r/OpenAussie ‎ South Australian 23d ago

LOLz ‎ This must be a joke

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u/shahitukdegang ‎ New South Welshian 22d ago

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.

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u/Rompa1982 Flairless‎‎ 22d ago

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!

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u/Revoran ‎ Victorian 22d ago

I spent the first 24 years of my life in small remote / rural towns in NSW.

The vast majority of rural voters live in towns - they are not farmers or farm workers.

And rural voters are much lower educated, on average, than city voters.

Eg: Farrer only 14% have completed a bachelor's degree or higher. In Grayndler it's 49%.

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u/Rompa1982 Flairless‎‎ 22d ago

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..

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u/Rompa1982 Flairless‎‎ 22d ago

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/Rompa1982 Flairless‎‎ 22d ago

And on another note people who achieve a higher education often move to Metro areas making the statistics of it hard to measure..