It’s heartening to see the landslide victory of the
Conservatives in the UK with support across different socio-demographics. It
shows amongst other things what voters disenchanted by the frequent failure of
left-wing parties can do when there are viable alternatives. May we see
something similar in New Zealand in 2020.
And it’s fascinating to observe the reactions—especially of vociferous
left-wingers—to resounding defeats like this. It reveals their political
integrity or lack thereof.
Street protesters tend to come across as less
rational, less adult, in their reduction of everything to accusations. Granted
that duplicity is no one’s preserve, and everyone occasionally wears the hypocrite
label. Yet the political left at the street level take the cake, because while
their banners display moralist statements like “Say no to racism”, they are
quite OK with lying, smearing, slandering, misrepresenting, inferring evil
intent, hating, threatening, and cursing anyone considered too “right” or conservative.
…but please “Say no to racism!”.
