3 reasons why it’s going to be so hard to be Green this year
I love the Greens and often vote for them, but I think it’s going to be a VERY hard year for the Greens for 3 of reasons:
1 – Their own alienating activists:
The first problem for the Greens are their own woke middle class activists who are so toxic and alienating. These are the people who led the 2016 social media purges and set in place the vast culture war backlash that saw so many men on the Left driven out of the movement into the arms of the reactionary right. On the Left our woke middle class activists are great at Free the nipple mummy blogger militant vegan cyclist protests, not so good at challenging the hegemonic economic infrastructure of neoliberalism. The good news is that the vast chunk of Wellington Woke have been chased off Twitter and Facebook and just reside in BlueSky where no one gives a fuck, so fingers crossed they will be mute and ignored this election.
2 – Invisible non vote support domestically and in Australia:
One of the most difficult problems for the Greens is that even if they do well, they won’t know until the Specials get counted. They need to appeal to the youth non vote WHILE chasing voters who have moved to Australia, both of those groups are invisible in NZ political polling so the Greens could make real inroads but won’t know it until the final votes are counted.
3 – NZF leapfrogging Greens as 3rd largest party:
This is the real existential threat to the Greens this election. If they lose their 3rd party ranking to NZFirst, Marama and Chloe will have no choice but to bend the knee and suck Winston’s boot. Winston will want Prime Ministership and if Labour fold, the Greens will have no choice but to fall in line with Labour or enable a second National/ACT/NZF Government. This is why the Greens desperately need te Pati Māori to generate an overhang so that they can present a united negotiating front with Labour and cut NZF out.
In 2026, it won’t be easy being Green.
Voting Green and promoting Green because they have good Polcy
Make no mistake….Chloe is one of the brightest stars and most energetic personalities currently on the N.Z. political scene…just look, by comparison, at the line-up of the opposition parties…
Vacuous, unhinged ACT robots, bland boring, featureless, incompetent National and the ever populist Jurassic Park Dinosaurs that make up N.Z. First.
That’s a snorefest right there!
There is no energy coming from that lot whatsover!
If N Z. thinks that that lot hold the answers to N.Z’s future…then we’ve got big problems.
Your blatant attacks on the Greens are inaccurate and unfounded so I would appreciate it if your propaganda outlet sticks to the facts.
I do not agree with much that Martyn writes but his thoughts on the Greens come from years of backing them .I believe he wants the Green Party back as it was in it mayday with MPs like Fitzsimmons, Bardford ,Nandos and Rob . Would they bother with giving freedom to whales while people starve .
Basically I support National but that does not mean I except everything they do
Chris Finlayson nails it: it’s time to bury Winston Peters.
https://fb.watch/FmxTZDpIrf/
White males are persona congrats and while Chloe is against everything fun you wonder what she is for ..
Persona congrats? I believe you mean persona non grata? And what is Chloe against that is fun? Racism, homophobia, transphobia, poor people and beneficiary recipient bashing aren’t fun. Being a lesbian is very fun however. And she is for many things including denouncing the genocide in Palestine and standing up for marginalised peoples everywhere!! As well
as addressing climate change and protecting the environment. Luxon stands for nothing and certainly doesn’t seem at all fun.