Just Left: Why are we angry? tries and fails to explain why things are so angry right now. He would be better reading the Dominion Post. We are angry because helengrad is corrupt.
As the comments on the blogs and the fracas this week in politics makes clear, the people in the bubble that is national politics are a bunch of angry bees at the moment.
AJ - so outside the political bubble people dont care? 81% care enough to have formed an opinion that labour stole money from the taxpayer and should pay it back. Perhaps you are the one who should get out more.
Jordan I wonder if you have read Hayek's The road to serfdom. You, chris trotter and the labour leaders are obviously true socialists who follow the theory that the ends justifies the means. It does not matter what crimes or atrocities an individual commits as long as it is for the "greater good". On that basis stealing from the taxpayer to fund an election is quite justifiable.
Hayek talks about how socialists like yourself corrupt words to fool the masses into believing that their motives are pure. That has worked for 7 long years. Your posturing about it being related to policy is a further attempt to sully the waters. It is interesting that Labour are angry but nowhere in your post do you give any reason why Labour should be angry. They are in power. They have no reason to be angry. National would have reason. National is angry because Labour cheated, lied and stole the election. Labour are angry because, in the words of the Dom Post, they are cornered rats.
But the reality is that the voters eyes have been opened. Your leader has been revealed as a liar, a fraud, and a thief with no loyalty and no honour. Now that voters have concluded she is wrong on one thing, the whole edifice will come crumbling down. Voters will not accept her brusque commands to move on from every scandal any more.
Labour managed to smear Dr Brash with links to the EB over an honest failure to link the question at hand with previous discussions. He corrected that and maintained his integrity when he realised the error. It may have cost him the election even despite the stolen funding.
Labour will no doubt pay the money back and then try to pretend that had been their intention the whole time. Field will bumble along till the next election denying and not understanding what he has done wrong, left there by Clarks willingness to accept corrupt behaviour as long as it serves the cause. To an extent she is hoist on her own petard. She cannot get rid of Field because of her own corrupt behaviour.
So far you have been lucky in the polls. Enough voters believed the lies and the spin. But over the next 2 years more and more swing voters will see helengrad for what it really is. The realisation that 81% of voters also think the theft was wrong will be enough to convince people that other spin is really just lies.
The media were just like voters. Journalists are traditionally left leaning and really made life easier for Labour, following the spin and the party line. For lefties now to be claiming that MSM are pro business, pro tax cut and beholden to national is just fatuous. But with Labour & Cullen's paranoid, bullying tactics the worm has truly turned.
You may think it is painful now. But the next 2 years does not hold any relief. When 81% of the population, including Idiot/Savant and Russell Brown think the money should be repaid and Fields behaviour was unacceptable it means Labour are wrong. It also validates the position taken by National and Dr Brash. Labour has descended to the gutter with its cheap and nasty attempts at blackmail.
So now there is an additional reason for anger among National politicians and supporters. There is no reason to hold back for the good of the country. The best long term interests of the country will be served by clearing out this lying, corrupt bunch of thieves.
I suggest that Jordan and Tony Milne take a week out, examine your conscience and conclude whether you can really continue being lickspittle apologists for the indefensible. Hayek shows how your sort of blindly following the party line leads to an authoritarian state where the self appointed elite determine everything. Follow Trotters logic far enough and you have no need for democratic elections. The people might bring back the "wrong" result.
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