Imagine being so assured that your views on anything and everything, that you expect everyone to agree with you without compromise.
Imagine being so assured that your perspective is without error, that you need only emotion and theatrics to justify your position. No need for reason, logic, or consideration. Just lots of facial expressions.
Imagine being so assured your knowledge is correct, that even an entire Parliament – its Members, its Speaker, and Clerks – must all bend to your view.
Imagine being right in all things, that rules don’t apply to you.
And finally, imagine being so self-righteously assured of your own opinions today, that even the entirety of history will judge you correct.
Some might describe this as delusional. Some might suggest it’s narcissism. Others might use simpler words such as arrogance, contemptuous, petulant, and overconfident.
All these words apply, but the best two words to describe above are Chlöe Swarbick, co-leader of the Green Party.
Imagine being right in all things, that rules don’t apply to you.
And finally, imagine being so self-righteously assured of your own opinions today, that even the entirety of history will judge you correct.
Some might describe this as delusional. Some might suggest it’s narcissism. Others might use simpler words such as arrogance, contemptuous, petulant, and overconfident.
All these words apply, but the best two words to describe above are Chlöe Swarbick, co-leader of the Green Party.
Over the course of 48 hours of extraordinary politics, nominally around the situation in Gaza, she has demonstrated an extraordinary confidence in her own viewpoint that she believes that no one should question it and that an entire democratic parliament must bend to her will. No rules applies to her – in fact, despite being told she was ‘out of order’ by the Speaker of the House she was insistent that any engagement with him would not be for dialogue but only to impress upon him how wrong he was.
Another sad part of this spectacle is it confirms that the likes of Chlöe and the Greens are not actually prioritising the cause of the Palestinian people. The show in parliament over recent days was all about her. Sure, she and others will say it is on behalf of Gazans but her actions today loudly say otherwise. It was the ‘Chlöe show’ and deliberately designed to be so, with a fawning media in tow ready to report her progress at every step. Add to this the increasingly ridiculous scarves, you have a costume based theatrical production to indulge the wearers.
All of this points back to one very simple point – they are revolutionaries. The rules do not apply to them, and any rules in society must be brought down to create their new utopia. Agree with them, or else.
Simon O'Connor a former National MP graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Political Studies . Simon blogs at On Point - where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
Ongoing open support for a terrorist group should be discussed as a treasonable offence- yet here we ignore that
What is equally galling, is that important issues within NZ that will affect us all, get sidelined. Chloe needs to take her fight outside The House.
What about the hypocrisy. With what has happened in Syria with the Druze and Christian communities,the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria and Sudan (by Muslims; the religion of peace); the left has nothing to do to say. They just pathologically hate Israel. Should these people be our leaders? Not in my book
My only regret in all of this is that Swarbrick won't have the spine to make her absence from Parliament permanent.
Another Jacinda Ardern. All bluff and bluster and theatrical. When you analyse what Chloe says, there is no substance. Parliament has become an embarrassment really. The average viewer is trying to get answers on the economy, health, education and other important matters. Instead most of the time is "look at me moments". Do that in their own time amongst themselves. The patsy questions are time wasters. A new format should be implemented. Clear, concise and informative. Direct questions and brief answers. The countries name is New Zealand, Mr Brownlee, unless voted otherwise by New Zealanders. 99% of people who would watch Question Time can't speak Maori and no translation is given except to the members themselves.
People wonder why National is losing ground. It's because the average person doesn't see any changes. They need to be transformational. Their voters are not the Palestinian scarf wearers. Make peoples lives better(without the theatrics).
I suggest we finance a trip for Chloe and her Green mates to Palestine on condition that they display various banners including 'Queers for Palestine'.
The good news is that we would only have to buy one-way tickets.
The best strategy with the Chloe types is to encourage them. The more arrogant and stupid they become the quicker and harder they ultimately fall.
Like Greta Thunberg, Ms Swarbrick's compulsive behaviour indicates that she is on the spectrum.
And there's me thinking the first two paragraphs were setting up a critique of Donald Trump.
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