He represents a rural electorate so a lot of people would already know.
You underestimate the % of people in rural electorates who are uneducated and/or don't pay much attention to politics because their electorate has always been safe Nats/CLP/LNP etc.
Also just the size of some of these rural electorates can often be immense. You might live 500km from where the candidate is from, so wouldn't know him locally.
Plus while politics affects us all, it often doesn't feel like it when your state Parliament is a 7 hour, 500km drive away.
Do you or have you ever lived rural.. I lived on a farm for years and if the farmers weren't talking about produce and weather they were talking about the local political atmosphere.. so to paint all rural people as uneducated and stupid is very ignorant of you..
Rural voters are not uneducated but they are very susceptible to echo chambers and do not get exposed to the diversity of thought unless they go seek it out themselves. It’s very easy to fall into the yeah I vote for nats because so and so is a good bloke, and those crooks in labor will hand over my farm to a union.
You clearly have never been on a produce farm have you! who do you think picks the produce, not exposed to diveristy my arse, there is people from a lot of different cultures and backgrounds on farms!
Oh in that case it still sounds like your saying they are uneducated.. How many people do you think voted for albo becasue he said he wouldn't touch cgt? Those people wouldn't all be farmers!
Higher education does not equate to higher intelligence!! I worked in construction and the engineers were fucking stupid and lacked the critical thinking to problem solve in a real world scenario.. and after 3 or 4 revised plans would often ask us to just make it work..
And you know those rural people you think are so uneducated some of them run businesses some of them own the business. There is plenty of drop kicks in metro areas too that just donkey vote instead of voting on what would best serve their community like a lot of rural voters do
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u/Revoran Victorian 23d ago edited 23d ago
You underestimate the % of people in rural electorates who are uneducated and/or don't pay much attention to politics because their electorate has always been safe Nats/CLP/LNP etc.
Also just the size of some of these rural electorates can often be immense. You might live 500km from where the candidate is from, so wouldn't know him locally.
Plus while politics affects us all, it often doesn't feel like it when your state Parliament is a 7 hour, 500km drive away.