Yuyutsu,
Your protestations ring hollow; you posted previously that you could never live in a country that allowed conscription, Australian law allows the introduction of conscription yet you are apparently still here.
Why is that?

Indy,

As usual you are talking from a point of ignorance; "My bet is that they didn't do any surveys BEFORE that war ! As always, everything is done AFTER with the benefit of hindsight just as it is being done these days!" Those surveys were done, and as mhaze said the most supportive of the war were older women, and the least younger men.

In the war in Ukraine, the Russians target residential buildings purposely, no military value at all, the reason being, when war is far away and not effecting one directly, a person is likely to be supportive of the war effort, but when the bombs lob in their backyard it becomes a different story. In Vietnam one mistake America made was to "burn villages" on the suspicion that peasants were supporting the Viet Cong. They may have been, but under duress in many cases, they had no choice. That policy alienated Vietnamese peasants to the point where they would freely support the Viet Cong.

Paul1405,
That's from your indoctrination-saturated pseudo-academic perspective ! Irrelevant dribble !
Start looking at such issues from the viewpoint of everyday people trying to make ends meet including those dreaded multinationals who're only providing what people demand !
The Past is choc-a-bloc with the rotten fruits of ideology !
Your kind of ideology !

"My bet is that they didn't do any surveys BEFORE that war !"

You'd lose the bet. Surveys have been done in a somewhat scientific manner since WW1. The surveys I referred to were done before, after and during the 1966 Federal election which, as I said, was effectively a referendum on the war and our participation in it.

Retrospectively hoping that things were as you'd like them to have been is living in a fool's paradise.

Surveys have been done in a somewhat scientific manner since WW1.
mHaze,
Sure, within the confines of Universities & Party headquarters ! I can't make out any changes to today's surveys except that they're online but still sorted by a select few with impunity !

mhaze,
If surveys were to be taken note of for the good of the Nation instead of just the coffers of Political Parties then surveys & polls would be meaningful. As it stands they're just a waste of time, money & good will !
I'm all for a Referendum on issues that affect us all ! The callous Elites & their stubborn as a mule supporters are only using surveys & polls to gauge the degree of corruption they can get away with !