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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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This seems to be the quote of the night from the National Party
funeralelection party on Saturday night at the RNZYS. Mentioned in two different accounts of that dreadful event.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-results-2020-a-funeral-what-happened-at-nationals-yacht-club-function/4XYNZRMA4JBWUBHDQ77XVHX3ZM/
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/10/judith-collins-genuine-concession-speech-the-best-part-of-a-depressing-party-for-national.html
Got it on Twitter as well, don't ask me why i got it either. But some old hag slap down the pissed young muppet, but was a tad late.
You never know – Nietzsche recognizes the phenomenon of 'growth through suffering' as essential to well-being. … Suffering that can be given meaning through growth is something we have reason to want. Suffering that remains brute and uninterpreted is something we have reason not to want.' https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1251165?journalCode=sinq20
I think he is a load of vinegar and wind. But hey it will teach National something.
Probably the two highlights for me from the weekend were Ginny Andersen and Shanan Halbert crushing Mr. Snoop and Dan Bidiot.
What were your highlights?
Watching John Campbell and Hilary Barry after the tiredness and sugar took over.
The (for me) unexpected electorate wins. And pleasant suprise to see David Cunliffe and and an ex Green leader on Three when tired of Nikki Kaye being asked the same question yet again on One and risking a change in channel.
With a blatant comparison to other countries dealing with the pandemic doing the same as National said they would do it.
It was obvious fairly quickly that if National been in power at the time our own death rates would have been proportionally the same as Australia or even the USA. It wasn't luck that saved us from that fate but outright competence from the government that National proved that it doesn't have.
100% Draco.
And they wanted to rebuild the Covid protection apparatus set up since the pandemic began, the one that seems to be working well.
I love how the narrative from the now fractured Nats is all about the mistake in rolling Bridges.
That's right, Bridges would have saved them. Bridges would have saved them right after he took them to sub 30% in April because of his incessant whinging about JA's gold-plated Covid response.
The entire thing is Bridges’ fault, ffs. From big-man travel expenses, to “fucking useless”, to candidates for cash, to hacking the budget, to demanding open borders.
If they think Bridges would have saved them they have a long, long way to go before they're back in the real world.
What gives Dury of Xero the right to propose driverless buses to WCC while driver families struggle with the Covid-19 depression ?
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See my Moderation note @ 6:36 PM.
He wouldn't have some software to sell now would he?
Josie Pagani has a bob each way – what's new? Introduced as an "expert" on TV1 news she reckoned that if Labour has any sense they would do a deal with the Greens and the Maori Party and if the Greens and the Maori Party have any sense they would not do a deal with Labour.
Josie Pagani is an expert in nothing, other than contradictions.
Incredible that in the most centrist election result in modern times she finds a way to bait and confuse.
Yes Josie Pagani "expertly" claimed Shane Jones was the best candidate to lead labour when he was up against Cunliffe and Grant R………….
She apparently also clammed on tv 3 on election night that Labour would end up of 43%
"Salmond says that, under Ardern, the “radical idea of aroha is replacing a neo-liberal mythology of life as a market based on egos pursuing their own interests” and “the star path to Aotearoa has been laid down in this election – to cherish diversity as a source of richness in decision-making and ways of living, rather than conflict”."
https://democracyproject.nz/2020/10/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-leftwing-euphoria-meets-reality/
From the link:
This is where the Greens should concentrate their influence. They have the track record and as time progresses more and more people are going to recognise the urgency of the situation.
Please Greens! You have a major role to play here. You must play it for all your worth.
Wow….
“#CommanderInChief… Honestly… If I did the things you do, I couldn’t sleep”