I went to an Extinction Rebellion meeting to discover what the movement was about. Lo and behold there were a lot of rich folk there…lots of family homes are built on the coast and river foreshores, and they love their children and future grandchildren too. After the floods and fires the penny is dropping that slowing climate change from human folly and greed is the priority.
Margaret Cowan
A somewhat facile analysis. How did she know they were rich? Did she ask them to disclose the extent of their wealth? And if she did ask that rather impertinent question, did she expect a truthful answer? If she’d asked me, I’d have told her to mind her own beeswax.
Arthur,
It was her observations of a single meeting; hardly an analysis. You can usually tell how wealthy people are by how they dress and what they drive.
And they’re reliably and predictably going to wear their best most expensive clothes to a meeting of an environmental action group? And she watched a whole lot of them park their cars and/or get back into their cars afterwards? Come on, Mr Scientist/Evidence Man, you can do better than that. Admit it. This is a brain-fart, isn’t it? A bit like your plucked-out-of-the-air thoughts on how a swag of rich people in key Liberal electorates got worried about their grandchildren and their water-view homes being flooded and made a massive hole in the Coalition vote. If that’s the best you can do without evidence, I’d be sticking to evidence in future. Stick to what you’re good at.
Arthur,
I didn’t realise you were there.
Admin, I wasn’t there. And you know that. Chalk up another instance of your characteristic disingenuousness. You most likely weren’t there either, so you’ll have to rely on Margaret Cowan’s “evidence”. I know you love evidence, and always seek it, so I look forward to seeing that evidence published here.
Now, returning to your “Rick and thick” post, which I see you’ve avoided mentioning here. Was that a brain-fart also? We await your response with bated breath, especially some verifiable data on what percentage of residences in the electorates in question have water views, and similar data on their thought processes leading to their allegedly massive effect on the election result in those electorates.
Arthur,
It is a quote. From a person who was there. Are you saying she is lying or was under a misapprehension? The ‘Rich and thick’ post was not a brain fart; it was based on the average wealth of the electorates. It wasn’t a case of me avoiding mentioning it, it was a case of me being not willing to spend much time reacting to something which seemed a bit extreme. Now, when someone says a particular electorate is a ‘wealthy electorate’, it doesn’t mean that everyone in that electorate is wealthy. Surely you know this. By the way, the thesis of that post seems much the same as those written by others; even Nine, Murdoch and the Daily Cut and Paste. Read these.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/how-the-coalition-vote-is-trending-poor-20220526-p5aowk
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/for-the-first-time-labor-voters-earn-more-than-coalition-voters-20220601-p5aq4p
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/liberal-party-no-longer-represents-australias-wealthiest-electorates/news-story/39098c9ed71aee93c862c030b214a949
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10880457/Why-Labor-relies-rich-voters-stay-power-despite-cost-living-electricity-bills-crisis.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10847829/Expensive-suburbs-like-Toorak-Vaucluse-no-longer-Liberal-MP-Labor-teal-independents-win.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-20/teal-independents-who-are-candidates-what-electorates/101000412
Arthur Baker sounds like you have never been to an extinction rebellion introductory meeting. They are friendly forums where people choose to discuss their professional skills and professional networks in terms of what skills and other assistance they can bring to the cause of saving the planet you live on. During conversations many stated their reasons for their concern with climate change and other matters…many said they lived on the coastline or river foreshore and were naturally concerned about rising sea levels, and of course climate impacts on themselves, their children, and future generations.
For your information, professionally and personally I don’t ask anyone impertinent questions, and think you need to examine your assumptions.