Over the past few weeks, a new phrase has crept into the talking points of the left: "imported cultural wars." You’ll hear it everywhere now, especially from Green Party figures like Chlöe Swarbrick, Ricardo Menéndez March, Benjamin "Bussy" Doyle, and Lawrence Xu-Nan. Like clockwork, they’re all parroting the same line, trying to paint conservatives and critics as the ones dragging foreign conflicts and ideologies into New Zealand politics. It’s almost impressive how coordinated it is. But it’s also completely dishonest.
If we actually take a moment to examine where these so-called "imported" issues came from, the answer couldn’t be clearer. The left imported them. For years now, New Zealand’s political and cultural landscape has been flooded with foreign causes and ideologies, and nearly every single one has been championed by the left.
They brought in cancel culture, where people’s livelihoods are destroyed for having the "wrong" opinion. They pushed mass immigration policies without serious conversation about the impacts on housing, wages, or social cohesion. They imported climate change hysteria, demanding radical economic transformations with little regard for cost or practicality. They paraded Black Lives Matter protests through New Zealand streets.
They didn’t stop there. They also brought in Free Palestine activism, much of which in practice has turned into thinly veiled support for Hamas, a recognized terrorist organisation. Somehow, in 2024 and 2025, we’ve reached a point where New Zealand politicians are more concerned with Israeli border policy than with fixing our own crumbling infrastructure and broken healthcare system.
The reality is simple. The left has been globalising our culture wars for years. They brought in identity politics. They brought in race essentialism. They brought in ideological purity tests. And now that the public is waking up and pushing back, they’re desperately trying to pin the blame elsewhere.
It’s not conservatives trying to turn New Zealand into a copy of America’s culture war. It’s not the right who are staging protests about issues halfway across the world, demanding we dismantle our own society to fit the narratives of activist groups overseas. It’s the left. And they’ve been doing it proudly until very recently.
The sudden obsession with "imported cultural wars" is nothing more than damage control. The Green Party, and parts of Labour know they’ve lost touch with everyday New Zealanders. Ordinary people don’t care about ideological fashion shows imported from woke American universities. They care about putting food on the table, raising their kids in safe communities, and having politicians who put New Zealand first.
Instead, they’ve been served a steady diet of grievance politics, radical environmentalism, and manufactured outrage. And now, facing growing public resentment, the left are scrambling to accuse their opponents of doing exactly what they’ve spent years doing themselves.
In short, the left are cooked. They’ve spent years importing division. Now they’re losing the room. No slogan is going to save them from the consequences.
They brought in cancel culture, where people’s livelihoods are destroyed for having the "wrong" opinion. They pushed mass immigration policies without serious conversation about the impacts on housing, wages, or social cohesion. They imported climate change hysteria, demanding radical economic transformations with little regard for cost or practicality. They paraded Black Lives Matter protests through New Zealand streets.
They didn’t stop there. They also brought in Free Palestine activism, much of which in practice has turned into thinly veiled support for Hamas, a recognized terrorist organisation. Somehow, in 2024 and 2025, we’ve reached a point where New Zealand politicians are more concerned with Israeli border policy than with fixing our own crumbling infrastructure and broken healthcare system.
The reality is simple. The left has been globalising our culture wars for years. They brought in identity politics. They brought in race essentialism. They brought in ideological purity tests. And now that the public is waking up and pushing back, they’re desperately trying to pin the blame elsewhere.
It’s not conservatives trying to turn New Zealand into a copy of America’s culture war. It’s not the right who are staging protests about issues halfway across the world, demanding we dismantle our own society to fit the narratives of activist groups overseas. It’s the left. And they’ve been doing it proudly until very recently.
The sudden obsession with "imported cultural wars" is nothing more than damage control. The Green Party, and parts of Labour know they’ve lost touch with everyday New Zealanders. Ordinary people don’t care about ideological fashion shows imported from woke American universities. They care about putting food on the table, raising their kids in safe communities, and having politicians who put New Zealand first.
Instead, they’ve been served a steady diet of grievance politics, radical environmentalism, and manufactured outrage. And now, facing growing public resentment, the left are scrambling to accuse their opponents of doing exactly what they’ve spent years doing themselves.
In short, the left are cooked. They’ve spent years importing division. Now they’re losing the room. No slogan is going to save them from the consequences.
Before I forget - the "defund the police" madness came from them too.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
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And that is why I have sat here stunned for the last few years constantly thinking WTF
You've nailed that one, Matu. I welcome and much appreciate the honesty. Something that's lacking, not only from the left, but also in many others that claim to represent us. Judgment Day is coming.
It is amazing, that here in NZ just how we were " handed the propaganda of the Left, Socialist Elements and the NZ MSM of what was happening in America, especially when it led to the rise of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and their activist functions during the riots following the death of Floyd George.
Even the US MSM especially TV - CNN, MNSBC, personalities like Rachel Maddow, The Husband & Wife Team on MNSBC, The View (from LA) and others who " peddled " insistent messaging = that in the words of Jacinda Ardern were both Disinformation & Misinformation. But never mind the ' terrorist activities ' that occurred across the Globe in the name of ' Right is Might ', that led to the destruction of property, the demonizing of people who stood and said no, the elevation of Cancel Culture, the inability and ineptitude of Police Forces to counter these actions.
These actions/activities highlighted by MSM but not with finger pointing, but with more a ' poor people attitude '.
Thus emboldened - they progressed.
We also saw the rise of " statements " that were used to ' attack ' opponents, this is covered in this Opinion article - and now by no other than our own NZ Green Party.
How many know of the rise of the Green Party, especially in Germany 1950's onward, its spread across the Globe - a party whose intent was to " destabilize Govt, in any manner or means".
Also history of that Party, now shows that is core membership were people from the German Gay Community and their training agents had been the KGB. Which included one, now famous person.
Since the BLM movement, investigation has now found that -
- outside activists had, had a hand in the organizing, influence and financial factors behind what happened across America and elsewhere.
- people were moved from one location to another to be part of
' on the street ' activism
- and in America one of the BLM main " stalwarts " and African American Women, ' fleeced the bank a/cs for personal gain '.
Thus what is written in this opinion piece should be a lead article in a NZ MSM outlet.
But no, we have the ' shadows of American style Media, bending a knee with media coverage, that again emboldens them to do more'.
And now for News on The All Blacks.
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