Nothing is going to make swinging voters recoil in horror quite like thinking the pious micro-aggression policing woke activists they see in their social media feed could be judge, jury and executioner of feee speech.
The announcement that Greenpeace strategist Steve Able and Climate strike activist Luke Wijohn join poverty campaigner Ricardo Menendez as Green Party candidates gives me hope the Greens can be a relevant political force again.
This whole sordid clusterfuck of ego, abuse of power, depression, anger and political toxicity is a Shakespearean Greek fucking Tragedy but everyone is MacBeth with an achilles heal.
Watching National trying to claim the moral high ground over NZ First’s behaviour here is Trumpian in its delusion.
The knee-jerk response by National to any problem is the immediate mutilation of civil rights.
…NZ First has been constantly held up as the reason why truly progressive change didn’t occur in the last term, imagine what a Labour/Green/Māori Party could achieve?
The Chinese Government are critical of NZs travel ban and points to the fact WHO haven’t endorsed such bans as proof positive that we should remove them. We shouldn’t for one moment drop the travel bans and in fact should be expanding them dramatically.
I will fight tirelessly to get cannabis reform in this nation not just because prohibition is a failure, not just because locking people up doesn’t work, not just because it provides economic progress, but because I also believe we as a people need desperately to get stoned.
If Labour in Opposition had announced something this empty, the mainstream media would be destroying them and screaming ‘Labour are not ready for Government’, yet National pull this stunt and the crickets are chirping.
Family First are the far right Christian pressure group who are currently running campaigns against the Cannabis referendum. Previously they were all about the legal right to beat the fear of God into children, now they are the moral custodians trying to kill off the cannabis debate.