The problem with never healing past injustices between the indigenous and the coloniser is that when history knocks at the door of our collective national identity, instead of a celebration of nationhood, the past injustices erupt with the awkward emotional intensity of an abused child announcing past abuses at the family Christmas dinner table.
Instead of looking to the past, TOP will hold the balance of power and force career politicians to face up to the future. We stand for fundamental change. I understand change is scary for a lot of people. But as they say if you don’t like change, you are going like irrelevance even less.
It really says something about how out of whack our intelligence settings were in light of the Christchurch terror attack when policy was to limit refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
This is the EXACT sort of thing the Government’s drug testing stations at dance events is supposed to avoid, yet NZ First are refusing to accept the policy…
People have switched off from politics completely and it is hard to blame them. To win people back we have to tap into that frustration, but we also have to entertain people and offer hope. That is the thinking behind TOP’s new approach.
The challenge I issued for this debate was in response to Dr Cumin’s assertion that the situation in Palestine is complicated. That’s a common ploy to discourage criticism of Israel – if you don’t know the details you have no right to an opinion. That’s untrue. White South Africa used to say the same thing to stem criticism of their apartheid system. Israel is using the same tactic.
This was the Israel debate from earlier this week.
Your enemy isn’t your fellow countrymen and women, it’s the 1% who have economically structured us into subservience and division.
FEW SPECTACLES are more tragic than those in which a community destroys its core values in the misguided belief that it is upholding them.
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