (VIC), Maranoa (QLD), Calare (NSW), Indi (VIC), Mallee (VIC), Groom (QLD).

@RHW some of them definitely are. Others fucking hate the current lot and don't see His Majesty's Loyal Opposition as any better. So they vote for the most worst option as a fuck you to everyone (including themselves).

I think the theory is that it couldn't possibly get worse, therefore anyone is better.

Among other defects, they lack imagination. All Hail Cthulu.

Old_IT_geek I voted Yes Mar 19

@RHW Most of them are rural with free SkyNews on television. They drive a new $80k RAM or Challenger and park it at their 6 bedroom house with 20Kw of solar panels on it.
They complain about the cost of groceries, electricity and fuel and want the government to fix it.
You can tell I have just come back from a visit to Bundaberg.

Amo a Sam amat Mar 19

@RHW yes.

Liberal, Labor and Nationals support the weaponisation of hate. All revel in and actively support Murdoch, Zuckerburg, Musk et al.

None of them have worked out that getting a boost from a hate filled mob leaves you hated when the mob moves on.

@RHW lots of people doing it tough but sadly looking the wrong way for the answers and blaming the wrong people

Roy Brown Mar 19

@RHW I wonder if there is a strong correlation between Sky News being available on free-to-air television in these electorates? And its share of audience? Not a sole cause but I suspect the dead hand of Rupert’s employees fueling emotion-driven discontent and normalizing Pauline.

DragonFlame Mar 19

@Roybrown
@HardBeingGreen
@Heterokromia
@Old_IT_geek

#auspol Thank you for many clear reasons. Taking them all together I suspect that outright racism is also a large part of the mix. Pauline forever bangs that cruel drum and #USpol has now exacerbated it worldwide.

I think there's definitely a degree of that as well, part of the blaming the wrong people I mentioned

Matt Godden Mar 20

@Roybrown @RHW no one in their cozy, self-satisfied city bubbles understands how widely available Sky News is in the regions, and how the claimed "tiny" viewership ratings isn't remotely reflective of reality.

Maude Nificent Mar 19

lived in Nicholls (vic) for a while, and i would say there are two big factors, there

1 is a mixed demographic with higher than vic average Indigenous population, and if irc, some sudanese. all the SKY hate is actually directed at “visible people”

2. do you remember when supermarket shelves had umpteen different brands of laundry soap, and most of them were owned by the same company? (lever & kitchen)

i believe the same marketing principle of minimum differentiation holds at election time. 9 out of 10 (don’t quote me on the figures) but most of the names on the ballot were right wing candidates the year i voted there — even the “unknowns” - it took me ages but found one of them had deleted a ton of british national front stuff from facebook

there are not enough “left” style candidates in electorates like these, to soak up the prefs of disaffected voters

major left parties consider the seats a write-off, but it’s actually a giant F.U. to left wing voters. they should be swarming the seats with candidates, imo

3. edit to add…
look at the age of voters. my dear old mum (god bless her) went from progressive in her 30s to a nasty, narrow minded old cow in her 80s. firstly, older isolated people live in a very small world where they only engage with SKY/ herald sun 5050 column (their eyesight goes) but also, my mother was a drunk so her attention span was rubbish

isolated because cheap rent = distance from other people, the internet service is shitful, and they don’t know anything about subscribing to streaming services

DragonFlame Mar 20

@maudenificent
Thank you, very good points re progressive not trying hard enough, esp #Labor.
#Greens have to prioritise resources and suspect lost cause in such places.
Sorry about your Mum,it does happen, but please don't generalise on age. I am mid 80's, been Labor since I came here permanently in 1979. Only just changed to Green basically because of #AUKUS and weak submission to #US influence. I am not alone, many I know are community minded and progressive, despite the bad rep my gen gets. In any case, boomers and before are dying out as demographic, so you can't blame them for everything much longer.😉

Maude Nificent Mar 20

@RHW
i apologise if i seem to have slandered a whole generation. that was certainly not my intention. Many good things have been achieved by each generation, e.g.the 1967 referendum.
I was trying to generalise about isolation, but failed.

DragonFlame Mar 20

@maudenificent
Maude, no apology needed. I am sometimes over sensitive about this particular issue. I appreciate the thought and knowledge you bring to so many discussions here.

RaymondPierreL3 Mar 20

@maudenificent @RHW
I like your ‘giant FU’ by #Labor to the lefties/progressive ensconced in some unwinable RWNJs electorates. #Labor no longer represents the left of politics, its neoliberalism ahead full steam under #AlboPM - a F*** lost cause just as the UK #Labour is. Somehow or other (I suspect PR is inadequate) the #Greens need to become stronger in the hustings, could take a lead from the UK Greens maybe…

I’m a boomer too… :))

Maude Nificent Mar 20

@RaymondPierreL3 @RHW

my mother was “silent generation”
and I’m a boomer

(note to self… don’t argue from particular to general.)

RaymondPierreL3 Mar 20

@maudenificent ]
The fediverse is not about censure. GO ahead and say what’s on your mind. We cannot be expected to walk on eggshells without damaging some of them. That’s life, that’s diversity of opinions. That ‘relationships’ and ‘communications’. As long as we keep communicating with open ears and an empty cup, there’s no issue here.