tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post614500482024074913..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Our welfare system is not functioning wellLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-78701494197729762792022-02-11T10:10:10.012+13:002022-02-11T10:10:10.012+13:00Now I know what I'm going to write about today...Now I know what I'm going to write about today..<br /><br />http://nzb3.anarkiwi.co.nz/2022/02/11/realpolitik/Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-83774477466737970692022-02-11T09:53:58.679+13:002022-02-11T09:53:58.679+13:00I don't know how long this has been going on, ...I don't know how long this has been going on, this current form of politics. 15 or 20 Years? That's also when a 'debate' stopped being a debate but instead a point-scoring game taught at our universities. Perception and feelings mattered, not facts or logic.<br /><br />These guys pushing back against the new Labour 6.0 scam are not speaking truth. They're simply taking the strongest 'debate' argument they can to undermine what they're against. They don't care how they win the debate game to undermine their opponent and, besides, nobody else will remember how either.<br /><br />Good example in the Parnell Rose Gardens protest at the moment up in Auckland. It was an upper-class white protest up to last year and it was failing. They have now re-branded as a Maori protest with all the right lingo and blessings and brown faces on social media. They saw that it worked at Ihumatao.<br /><br />We're a polity now that cares more about the result than the process. Same mentality as criminals willing to steal if justified by gaining the loot. It undermines our social fabric and our self-esteem but those things count for little in current era. What matters is winning the 'debate' or starting or stopping your project. Certainly it's not about making sense or being good! It will cost us in the long run before it stops and a decent society returns. Meanwhile, read the news with this in mind. It's also called 'realpolitik.' Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.com