If the Left lose Jacinda, we are doomed because there is no one and nothing else who could lead within the Caucus or wider movement.
We have much to be grateful about regarding Jacinda’s calm and graceful leadership during this latest crisis.
The media landscape has been mutilated by Facebook and Google and because the Government has been too intellectually cowardly to implement taxation against those Trans-national Titans to directly fund journalism, this pandemic is becoming the last straw to break this seasons camel hair back.
Mike’s love language would be forced labour camps.
The monstrous incompetence of Trump’s response to the pandemic is bad enough, but what he is secretly planning in the background while all our attention is on the pandemic is bordering on psychotic…
There’s an authority worship within the NZ pysche who yearn for the taste of the jackboot over others.
National may not get the highest Party vote on election night, but if NZF & Greens don’t make it, National + ACT could still become the Government.
If Jacinda Ardern today announced that she had personally developed a Vaccine in her bathroom at home overnight and had resurrected Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Jesus Christ to front the public health campaign Mike would describe it as, “An Incompetent Government desperately trying to wrap itself up in cheap publicity”.
Stop being a Dick David.
The realisation that we need economic sovereignty to empower a functioning State that has the resources to protect us from external shocks in a world being defined by external shocks can have powerful consequences politically, culturally and economically.