Oh, Democracy Project not pretending this Government is ‘moderate’ any longer
It’s neat that The Democracy Project’s alt right shock jock and NZ First Apologist Chris Trotter, is no longer pretending this Government is ‘moderate‘.
The problem with framing Chris as ‘On the Left’ now that he’s an alt right right super star is that it means the centre at The Democracy Project moves all the way to the Right.
Hence the criticism of Palestinian rights protestors, criticism of Māori journalism, Chloe Swarbrick’s leadership style and refusal to link Atlas influence to the 3rd Party funding.
The pretence by the Right has been that this Government was moderate and not hard right at all, and this tension between the extremist elements inside the Government and the need to not spook the middle voter is playing out as we watch Key trying to temper Luxon’s drive for Tax Cuts and constant need to upstage whatever crazy Culture War rhetoric Winston and David are spewing that week.
The reality is that this is a hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government and it’s only just begun!
The sooner we acknowledge that this Government is actually dangerous in its extremism, the sooner we can start activating good people off conscience to stand for the liberal progressive democracy that we all benefit from.
This Government is very fucking extreme.
Austerity for you!
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I’m not sure hard right really fits.
Oh they’re the enemies of the poor, sure. But it’s more corruption and incompetence than anything else. I knew a good hard-right economist back in Korea. A developmentalist – worked for Park. Took Korea from poorer than Somalia to its present prosperity.
We are governed by useless, ultra-sleazy fools. They are illegitimate by definition – they don’t have the right to be this bad.
Nick Smith on the right? ‘I’m out of Wellington but I’m Mayor now in Nelson. I’m going to do a John Carter who went to the Far North as Mayor and shed one of his skins to make himself fit in.’ Old pollies never die, they just fade slowly like the Cheshire Cat until only their gleaming white teeth can be seen. All the better to live right till the bitter end – for you.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/money-talks-roger-douglas-on-losing-faith-in-all-the-parties-including-act/RML66AODI5AB5OVUAQ6N7OQAD4/
Dec.31/23 by Liam Dann
Douglas, now 86, probably has more right than most to make that claim, having been the key driver of an economic revolution in his four years as Finance Minister, from 1984 to 1988.
To many Kiwis it was a revolution that saved the country from bankruptcy, pulling it out of a spiral of debt and depression.
But others see the reforms – “Rogernomics”, they were dubbed – as a right-wing coup which sought to dismantle the welfare state.
But others would like to study the first assumption and consider:
‘To many Kiwis it was a revolution that saved the country from bankruptcy, pulling it out of a spiral of debt and depression.’
Has it? It has led to increasing borrowing and selling off assets in order to keep the books looking good so that we continue to borrow internationally and attract overseas investors and rapacious ones from within; hasn’t it? The ponzi effect of running to keep up on the sliding surface of fiscal normality.
So the books look good to the IMF but we go into a dual slow Highland Clearance – first from the houses we could have afforded and bought without the world goldrush to convert ill–gotten gains into something substantial. Second, the unpredictable earth signs of massive changes along with climate; the sea is grabbing chunks of coast, or cliffs and hills are losing stability and going to ground so to speak and there is too much weather arriving in bulk though we need incremental deliveries.
Meanwhile Roger goes on, 86…87…88? .Still arrogantly propounding his opinions; reminds me of John Mortimer’s character Leslie Titmuss in his book The Sound of Trumpets.
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Ok let’s not pretend Paula is out classed by some in that photo, but man she is one scary individual
RESURRECTION OF “THE GREAT SHAME ”
I had to win, win, win…
Give Winnie my media spots
The other wee cracker…
Regulations and nutty plots
Piranha lurk closer
Give Her spies and alien’s watch
PeeWee Herman potholes
And Witless to protect my crotch
Little Boy Whipping Top
Translate te reo for me please
A Penny for your thoughts
Let the cripples crawl on their knees
Oh coward that I am
Front, fat Jones to pillage instead
Call them Nazis e Pa
Shit in our water, we’re all dead
Throw out the peasants, Bish
Louise, sanction that filthy crowd !
Potato blight ’em, Hog
Sack them now they protest too loud.
Holding hands with McKee
Auto-gun porn dreams coming true
Take veils off the nuns, Mark
You mercenary muscle you.
Tenants you’ve had your day
Co govern with feudal landlords
Apartheid, Dr. Shane ?
Equal disease for all the hordes
Quell the bottom feeder
F#k FPA Lieutenant Brooke
Let them eat cigarettes
TPU Casey what a crook.
Hey, Watt is climate change
More cows, more coal and motorcars
Get NZ back on track..
Minister of Intell..my ARSE
Baffling them with bullshit
Baked cookers easy prey
Sold my soul for power
To the thrice headed CoC, HOORAY !
Wow O’T, That’s comprehensive. Great stuff, opinion of course. But things to think about there.
“Oh, Democracy Project not pretending this Government is ‘moderate’ any longer”
Well how the hell could they while retaining any credibility.
‘I’ve paid my dues and I’m the expert in all and everything – Trotter’, and academia’s biggest aggregator riding on the back of other’s research and opinion and fresh from a gorjiss little Aro St cafe might have come to realise they’re not as grand as the egos they have tried to portray.
Both fart just as badly as everybody else. Don’t expect either of them to fess up though. They’re both fairly comfy