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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Dieuwe de Boer: Are the Rich Turning Right?


Elon Musk is openly calling for regime change in the United Kingdom. His platform X is shaping narratives of the damage that both illegal and legal immigration are having on the West. The inclusion of mass legal migration as a problem is a welcome one for New Zealand.

Mark Zuckerberg is firing 40,000 "fact checkers" as he wears a million dollar watch and solid gold chain. Looking and acting poor has become uncool for the tech billionaires. He started lifting weights, doing martial arts, and stopped eating seed oils. The testosterone boost drastically altered his politics.

The transformation of these modern day titans from virtue signaling far left political causes to championing the common man has been something to behold. Last week it culminated with Elon Musk simply shrugging off being called a "fascist" with "so be it". The speed at which the world is changing for the better since COVID tyranny is hard to fully grasp. Yes, there is a lot more work to do, but even I am having trouble keeping up with the Overton window now.

Radical leftist agitators in New Zealand were outraged that ZURU billionaire Nick Mowbray reposted Tommy Robinson and that real estate mogul Mike Pero spoke out in favour of the Treaty Principles Bill. Nick simply responded to Farrier by mocking him begging for money from his readers.

This is what we call a "vibe shift".

For a long time, the anti-capitalist left had the public backing of the ultra-rich. At minimum it had their silence. Their companies were used to push wokeness and every progressive issue under the sun. Now leftists screech in pain as the same men they leeched off have decided to act in the interest of sanity and common sense.

Perhaps they are only doing this out of self-interest, but in this case their self-interest aligns with outs. They want to do cool stuff—they want progress in the old-fashioned technological sense. Now DEI regulations are destroying productivity, environmental lunacy is doubling the time it takes to complete projects. Just as an example here, the "fast track" legislation is going to cut new ferry terminal construction from 8 years down to 4 years. That's 50% of the project timeline on bureaucracy and left-wing insanity!

Populism was once the domain of the clever politician who knew how to walk a line. "Vox populi, vox dei" is now quickly becoming the domain of the most successful, powerful, and wealthy men in the solar system.

The world has always been shaped primarily by the "elite" and that isn't going to change. The power of independent media continues to grow and the legacy media continues to crumble. We have the ears of the elite. We must press the advantage in 2025.

Remember New Zealand's old motto and let it ring in your ears: "Onward!"

Dieuwe is the editor of Right Minds NZ. In addition to conservative politics and reactionary thought, he like books, gardening, biking, tech, reformed theology, beauty, and tradition. This article was sourced HERE

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