My Experience of Political supporters and what the NZ Left have to do to win 2026
I’ve been covering politics in this country for 31 years now, I know, what a terrible waste of life right?
You might not like my style or conclusions, but you can’t doubt my experience.
Personally over that time the nastiest insults I get are from Green supporters.
NZ First supporters are aggressive, but in a really stupid way that is comical, where as Green Supporters always go for the throat, they immediately bring knives that have only ever cut vegetables to a fist fight.
For me Labour supporters are always very enthusiastic, Māori Party supporters the warmest and friendliest, ACT supporters actually enjoy the intellectual argument and biffo while National Party voters do everything to avoid any contact.
If the Left wants to win the next election, we have to overcome the alienation much of our woke middle class identity politics activists have generated and bring men back to the fold.
We need to tell the Men of Aotearoa New Zealand – Brothers, Comrades, Mates & Fellow Blokes – there’s a place for you on the NZ Left!
Just because you have a penis doesn’t make you toxic!
Don’t feel alienated by the more woke voices of the Left, you should not side with the corporations and the Billionaires and the speculators.
300 000 years of evolution that have gifted you the altruism to protect isn’t a sin!
As a man AND as a citizen, you have an obligation to protect everyone weaker than you, and you should stand against corporate interests, implemented because our anger and alienation have been manipulated by their social media hate algorithms.
Look.
We hate each other thanks to social media.
While we hate each other more than ever before, we are more lonely than we have ever been before.
We are lonelier, more depressed and sicker.
Our loneliness, our depression, our sickness are all fomenting the spin of social media hate algorithms which only further polarise our debate into All Tribe and No Village politics.
I think we are a clever ape who has evolved over 300 000 years. Because we have to compete against other sentient and self conscious clever apes and work with them as groups so our intelligence and ability to use tools could change our environment, we have had to bond and understand each other over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
When we meet in person, our bodies and brains are taking in millions of different details subconsciously and we are working each other out through facial cues, pheromones, gait, stance, smiles, eye contact, etc etc etc: we have taken those 300 000 years of evolution and replaced that with flat screen interaction where we lose all that unseen evolutionary advantage and instead become brainwashed and trapped in rabbit holes of demented reality.
Flat screen interaction is warping our human capacity to tell what is true and what isn’t because we don’t have that sense of the person in front of us and all the million ways we asses each other in our evolved brain.
We have become an ocean of spite and resentment in an All Tribe No Village politics distorted by social media hate algorithms because 300 000 years of evolution can’t work in a flat screen interaction loneliness.
We need got fight against this anathematizing of our hopes and aspirations.
Turn that flat screen interaction into a platform where we can challenge this empty intimacy!
Brothers, Comrades, Mates & Fellow Blokes
There is a place for you on the NZ Left! Don’t let yourself be manipulated by flat screen interaction.
