Unbelievable.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” said Samuel Johnson and what we have here is part of ACT’s ‘rebranding’ from cross during rednecks to Free market oracles.
David Seymour says ACT ‘fixing the system, not finding someone to blame’
David Seymour says the ACT Party wants to win the “cultural argument” for free markets, deregulation, and entrepreneurship over the “whingers” who “see every problem through the lens of blame”.
After a 6 month race baiting hate tour that literally ripped the fabric of the country apart needlessly, David is rebranding as a Free Market Well Being Influencer?
Namaste Milton Friedman?
It’s like trying to rebrand zionist apologist, Waikato lawyer Paul Fisher, as a Green supporter…
…I’m not sure a rebrand can work.
You know, when you think long and hard about it, doesn’t David come across as a very special boy?
His unblinking demands to know why anyone has a problem with his Treaty Referendum political hate stunt despite 90% of 300 000 submitters telling him in no uncertain terms isn’t his only brush with special.
David has also claimed that the Māori Chiefs who signed the Treaty would support him…
…he also claimed Nelson Mandela would support him…
David Seymour’s claim Nelson Mandela would campaign for Act rubbished by grandson
…and then he said that Jesus Christ, yes, THAT Jesus Christ, the beloved Son of God Almighty, would have supported ACT….
Jesus ‘very well might support Act’, leader David Seymour says
Act leader David Seymour believes Jesus may have supported his party, and would get the tick of endorsement were he to come back and run for Auckland or Wellington’s Mayoralty.
….ummmmmmmmmmmm?
And now he’s pretending to be a Free Market Oracle who will argue allowing property rights to trump human rights is a ‘solution’ that no one needs to get as angry as they did over the Treaty Principles Referendum.
What Seymour is truly attempting to signal is a move out of culture war grievances (Winston is owning those now) into Free Market Theology because those ACT supporters who backed the cross burning tour are appreciating how getting painted out as naked rednecks is damaging their cross over appeal to the middle right voters they need to consolidate their current power base.
Free Market Aspirational posters are needed so ACT supporters can take off the Klan whites and slip into some libertarian casual Fridays attire so as not not spook the National Party voters they are trying to woo.
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Seymour should contemplate the ultimate form of nationalism, a benevolent state. His hero Ayn Rand ended up on welfare and Medicare provided by her fellow citizens.
Seymour should contemplate the ultimate form of nationalism, a benevolent state. His hero Ayn Rand ended up on welfare and Medicare provided by her fellow citizens.
Well, there you go. Maybe Seymour’s future is a bit bleak too. He’ll have alienated enough people, that’s for sure.
Seymour, twisty, turny. This from an old study of human beings.
From Machiavelli quotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/niccolo_machiavelli_135440
*One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
*One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
*Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
*Politics have no relation to morals.
*There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
*The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
*Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
[This is our hope:]
*God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
*A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
**Niccolo Machiavelli
‘One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.’
Exactly, thank-you Greywarbler.
That ties in with the question I asker further up. Do Seymour’s fellow ACT MPs ever ask themselves if they are in the correct party? Do they have any autonomy or are they there because they’re yes men and women.
But I find Joy that ‘Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.’ is pretty hard to take. But the writer has been a close observer of human actions and reasoning and no doubt I could find examples if I looked enough. And it goes to the heart of the matter, that we do not understand our underlying drives and paper over the cracks to avoid looking, as we should.
I like Charles De Gaulle’s definition.
‘A patriot loves his, or her, country.’
‘A nationalist hates other countries.’
It should be pretty obvious by now.
Those who seek to divide will preach about unity; those who seek to enslave will preach about freedom; and those who intend to censor will preach about free speech.
We see all of these in our wee Dave. Think for example, what a meagre and niggardly form of freedom is really on offer from this imaginary champion of freedom. Dave’s conception of freedom is nothing but the freedom to compete against everyone else in the market. There are no guarantees about the outcome of this competition and no guarantee that it will be fair competition in the first place. And there is certainly no freedom for us to collectively say – “actually, structuring our society as an undeclared economic civil war of everyone against everyone else and devil take the hindmost, is really inhuman and stupid, let’s change how we do things”. Any thought of that will be strictly policed and stamped out.
Or put another way. all self-styled libertarians are authoritarians in disguise.
That image of the guy urinating looks real. Any info on it?
You are going to love this – it’s an ACTUAL political advert by the Democrats against Reagan’s trickle down economics during the 1980s
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