National’s desperate need to steal voters any from ACT’s reactionary base has led Chris Luxon into a week of extraordinary attacks on schools and parents blaming them for rising youth crime.
Chris Luxon has gone all Old Testament and seems to be channeling spare the whip, spoil the child revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy.
Luxon is utterly ignoring the impacts of covid and alienation and deep social problems and is instead playing to the fear of voters which of course is manipulated by the news media’s clickbait journalism.
It’s good that we see who Luxon actually is and what National really are.
It’s punishment regardless of how effective that punishment is.
It’s Old Testament and it’s eye for an eye.
It’s stupid, dangerous and utterly counter productive and that’s the National Party of NZ for you.
A true leader sees responsibility beyond blaming the ‘bottom feeders’.
Being lectured by a multimillionaire CEO with 7 properties on how to raise children shows how out of touch NZ political culture has become.
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So do we have a leader at the moment who is achieving anything ?Do we have a party in charge that is achieving a lot for their core voters the poor and repressed.
The thing is we didn’t have a leader 10-15 years ago when these people were born, who was doing anything for the ‘poor and oppressed either’. Hence, they grew up into angry young men.
They have found a way to annoy the rich and get as much attention as they can.
As for Luxon and his ideas…that’s just his evangelical side showing in all its glory. Punishment, punishment, punishment. They can’t get enough of it, as long as someone helpless or hapless is copping it.
Look at Mitchell as he stands behind Luxon while they rant about this.
He’s practically salivating.
It’s actually ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’.
It comes from Proverbs “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him”. Which is as true today as it was 2,000 years ago because people haven’t changed.
The western world is full of precious little darlings who need a rude awakening.
I think you’re right, Martyn. New Zealand political culture has become out of touch.
Christopher Luxon isn’t winning votes with Old Testament theology.
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