The Betrayal of NZ by Ardern, Hipkins and Labour

[Balance]

And note that Ardern's pending book is now all going to be her life experiences and not on leadership?

Remember how she was going to write about leadership because that's what she excelled at?

Imagine the damage to her credibility is she wrote about her time as PM and on leadership!

[ynot]

And note that Ardern's pending book is now all going to be her life experiences and not on leadership?

Remember how she was going to write about leadership because that's what she excelled at?

Imagine the damage to her credibility is she wrote about her time as PM and on leadership!

Would be nice to think the left woke wave could be extinguished. Nice to see we have lead a shift for a change. Many other nations have also had a guts full so fingers crossed.

[moka]

Would be nice to think the left woke wave could be extinguished. Nice to see we have lead a shift for a change. Many other nations have also had a guts full so fingers crossed.

When you say would be nice to think the left woke wave could be extinguished it sounds like you don’t agree with democracy and free speech for all, not for the left in this case. And that is a kind interpretation of your comment. But plenty on here were quick to demand “their” version of democracy for them over Maori cogovernance issues.

Right-wing populists define the enemy of the people to be “other” people, such as Maori, the Left, Greenies, beneficiaries, immigrants, refugees, etc.

Right-wing populism’s incompatibility with democracy is clear when one carefully considers who “the people” often are in the populist imagination. They are not all the people. They are the minimum winning coalition of the people, and usually a part of the people that are defined in terms of their ascriptive characteristics (e.g., white).

Such an exclusionary view of “the people” cannot be reconciled with democracy’s requirement of political equality.