MEDIAWATCH: Is Jacinda Ardern the Messiah?

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That moment in Game of Thrones when you suddenly realize that the Mother of Dragons has gone a bit too far with the whole ‘burning everyone who disagrees with me’ thing

Graham Adams: Is Jacinda Ardern the Messiah? Or just a very crafty politician?

OPINION: The Prime Minister’s politics — including her stance towards the Mongrel Mob and the Taliban — can be baffling. Graham Adams reckons answers lie in her past as a Mormon.

Graham Adams is increasingly becoming a must read Blogger over at the Democracy Project, he often writes well outside the narrative bubble and provides an enormous amount of insight and oversight.

His latest piece on the role of Jacinda’s Mormon upbringing in her semi-religious kindness art installation performances is interesting.

I’ve known Jacinda for over a decade and while her kindness ethos is genuine, I think a greater influence in her values was when she was the president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. There she had to find values that could encompass middle class socialist aesthetics with people who planted pipe bombs. Kindness as a virtue was the only way to get that stray cat army to move in any one direction.

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The Ardern philosophy is less religious and more a ‘I am my neighbours keeper’.

Being a good citizen has been remolded as being a good neighbour. To reach out with generosity so that every successful recycling is a prayer, every offer to mow another’s lawn the daily sermon.

It’s an agnostic hyper Ned Flanders style of being but there is also a streak of the unforgiving puritan in this which is why Jacinda resonates so deeply with the Woke.

Jacinda’s termination of a Minister over an affair and her single minded desire to enforce kindness across all speech have all the wide eyed certainty of Ned Flanders at an exorcism.

Jacinda has repurposed leadership in a very female way by using kindness as a positive political tool without losing any of the power. She makes every kiwi woman stand 2 inches taller and has reset definitions of power, but she will punish without mercy those issues she finds fouls her kindness.

The inevitability of a Mother of Dragons moment can’t be ruled out.

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59 COMMENTS

  1. The laws of maths, physics , chemistry and ecology couldn’t care less about kindness and are in the process of demolishing the idiotic economic and environmental narratives of Jacinda and her acolytes.

    The continuing descent will be very painful for everyone. But it will be especially painful for those who still believe the bullshit and who will be let down at every juncture.

    The only good thing about Jacinda is that she is not quite as nutty as Judith, and apparently is less vindictive.

  2. Sorry mate, but Jacinda doesn’t make short me stand taller. I have defended her and her stances, and will doubtless continue to do so, but I ain’t woke enough to see sweet sounding words as substitutes for action.
    Like that Mormon from Tarsus said, “ Faith without works is dead.”

  3. Democracy Project is excellent.

    I have a pet theory on why Woke shares much with religion. Millenials and Generation Z are the least religious generation ever, as well as the most materially privileged. Combine this and you get a search for certainty, for religious connection beyond materialism, which Woke can fulfil despite – oxymoronically – having a strong antecedents in post-modern theories that reject all-encompassing frameworks.

    So I’m not sure how “new” Woke really is; people have been zealots preaching the sole, exclusive, understanding of the right and good for centuries. The problem is like Martyn says, this type of belief can easily turn to intolerance, to hegemony, then ultimately to tyranny.

  4. Yes, Martyn, I suspect we are all a product of our past – some will find that a bit deterministic but surely formative experience provides a strong sense of identity and guides current thoughts and action. Better it be Jacinda than ….

  5. I think Jacinda is a genuinely kind person which is why she is popular.

    The problem with having popular ‘figureheads’ in government is that often unkind or stupid policy get’s through under their name because being popular can be very dangerous and distracting.

    Tony Blair was very popular but used that popularity to ram though invading Afghanistan and Iraq and “the third way” and we all know how that turned out.

    John Key was popular and now we have a massive pension, housing, health care problem, low wage economy and brain drain, which actually isn’t a problem for the right at all. Because as the left does their usual ‘more taxes’ to pay for it, they lose popularity and the Natz are back. Meanwhile most of Labour’s policy is NatiLite policy such as Kiwibuild, privatising state house land and ignoring and enabling corporate profiteering across all areas.

    “The report asserts Meridian generated excess profits of $3.5 billion from 2002-2021. MEUG chairman John Harbord told the Herald that the trend was rising, with 56 per cent of the profits coming in the past five years, and more than a quarter in the past two.” https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/amid-calls-for-electricity-market-reform-industry-group-says-meridian-is-generating-super-profits/7V2TJIL3ANKVM7DAAI5PJZQ4WE/

    Anyone who buys any food knows that under Covid it seems to have skyrocketed out of control while the copious amounts of reports go nowhere as they somehow can’t prove it.

    Housing has been a hot topic for 15+ years, but nobody wants to acknowledge that NZ never used to have a housing problem 15 years ago. There was plenty of houses and less problems with health care, pensions and so forth. The lazy immigration experiment is still a taboo subject seldom mentioned or quickly glossed over.

    Tarrent murders 51 people and instead of assessing our border control when the person came to NZ to specifically train for the attack, the Greens believe somehow pakeha microaggressions are to blame. Liz Gordon sees white supremacists wherever she goes. Unions have largely given up on workers rights in NZ and now seem to be championing in foreign labour, free welfare for NZ visas and payments for illegal workers.

    People coming to NZ who are freeloaders seem to be welcomed with open arms. You don’t have to file any tax returns and ghost jobs are fine! https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tauranga-barrister-and-wife-convicted-for-multiple-tax-evasion-offences/VPEW5WDZQIV36LMH465GUGYRNU/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/korean-society-facing-era-complaint-over-alleged-work-visa-rort/3FU23ZPL2VKWEFT4KYP627PGAE/

    You can see that our free welfare system is hanging on by a thread.

  6. Jacinda is first and foremost a politicians politician and its all she knows.

    She is pleasant, non offensive and non polarising but is interesting in the way she carries herself to avoid being a bore.

    But something is missing that takes her from what she is currently to being that remarkable politician whose government leaves a positive lasting legacy like Savage’s did.

    Her utter indifference for the many deep seated major problems in society caused by housing has taken her from genuine and apparently caring to disingenuous and shallow, a mouth piece for lofty aspirations like so many lying corporate goal posters. A stereotypical and yet unremarkable politician.

    And that’s a pity because Jacinda has never been more capable of addressing so many of the problems she says she cares about. If only she did!

  7. Jacinda is nothing other than a strong, good, decent woman who is the Prime Minister and who is doing a wonderful job. She may be defined by her upbringing but it has not overtaken her.

    There are those who ridicule her and call her names like “Cindy” – they the unintelligent, uneducated, anti-vaxxers and vaccine hesitant types and those misogynists who despise independent strong women but by yelling into the arid winds created by the discontented they identify themselves as vacuous adherents of the faint-hearted who blindly accept the white supremacist Trump view of the world. Little do they realise that they remain in the morass of their non-sensical musings while Jacinda strives to keep New Zealand open and safe, which she has done so well.

    • I don’t get the hysterics people have over “Cindy” please thatcher was “Maggie” “Key was “Johnny boy” English was “billy” Kevin Rudd was “Kev” Morrison is “Scotty from marketing” Blair was “Tone” “bliar” , Muldoon was bloody “piggy” bush was “Dubya” Norman Kirk was Big norm David Seymour is “davo” hell and Simon was “soiman” jfk was “jack” Robert Kennedy was “bobby” Helen Clark was “aunty helen” alot of those nicknames used by the people who get hysterical when “Cindy is used”

      It’s not sexist it’s not misogynist when every leaders name gets shortened to a nickname it’s the context which is used in that matters and a nickname should be a bloody honour it means the people are familiar and have affection for you in most cases.

      I don’t give a damn the the pm doesn’t like Cindy… I don’t like that she ruled out a capital gains tax. She gets paid half a million dollars a year and if the people wanna give her a nickname like they do to all politicians they people can.

      How come it’s this politician the left refuses to allow to have a nickname when the same people who are offended by it have derogatory terms for polis they don’t like “the coifed one” “Pullya benefit” “Winnie” “Judy the crusher” “soimon” and whatever insult that comes to mind when they think of Seymour.

      Save me the hysterics. Huge swathes of the public use the term Cindy on the left and the right not publicly cos hysterical people accuse you of being a bigot if you call the pm “aunty Cindy” and labeling anyone who uses it misogynist anti vaxers tin foil hats is hilarious considering the ammount of healthcare workers, women, socialists unionists who use it.

      Instead of defending Jacinda how about you worry about the people she’s leaving behind poor people, workers working class women kids, my entire generation of millennials and people with mental illness

      Get mad about the state of affordable housing in nz get mad about poverty don’t get mad about a nickname that people often use affectionately.

      And if you don’t like Cindy NEVER use a nickname any politician ever again

      • I got mad on housing affordability and child poverty and National/Act/ United Future and Maori party did nothing.
        Tha Maori party of today are a different beast. Would happily vote for them.

  8. Once there was this idea that you voted for a political party because of what it was going to do if it could form agovernment.
    Things like who it was going to tax and how much. What it would do about health care, education,immigration, economci policy stuff like that.
    Now it seems to come down to who has the nicest smile and projects kindness best.
    Why the change. Personally I put the constant betrayal of voters by political parties.
    In the 1980s people vote Labour because they believe they will get a socialist government. Labour does not tell them,” ónce we form a government we are going to perform a 180 degrees turn in philosophy and action.’
    Bewildered voters turn to National which promises relief. They get ”Ruthenasia” .
    They turn to Labour again( Helen Clark also projects a caring female image before people people find she is in reality the Ice Queen). Nothing much changes – the poor remain deprived and the wealthy remain untaxed.
    So it goes on to the present day.
    Touching Mormonism – I think it is joke that went too far.
    I had a quick look at the ”Book of Mormon”. Evidently the bloke who started it all had an angel appear to him, give him the book to be copied, then goes away again.
    The angel’s name is ‘Moroni” .
    Does no-one else suspect there is a leg pull involved here?
    I reckon the problem is once so many people get deadly serious about this it is dangerous to admit one is just taking the piss( Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, wealth trickle down economic theory, stolen elections).

  9. “The inevitability of a Mother of Dragons moment can’t be ruled out.” – what kind of mother of dragon moment do you mean Bomber? the freeing of slaves or the burning of thousands of innocents?
    Personally I think shes a bs artist of the highest order and I don’t believe anything that comes out of her lying globalist mouth

  10. Its got to be balanced, yes she is kind but ALL political and non political leaders have their fupah moments , their gaffs and unpopular policy suggestions, thus they must always be held to account for that. Personally I think she was and still is the leader for this time, I don’t care what anyone overseas says. But that does not mean she and her govt don’t have to watch their P’s and Q’s anymore either. And there has been a few things like this Hate Speech carryon , and the alarming trend in Aussie of ‘no jab, no job’.

    The day they start getting too big for their jack boots is the day they will find we in NZ are not so compliant and easily pushed around after all. Much like the British were towards the little guy with the funny mustache in Germany during World War 2.

  11. Those that seek to raise anyone to a deity do them a dis-service. We all, including the PM, are human with all that entails; those expecting the ‘second coming’ will only be disappointed.
    Attempting to deify someone in public opinion is often a weapon used by those whose ultimate goal is to discredit that person.

    • Thank you Peter Kelly for a voice of reason and sanity. (Writing your name, I am suddenly missing Helen, and her clear perspective.)
      This is the zealot who is hunting Jacinda down. Oddly, perhaps, he reminds me of a particular Jesuit priest who used to hark back to the time of the Inquisition, a fanatic whose zealotry was his forte.

      In his demonising of Jacinda in a number of his articles, his rhetoric is flecked with words of zealotry, including “demonising” to describe Jacinda. In contrast, in the same article he may refer to the dominatrix heading the opposition by her first name, sans scrutiny, suggesting that individual is “the real person” while Jacinda is some creature requiring elimination.

      “Witch hunt” comes to mind, but “bounty hunter” is a better fit in some ways.

      • Thanks Kheala for those kind words. Yes, I also miss the clear perspectives offered by Helen K.
        I am assuming that the Oppostion Leader’s latest tirade against a public servant is an attempt to distract from her party’s internal problems. It’s really sad when someone’s love of (perceived) power causes them to lose all rational perspective, but it does at least expose her Trump like personality for those who have their eyes open to see.

  12. Meh, he was early onto the He Puapua story as well – the revival of white race fear politics (1975 socialism super/2005 customary rights/2023 indigenous people empowerment/UN Agenda 21).

    The inference of being kind to all, is lacking in “judgment”, is classic attack on the collective well being aspiration (public health and housing improved welfare).

  13. She is the Messiah to big, fat, diabetics that never learned to control their own blood sugars, never cared to exercise, and constantly have to inject themselves because they are so unhealthy – so why not force it on everyone else, aye?. Yeah, shoot it up. The only way to health- shoot it up. You will need a third booster soon- it’s just like insulin, right? You’ll need it to survive, perhaps but without any long term testing- but whatever. Wow, what a Savior. I want every cent I donated to this site back, thanks. This is not informative or independent media and I feel like a fool for ever donating or even reading.

  15. Jacinda must be doing something right (45% v 13%) – all her decisions have been correct despite the raving of tory right-wing 28%ers like collins, seymore, scomo, Herald, Magic and radio, etc. Elimination is the way to go – only one cluster, no deaths or ICU’s, unlike UK where no one ever mentions the daily death rate of around 100. Id be worried if the “grim reaper” brother and sister seymore and collins coalition were in power and opened the borders then Aotearoa will be having 8-10 deaths per day. Its unlikely NZers would accept that.

    I’m happy to listen to and be directed by the expertise of the scientists and their messages articulately conveyed to us by the best PM Aotearoa and the world has ever seen.

    • I’m surprised you haven’t been decapitated by TheKraut with your last paragraph as much as I agree with you.

    • Being retired I have time to read the Press in Chch and most of the articles in the Listener and listen to the National station and for short periods talkback . Though my working live I relied on myself and my skills to survive which makes me then with a National perspective but I have been down and realise there are people out there that need help to overcome lifes obstacles .
      National ignored their role in helping those at the bottom so I was happy to see Labour voted in but now I look at those at the bottom and their plight seems worse . Covid has played a part in this but poor policy and general inaction is the real culprit and I am afraid this sheets back to a very poor leader . I think she is genuine in her desire to help but restricted by a poor crasp on the real life outside of politics which she has been immuned from. I feel history will be harsh on this period .

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