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The people who are voting don't care about debate on the internet, so theres no point in posting here. Also brigading is pretty regular on the internet, so if y
by altitudinous 7y ago
The people who are voting don't care about debate on the internet, so theres no point in posting here. Also brigading is pretty regular on the internet, so if you are reading this you are lucky enough to have seen it on the way to it being voted down to oblivion. So you are only going to see one sided posts, and the people who can make a difference don't see them anyway.
This very issue lead to massive inaccuracies in polling in the last election - resulting in a belief that a left facing change was going to occur and instead a massive majority the other way resulted.
- ACow_Adonis 7y agoJust as a matter of accuracy, I don't know if I'd call it a massive majority. You're right in that the polls got it wrong, and everyone (including arguably the current government) thought the conservatives were done for. But the end results, iirc, were 77 seats for the conservatives, 68 seats labor. A one seat gain from the previous election for the conservatives and a one seat loss for labor, with a total swing of just over 1% in the two party preferred vote. For context, a party needs 76 seats to form government. I feel it's more accurate to say our country remains quite polarised.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoRupert Murdoch polished his skills in the Oz before moving to the UK and US. No surprised that a similar style of polarization exists down under as in other parts of the Anglosphere.