Part 1 can be found here.

Part 2 can be found here.

The fact is, most left and right wingers are likely alienated by the SDP’s position here. If you are a young and passionate leftist, you’ll likely vote for the ideologically uncompromising Greens. Hell, the SDP are probably a non-starter.

While older workers and unionists could potentially be more likely voters for the SDP, the Greens have been equally strong when it comes to economic policy and workers’ rights. Even if the Greens are too socially limp-wristed for many of these voters, they could easily give their vote to the Country Labor Party if they’re in the regions, who have fought for unions throughout the desalination crisis.

And what about those who are more on the right? If you run a small business, or if you’re an aspirational battler, you’re likely to be turned off by more of the leftward elements of the SDP. Even despite the leadership crises, has the Liberal Party ever strayed of their appeal to these voters? Again, even if you are reticent about a party that’s more unstable than a rickety boat in a tsunami, there is the newly-founded Sensible Team, who have a much broader appeal than the Greens and the CLP.

The fact is that the SDP do get a degree of support from all of these groups. But you’d struggle to find a key demographic that provides a majority, or even a plurality, of support to the party. Under the leadership of Rohanite272, the party has become increasingly ideologically inconsistent. Hell, Rohanite272 himself is only still an MP because he received Liberal preferences in Cunningham.

This deal drove away former minister and then-Mayo candidate cocoiadrop from the party, who resigned from her party membership over what the Dame declared a “betrayal of our working class voters”. Over 1.2 million Australian voters went with her that election. The most recent poll shows that the SDP vote hasn’t even moved by 1% upwards since last election.

This article will conclude tomorrow, with the publishing of Part 4. Stay tuned for the final installment!