I live in hope the NZ is a net positive on the world - but with the current right of centre coalition we have in power I’m losing that hope, especially at a local NZ level.
Meanwhile, Australia is actually progressing a little bit
If you mean progressing towards a fascist decline sure. We’ve had literal Nazis march in the street alongside politicians who gave their support, an extremely brutal crackdown on the right to protest, right wing parties surging, continued undermining of healthcare and education in favour of the bourgeois, expansion of fossil fuel projects, hardcore backing of ultraright wing militarism in the usa and Japan.
The last few years have really soured me on the idea of nations in general.
I live in hope the NZ is a net positive on the world - but with the current right of centre coalition we have in power I’m losing that hope, especially at a local NZ level.
It is election year…vote like it matters.
I’ve been horrified by what the Kiwi government has been doing
I was disgusted when they were voted in, but sadly, for some reason Aotearoa seems to have become more acutely stupid
Meanwhile, Australia is actually progressing a little bit
If you mean progressing towards a fascist decline sure. We’ve had literal Nazis march in the street alongside politicians who gave their support, an extremely brutal crackdown on the right to protest, right wing parties surging, continued undermining of healthcare and education in favour of the bourgeois, expansion of fossil fuel projects, hardcore backing of ultraright wing militarism in the usa and Japan.
Cunt’s fucked mate.
Albo is definitely better than his predecessors
And yet the decline continues! One great man does not determine the course of a nation and albo is not even that.