New Zealand Right Wing ‘feelings’ and ‘vibe’ are deciding social policy

You all know Military Boot Camps don’t work.

You know that, I know that, National knows that, and Oranga Tamariki should be ashamed.

Let’s be 100% clear here.

If you are Right Wing you don’t care Military Boot Camps don’t work, all you care about is that kids you despise get the bash from some brutal Full Metal Jacket level Boot Camp fantasy!

Admit it, you know this doesn’t work, you just want revenge and a sense these kids are frightened and yelled at.

You saw their organisation during ram raids and it scared the shit out of you and you demanded a political knee-jerk, not to get polciy that works, but a revenge fantasy that made YOU feel better.

You know it’s all counter productive but this is redneck vengeance being passed as social policy to make right wing voters feel a sense of power in their powerless lives is all that matters now in NZ.

There is no science based research that proves these things work and that’s fine by the Right because it’s not about facts, it’s about right wing feelings.

The Royal Inquest into abuse in State care showed 80-90% of gang members were abused in State Care!

IF YOU DON’T WANT GANG MEMBERS – DON’T ABUSE KIDS IN STATE CARE!!!

Look at what this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government are doing in health!

In the Budget, National allocated just 2.9% increase to health services but inflation was 3.3% and population growth 2.6% while an ageing population adds more to costs.

National gave 2.9% for health but we needed 8% to stand still, the electorate is not dumb enough to fall for National’s latest manufactured public service crisis to introduce more failed free market reforms are they?

Are they?

Brothers and sisters, I appreciate you had your anger at Jacinda for saving 20 000 lives during a once in a century pandemic manipulated into voting for this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government, but come on, you have enabled terrible people to do terrible things to the very pillars of our society.

Have you become so toxic in your pus filled echo chambers that you are openly excited about gaining some culture war revenge fantasy by allowing National, ACT and NZF hack and slash at public services just for the sheer glee of butchery over any actual vision for New Zealand?

You have allowed the donor class to re-write our laws in their favour at the cost of the common good because of pro-nouns?

You are enabling a plutocracy because the Weather is in Māori?

Is this what feeling alienated in your own home country because of your anti-vaxx views justifies does it?

Is this what the alienating Trans debate has justified is it?

Is this what your feral fears of da Maaaaaaaaaaaris secretly taking over Democracy argues for does it?

Maybe, just maybe this redneck cracker settler routine is on you, and allowing rich corporations to manipulate your petty bigotries so that they can collectively exploit us is the problem here?

There are issues and we can spend a lot of time arguing about those issues, but NOTHING, no woke mind virus, no cultural insecurity, no hashtag outrage Olympics justifies giving the Billionaire clique, the donor class and the Real Estate Pimps total influence over our destiny.

You are having your fear and anger and insecurities manipulated by the very rich all for $20 a week extra.

Right wing ‘feelings; have replaced Left wing ‘feelings’ as policy and we are all worse off!

Feelings, nothing more than feelings.

Morris Albert’s 1974 classic ‘Feelings‘ kinda manages to sum up the current political culture.

Right now in New Zealand, you can win an argument with nothing more than ‘feelings’.

If you ‘feel’ the argument more than the other, then you win.

Crazy no?

Because objective truth, logic and rational debate are all heteronormative white cis male privileges, ‘FEELINGS’ are all that matter now and once the middle class woke activists triggered that new threshold for truth, the feral anti vaxxers and Incels and redneck racists and Groundswell astroturf protests have done exactly the same!

This is the new politics of the neoliberal subjective!

We have too many fucking feelings and we have allowed a culture where feelings trump rational objective logic because the ‘lived experience’ of victims, racists, rednecks, Incels, feral antivaxers and woke middle class activists all replace reality, objective truth and class solidarity.

The only people who should give a fuck about your ‘feelings’ are you, your family and close friends.

Outside of that, fuck your feelings.

Your feelings ain’t my problem.

If your self-esteem is hurt by my thoughts, the clue is in the ‘self’ part of word, ‘self-esteem’.

You decide how you feel about shit, it ain’t no one else’s problem OR responsibility!

We have replaced feelings for rational debates.

We have replaced feelings for objective truth.

We have replaced feelings for wider context.

The Woke started this in 2016 with their social media Lynch mobs, the feral Right have now perfected it.

Everything we are seeing right now from this far right racist Government is ‘feelings’ based, not evidence based!

This Government is passing conspiracy theories into social policy because deranged antivaxxers ‘feel’ angry about a vaccination.

This Government will cut public funding to Community Sports if they have a Trans player because their angry anti-Trans voters ‘feel’ angry!

This Government is bashing beneficiaries, prisoners, renters, Māori, the environment and workers because the right wing voters ‘feel’ angry no matter how counterproductive those culture war revenge fantasies are!

FFS – we are seriously going to go against all the science and just raise the speed limits on roads because people feel angry at not being able to rush home!

Simeon Brown has weaponised your impatience to justify MORE ROAD DEATHS FFS!

Fuck! Your! Feelings!

The Right have perfected the Woke’s outrage olympics and all politics is now a ‘vibe’!

This is the new politics of the neoliberal subjective.

The greatest danger posed by Idenity Politics is if white males start seeing themselves as a victim as well, which is exactly what the woke managed to achieve.

If we on the Left will be dictated to by our feelings, then the fucking Right will gleefully play that game too!

Can the Left move from Pure Temple politics towards Broadchurch Class Solidarity, because if we can’t, the most hard right racist Government ever elected will remain in power.

The new politics of the neoliberal subjective have robbed us of a unity based on rational logic and argument and replaced it with the sandcastles of feelings.

I’m not interested in your feelings, I am interested in your thinkings!

New Zealand Aotearoa deserves a State that helps the people and builds the nation, not one that tears everything down and punishes those their voters despise!

We should base policy on evidence, not fucking feelings!

Fuck.

Your.

Feelings.