Ever wondered why National are always so anti a capital gains tax on property speculators? Ever puzzled why National’s answer to Auckland is urban sprawl all the way to Hamilton? Every questioned why it is that National policy is geared towards developers and nor development?
The latest MANA press release has some answers…
Parliament’s 2013 Register of Pecuniary Interests shows half National MPs own three or more properties. Many have a harem of four or five and one has no fewer than 20. Together National MPs own over 170 properties.
…National is the Political Party of bankers, farmers, corporations and property speculators.
Ironically National gain a lot of their popular support amongst the self-employed by playing to the values of small business when their policy is geared only towards big business.
National always attack beneficiaries because the perceived level of self-blame for the position of poverty beneficiaries live in fits in with small business morals like self responsibility even when those same small businesses aren’t benefitting from National’s crony capitalism.
Key is the multi-millionaire timeshare salesman from Sydney peddling empty aspiration and vacant optimism. His illusionary vision is the piece of cheese forever out of reach of the rat forever running to catch it.
If we are going to go broke, shouldn’t it be from feeding kids in poverty rather than tax cuts for 2.5% of the country to buy our assets?
National is the Party for the 2%, by the 2% and in the interests of the 2%.
From the files of things that make you go hmmm…
The Party of the 2% – with popular support from the almost 50% (validity of slanted polls not withstanding). The 50% of people who “aspire” to be among the 2% so badly that the irony of their self-defeating voting habits cast in the vain attempt to feel closer by virtue of proximity actually causes them to become further away. They are so addicted to the smell of that cheese they will continue to suffer and self delude to any extent just to keep whiffing at it – that’s why Key keeps smiling every time he waves it. Smile and wave boys, just smile and wave…
Cronyism is part and parcel of this particular National Government (I’m not 100% convinced that crony capitalism was a deliberate policy of former National Govts). John Key is all about punitive legislation for those that had nothing to do with the failing economy. What is truly remarkable, is that angle is actually working for him. On paper, you’d swear this would be a one term PM (at best). It just goes to show how effective smoke and mirrors are.
Smoke, mirrors, a bit of hocus, a bit of pocus, and the sweet sweet smell of cheddar – mmmm… please sir, can I ‘ave some more? Key knows the mentality and blind spots of this sizably significant portion of voting NZ and plays them like a fiddle. I wouldn’t care so much for their singing along, even when falling off the cliff edge, if it weren’t for the gravitational forces of something so massive pulling the rest of us into its imploding black hole.
I just don’t get it. I understand ( yet despise ) the greedy 2% who vote for their own interests which ensure they get richer at the expense oof the rest of the population. These are the sociopaths let loose by neo-liberalism and by Ayn Rand’s warped philosophy.
However, the other 98%. OK, we’ll ignore the top 10%…they might have a chance of hauling themselves up into the wealthy elite, although even they will have noticed by now, that social mobility is diminishing in NZ.
Why do people on incomes just over the average vote for this government? There are now so many groups of the population who ust have seen how this government operates that surely they can see behind the spin and lies, even with a media given the job of telling the 2%’s story.
Why do people vote against their own interests?
Why indeed? It’s a curious case study of the counterintuitive…
It’s all about aspiration. Key may be ignorant to many things but this he knows. That’s what he sells, and that’s why people continue to sycophantically adore him. He represents their own aspirations to be among a certain elite that they look up at with a “some day that will be me” inner voice, while they simultaneously look down upon, almost with disdain, at their own fellow cheese chasing rat racers. Those that fill in the rank and file of this keep the faith consumerist culture have fallen for the great hoax of the puppeteers that pull the strings and manipulate the narrative in their own interests – and what is that hoax, the great deception of our ages?? Good question – it’s the notion and belief that the interests, power, and privilege of the wealthy elite are also their very own interests and thus must be guarded, maintained, and even extended on account of their own imminent ascension into those same circles. It’s not seen as “against” their own interests at all, in fact it’s rather the contrary – they’ll be damned if the rug is gonna get pulled just before they get to the ball!
I can’t help but feel that deep down, in the catacombs of their humanity, they know they’re being played and the self-loathing it generates manifests as a misplaced hatred and anger deflected towards the easiest targets – things like bene-bashing, poverty is a choice, those bloody maaries and their treaty, get tough on crims (but never on the actual causes of crime. That gets too close to a glimpse in the mirror), it’s all the parents fault if kids are hungry – they must be addicts, or something, feed a kid you feed a problem… etc, etc, etc…
Human nature is such that many would rather the comfort of a lie than the painful truth. Especially when they stand to be exposed by that truth. Fear is a powerful force, but love is stronger and I wait with open arms to welcome all those who can overcome their fears and prejudice and join the fold of humanity.
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