Dear NZ Political Left – we need to get our Shiz together
Comrades.
We need to get our shit together.
This hard right Government with their anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-renter, anti-disabled, anti-beneficiary and ant-environment agenda that strangles off the common good for their donors interests will cement into place their 19the Century white settler privilege into place if they win a second term.
It is NOT enough to get National, ACT and NZF out, we have to also fight the possibility of Labour/Green + NZF because that’s not a solution either!
We need either a Labour Green Minority Government or a Labour/Green TPM Government or Labour/Green TOP Government.
That’s the only way we will get policy that actually looks to fund the solutions that make material difference in people’s lives. Subsidising the cost of citizens lives is the role of a Liberal Progressive Democracy.
We acknowledge the egalitarian bone soft this nation are progressively taxed because we all stand on the shoulders of those before us and generationally pass it forward.
The wealthy gain their wealth in a market whose foundations have been built by the State. We all gain collectively from that societal memory and cohesion. Entrepreneurs sell their goods and services into a society that has baseline standards they directly benefit from.
With their excessive wealth come greater demands on the funding of that baseline standard.
The tax yoke needs to be removed from the worker and placed upon the corporations, the speculators, Banks, Big Polluters and the Billionaire class.
We need to fund our infrastructure, community resilience, green economy and welfare state by taxing the rich way more and providing the many with free public services.
Boomers got cradle to the grave subsidisation and untaxed capital gains, what do the rest of us do on a burning planet?
The fact that the Polls are telling us despite the economic vandalism and social carnage this Government has wrought with their draconian welfare policies and brutal free market dogma, they are still preferable than us.
That’s a problem and concern.
Our woke activist base alienated everyone we need in the elections.
Good one wokies. Please stay on Bluesky this election.
The Left have to work together to win over those who are alienated and feeling socially disconnected by all the social media hate algorithm polarisation and we do that by acknowledging their economic anxiety and respond with real world solutions that let them know how much they will be saving per week and per month.
We need less Social Justice and its minefields of hashtag offence and way more Economic Justice that makes it clear that it isn’t the kid down the road transitioning who is your enemy, or the Māori wanting the Treaty honoured or the environmentalist angry at failed climate change policy, your enemy is who it has always been, the Banks, the Oligarchs, the Billionaire Class, the Speculators, Big Pollution and the Corporates!
Late Stage Capitalism on a burning planet is brutally failing us all, we need real solutions to the problems in front of us that meaningfully changes the material welfare of the all, not the few.
I’m not looking for Socialism here, just basic regulated capitalism!
Mamdani’s focus on cost of living is how you win without compromising identity because capitalism abuses the majority.
