Economy in meltdown and the broken privatization experiment never more apparent – so why is NZ Left floundering?

Despite the free market cheerleaders telling us that 5.4% Unemployment is actually a wonderful miracle of capitalism, the economy is melting down and it is melting down DIRECTLY BECAUSE of this Government’s hard core Right wing economic extremism.

The decision by National to smash Labour’s infrastructure pipeline early in 2024 saw 140 000 flee the country in 2 years causing cascade failures throughout the economy.

The vandalism we are all experiencing is because of National’s policies!

Public services are falling over and don’t tell me we don’t have the money for public services, this Government is borrowing MORE than Labour and they don’t have a once in a century pandemic to deal with!

Homelessness is expanding DIRECTLY BECAUSE of National Party policy that everyone warned them about!

The very privatisation that we are seeing spew sewage into Wellington Harbour is this Governments solution and the manner in which their environmental policy is exacerbating the very climate change we are seeing rip the country to pieces is shameful.

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Despite all these manifest failures directly because of Government Policy, this Government in the Polls still looks like it will be returned to power!Which begs the question, how bad must the Opposition look to people for this crony capitalism culture war fuckwittery to be preferable?

The Left has to ask itself some hard questions.

Whether the incremental safety of Keir Starmer that inspires apathy is preferable to the populist Mamdani cost of living solution based policy which wins elections.

Right now the inquiry into the Shopping Duopoly is being withheld because te openly solution is to break them up and the Government wants to bury that.

Labour and the Greens should be going into this election promising to break up the Duopolies, not only in Supermarkets but in Power as well!

It’s time to step up!

Unemployment is 5.4%

600,000 Kiwis need help from food banks monthly.

1 in 6 young people are unemployed.

Unemployment is 6.4% in Auckland, 5.8% in Wellington.

It’s 11.2% for Māori and 12.3% for Pasifika.

900,000 live in poverty.

Almost 400,000 are on benefits.

112,496 people are estimated to be severely housing deprived.

We are a broken privatisation experiment masquerading as a Country

People vote for change and get nothing from politicians.

The structure of the country is a broken privatisation experiment that strips cash for lucrative private contracts while leaving us with an undermined and endlessly compromised public service.

Look at what the fuck is going on in Wellington right now!

That’s NZ’s broken privatisation experiment in real time folks!

Hopelessness, Alienation, and the Collapse of Social Trust

Voters are tired, and hurt and heart broken.

As isolation, loneliness and social isolation grows, many have gone down rabbit holes fuelled by social media hate algorithms and they live in a distorted and mutilated version of reality that is constantly ripe for emotional manipulation.

Bad faith grifters have replaced fourth estate journalists.

Underfunded Institutions have not managed to generate manifestly better outcomes as the majority drown in debt.

Foreign Corporations milk monopoly rentals from our crony capitalism economy. Exploitation of migrant workers and cheap mass immigration migration puts extra stress on an already underfunded infrastructure. Free market privatisation user pays mythology fails as all those we educate flee the country to pay off their student loan debt.

Communities have been stripped of funding and have no resources to be resilient or sustainable in a climate change future.

Borrowing for infrastructure remains a joke with zero focus on sovereign Investment as our solution.

The polluters and big business rig the political game to ensure their interests trump ours.

Hopelessness stalks the land of the wrong white crowd on these Shakey Isles this Waitangi Day.

There is a malaise so deep that even allies are stabbing each other before the enemy.

No wonder this terrible right wing Government is still ahead in the Polls, the Left is too busy fighting each other rather than the actual enemy and when the people turn to us for solutions, we are too busy bickering to hear them!

The narcissism of petty difference is making us deaf to their economic pain.