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2:30 pm, August 31st, 2009 - 4 comments
Categories: cartoons, Environment -
Tags: moreu
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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heh – really how naive do the Nats think people are? Have C and T stopped doing their focus group work or something?
Well I guess the NACTS know they can get away with it becaue their getting away with everything else.
To paraphrase the gladiators’ salutation, “Moreu, te salutamus”.
I think this is one thing that the NACTs won’t get away with in much the same way they quickly found out they wouldn’t get away with even remotely considering the possibility that maybe we would repeal our anti-nuclear policy.
As NZers we tend to be quite tied to the idea of the fact that we are “clean and green” no matter how incorrectly that describes the current status of NZs ecological reality. However, as a whole, we generally start sitting up and taking notice when someone starts threatening our most valuable assets with a giant stinking proposal like this. They should have started smaller… we probably wouldn’t have noticed then.