Responding to Death Cult Capitalism’s “Plan B” – Pitching The Devil’s Bargain To Generation X
In the words of the Plan-B-Boys’ advance guardsman, Matthew Hooton, opining in the NZ Herald of Saturday, 4 April 2020:
Chris Trotter
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Men To Boys
WHY ARE THERE so many blokes out there behaving like idiots? (“Idiots” is the Prime Minister’s descriptor, most New Zealanders would, less charitably, call them “dicks”.)
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“Lord, give us Democratic Socialism – but not yet!”
IT PAINS ME to ignore the Prime Minister’s advice, but it’s time to kick some Labour Party butt.
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MUST READ: A Lamentable Failure of Imagination
WHEN MATTHEW HOOTON is able to outflank the “Left” effortlessly on RNZ’s Nine-to-Noon something has gone very seriously wrong.
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New Zealand’s Government Must Save New Zealand’s Media
I’M NOT SURE, after today, if we’re going to come through this global pandemic in one piece.
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Outsiders
If 9 percent of the population refuses to comply with the lockdown’s rules, then the rest of us are not about to be released from it anytime soon. Indeed, it’s difficult to see how the Government’s strategy of eliminating Covid-19 can possibly succeed if close to a tenth of the population intends to withhold their co-operation.
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How Do You Feel? What Do You Think?
NEW ZEALAND POLITICS under the Lockdown will be played out in two locations. The Beehive: where Jacinda Ardern and her key ministers and advisers will oversee the national effort to eradicate the Covid-19 virus. Parliament Buildings: where the Epidemic Response Committee, chaired by Simon Bridges, will hold the Prime Minister, her government, and the country’s leading public servants to account.
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It’s Time For Disaster Socialism
The disaster of the Great Depression was transformed into a new and fairer society by the democratic socialism of the First Labour Government. The disaster of the Covid-19 Pandemic offers a similar transformative possibility to the Labour-NZ First-Green Government.
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The Only Way Through This Crisis Is Together
THE COALITION GOVERNMENT’S greatest political challenge over the next 6-12 months will be keeping up morale. If it can’t hold us together, then it will be swept from office by a tsunami of fear, anger and recrimination.
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MUST READ: Why Leadership Matters – More Than Anything.
We are not an inherently benign species. For good, or ill, we are easily led. That’s why the character of a nation’s leadership matters. That’s why it matters more than anything.