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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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Wikipedia surprised me with the news she was producer of Campbell Live. Now she's taking a leadership stance:
These two breaking ranks sends a signal of the future, I suspect.
Lurid but effective imagery. Bish ought not to get over-excited though lest he be seen to be counting his chickens before they hatch.
Aha! Pointing to the possibility of a u-turn if a new captain makes the call post-election. Very subtle. Few punters will see that signal, and few of her colleagues too!
A recent poll I read lately, (more poles than a strip club ) had a majority wanted wealth raxs , its pretty safe ground imho
Simon O'Conner celebrated the the overturning of Roe v Wade and was forced to retract and apologise.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/469937/simon-o-connor-apologises-to-fellow-national-mps-over-abortion-post
Perhaps the wealthiest 10% feel equally deserving of an apology from Ingrid Leary for causing them distress by mentioning a CGT.
Jeez that guy's dork central if ever I saw it. Hope ACT's amazonian/aquarian contender dethrones the bugger!
I'm a bit of a punter on prospects of change for that 10% group. A sneaking suspicion that I may be one of them is also relevant – a maths wiz could figure that out if I mention being freehold in possession of a home worth on a good day around 650K? However my ex-hippie self isn't keen on being classified as capitalist even though my extreme rw brother pointed out that I had become one as a successful market player. I didn't even bother mentioning, when I agreed ruefully, that I hadn't stopped seeing capitalists as a blight on society. Back to the topic though, I reckon we can rely on this decile to have more of a mental grasp of the state of the world than you may think they do…
They do have a grasp on the state of the world and are able to act on it freely, which is why social division and harm is a particularly stubborn nut to crack.
I think Brooke Van Velden will win the seat for Act.
And they call woke a mind virus.
“Thirty years ago, if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane,” he said.
“But it’s no longer insane. It’s now real. There are those people out there,” Linker added. “The question is: will they get their chance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/red-caesar-authoritarianism-republicans-extreme-right
Yeah, groupthink. This Red Caesar is a social archetype exemplified already by Stalin & Mao & Pol Pot so funny to see the right jumping on that leftist bandwagon.
The intellectual dude in the photo made me suspicious (clean-shaven means dork central) but the whiff of traction suggests he's onto something. Definitely a space to watch, featuring Trump as useful idiot!
The right have been aboard the wagon for a very long time.
https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/an-inspiring-1962-dispatch-from-a
Hail Orange Caesar!
Elizabeth Rata: "lawyers tend to believe that if it is said, and especially if it is said in legislation, then it must be true." https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2023/10/03/elizabeth-rata-two-treaties-of-waitangi-the-articles-treaty-and-the-principles-treaty/
So her thesis is that this collective hallucination (Principles Treaty) got dreamed up a few decades back (driven by a strong collective urge to right the historical wrong), and has subsequently operated in tandem with the dualist TOW & Te Tiriti linguistic alternatives, which conspiracy theorists add the earlier English drafts into to confuse things even more. No, I'm not into nominating a mastermind!
Technically correct. However, academic clowns will continue to get it wrong. It's a free market in ideas & they have every right to play the fool therein. Established political parties usually demonstrate their irrelevance by being even more foolish on the topic, to sideline the competing academics. Picking the biggest fool at any moment ain't easy.
If the pollies & lawyers gang up on the people, who will win? Yeah. Call their bluff.
That's an extremely impressive triad! Well done Elizabeth. Rise to the challenge folks, let's give Aotearoa the shift that the times require.
Luxon seems to be doing great a David Brent impersonation while out campaigning. Lots of little furtive grins towards the cameras.
Has he really? Coy? Better be careful he doesn't out-smart himself. However one must factor in that he can use tacit awareness with biological signalling, a survival skill.
There was a clip on TV1 news of Luxon getting really close to an elderly man who said he had always voted Labour but now he would vote National. I believe that the moment the clip finished Luxon would abandon his forced grin and abandon the old man. On to the next posed image, on with the forced grin cuddle up etc. etc
Inauthentic???
First it was the mood of the board room…..now its the mood of the rest home…
Luxon is as about authentic as a Rolex from the back streets of Calcutta……