Polling data shows gen Z is the least likely demographic to vote for One Nation, with support coming from older generations.
Young Australians have told triple j hack how a difference in politics has impacted their family dynamic.
Relationships Australia said it is hearing from more people experiencing family fallouts over politics.
It sucks to see the same right-wing bullshit propaganda working in Australia too. Lower class people being conned into voting against their interests.
it’s not economic class. it’s pig ignorance
It sucks because it’s so obviously Americanised. Almost none of the arguments actually bear scrutiny here. American nationalism is dumb but if you look at the history of the country, the arguments at least can be strung together through the mythmaking of the US in the past. Here, though, it just makes no sense. We have medicare, we have public schools, we have gun control. All the ONP arguments only make sense in a vacuum apart from any other part of Australian life (including their own platform).
This is a pretty clear case of older people being susceptible to Facebook scams which are allowed to run rampant, and a total lack of control from the government except to send a bunch of the Australian people’s data overseas. I don’t know why they tolerate this.
Disagree - its pretty obvious why one nation is popular - 1. we have been in a per capita recession for 2 years and labor who have claimed that they will reduce migration numbers have done the opposite, increased spending and taxes bleeding voters to ON, -2. the past lib govt moved left on energy and wasted a metric fton of money during COVID bleeding voters to ON. I am not and never will be a one nation voter but I can see why they are popular its not ‘Americanisation’ its not facebook its not dumb people its not low class people, the same pattern is playing out in germany, sweden, italy etc and major centrist parties are to blame.
Prediction - if ON get in I expect they will implode into infighting which has been their past MO when they make gains.
Per capita recessions have been very common in Australia for the last several decades.
I thought labor recently changed the rules regard ing visa hopping which is predicted to get numbers under control?
“Lower class” only ever said by someone with no class.
Would that there was no ‘class’.
I’m from the lower class you nitwit.
If by lower class you are referring to inbreeding, that wouldn’t surprise me.
Class has nothing to do with economics though, its usage in that respect is pure manipulation by the rich.
Okay, so you’re starting off swinging with a bit of bigotry there, referring to the working class as inbred. Great start. Something tells me you’re not from a decent, hard-working family. I’m guessing a family history of owning businesses and blaming anyone but themselves when the business inevitably fails?
The fact you think “class has nothing to do with economics” tells me everything I need to know about you. I wouldn’t trust anyone from the “Upper” or “Higher” class with any job that requires skill and responsibility because unless it’s defrauding people, they have no tangible skill society actually needs other than the ones they tell us we need - they’re not labelled the parasite class for nothing ;)
That isn’t even a good try.
I was clearly referring to you.
Find a dictionary, get someone to help you with it.
Wow, you sound like a really pleasant person. I bet you’re invited to all the parties, hey.
You honestly think you should go outside and touch some grass. Maybe learn some social skills or something? Maybe people will like you after.
You sound like copy/paste.
Try reading, and thinking.
The class without which the parasite classes could not survive.
EDIT: But because the ‘lower’ classes are disadvantaged, they are more susceptible to demagogues who do the dirty work of the ‘upper’ parasite classes.
I was born into the manual working class. I saw from close-up what my parents did to survive. I got the opportunity to study and become part of a non-manual ‘middle-class’. There are dickheads in all classes but when a class or a ‘mafia’ of obscenely overprivileged but morally void families and groups (and their servants) are in charge our society and the natural world are in deep trouble.
The PHONey Party, much like MAGA and all the other current right-wing ‘populist’ political movements, groups and governments, is a symptom of the alienating sickness that is affecting the world.
And it isn’t true. One Nation support crosses economic boundaries. The only thing that truly unites a One Nation voter is they are people who will trade away their futures and those of their countrymen for a bunch of BS.
What we must do that stupid yanks couldnt is not leave our mates and families behind to be caught up in this crap. They were morally broken long before MAGA. They watched as kids got shot in schools every month for years and did fuck all. We aren’t like that. Get out and talk sense to people if you care about them and ignore all the social media bullshit.
Spend some quality time with the oldies and they have less time to be sucked into all the online propaganda.