Now is the hour for us all to briefly look at the facts before us concerning our choices as a democracy when it comes to leadership and even the intentions behind policy.
On one hand we have Jacinda Ardern, the incumbent Prime Minister, scorned and ridiculed constantly by local partisan conservative media but hailed all around the world as the kind of leader other nations would dearly love to have.
A virtual spiritual new wave breathes over Planet Earth because of her demonstrative actions to lead us all to a better place.
It’s astounding.
It’s unheard of.
This is like bigger than anything since decades ago…when famous names like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior walked the earth.
The same spirit.
The spirit of Te Whiti.
This is the class Jacinda has stepped into.
A whole new stratosphere.
And then there is the alternative.
Equally astounding but at the other end of the spectrum.
One of the most unpopular leaders ever, embroiled in a Serious Fraud Office investigation, only recently discovered he was Maori, covered in fossil fuels, dripping with self praise and determined to wind the clock back on progress to take us all back to the dark ages.
A man who constantly distorts the truth, stuffs cucumbers in his mouth for attention and had a bash at a two day old baby to gain traction.
Yes it’s a tough choice.
Definitely 41% of New Zealand’s voting population choose the latter because their minds have been made up long ago when they cast themselves in stone and ignored every other fact before them.
Left wingers were all the same as far as these already decided voters go.
There’s nothing better than being Tory to them.
So much for merit or performance, let alone ambition.
These are the citizens of well heeled suburbs who pay no attention to left wing radicals or anyone else who may write such garbage like I do – about their predetermined righteous political fixations.
Right now they are stewing about Jacinda’s rise to acclaim.
It’s not something she has sought, planned and grasped for – unlike their own leader.
No – but still they will never vote for her.
They know Simon is the winner they want and admire.
They will vote for him in 2020.
They are quick to tell me its the party really – you know, the one with hardly any new policies after a year and a half – apart from undoing anything done.
The party of unified robots who rally around cameras when the heat is on and everyone speaks the same lines.
Yes it’s admirable stuff.
Supported constantly by conservative media – it could be a near run thing….an even contest…and we’ll actually all line up in 2020 for a leaders debate and listen to the staged act.
Now is indeed the hour to clearly witness this stunning impervious anti reality conditioning of so many New Zealanders – who cannot change their minds and have no intention of doing so.
The next polls will also coincide with decisions about capital gains taxes and right now nobody cares about that….we are all looking at who’s face is on the world’s tallest building.
Peace.
Gerard Otto is an activist and a writer.
This is absolutely bang on. A superb article written by
A clear headed highly intelligent person. An excellent journalist.
Exceedingly precious in this age of misinformation and lies from right and more tragically a right wing media.
50 % of nzrs failed shill certificate and 50% vote
National. One need only look at debt and gdp
Figures to see that Labour is blowing National out of the water
In terms of Government performance.
Judith Collins And now exposed Lanne Daizel
Are both involved in making multi millions from water export fir which we get nothing. It’s all about the love of money,
Corruption and deceit and people still vote National!
Thank you dailyblog for the light of intelligence.
I don’t want to see investment money go overseas- because of a capital gains tax. Is there a way round this?
A Financial Transaction Tax? The Alliance proposed this back in the ’90s and could deal with that problem.
Only way New Zealand is suffering from a foreign investment drought ending is food shortages and business depression is if we are totally cut of from trade. If New Zealand wanted to survive that, she has to immediately establish communications with the Australia and US and exchange our tech for basic necessities.
Feel it Sam, we suffer from a lack of foreign investment? The foreigners invest only when they can see a superior profit here than from elsewhere. The profit mainly goes off here leaving little for investment here. So we cannot invest much in ourselves…..begs the question why not just tell the investors go forth.? What next? Can we stomach it, do a Cuba? Hard questions.
Our own attempts to protect our own futures haven’t been well implemented. If we do not let talented people from abroad feel comfortable in New Zealand then we will not amount to much and we will not be global citizens.
It’s funny that we NZers have a cringe factor that we need international talent to help grow our economy. I remember the much maligned MOWD in the 60s and 70s built the electricity system we use today. Of course we then sold it off. If we have a real talent it is in giving stuff away to international capital.
Well money is a form of energy as well. If you agree that it can be traded for anything then that includes calories and kilojoules for human sustenance and for utility needs as well. So any factory with out energy is a monument and any worker with out energy is a statue. So segregating men and factories from money is equally a bad idea. So first thing I’d do is look at axing welfare to transnational corporations like taxing and restricting oil companies and then run R&D tax credits for new start ups. We just can’t harden our boarders so hard that knowledge and ideas can’t pass through either and both money and ideas use the same transmission lines.
You mean to coubtries that do not have cgt?
Exactly how many , and who are they. Do we really want/need tobe part of that lot?
Go and live there.
Jacinda has without doubt handled this massacre as well as anyone could expect but it takes more than a great leader to run the country you need a team behind you and she is sadly lacking in this area. Also she has a coalition partner that is
being exposed as leaches willing to bully or bribe in an effort to give Winston his final show before he departs . The Greens have achieved little of concequence and may not get to 5%. Labour had 9 years to work out what to do when in power but apart from setting up a lot of committees chaired by ex Labour MPs have not done much to help the poor . I vote for a party and their manifesto not because I like the leaders smile as was the case with Labours change of fortune
“Change their minds” based on what!? Our PM has done a fantastic job at bringing the country together with true leadership BUT people should vote on policy.
Labour still need to execute policy change to make a difference.
Shit I thought you were ta liking of Key.
Gerard Otto, your blog-rave is over the top. Jacinda’s performance has brought people together, and helped many to appreciate Muslims. It has not enabled a better recognition of injustices to Maori, the working class and even Muslims in the recent past. We need more than passion and head scarves to change what is rotten in the state of NZ. Capitalism, local and global, is at the core of exploitation and inequality but it is easier to see the more tangible Other as the cause of our discontents. Jacinda has begun by declaiming ‘They’ are ‘Us’, meaning ‘they’ are no longer ‘they’. We’re all part of our community/society. A good start but let us take on the more complex journey ahead. Now is the time to provide basics for a decent standard of living for all – social housing for the poor, access to good health and education, and a living wage.
Daniel Ford, who has exposed Lianne Dalziel for making millions out of water? If you can’t prove it, you have defamed a former Labour MP.
Janio, what’s this Leanne bit? Has somebody accused her of grifting? Hope not, she’s a total champion, it’s just not how she operates.
Personally I’ve never been interested in the cult of personality. Indeed it is policy that matters because policy directly influences peoples lives. Like the decision made by both National and Labour to push the CP-TPP.
I suspect 2020 is going to be hard for a lot of left inclined swing voters like myself who don’t feel there’s an awful lot on offer to vote for. A vote for the smaller parties is inevitably a vote for Labour and the alternative is National.
That said if this govt don’t get on course with genuine left reform or they may face a similar scenario to the US where 7% (maybe more??) of Sanders voters migrated to Trump because they didn’t want Hillary.
For myself I’ll probably sit the next one out and hope for new parties I actually want to vote for next time around.
Germany are going to have big problems soon the far right got 15% of the vote in this country we are going to see another incident similar to the scale of chch I hate to say it but its coming the white supremacy lot are stewing and brewing
Feel it Sam, we suffer from a lack of foreign investment? The foreigners invest only when they can see a superior profit here than from elsewhere. The profit mainly goes off here leaving little for investment here. So we cannot invest much in ourselves…..begs the question why not just tell the investors go forth.? What next? Can we stomach it, do a Cuba? Hard questions.
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