Putting aside the issue of voter fraud, it’s obvious that postal voting favours the left. It is much easier to cast a vote for ChlÖe Swarbrick from your living room, where you don’t have to wait in line or look others in the eye, or if you are a woke BBC executive special-voting from Islington, rather than someone who actually has to earn a living in Auckland Central. It is for the same reason that the left favours child voting as well as any votes it can garner from amongst the ranks of the dead of course.
The Singapore People’s Action Party government is well used to gerrymandering elections and, having been ensconced since 1965, knows a thing or two about ‘managing’ the electorate. Singapore insisted on in-person voting during this year’s COVID pandemic, probably to ensure that if anyone gained an electoral advantage it would be the incumbent.
There is nothing like standing in 30-degree heat in a socially-distanced queue, or in New Zealand’s case the rain, to focus the mind on what really matters. Democracy is, after all, a community activity. Using a postal vote to do your dirty work can be a bit like using the public conveniences and then not flushing the toilet. We ended up with a left-wing government that way, and so too have the Americans. Look out for more free-form, ‘convenience’ voting in future. Hey activist kids: here’s another cool way to vote for your favourite eco-warrior!
While artful Ardern got her ‘mandate’ (look into my eyes, look into my eyes), Biden most certainly did not. He hardly campaigned, turning the election into a referendum on Trump. While he sleep-walked to the White House, at the time of writing it does not appear as if he will gain the Senate, and he went backwards in Congress.
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Despite the machinery being in place, then, to ‘elect’ a hard left government, it seems this is not what US voters wanted. The Republican party did better than Trump himself, and Biden could well find himself an impotent president, unable to enact any agenda, and particularly the left’s agenda.
Similarly, Democratic party moderates did better than those on the left of the party, with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launching her government in exile on Twitter and busying herself archiving the statements of “Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future”.
I was party to a conversation recently in which it was asserted that Americans are ‘fat’ and ‘stupid’ – an all-too-common premise in New Zealand, and one which stems from our deranged nuclear-free days. I wanted to point out that Kiwis are more or less as fat, and infinitely more stupid given our attachment to the woke Green fascism of Ardern and gang – which many people actually take pride in.
Biden told us last Sunday, paraphrasing The Byrds, and quite possibly the Bible, that there is a time to heal and a time for peace and a time for the other thing. Turn, turn, turn. It’s quite possibly now a time for the Democrats to start turning on each other. And while it’s highly unlikely the left will start doing that here yet, we can but hope. Our economy is running solely on Adrian Orr’s monetary flatulence, and the left still hasn’t worked out what this does to house prices, or that markets don’t run on ‘fairness’.
Post Trump, the left everywhere is breathing a sigh of relief and looking forward to getting back to ‘business as usual’. What will this look like?
On the right side of politics we may have seen the end of neoliberal globalists masquerading as conservatives. Trump’s core message has been etched into the psyche of the Republican party for the foreseeable future. We have seen the end of hawkish neoconservatism. Likewise the end of globalism as a ‘conservative’ principle, and conservatism that allows for, or disregards, unconstrained mass migration.
Conservatism is once again nationalist, culturally conservative and mildly protectionist, at least where level playing fields, with teams playing by the same rules, are not in evidence. Conservatism is no longer class-based, and is able to speak the language of the working class, devoid of the woke neologisms of the urban liberal elite.
The globalist or internationalist agenda is now likely to be driven solely by the left, with treaty agreements positioned in the UN’s 2030 socialist agenda of control and redistribution. Without any fanfare at all, Jacinda Ardern just last week signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Deal (RCEP), which is the world’s largest free trade agreement, with China and the Southeast Asian (ASEAN) nations, enmeshing us in a bloc which controls 30 percent of the world’s trade.
This type of deal is right up Ardern’s street. It is secretive, its benefits unsubstantiated, and it puts The People’s Republic of China in the box seat. It is the diametrical opposite of the Trump position which put domestic jobs and industry first. New Zealand, now a mini Marxist utopia in its own right, will be taking on the serious Marxists in a game we cannot win and where we will be rule takers, not the rule makers.
Biden will probably take the US back into the Paris Climate Accord, and advance the green agenda of taxing the weather. This will be good news for New Zealand’s army of smug leftists in their fleet of electric cars, powered by coal imported from the Indonesian rain forest. And it will be bad news for the US economy, which had become self-sufficient in energy under Trump. What Western economies need right now, including our own, is abundant, cheap energy.
While Trump had stood up to China and Iran, his imminent departure is good news for the globalists and the international military complex which will, in due course, embark upon another round of conflict and war – designed to bring a new tide of refugees to our shores. This, of course, will greatly please Ardern, giving her many more non-white people to hug and a further list of reasons as to why the West should adapt its culture to suit their needs.
The relentless push for global integration will move at pace, but not without a fight. Trump may be on his way out, but Trumpism as a force and conservative values on the world stage are here to stay. Biden is in check and the US radical left held somewhat at bay. I wish the same could be said for New Zealand.
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