As a very young and juvenile country, New Zealand has all the cultural maturity of a can of day old Coke. Rugby dominates our sense of identity like a jealous tyrant. This myopic focus allows Kiwi’s to distract themselves to the point of outright denial over the numerous social ills currently rotting our society.
If you are still voting National this election after all their abuses of power over the last 9 years, then you are the problem.
How National voters can look themselves in the mirror is anyone’s guess.
So why are National Party voters turning a blind eye to this rort? Because most right wingers are selective about their rage, like screaming at Lizzie Marvelly after she asked for traffic directions…
…it turns out the only thing John Key could build was tax havens.
By trying to be respectable to the property owning electorate, Labour and the Greens have lost any credibility with those neoliberalism is failing which leaves the Greens and Labour with no other option than to allow Winston to dominate.
This ‘budget surplus’ is a sick illusion built upon underfunding the needs of the vulnerable and the poor who don’t vote.
The Herald are copying Stuff by running big current affairs campaigns. This week Stuff is looking at cannabis reform and the Herald are attempting to talk about suicide.
This is Paula Bennett’s initial response on Facebook to the allegations made against her…
Comrades, we can not and must not allow the real momentum we are seeing on cannabis reform and the fact so many places around the world are now ahead of us be spoiled by simply decriminalising cannabis and legalising medicinal. A regulated and taxed market would provide us with the revenue to treat those who are hurt by this product and save precious tax dollars rather than waste them and the lives we lock up.