ACTs popularity is because the woke alienated supporters – will identity activists learn?
The Daily Blog has spent 3 years warning that ACT’s double digit support represents a dangerous polarisation of NZ politics.
I warned the woke activists 5 years ago 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 Wokies, your self constructed identity is more important than our collective humanity, we get it, thanks.
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!
The ‘Pure Trans Joy’ of the last Posie Parker fiasco highlighted the vast difference between how the woke see themselves and how the rest of the electorate does.
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, the ill-advised Green Party call to hand private land back to Māori will probably do it.
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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Actual left-wing organising is creating party and trade union branches in real-life workplaces and the streets of tough slum areas. It isn’t exchanging nonsense with sock puppets on Twitter.
I think eventually the entire structure of the social networks, and the World Wide Web in general, might be upended and totally redesigned. Easily located, very high quality information of lesser quantity is vastly more useful than a constant avalanche of useless garbage.
(One computer magazine reported on the day that the Internet ceased to be a network of universities and other scientists/professionals, and was opened to the general public — and memorably described the immediate result as “a firehose of sewage”!)
If the Greens get their land measures for Māori in no ones homes are safe.
That exactly what one of my ancestors said almost 200 years ago, “If we keep letting too many pakeha in, no one’s land is safe”
Labour & the Greens is why ACT is in double digits.
When they had the mandate to make New Zealand better, to heal the hurts, mend a broken society, to create a true “brighter future” but one for all. Instead we got broken promises, disappointment and a society spiraling into chaos. A Government that has persecuted the law-abiding, the hardworking, the educated, while cuddling criminals and rewarding exploiters, and actually undermining the foundations of our society & democracy. So many lost opportunities, so much waste.
Yep ratty. Horrible sad destruction wrought by inexperienced idealogical incompetents.
That exactly what one of my ancestors said almost 200 years ago, “If we keep letting too many pakeha in, no one’s land is safe”
Sounds xenophobic.
High quality candidates for ACT and disciplined, focused Caucas. They look ready to Govern.
Where as Labour look like they need a re boot and Reset. Hipkins policy Bond fire is damaging the environment, as he keeps throwing policy on it.
Not anything to do with woke-ism (whatever that is) but a lot to do with David Seymour.
It’s the best, not-too-subtle line of the election campaign so far, from Brian the Bish of the Tamaki whanau.
Said he:
‘there’s very little difference between Labour and National. They’re both cheeks of the same bottom with David Seymour in between’.
Charles Taylor wrote a book in 1989 “Sources of the Self, The Makings of the modern identity” where he says that we have moved from a traditional identity where duty was the motivator towards a modern identity where desire is motivator. I am not going to defend the traditional view & we can see the results today where self is allowed to rule.
Christian Identity is the only Identity that is received & not achieved which produces stability and allows us to be incredibly bold, incredibly courageous & humble at the same time. This allows us to see things that are wrong yet accepting of those involved while not affirming them. You don’t need to meet many Christians to know that they are not all like the description above & the dark ages are the best example of those who misuse religion for their own selfish means. This means that anyone who uses religion to try to control others is not a true Christian.
Fuck the Weasel Greens….because Labour are so shit I may have to vote for them because of Labours piss-weak stance over the CGT. Kevin Hague locked out his lab workerrs when CEO of West Coast DHBjust to show you how shit the Greens really are