When we failed to de-escalate the Dumb Lives Matter Parliament Lawn Protest, I said at the time that the vast majority of protestors were Labour/Green voters and that we had lost them forever.
They left bitter and hateful towards the Left and their dark treasonous treacle oozed into the dark spaces with demented energy.
After handing so much culture war ammunition to the Right, our woke middle class identity activists literally drove male voters into the arms of the political right.
In woke Wellington world, ALL white men are irredeemable cross burning racists, B-E-L-I-E-V-E ALL women that ALL men are rapists and anyone defending free speech is a uniform wearing Nazi who hates the trans community.
Turns out that identity politics mentality alienates rather than brings together.
‘Pure Trans Joy’ probably helped cost us the election.
We have not calculated the full political price yet of this culture war. We see it in the lifted National and ACT vote obviously, and we see it in NZ First over the threshold, but also look at that dark energy below the threshold…
…a bitter mix of Christian extremism, Qanon nonsense, antivax madness and reactionary anger.
That’s 2.63 of the vote lost to spite.
NZ First is a vehicle for anti-Māori identity activism, the gambling industry, the fishing industry and antivaxx acolytes.
Winston has to flirt with that Conspiracy Theory electorate to remain politically relevant and his despicable tweet insinuating Jacinda knew about the white supremacist before the shooting is evidence of that new conspiracy theory extremism.
Look who Winston is flirting with…
…on the radically toxic Voices for Freedom Radio which has become an important media vehicle for hate politics hosted by the most radioactive Hate Blogger in the game.
This electorate of spite is the price of political exclusion from a movement like the Left that prides itself on inclusion, but because the woke abused the power they had gained from Twitter, the movement quickly moved from Broadchurch class solidarity to the pure temple of alienating middle class identity politics.
The resentment this new battle front in modern elections has generated is all personal feelings, either feral nuttiness of Qanon lunatics and the Outrage Olympics of the Woke.
Everyone sprints to be offended first for virtue signalling social media lynchings.
The problem with Cancel Culture for the Left is that after the woke have cancelled everyone, who votes for us?
Look at it this way.
In 2020, Labour got 51.01% of the vote and Greens got 7.86.
In 2023, Labour (provisionally) got 26.85 while Greens lifted to 10.78.
Think of it this way, Labour shed 24.16% yet barely 3% of that went to the Greens!
As a movement we alienated voters by refusing to implement populist economic policy that would have challenged the neoliberal straightjacket of the economy!
Fundamentally Labour needed to tax the rich to pay for the social infrastructure we require but because Labour at heart are intellectual cowards, they refused to engage in that, which left voters asking, ‘why bother voting for Labour’.
Why indeed.
All the Left had in the end was the fear of what National and ACT and NZ First would do, but if you were one of the 600000 using food banks monthly, how could it get worse when your hopes were shattered by Labour?
Labour face oblivion, will probably gain 2 MPs from the Specials so will limp home with 28% and taking back some electorates.
The Greens and Māori Party have only done well BECAUSE Labour were so weak, so we all end up losing because the Right are now in power!
There needs to be a fuck of a lot less cancelling and a fuck lot more open debate because the Left have lost the ability to argue and persuade rather than cancel and censor.
Those 600 000 needing food banks monthly looked at what we were championing and could not connect our virtue signals to their pain.
Poor people weren’t sitting around the kitchen table cancelling people for misusing pronouns, they were trying to work out how they were paying the bills!
This political marriage of convenience between ACT, National and NZ First is a union of grievance and malice aided by culture war ammunition the Left couldn’t win.
This isn’t a Government elected for hard right spite, it’s a grudge fuck against the Left by a furious electorate that ran out of patience.
I think many people will begin to regret the ramifications of their vote and non-vote.
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Bomber, don’t include the Women’s Rights Party among this feral byproduct of capitalism’s decadence.
Obviously the penny hasn’t dropped for you yet. The rising anger of women around the world against trans ideology, which is a male war against women to obliterate their history of struggle and their existence as a sex, is NOT REACTIONARY.
It’s the only sane position to take when capitalism is on its last legs and offers no alternative but extinction or socialism.
Do you think that the terminal crisis of the last decades of capitalism driven to destroy nature, including the erasure of women who are humanity’s only biological bond to the defence nature, is NOT EXISTENTIAL?
The fate of mere political parties, the creatures of the bourgeoisie to keep us running around in circles while they wreck the planet, are a distraction from what we urgently need – a socialist revolution based on the historic struggle of women to defend humanity.
The creation of the Women’s Rights Party is the necessary expression of women who are fighting for their lives and in the process defending nature against human extinction.
We are facing a crisis of existence as a species, unlike any other before, and it is women who are showing us the way out of the abyss.
Far from being reactionary it is positively REVOLUTIONARY.
I agree. The concerns of the WRP are legitimate and progressive concerns. They are also concerns relevant to most people, because most people on the planet are women.
If Pakeha tried to Pahekasplain to Maori what the word “Maori” means, we all know what would happen. Yet every day we see men mansplaining to women what the word “woman” means.
Wait. Women act on there emotions. Explaining logic is a masculine trait. Guys have to be extremely logical if for instance you’re designing a bridge that doesn’t kill no one. Us guys we have to he able to make sense of what’s going on. Designing a diagram is a huge responsibility especially when you’re trying to make the place better. The vast majority of kiwi men are really good workers none of them want to be apart of a failed kiwi build project or design Orange tamariki buildings that’s what emotional fem bots do. They just complain .
Sam Very good. Really ironic. Excellent stuff. We all have these myths floating in our heads prompted by half-truths. But women need men like fish need bicycles!
And women aren’t all the same, and go in and out of stereotypes just as men do. So it’s hard to say with certainty just what one sex or gender is or isn’t. That is why we find it so fascinating exploring the others’ personalities for hidden depths of fineness or instead, pits of dross or shabbiness.
What makes you so special?
Bullshit
Over half of doctors are now women
and they are very logical
Increasing numbers of women are going into the trade professions and leaving the arts behind. Logical decision making is a prerequisite to succeed
A
100% TG
Broadly agree though I think you’ll find that what you characterise “as a male war against women to obliterate their history of struggle and their existence as a sex” is largely supported by 4th wave feminists and the rising tide of intersectionality. Your average joe tends to see this stuff for exactly what it is. They are not your enemy.
I think I was wrong. Guys should stay hard and stay focused. This woman’s empowerment or transrights or whatever ain’t our fight. Happy hunting girls.
Agree, Dave.
Plus, those that support ‘trans joy’ certainly don’t subscribe to “believe all women” because they want to silence any woman who is critical of gender ID ideology – doesn’t align with their current believes. They’d rather believe males who claim to be women.
In fact, I think the Green Party have dropped all references to natal women when it comes to sexual violence. They used to understand that violence against women was largely perpetrated by males.
That’s not true. Woman are way more violent towards each other than men are.
Evidence?
Plus, males are stronger than women so a male, can cause way more damage to a female, is way more intimidating to women, and commit way more sexual and violent offenses than women.
NZ Statistics. Lesbians abuse each other 60% in relationships. Straight only about 20%. Anyway why would you hit a man? All the violent men are in jail. Woman don’t go to jail for the same things as men. All the guys walking around the streets are pretty good guys. But the woman walking around reckon they’re special normal discourse and cutesy seem not apply to there insane theories.
“Abwechslung ist die Seele des Lebens”
(Otto v. Bismarck, 1851)
Yeah – I don’t agree with your take on the Parliamentary occupation.
I see it as a police failure – they had no interdiction and hadn’t rostered the staff on to handle the numbers.
Protestors had threatened the PM – which exceeds the bounds of ‘loyal opposition’ type protest – though of course they wouldn’t understand that. So they were not a land march – they should have been cleared away quickly without apology.
Not doing so opened the door to a world of whataboutism.
Referring to these people with words like xtremisst, nonsense, and madness, and generally treating them as unwanted members of society is just going to feed into their outsider state of mind, which I would have thought was unhelpful. They’re all human beings, many are from the left (that I know) and we should be trying to make them feel at home in our circle – which let’s face it isn’t that far remomed from theirs. We’re prertty frustrated with Labour and the Greens and we would probably all vote for a left-wing party that wasn’t so frustratingly middle class
People who can’t restrain themselves and go off at sharp tangents Aaron are not compatible with a group that is trying to follow a rational, reasoned process and make such changes to bring about better. An open door with a soft heart and forgiveness for every rant and kick and insult, because the poor things are upset and hurting means certain end to progressive steps that are sustainable in a cohesive manner. Believe it or not.
Bullshit
Over half of doctors are now women
and they are very logical
Increasing numbers of women are going into the trade professions and leaving the arts behind. Logical decision making is a prerequisite to succeed
A
Trevor Mallard was the major cause of the disaster at parliament and is a significant part of the reason that their popularity dropped. The police took instructions from Mallard which is all you need to know to understand why their response was inadequate.
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