Let’s be very clear, despite what Democracy Project claims – this new hard right racist climate denying war mongering Government is not moderate!
Who had ‘join a US War’ and ‘tax breaks for Tobacco’ on their first 100 day bingo card?
The game afoot now is the desperate camouflaging of just how hard right and racist this Government is.
From Democracy Project to Ben Thomas to Liam Hehir, the message is that this hard right racist Government isn’t hard right and racist at all, they are in fact very moderate.
Are they now?
The leaked memo from the Ministry of Justice highlights that the Governments agenda to start legislating a new definition of the Treaty that dumps 30 years of NZ jurisprudence on Treaty rights will cause enormous backlash…
Leaked ministry advice suggests proposed Treaty Principles Bill ‘highly contentious’
A leaked paper from the Ministry of Justice says the coalition Government’s proposed legislation to define the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi could be “highly contentious”.
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi posted an image of one page of the document to social media early this morning, encouraging his followers to let the document “fuel … our fire”, a reference to his party’s opposition to several Māori-focused policies of the new Government.
…REMEMBER, this Government is moderate and middle of the road and it is NOT hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing anti-worker, anti-renter Party at all!
TDB was very vocal right from the beginning that a National/ACT/NZF Government would be a toxic brew of beneficiary bashing, Māori bashing, Worker bashing, Renter bashing, climate denial, Qanon culture war revenge fantasies as social policy hard right racist Government, but not even we thought they’d also pimp for Tobacco and conspiracy theories.
This is a Government directed by two right wings.
One is anti-science hate and the other is pro-science hate.
The tail wags the dog.
If only all those ‘leftists’ on Twitter who were so incremental when we were actually in power and who were mostly involved in handing the right cancel culture war ammunition were as focused on economics then as they all seem to be now
We’d probably still be in power!
We now can see the full hard right racist agenda of this Government and the obscene direction they intend to take for their political donors.
This fight against the most right Government ever elected will demand a level of resistance that crosses into civil disobedience because it will require mass civil disobedience protests to fight this Government’s hard right racist agenda.
The very soul of NZs egalitarianism is at stake here and if we don’t recruit and broaden our appeal as a movement, we will lose 2026 and the vandalism this new hard right Government passes becomes the new benchmark.
The narrative constructed by Democracy Project and the rest of the Right Wing Troll Choir is that Labour is to blame for Jacinda having the temerity to save us from 20 000 needless Covid deaths and for promoting a secret pro-Māori agenda!
Now while middle class woke cancel culture identity politics fanatics mostly based inside the Greens sure as Christ didn’t help and alienated vast chunks of voters from the Left, using their woke dogma intolerance as a justification for a raft of Culture War revenge fantasies based in conspiracy alongside a punitive and counter productive policy is no justification at all!
Yes middle class woke trans activists were alienating and identity politics drove voters away, BUT THAT DOESN’T JUSTIFY:
- Attacking Worker Rights
- Attacking Renter Rights
- Taking $555million form the poorest families
- Vandalising Public transport
- Starting a race baiting war on Māori while attempting to legislate away the Treaty.
- Stopping cameras on fishing fleets.
- Robbing Climate Change funds and road safety funds for tax cuts to rich people.
- Allowing 8000 tobacco deaths for tax cuts WHILE GETTING US INTO A COUNTER PRODUCTIVE AMERICAN WAR!!!!
NONE. OF. THIS. IS. FUCKING. MODERATE. OR. JUSTIFIABLE!
The Right are arguing for majoritarianism and pretending that’s democracy! The moral worth of majoritarianism is that 51% can vote to kill the other 49% – that isn’t democracy!
A modern liberal progressive Democracy acknowledges the inequalities the tyranny of the majority can generate and actively works to counter those privileges.
What we have here as an attack on those the National Party, ACT and NZ First hate.
That’s not democracy, that’s a Government of Malice and Spite.
Allowing apologists for this Government to paint it as moderate is merely greasing the spin, not challenging it.
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I’m not sure even majoritarianism is much of an influence in NZ politics. The two major parties kowtow to the 1%ers, with Labour also genuflecting to the 3%. The public aren’t even on their radar – or effective action on migration and housing and population planning and infrastructure would long since have been accomplished.
We have a stupid, lazy, ignorant, backward, and corrupt government, with less sense than my chooks, and their predecessors were not a whit better. When the next Trumpist demagogue rolls into town he’ll have their jobs for the asking – because they are not paying their way.
Leaked the new government ministers singing their true beliefs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3t4SdNO4aU
Will admit, there’s been some pretty cool picture headings, or whatever they are, recently….