Dear Left NZ – roast Luxon at Waitangi for his hard right settler racist Government
National have claimed they aren’t anti-Māori, aren’t beneficiary bashing and aren’t lying about climate change!
They have allowed gas and oil back in, are robbing climate change budgets, are passing hard punishment regimes for beneficiaries that will target drug addicts and the disabled, they have changed Māori names back to an English one that National’s own MPs can’t name properly, banished the Māori Health Authority, threatened taking money from Public Servants who speak Māori, dismantling 7aa to steal another generation of Māori babies AND starting legislation that redefines the Treaty???
This new hard right racist Government is only bonded by its love of bashing māori, workers, the environment, renters and beneficiaries!
Why attack public services for using Te Reo, WHEN ACT AND NATIONAL PASSED LAW TELLING THEM TO DO THAT IN 2016???
What’s changed?
Māori were used as a punching bag before the election in a deplorable manner and the angry redneck response that race baiting has attracted has demanded an anti-Māori policy response and the new hard Right Government is obliging that knee-jerk in the hope of pacifying those angry rednecks and calm everything down so they can get back to inflating property prices.
The Right turned co-governance into a conspiracy to take over NZ Democracy despite the Right being the ones who created the co-governance model Labour used to pass law in good faith with Māori!
The Left use the co-governance model the Right built yet it’s the Left’s fault???
The Right have played to their voter’s bigotry and are just expecting the rest of us to accept it???
There is an entire generation of Kiwis who are not frightened by Māori culture and want to see the promise of the Treaty fulfilled because by doing that, we fulfil ourselves!
Treaties are to be honoured, not settled!
This Hard Right Racist Government is being protested against from day one.
The NZ Political Right have mistaken anger at Labour as a mandate for culture war vengeance, Majoritarianism isn’t Democracy!
The shock wave of how far right this Government is taking us is generating an enormous amount of voters regret as what Kiwis have done to themselves by voting against Jacinda for having the temerity of saving us from a mass death event.
2023 wasn’t an election, it was a grudge fuck against Labour by an embittered post Covid electorate who were economically insecure, alienated by woke dogma and heart broken that all Labour could do with a once in a generation MMP majority was ‘good first steps’ rather than transformational leaps.
It has resulted in a Hard Right Racist Government bound together only by a shared glee in bashing beneficiaries, workers, renters, prisoners, the environment, gang members, drug addicts and the disabled.
Dismantling the values of a liberal progressive democracy to cement into place 19th Century White Settler privilege using culture war vengeance as social policy IS NOT Democratic, it’s majoritarianism without any of the values of a true Democracy.
You can’t shit on Renters, Māori, the Environment, Workers, Beneficiaries and Prisoners while pretending to be democratic.
That’s the zeal of the Lynch mob, that’s not Democracy!
Majoritarianism is the whip of the autocrat masquerading as legitimacy. Is has none of the soul or wisdom that a Democracy requires to be meaningful.
The Right seemed to think the only ones who are allowed to protest are the Taxpayers Union and Groundswell, well surprise kids, here it is coming back the other way!
Waitangi Day next year will burn.
The peace has been broken by these hard right racist clowns and so too is the detente. Now it is protest on every front against these racist corporate stooges!
You intend to use democracy to lash the vulnerable and the poorest amongst us with no consequences?
Oh you silly right-wingers!
National voters wanted stability and their house prices to rise by 10%. They sure as Christ don’t want ongoing race wars and social conflict!
This new hard right Government with their reactionary culture war vengeance fantasies have met an immediate wall of resistance and it hasn’t managed to be one month old yet.
The fear in Luxon’s eyes at each press conference would be funny if its ramifications weren’t so dangerous!
They have already forgotten this…
…Waitangi Day 2024 is the first moment of resistance to this Government’s anti-Māori, anti-environment, anti-renter, anti-worker, anti-beneficiary agenda. We either stand as one or fall individually.
Now is the time to make a stand against the usual petty bigotry of bloated political egos and make it clear in no uncertain terms this new hard right racist Government’s agenda will not be tolerated.
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Agree 100%.
I’d be very surprised to see any of the Coalition of Cruelty at Waitangi.
Luxon is already running scared and dithering.
Jones, of course, says he’ll be there but he’s not that big a cheese. As above, 94% of people didn’t vote for his party.
The Maori King’s call for a big meeting on 20th. Jan will be giving them sleepless night.
According to Business Desk, the Maori economy is worth about $70 billion to NZ.
Can the new finance minister afford to offend people who contribute that much?
We’re always told Maori are a drain on our resources.
The Maori asset base is estimated to be about $50 billion. Our 14 billionaires don’t hold that much combined wealth.
As in every country, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few but even so, having policies which make that worse is surely seen as detrimental by people with any sense. How does making that factor worse, improve the lives of the wealthy? It quite simply, does not. They will prosper for a while, but sooner or later, depriving a large part of the population of money to spend will have an impact on their millions and billions.
Get to Waitangi Luxon and Co and explain yourselves and be prepared to face your punishment. You owe that to us all. Your policies are illogical and we want to know why you’ve implemented them?
Yes, Joy many of our tribes have money and assets now and we need to unite (kotahitanga) because united we are strong. This coalition government has a toxic anti Māori, poor, working class, women and PI agenda. They are also environmental killers. Already our new PM is looking flustered this may be the hardest three years of his life and ours if he continues along the austerity lines of cutting everything, he will go down in history as one of the weakest PMs. Using the stick approach does not and will not work against many NZers they will just get their backs up and dig their heels in, far better to offer the carrot.
Politics in NZ has become too personal, petty and self-indulgent it’s no longer about us (the people) it’s about them (the politicians) Act and NZF are nasty, mean and divisive. It is going to be a long hard three years battle with a government that now think they know best.