Donald Martin

Luxon is doing a class job.

It is hardly surprising the media is lashing out at me. I’m outspoken about how much damage the current crop of journalists have done to trust in the profession and that I think they’re negligent and biased. They are attempting to gatekeep the dissemination of info but that train has already left the station. Kiwis are looking elsewhere for news. And the more we offer alternatives, the more they will try to cast us as illegitimate, audacious, and having political biases. That last one cracks me up given how completely politicised and partisan our media has been for some time. I’m right wing? And that’s a problem. Okay. This from a media class that was polled as being almost entirely far left or left. Their anger is entirely predictable.

A Labour candidate says his party is about more than “money and profits”. I too once thought this. But thanks to the kind and tolerant left booting me out because I know what a woman is, I have had the chance to reflect on what that means. And I’ve come to realise the left operates politically on the same level as “thoughts and prayers”. They say stuff that sounds good but does nothing to solve any meaningful problems. You see, we need money to pay for our state healthcare, education system, enormous welfare bill, and every programme dreamt up to help people. If we are to continue having these public services we have to pay for them. The left is like a privileged teenager who has no concept of how much their parents earn except to know that when they ask for something it is always there. They have no understanding of the reality that if the money runs out you cant just go to the money tree. I too want our public services to continue but what I appreciate about the right in general is they start from the point of ensuring there is money to do so. They are the parent who takes extra shifts knowing that their kid has to get a new school uniform or something. Of course I speak in generalities and a lot of NZ’s right are actually just not quite as left as the left. But I am sick of this narrative of the left being the kind ones. It is not kind to keep borrowing against future generations’ futures. It isn’t kind to promise the world and deliver sweet F all. Remember Ardern was going to housr all of NZ’s homeless within 4 weeks of becoming PM, end child poverty, and build 100,000 houses? How wonderful! And what happened? How does the saying go? If you’re not a leftie when you’re young you don’t have a heart. If you’re not a rightie in your 30s you don’t have a brain.