theauspolchronicles:
It’s always sad when lower/middle income earners vote for right wing parties, or when people of colour/immigrants vote for right wing parties, or when women vote for right wing parties, or when farmers vote for right wing parties, etc because… they’ve been mislead into thinking these parties that exist for the sake of rich white racists and big businesses will somehow help them and… they don’t. They just don’t. And politics is a constant struggle between one side of the coin convincing people “hey, just let me stab you and use your bleeding body to prop up the rich” and the other side going “please, please let us have some decency and respect for those who have it hard” while the other side goes “nah, don’t listen to those hippy idealist crack pots. Just come within stabbing distance, trust me.”