I think one of the darker cultural values that we have as a people is negative egalitarianism, the ‘so you think you are smarter than me’ mentality that is deeply rooted in our collective psyche.
A Police State starts with the promise of security.
The desire to see justice for victims of sexual assault has eclipsed the need for a fair justice system.
This constant need to purge art for the grim joyless woke utopia continues with all the nuance of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
If Labour proceed with this, the backlash will cost them the 2023 election.
I appreciate you all think you are gaining the power to smite the dirty racists, the dirty misogynists and the dirty transphobes with this hate speech power.
Prosecuting legitimate journalism exposing horrific abuse of power shouldn’t be celebrated!
…I had felt very confident of Labour + Green winning the 2023 election, but the growing list of policy delivery failures in housing, mental health and infrastructure alongside knee jerks like the bike bridge alongside alienating cancel culture hate speech madness opens the door to National + ACT + NZ First = 51%.
This government needs to spend far more time on housing, child poverty, education, welfare, infrastructure, climate change and inequality and far, far, far less time on social engineering vanity projects to criminalise you for word crimes!
There are two interesting issues with Muller announcing his retirement 2 years from the next election for leaking.