My dear fellow Kiwis – I won’t tell you who to vote for (that is your sacred prerogative), but I will tell you WHY to vote

My dear Comrades of Aotearoa New Zealand.

I love our country and I love our culture.

I love the genuine aroha and mana of our people and I will always stand shoulder to shoulder with you.

I don’t care who you vote for, I care about you.

You are my neighbour, my fellow country-person and I want you to succeed in our amazing, beautiful country.

I love our egalitarian Democracy and I am proud of the amazing milestones we have collectively brought about.

The Treaty, Universal Suffrage, the 40 hour working week, the banning of sub-machine guns and our nuclear free status.

I am proud of how far we have come.

I am not going to tell you who to vote for, that is your sacred prerogative as a citizen when you stand in that ballot booth, but I sure as Christ am going to tell you WHY to vote.

The Common Good.

Do not allow Corporations, the mega wealthy, the Banks, the Billionaire class, the property pimps and the big polluters to rob us of our collective agency by using culture war revenge fantasies to manipulate our petty bigotries.

Aim higher than the most toxic of our angels, aim for hope that we can work together for the Common Good and not the grievance of spite for corporate interests.

Stand for a better us, not a more bitter one.

Stand for New Zealand, not Old Zealand.

Stand with the young, the old, the vulnerable, the voiceless, the lost, the hurt, the disabled, the indigenous and the poor.

Vote for the common good, not the selfish venal interests of the rich.

In solidarity.

The Revolution continues.