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"Lower class" only ever said by someone with no class.
And it isn't true. One Nation support crosses economic boundaries. The only thing that truly unites a One Nation voter is they are people who will trade away their futures and those of their countrymen for a bunch of BS.
What we must do that stupid yanks couldnt is not leave our mates and families behind to be caught up in this crap. They were morally broken long before MAGA. They watched as kids got shot in schools every month for years and did fuck all. We aren't like that. Get out and talk sense to people if you care about them and ignore all the social media bullshit.
Spend some quality time with the oldies and they have less time to be sucked into all the online propaganda.
My parents are too far gone.
I really despise trying to reason with people who aren't being reasonable.
I'm from the lower class you nitwit.
The class without which the parasite classes could not survive.
EDIT: But because the 'lower' classes are disadvantaged, they are more susceptible to demagogues who do the dirty work of the 'upper' parasite classes.
I was born into the manual working class. I saw from close-up what my parents did to survive. I got the opportunity to study and become part of a non-manual 'middle-class'. There are dickheads in all classes but when a class or a 'mafia' of obscenely overprivileged but morally void families and groups (and their servants) are in charge our society and the natural world are in deep trouble.
The PHONey Party, much like MAGA and all the other current right-wing 'populist' political movements, groups and governments, is a symptom of the alienating sickness that is affecting the world.
The words you're looking for is working class.
The only two classes are working class and owning class, with a very, very small blurred boundary where very, very high income workers start owning more income generating assets to eclipse their worked income.
"Lower class" isn't something you hear anymore these days, for good reason.
If by lower class you are referring to inbreeding, that wouldn't surprise me.
Class has nothing to do with economics though, its usage in that respect is pure manipulation by the rich.
Okay, so you're starting off swinging with a bit of bigotry there, referring to the working class as inbred. Great start. Something tells me you're not from a decent, hard-working family. I'm guessing a family history of owning businesses and blaming anyone but themselves when the business inevitably fails?
The fact you think "class has nothing to do with economics" tells me everything I need to know about you. I wouldn't trust anyone from the "Upper" or "Higher" class with any job that requires skill and responsibility because unless it's defrauding people, they have no tangible skill society actually needs other than the ones they tell us we need - they're not labelled the parasite class for nothing ;)
That isn't even a good try.
I was clearly referring to you.
Find a dictionary, get someone to help you with it.
Wow, you sound like a really pleasant person. I bet you're invited to all the parties, hey.
You honestly think you should go outside and touch some grass. Maybe learn some social skills or something? Maybe people will like you after.
You sound like copy/paste.
Try reading, and thinking.
Have the day you deserve 🩷
Would that there was no 'class'.
Generally I'd agree with what you just said, but PHON's target demographic, the typical middle aged white (especially rural) Australian genuinely is just a lower class of sapien. Believe me, I'm surrounded by them on a daily basis.