… because the de-unionised working classes have had pittance instead of real wage growth, they look at the welfare payment with envy and this envy is manipulated by the Right into voting resentment.
Is this about the revenue tobacco brings in or the health of the public?
Working Americans know how rigged their system is, they want free education and free health – that’s why Sanders is winning. Only his positive populism can electorally beat Trump’s negative populism of xenophobia and walls in the working classes that Democrats need to win over to take the Presidency in 2020.
…give Helen White the high list ranking someone of her talent deserves so that she is in off the Party List and get Labour voters in Central Auckland to give Chloe Swarbrick the seat.
The Venn diagram of those who hate Jacinda because she popular over seas with those who hate her baby and those who hate women is a perfect circle.
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.