Taxpayers’ Union-Curia desperate to start political violence for Trump copy cat talking points
One in seven New Zealanders say violence may be needed to ‘get country back on track’ – poll
Around one in seven New Zealanders believe violence may be needed to “get the country back on track” – including one in four Te Pāti Māori supporters and one in five ACT voters, according to a new poll.
The Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Market Research poll of 1000 adults, conducted in early October, found 14% agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “New Zealanders may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track.”
While the vast majority – 80% – disagreed, the results reveal sharp political and generational divides.
Who the hell asked for this Poll?
It’s hilarious isn’t it?
The stable of Taxpayers’ Union clients have used reactionary tactics to drive culture war revenge fantasies and once that drive is angrily responded against they are now polling to ask who wants political violence.
This is straight from Trump’s playbook of blaming ‘Radical Left’ for political violence when political violence is overwhelmingly a Right wing issue..
…the Taxpayers’ Union best be praying to Milton Friedman that the protester who smashed Winston’s window was actually ‘Radical Left’.
1 in 4 Maori Party voters believe violence may be needed, which when you consider how many years they’ve been screwed over by the State is perhaps understandable, but that 1 in 5 ACT Party voters feel the same is insightful.
Why is Cracker so angry?
They’ve got all the power, yet still want to rumble?
The real violence is being done quietly by this Government…
Anne Salmond: Academic freedom and its enemies
In NZ there are chilling moves towards illiberal democracy. While they are being strongly resisted so far, political leaders and others must wake up.
…the true danger is what Hard Right interests are doing in the background where you are not watching.
Expect more of these polls from Taxpayers’ Union as they create the anger and then have the audacity to sell the fear that anger creates.
They are like a drug dealer who sells you the drugs and then blames you for being addicted.
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And the right are doing their best to make it easy for the crackers to buy automatic weapons .The potatoe minister of guns will soon ban her own whanau from having guns while the white religious crackers and river of filth terrorists will be free to own as many as they like .
Sounds like you need a cup of tea and a lie down KWCell
But he has a point covidpa. But we do need a cup of tea and lie down so as to keep up the vitality needed to cope with zombies. You can’t fight them. And you have to act carefully, they’ll track you, with their binocs, put road spikes down. Use you as an exercise for when the big one comes.
Smith’s Dream book comes to mind for some reason. Sleeping Dogs the film.https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/125043600/terrorism-and-two-endings-ck-steads-first-novel-smiths-dream-50-years-onAlready a successful poet and literary critic, 39-year-old Stead had sent Smith’s Dream to publishers in London, but they were wary of the setting at the other end of the world, cautious of the politics, scared of a financial flop.
So Stead turned to New Zealand and to Auckland publisher Longman Paul.
In those days, it was understood you had to receive a grant from the New Zealand Literary Fund if you hoped to publish a novel.
But when Stead applied to the body, he was rejected, later learning one member had objected to subsidising something so “blatantly political”.
At that point, having spent three years trying to publish Smith’s Dream, Stead expected he would have to abandon the idea, and stash the manuscript in some bottom drawer.
But Longman Paul’s publishing director, Phoebe Meikle, was determined to push ahead, regardless of funding.,,,
[Jack Ross, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Massey University]… Ross remembers his brother studying Smith’s Dream at school, and copies being passed around boys like a dirty book.
Another note taken, of those who have done things, gone before, and helped society grow.
For my part, I think publicly feeding Roger Douglas to tigers, and parading Max Braford through Wellington in a tumbrel, would be small positive steps on the path to better government.
I tend to think economic violence need not be privileged over other forms.
Least we forget
The last two mass murdering terrorists in this country were both right wing.