…by harnessing social media, Trump and his big data manipulators know exactly which phrase to use and which tone to use it in to resonate with the fears and angers within the minimum electorate majority he requires to keep power.
The last 24 hours has seen an explosion of Professional Twitter Liberals making all types of vile character assassinations against Willie Jackson
Waitangi Day is our national day to pause and check whether the Government of NZ, the Crown if you will, are living up to their obligations to all those who are party to the Treaty – Maori, Pakeha and all those who call New Zealand home.
So far, Bill English’s secret weapon, the People’s Front of Judea, has been able to cause more political damage than Malcolm Turnbull calling Trump collect.
The enemy of the working class are the National Party, the enemy of the National Party are the Labour Party and the enemy of the Labour Party is the Labour Party.
What Jackson brought to the Maori Party was that huge urban working class Maori voting bloc, but the lack of anything real on offer by Te Ururoa Flavell to Jackson gave Labour an opportunity that they have cleverly seized upon.
If we want to criticise Te Tii Marae, that’s fine, but let’s equally be as critical of those politicians who have sat on their hands and provided no leadership whatsoever.
The biggest winners of the half a billion National and Labour want to throw at cops will be the Private Prison Industry who will be licking their lips in anticipation at the thousands more destined for their cells.
Rather than examine their own short comings as a political movement and how their own neoliberal worship helped create Trump, American Liberals have descended into a shouting competition amongst themselves to see who can scream their anger the loudest.
…what’s most disgusting about all of this is two political leaders arguing over human beings who they have thrown aside like garbage.