This Government is ruled by right wing feelings and neoliberal myth not actual facts or reality

Military boot camps don’t work and neither does draconian welfare policies, but that doesn’t matter to the Right because this isn’t about well thought out rational logic, this is about ‘feelings’.

The Right Wing reactionary vote is spooked and made angry by crime as our News media sell ‘if-it-bleeds-it-leads’ click bait, so much so that they want kids to be punished with military boot camps, even if research shows it doesn’t work.

Likewise bashing beneficiaries, there’s no research that says treating beneficiaries harshly helps finds jobs or builds resilience or indeed helps with poverty, but there is lots that says it’s fucked.

We live in an age where rational objective logic is a heteronormative white male privilege so you can win an argument simply be ‘feeling’ it more.

The Woke Left weaponised ‘lived experience’ as part of their Intersectionist Victim Roulette where the weakest voice gets most attention.

If, ‘Man, I feel like a Woman’ was now a  philosophical green light to the subjective woke reality, well the Right could adopt the exact same new evidential threshold being ‘feelings’.

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’!

Look at the damage to our health this Government’s austerity budget has caused...

• One in four children (27.0 percent) lived in households where food ran out often or sometimes, up from 21.3 percent in 2022/23
• 10.7 percent of adults had an unmet need for professional help for their emotions, stress, mental health or substance use in 2023/24 – more than double the rate of 4.9 percent in 2016/17
• One in 11 adults (9.1 percent) and 8.2 percent of children aged 2-14 years ate the recommended amount of vegetables
• Fewer than half of adults (46.6 percent) met physical activity guidelines, ie at least 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity activity in the past week – down from 50.9 percent five years ago
• One in three adults (1.5 million) classified as obese, rising to nearly half of those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods
• Nearly half of adults (44.9 percent) reported unmet need for dental care due to cost. Rates were worse for Māori, Pacific, disabled, people living in the most deprived neighbourhoods and those aged 25-54 years
• One in four adults (25.7 percent) and one in five children (18.5 percent) reported that “time taken to get an appointment was too long” as a barrier to visiting the GP in the 12 months prior to the 2023/24 survey. This is higher than the previous year (21.2 percent for adults and 14.8 percent for children). In 2021/22, the figure was 11.6 percent.

…look at the damage implementing right wing economic mythology is causing us…

A group of economists, including former Treasury Chief Economist and former Productivity Commissioners, published a letter to PM Christopher Luxon this morning calling for an immediate suspension of budget cuts to avoid further worsening a recession they say is hollowing out businesses and conflicts with the Government’s goal of doubling exports.

…even the Government’s own experts are warning them…

Treasury’s Chief Economist Dominick Stephens warned yesterday the recession was worsening to be deeper than the one seen in the Global Financial Crisis and widening the Budget deficit. His comments echoed those of a group of 15 economists who yesterday called for a suspension to Government spending cuts, saying they weren’t needed and were creating a negative feedback loop of economic contraction.

…we have allowed feelings to become the driver of social and economic policy rather than the rational common good.

 

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