ACT Party conference – imagine if the Woke hadn’t started a culture war the Left couldn’t win?
Act to continue mission to double its vote in 2023 election at annual conference
Act reached 7.6 per cent in 2020. Seymour believes that can be doubled this year.
The Herald’s poll of polls shows Act consistently polling at or above 10 per cent, which contributed to Seymour’s optimism ahead of October 14.
“For most of Act’s history, to be double-digit is a dream.
“We will field a candidate in every single electorate for the first time, probably in over 20 years, I would guess.
As TDB has spent 3 years warning that ACT’s double digit support represent a dangerous polarisation of NZ politics.
I warned the woke activists that if they started a Free Speech Culture War they would accidentally trigger the dormant faultline of ACT and lo and fucking behold, that’s exactly what happened!
The moment the woke started their free speech cancel culture, ACT started rising in the polls to the point they are now the third largest party.
The Greens are barely able to reach what the gained in the last election where as ACT are looking to double their 2020 result.
Well done Woke.
Let me be as clear as I can be to my fellow comrades of the Left, if we allow woke activists and woke politicians to drag us into a culture war, we on the left will lose the election!
Here’s why.
Social media proxification – hell is other people’s social media feed – Sartre
Social media algorithms have allowed for a toxicity of debate that is easily manipulated. A symphony of sweaty truths all screaming for attention and no one listening. Woke Identity Politics activists have seized the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate white men while alt right Incel Nazi’s have seized upon the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate everyone else.
Millennial woke culture sees macro violence coming from micro aggressions and piously police those micro aggressions with virtue signalling purity mantras.
Alt Right Incel Nazis see white persecution and create some bullshit replacement narrative to justify their powerlessness and feed that resentment online.
Most people are on social media and most people have a woke activist or Qanon fanatic in their social media feed screaming their feverish truths. While these activists certainly think they are speaking truth to power by endlessly calling people out for breaches of woke mantra or fake news anti Trump lies, to everyone else they are simply toxic.
People stop seeing the political party and only see the activist and in the end proxification means the activist becomes the proxy representation of the Party, and seeing as people have negative feelings towards the proxy, they turn from the Party.
Voters aren’t voting on policy, they are voting on who made them feel resentful on social media!
The political is the personal now means what hurts me personally becomes political.
Before social media activists could only face each other off at protests or through letters to the editor or talkback radio. There were constraints of interaction but with social media there are none and it turns out the freedom to insult and dehumanise others is more addictive than nicotine, alcohol and meth combined.
Wokeness has become a puritanical religion with none of the beauty – it’s not so much the personal virtue signal, we are all dicks at times, it’s the weaponization by algorithms that make it so dangerous and damaging.
The danger of identity politics is that it locks people intellectually into only defining the world through their skin colour, genitalia or sexual orientation – it also becomes toxically subjective and tribal where the only solidarity is with other people who share the skin colour or genitalia or sexual orientation- without shared truths and values, the 1% and their 9% enablers continue to divide the rest of us 90%.
The Left has lurched into woke ‘Social Justice’ territory which alienates more than it attracts.
Twitter outrage is woke righteousness porn for the middle classes. A puritanical razoring where the self elected morality police publicly shame and cancel anyone for not using the language protocols of the conclave.
Media proxification is leading to a fascist kaleidoscope of climate crisis entropy triggered by Covid, woke supremacy & ok Karen QAnon echo chambers.
This is why ACT are polling in double digits!
The woke activists have driven people who should be voting Left into the arms of the hard Right!
I’m really excited to see how the woke manage to get ACT to 17% on Election night.
Comrades – Your enemy isn’t a woman who says stupid shit about Trans people in a public park, your enemy are the Banks, Oil Companies, Billionaires and Property Speculators who continue to pillage this country while we are bickering over the narcissism of petty difference!
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Don’t underestimate a woke, gender ideology, identity politics backlash at the ballot box by disgruntled voters from across the political spectrum and demographics.
This has the potential to propel ACT to 20% on election night.
Then New Zealands will pay dearly as they lose worker protections and access to healthcare services. Not to mention the right to retire at 65.
Its called destroying the village in order to save it.
Why aren’t the Alliance Party running this election?
The field is basically open. There is no Trumpian candidate (yet), nor a Corbynite/Kennedy/Bernie-type one. The competition is just a pile of unpopular Culture Wars garbage.
Most of the ex-Alliance M.P.’s did not defect to another party. All they need is an endorsement from one prominent public figure, and the press barons would soon be forced into covering them.
Just imagine Seymour and Luxon running the country.
In that order would be very entertaining!
We can only hope that is the result in Oct . The country cannot stand another 3 years of the rule by consultants and next time it could be worst if Greens and TPM are at the table
Those polling figures Don’t count the thousands who are to scared to turn up to ACT meetings or like the FB page, for fear of being cancelled or ridiculed by the woke. So they could well go above 16% on the night.
Vote ACT while you’ve still got enough of a democracy left to do it.
ACT want to slash wages, and impose US style healthcare. They dont want people have jobs, or houses. They see the poor and sick as drains on the economy. Their supporters attack Trudeau’s government for open assited dying up to the poor, homeless and disabled, but they would love for something like that to be imposed here.
ACT won’t be in full control of the country but, if ACT can get a decent result at the election they can perhaps temper the worst of the left. There are too many unfettered left-wing voices in power right now who can’t see outside of their echo-chamber.
This is made worse by a compliant and bought MSM failing to hold them to account on the worst of their divisive ideas.
I lean left yet without a strong conservative opponent they drift into loony-left which is what we are seeing now.
So you want wages cut then? Health care americanised as well? Fuck you.
What “left-wing” voices are “in power”? The social-liberal parties are all Clintonite globalists, who would never to dare upset Wall Street. The social democrats are all gone.
On most of the major issues, a moderate conservative like Muldoon is to the left of everybody in Parliament.
You talk of woke and cultural wars but maybe people are also dumb enough to buy the whole red tape bullshit. Fucked water tables and rivers but the likes of the dairy sector are over regulated. Bullshit. No competition in a number of are like food distribution and building supplies but it’s over regulated. Crap.
Maybe the difference at election time will be down to little bits around the edges which created impressions, regardless of whether they were as significant as WW 3 or as insignificant as the colour of a dress some MP wore. Such as the Stuart Nash stuff or Willie Jackson playing smartarse.
It seems that this leads to a quote from Virgia Woolf as apposite.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
https://www.thoughtco.com/virginia-woolf-quotes-3530020
The towering figures of ACT leaders building notoriety because of wokeness is truly a vision that shocks.
I see Act want to introduce a new Ministry, so here we have a party wanting to cut red tape etc by introducing a new Ministry – something out of the classic UK comedy Yes Minister yet no one is mentioning this farce
Peters will clear the 5% easily his 19th and probably his last election campaign. That man has campaigned in and won elections over 6 different decades. He’ll throttle back that arrogant poodle Seymour and vacuous Luxon (Thumbelina).
At least Winston will be an Insurance Policy for the NZ Public keeping an eye on National/ACT/Labour in opposition if Winston Firsst gets over the 5% threash hold. He has stated he will not go with Labour and I can’t honestly see Winston and Seymour in a Coalition Government.
The purpose of all ‘new’ ‘labour’ movements is to poison the well of social democracy. The easiest way to do this is by making them woke. Thus the coming election is a choice between the evil of mind and thought control vs the evil of bonded slavery – and to be honest NZ Labour is not averse to a bit of the latter either.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. Enjoy your vote.
The tickets were $50 and our 2 we looked upon as a donation, so what’s the fuss? Incredible to think that Brooke Van Velden Acts Deputy is the only person in Govt, albeit in opposition, with an economics degree. And when Andrew Hoggard gets in on the party list he will be another. 20% is an underestimation, people want real change from this lot, not just shades of Nat blue, otherwise more of the same.