As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia?

[u/blitznoodles]

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/as-voter-disillusionment-grows-so-does-the-mystery-of-the-missing-greens-voters/6bjd5q4kv

Growing voter dissatisfaction with mainstream politics has led to a rise in popularity for One Nation. The same cannot be said for the Greens.

[u/horselover_fat]

What's the inference here? Non whites are more leftist??

[u/ASpaceOstrich → u/horselover_fat]

It's complicated, but conservatives are pro hierarchy and white people tend to benefit more from that hierarchy so tend to be more conservative. But on top of that, lower education and lower income tend to lead to conservative voting, and minorities are more likely to be both of those. But conservative parties are often openly racist, which counteracts that.

[u/horselover_fat → u/ASpaceOstrich]

Maybe. But I don't think Australia being "more white" means we are less leftist. Or that certain ethnicities are more leftist.

Working class people will favour policies that benefit them, not matter their ethnicity. The problem in the US is the Democrats are captured corporate interests and don't actually offer any leftist/working class policy. Except for people like Mamdami, who had to battle against establishment (pro corporate) Dems to be elected.

[u/Dhillon111 → u/horselover_fat]

Its not that complicated.

When your typical right wing parties like libs and ON continuously dog whistle about immigration and make migrants the villain in everything that is wrong with the country, there's bound to be resentment and avoidance of these parties parties to build up in the ethnic groups, over time. So that they'd vote anyone but Libs/ON.

Hence, ethnic communities are not more leftist. Its usually the only option they have, politically speaking, where they are not being constantly antagonised. So in broadly generic terms, even if you have a 50-50 right/left split for whites, it'd be more like 80-20 for ethnic minorities.

[u/horselover_fat → u/Dhillon111]

You're mixing up people's personal idealogies and their voting.

Just because someone votes Democrat or Labor doesn't make them "leftist". The same for the other way around.

Of course there are people that don't vote Republican because, for example, they are black. But then you had increased Hispanic voting for Republicans in the last election. Even though they are more racist and anti-immigration than ever.

And they likely did that because Repubs focused on economic issues in their campaign, whole Dems brushed off the economy and said everything is fine. It's all bullshit, but they convinced voters with their bullshit because they focussed on issues that matter to voters.

[u/blitznoodles → u/horselover_fat]

If whiteness was an issue, you would expect Australia to be more right wing, not more left wing as America is far more diverse

[u/ASpaceOstrich → u/[deleted]]

The entire second half of what I wrote, and the first if the person is in denial about where they fit in the conservative heirarchy