To criticise was to be labelled racist. Critical analysis of the government by the MSM became a long forgotten process. Academics, they who rode extremely high horses, were free to revel in perpetrating the Treaty partnership myth and condemning anyone who questions the magnificence of Te Ao Maori.
Such was the agenda to emasculate democracy, Labour’s Keiran McAnulty’s was emboldened to make this fatuous claim “…democracy with equal suffrage seems to be an academic concept that is incompatible with honouring the Treaty.”
If a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition was to form a government in 2026, kiss goodbye to all citizens having equal political rights, forget co-governance, we would be herded straight down He Puapua Road into a dead end called Ethnocracy Close and one of the world’s oldest and most enduring democracies would be doomed!
The politics of dissonance would prevail as the Maori elite and activists feather their nests, protect their own interests and exert dominion, all at the expense of the majority!
The promotion of a divisive agenda of identity politics continues apace today, even though we were told it would be brought to an end by Luxon’s coalition government.
Even though Hipkins has the temerity to state otherwise, a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition would see the division escalate even further!
Why, or more accurately, who, other than those who would benefit financially, would vote for the dismantling of democracy? Who would want a repeat of the incompetence we were served under Hipkins and Ardern?
More accurately, who would want the country to dismantle democracy and install an Ethnocracy?
Has our current coalition government performed any better? The polls are suggesting not, because a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition is a distinct possibility this year!
How does a dangerously incompetent government get re-elected? Is it voter apathy or MSM influence?
Let’s look at what influences the casting of our vote.
I suggest there are two major influencing factors; one a relative newcomer on the political landscape and one that has been around as long as there have been people to be influenced.
Firstly MMP –
New Zealand’s political system changed forever in 1993 when 53.9% of voters opted for the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system.
You can make a good case that MMP has significantly eroded political standards and, indeed, legislative performance.
The first MMP election in 1996 led to a protracted seven-week deadlock, eventually resulting in an uneasy alliance between Winston Peters and a National government he had previously opposed. While Peters secured the roles of Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, the coalition’s one-seat majority was anything but stable!
The coalition government fractured in 1998 over the privatization when National proposed selling government shares in Wellington Airport, leading to the departure of NZ First from Cabinet.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past?
NZ Firsts action back then could be blamed for setting a precedent for the “tail wagging the dog” politics that many now blame for modern voter disenchantment.
MMP, in all its marvellousness, firstly, gives us an electorate MP whose primary job is to represent the specific views and concerns of the people in their electorate, but we are also inflicted with list MPs. These “spongers” do not represent a specific electorate and enter Parliament based on their ranking on a party list. These “spongers” have the luxury of not being accountable to an electorate and their loyalty is to the party that gave them their seat.
Therefore, representation is lost, discarded in favour of blind party loyalty. We elect local MPs to be our voice in Parliament, yet they increasingly act as mere extensions of their party’s leadership. When they choose the party over the people, the core of our democratic system is undermined.
Then there is the politicians themselves. Their reputation is, mostly, low to begin with. They generally occupy the lowest rungs of the ladder in any popularity poll. They are masters of broken promises and political double speak. Today politics is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, inefficiency and undue interference, big brother/we know best, in matters both public and private.
Remember Jacinda Ardern famously saying during the 2017 election campaign that she believed that a person could have a career in politics without telling lies.
That little gem was destroyed in 2020 with “We will continue to be your single source of truth.” “Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.”
2026 is election year and, as in the past, making unintelligent utterings is no barrier to political success. Unfortunately for the “thinking voter” there are several psychological processes that lead to apparent incompetents being elected into powerful positions.
Logically, you’d want an intelligent, experienced person who understands the best approach and methods for running a country in the best possible way. But no, voters, inexplicably, seem drawn to exhibitions of questionable intellectual abilities.
Actually, there is a known psychological process that contributes to the phenomenon of the re-election of failures.
And that is the second of the major influencing factors – confidence.
Confident people are more convincing. You can see this stratagem every day as it’s employed by used-car salesmen, insurance and real estate agents who have developed and have used a façade of confidence to advantage for decades.
And today’s politicians are very clearly aware of that fact. Hence all the media training, spin doctors and PR management. They know full well any politician that doesn’t come across as assured and confident gets trashed. So, the maintenance of a simple veneer of confidence is vitally important in politics.
A study known as The Dunning–Kruger Effect discovered there is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. The Dunning–Kruger Effect basically explains a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness.
Coined in 1999 by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the Dunning–Kruger Effect explains why people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. Not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent.
The study found that less-intelligent people, very strangely, are usually self confident!
The irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is that, Professor Dunning notes, “the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task—and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at that task.”
Again, why do we vote for people ill equipped to run our lives?
Are our politicians actually, a mirror of society?
Society operates as a system of normalized averages, adjusting diverse values to a seemingly common scale. Consequently, our leaders act as a mirror, reflecting the average standards of the community rather than elevating them. This explains why so few politicians actually change anything: the system incentivizes them to “placate the electorate” rather than lead, inspire, or improve.
The sad thing is, we are complicit in the mediocrity. Through our choices—whether to vote, inform ourselves, communicate with our politicians, or simply engage politically, we determine who gets elected.
Politicians mirror our preferences. Even non-participation, such as apathy or failing to vote, allows extreme adherents to dictate outcomes. This is the hard truth of representative government: change is slow because the system reflects us, as a people.
While MMP was designed to ensure Parliament acts as a better representation, it often just brings more of the same, because a mirror can only reflect what is standing in front of it!
To be governed by more principled leaders, we confront a fundamental conundrum: Must we first elect better politicians to elevate our national standards, or must we raise our own standards to compel better leadership?
This November, as we approach the upcoming election, we face defining choices for New Zealand and critical decisions regarding this country’s future path. The government we choose to lead us through to 2029 will leave a legacy that impacts our children, grandchildren and possibly even beyond!
Consider what the future of our governance could look like: a democracy fixed in equality and individual freedoms, versus a system where one’s station in life is decided by ancestry.
Ask yourself, do you want a democracy where everyone is the architect of their own destiny, or a society where lineage and birthright dictate your future?
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
If a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition was to form a government in 2026, kiss goodbye to all citizens having equal political rights, forget co-governance, we would be herded straight down He Puapua Road into a dead end called Ethnocracy Close and one of the world’s oldest and most enduring democracies would be doomed!
The politics of dissonance would prevail as the Maori elite and activists feather their nests, protect their own interests and exert dominion, all at the expense of the majority!
The promotion of a divisive agenda of identity politics continues apace today, even though we were told it would be brought to an end by Luxon’s coalition government.
Even though Hipkins has the temerity to state otherwise, a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition would see the division escalate even further!
Why, or more accurately, who, other than those who would benefit financially, would vote for the dismantling of democracy? Who would want a repeat of the incompetence we were served under Hipkins and Ardern?
More accurately, who would want the country to dismantle democracy and install an Ethnocracy?
Has our current coalition government performed any better? The polls are suggesting not, because a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition is a distinct possibility this year!
How does a dangerously incompetent government get re-elected? Is it voter apathy or MSM influence?
Let’s look at what influences the casting of our vote.
I suggest there are two major influencing factors; one a relative newcomer on the political landscape and one that has been around as long as there have been people to be influenced.
Firstly MMP –
New Zealand’s political system changed forever in 1993 when 53.9% of voters opted for the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system.
You can make a good case that MMP has significantly eroded political standards and, indeed, legislative performance.
The first MMP election in 1996 led to a protracted seven-week deadlock, eventually resulting in an uneasy alliance between Winston Peters and a National government he had previously opposed. While Peters secured the roles of Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, the coalition’s one-seat majority was anything but stable!
The coalition government fractured in 1998 over the privatization when National proposed selling government shares in Wellington Airport, leading to the departure of NZ First from Cabinet.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past?
NZ Firsts action back then could be blamed for setting a precedent for the “tail wagging the dog” politics that many now blame for modern voter disenchantment.
MMP, in all its marvellousness, firstly, gives us an electorate MP whose primary job is to represent the specific views and concerns of the people in their electorate, but we are also inflicted with list MPs. These “spongers” do not represent a specific electorate and enter Parliament based on their ranking on a party list. These “spongers” have the luxury of not being accountable to an electorate and their loyalty is to the party that gave them their seat.
Therefore, representation is lost, discarded in favour of blind party loyalty. We elect local MPs to be our voice in Parliament, yet they increasingly act as mere extensions of their party’s leadership. When they choose the party over the people, the core of our democratic system is undermined.
Then there is the politicians themselves. Their reputation is, mostly, low to begin with. They generally occupy the lowest rungs of the ladder in any popularity poll. They are masters of broken promises and political double speak. Today politics is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, inefficiency and undue interference, big brother/we know best, in matters both public and private.
Remember Jacinda Ardern famously saying during the 2017 election campaign that she believed that a person could have a career in politics without telling lies.
That little gem was destroyed in 2020 with “We will continue to be your single source of truth.” “Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.”
2026 is election year and, as in the past, making unintelligent utterings is no barrier to political success. Unfortunately for the “thinking voter” there are several psychological processes that lead to apparent incompetents being elected into powerful positions.
Logically, you’d want an intelligent, experienced person who understands the best approach and methods for running a country in the best possible way. But no, voters, inexplicably, seem drawn to exhibitions of questionable intellectual abilities.
Actually, there is a known psychological process that contributes to the phenomenon of the re-election of failures.
And that is the second of the major influencing factors – confidence.
Confident people are more convincing. You can see this stratagem every day as it’s employed by used-car salesmen, insurance and real estate agents who have developed and have used a façade of confidence to advantage for decades.
And today’s politicians are very clearly aware of that fact. Hence all the media training, spin doctors and PR management. They know full well any politician that doesn’t come across as assured and confident gets trashed. So, the maintenance of a simple veneer of confidence is vitally important in politics.
A study known as The Dunning–Kruger Effect discovered there is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. The Dunning–Kruger Effect basically explains a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness.
Coined in 1999 by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the Dunning–Kruger Effect explains why people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. Not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent.
The study found that less-intelligent people, very strangely, are usually self confident!
The irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is that, Professor Dunning notes, “the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task—and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at that task.”
Again, why do we vote for people ill equipped to run our lives?
Are our politicians actually, a mirror of society?
Society operates as a system of normalized averages, adjusting diverse values to a seemingly common scale. Consequently, our leaders act as a mirror, reflecting the average standards of the community rather than elevating them. This explains why so few politicians actually change anything: the system incentivizes them to “placate the electorate” rather than lead, inspire, or improve.
The sad thing is, we are complicit in the mediocrity. Through our choices—whether to vote, inform ourselves, communicate with our politicians, or simply engage politically, we determine who gets elected.
Politicians mirror our preferences. Even non-participation, such as apathy or failing to vote, allows extreme adherents to dictate outcomes. This is the hard truth of representative government: change is slow because the system reflects us, as a people.
While MMP was designed to ensure Parliament acts as a better representation, it often just brings more of the same, because a mirror can only reflect what is standing in front of it!
To be governed by more principled leaders, we confront a fundamental conundrum: Must we first elect better politicians to elevate our national standards, or must we raise our own standards to compel better leadership?
This November, as we approach the upcoming election, we face defining choices for New Zealand and critical decisions regarding this country’s future path. The government we choose to lead us through to 2029 will leave a legacy that impacts our children, grandchildren and possibly even beyond!
Consider what the future of our governance could look like: a democracy fixed in equality and individual freedoms, versus a system where one’s station in life is decided by ancestry.
Ask yourself, do you want a democracy where everyone is the architect of their own destiny, or a society where lineage and birthright dictate your future?
Pee Kay writes he is from a generation where common sense, standards, integrity and honesty are fundamental attributes. This article was first published HERE
11 comments:
Well it certainly isnt helping that the population is brainwashed by the MSM, and the current lot seem to not want to do anything about it??? I certainly do not understand why. Without more balanced media coverage what else can you expect.
After the financial vandalism Ardern & Hipkins left us with, how is it possible that 34% would still vote for them? Its not the system, its the voters that are the problem. What is wrong with people?
MSM need to better report both sides of the political scene.
Indeed, Christopher Hipkins, the Dunning-Kruger effect personified. There he sits - supremely confident, yet everything he has touched has been a disaster - be it Education, Health, Covid Response, or Police. The man who earnestly believes Maori didn't cede sovereignty and is keen to divide the nation forever on one's claim to a certain ancestry. What a fool, but so too those that vote for him and his band of general incompetent misfits who, like the Greens, have lost sight of their original purpose and raison d'etre.
The State owned media - Radio NZ, TVNZ are a significant part of our political problems.
Encouraged and paid by Ardern & co for 6 years to deliberately misinform, to deliberately deliver biased, unbalanced, racist content.
It could and should have been fixed on Day 1 of this Coalition, but Luxon chose to allow this travesty to roll on.
Luxon needs to be rolled, and someone else put in place to fulfill the mandate he was given to eliminate the Maorication and left bias of the media of which he has direct control.
You are onto it PK. There may be a number of ways to improve our presently disastrous system but of course we will certainly not attempt to do that. Think of the uproar if we restricted voting to those who could be trusted to vote in the long-term interests of the nation. Or perhaps eliminated voting completely and ballot selected our MPs through a ‘competency filter’. (Rather like the way we selected young men for military service. They had to be fit for the role.). But the vested interests we now see in all the political and social elites mean that they are perfectly happy to see the present circus continue. Until it doesn’t, and then be prepared to re-establish the nation…if possible.
Quite simply:- " a Labour/Greens/Maori Party coalition" would be APARTHEID here and now in our once free nation !!
NO FUTURE IN LIVING IN THE PAST
Surely it is time to leave the grievances of ancestors back in history and start living in the world today.
For example, the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists committed huge slaughter, rape, torture, genocide and land seizure on millions of innocent citizens.
That was 70 -80 years ago.
But we (the civilised world) has moved on.
We do not blame or punish Japanese or German people of today for those war crimes.
We are not still whining and demanding more and more payment from Germans and Japanese of today for those (historical) crimes.
There is no future in living in the past and blaming current generations for past wrongs
Winston Peters vs. Jim Bolger = MMP 1996.
Please note, that it was Jim B "who showed" W.P the exit door from the National Party (it had a connection to the Winebox affair) and with MMP allowed W.P to established NZ First.
You also need to research across the following years, where W.P (being NZ 1st plus friends) and what W.P "sought" (for himself) to once again sit on Treasury Benches.
This is the "dude" who gave D.J Ardern " the leg up".
Now W.P has Shane Jones (alongside) the same Jones Boy under Ardern "who splashed the cash" on regional projects, that had no accountability requirements attached and of recent days 'has replicated' that generosity with Taxpayer money to Maoridom. Ratana 2026.
Now Master Luxon knows full well that come 7 November 2026 - "he needs W.P and W.P knows that" - it is all about the "jobs" for W.P & The Jones Boy.
Oh and if you read Polls on how the "pollies" are doing, you need to seek a Mental Health assessment - the Aussies are being conned by Pollsters (via MSM) re On-Nation, but the "dude" on the street says otherwise.
So to end comment -
"We the People decide" and it is interesting that one comment (@7:53) relates to how K1W1's vote (i.e Labour) but that has how it has been for last 100 years.
It is called historical, ditto for those who vote National - for both groups of people it is one party, to the ardent party fan, no either/ or - "they can do no wrong", (the other parties are not worth looking at) - that is why we got D.J Ardern. Mind you what swung that vote was the women of NZ.
You only have to look at how Ardern "was marketed".
Has anyone heard if we have a new coach for the AB's?
Just asking!
Several comments re the biased MSM . So why has the Coalition been so slow and weak to remedy this? The damage to them is daily. Melissa Lee was removed from the portfolio early - then Goldsmith ( acting on Luxon's orders) took over. Say no more .... all clear?
NZ reminds me of what happened in Iran. The socialists joined forces with the mullahs to overthrow the government, expecting to take control. The mullahs had other ideas and the socialists where the first against the wall.
There will be a similar outcome here. Once Maori have control, the non-maori who supported them will find things don't work out as they had planned. Partnership will be replaced by subjugation.
Willie Jackson agrees with you Doug. He stated during the Mori Ori settlement in Parliament "that his ancestors were amongst those who committed the genocide in the Chathams but he couldn't be held responsible for their actions". But obviously. as far as Willie is concerned, that only applies to Maori. Us whiteys aren't given the same exemption!!
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