In a culture where micro-aggression policing occurs on social media networks fuelled by outrage, the ability to take offence and bloat it into a war crime means we are often left defensive and resentful in response which feeds the algorithms and Mark Zuckerberg makes another billion.
Deborah has shown us what an apology with grace and humility looks like.
Many respects to her.
Dirty Politics didn’t end with the demise in influence of Cameron Slater & David Farrar, it has cleverly mutated into a hundred social media voices that are all oddly saying the same things at the same time.
It is deeply disappointing to see such a lack of real political courage. We can make grand gestures against the oil and roading industry to appease white urban middle class liberals but we can’t protect the weakest, poorest and most brown parts of our community from a cruelty that is being perpetrated by the very Government that is supposed to protect them.
How can NZ have such conservative vested interests that can stop real progress in this country?
In NZ we are always a dollar short and a day late.
As China and America lock horns in a trade war and with the enormous build up of naval hardware in the South China Sea, it is becoming increasingly likely that NZ is going to get dragged into this geopolitical vortex.
Maybe it’s me getting old and seeing looming economic crashes and environmental meltdowns that will demand a level of co-operation amongst our squabbling tribes that is making me so reflective but the entire Israel Folau issue just seemed like a terrible missed opportunity.
The reality is the crippling underfunding of Auckland’s infrastructure will require more than $28billion to seriously get the city moving.
National built a mass surveillance deep state, the supposed checks and balances to that deep state are a joke and mere window dressing.
To date, the National Party have behaved like a spoilt child convinced that somehow they were tricked and robbed into losing the election.