robert a heinlein to sail beyond the sunset

This transformation means that it is unlikely that National can attract sufficient support to form a government in 2023. In my sketch of the world, New Zealand is a radically transformed place compared to ten years ago. Now add in a resurgent Maori Party driven by folk who really want to end democracy in New Zealand. So maybe 12 percent is the new rusted on support for the Greens, bolstered by a stronger communist faction and a rainbow faction. Now add in the much higher number of people in a panic over climate change. If I am correct, the ‘floor’ for Labour support might now be 30 percent compared with 23 percent that we saw in the 2011 election under Cunliffe. But how many are there compared to the groups I just outlined? Sure, no sane farmer or trades person or someone working hard in the private sector is going to vote Labour. The people who think climate change will end the world. Then there are the recipients myriad types of government grants. Both as employees of a bloated public sector and as recipients of different types of welfare. Maybe one explanation is the vast numbers dependent on the state. Crowder, Daily Wire, Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson are some of the biggest names, but their role is to steer people away from what really matters, and instead to focus on what doesn’t matter and what won’t result in any significant change.Īfter Trump won in 2016, thereby exposing a systemic weakness and demonstrated discontent with the “orthodoxy,” and in the course of the subsequent years, the near free-for-all of ideas on social media platforms was ended, and strict censorship and purges became the norm.

people who are very careful about what they say and even have to use code words to avoid problems), any so-called “right wing” media who remain on the platform are necessarily approved media who conform to the acceptable paradigm. This political uniformity is the same almost right across the Western world.Ī good analogy is the Big Tech platforms – take YT, as a prime example. The single biggest obstacle to significant change is that they are all basically on the same page if they weren’t, they wouldn’t even be there. It’s the venerable tactic: to control the opposition, become the opposition.

Robert a heinlein to sail beyond the sunset