OPINION
The left-wing media will have you believe the current National Government in New Zealand and Republican party in the US have recently made major radical moves to the right. That they are taking us back to the ’70s or even the ’50s.
That is rubbish and is a deliberate narrative to misrepresent and conceal the radical changes of the past three years (in NZ) by the political left; changes which were not campaigned on and were hidden from us by the most radical and corrupt of any government in our history, with full compliance from the media.
The media will fight to prevent those radical changes being reversed, despite a democratically elected National-led Government with a mandate to do just that to the impractical, race-based and unworkable legislation of the last government.
The National-led coalition Government, unlike the last one, showed its hand on its full agenda prior to the election and now are implementing the policies it campaigned on, which is what the electorate wants.
They are taking us back three years to 2020, not 70 or 50 years as the media and Labour want us to believe.
Shane Jones, a member of the Labour party for nine years, left in 2014 and joined NZ First in 2017. Elon Musk left the Democrats in 2021 and became a Republican, having been a Democrat since 2012.
The hilarious stick-figure illustration, below, showing Elon Musk’s transformation from Democrat to Republican, shows the chief reason many like him, including Robert F Kennedy Jr, find themselves more to the right side of the political divide these days.
The rapid move of the political left to the far left and a more radical agenda also moved the centre left further, leaving people like Musk and Jones standing on the right side of the political divide as they did not change their views. It also led to the strange phenomenon of Shane Jones now being a minister in a National-led coalition Government, after a brief foray back to the dark side with Labour 2017–2020 that most of us would prefer to forget.
Conservatives haven’t changed at all. They still believe in a strong economy, personal responsibility, the value of hard work, help for the vulnerable and safe communities as the pillars of our society. It is the now the (activist) left who have gone through a frightening metamorphosis and, with their propagandists the media, are up for the fight to stop this government implementing its mandated agenda.
In opting for woke radicalism, the left have lost all sight of reality and reason, which many just cannot accept, particularly people like Jones and Musk, who are eloquent, bold and great spokespeople for their cause to eradicate wokeness and bring back decency, common sense and reason.
I don’t know if it has fully dawned on the new PM and his party how valuable NZ First will be in implementing their agenda. Quick-witted and erudite Jones will be an invaluable spokesperson and fearless fighter for their values that the left and media are trying to destroy. Include in that Winston Peters, who is already proving his worth and of course the ever intrepid Seymour, who won’t be put off his course no matter how much coercion and bullying he encounters from the left.
To illustrate my point, the Spinoff has an interesting article: How to Navigate the New English Names of Government Departments. As John McEnroe once said, “You have got to be joking.” It has been two years (three max) since Maori names were adopted.
New Zealanders, including Maori, have been speaking English all of our lives so English is our first language (and, by the way, needs to be offically recognised as such. Please note, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith). No navigation is required to understand what is essentially a first language for almost all New Zealanders!
Although to be fair, Mike Hosking thought the NZ Transport Agency is the NZ Transport Authority. But we will make allowances for him; the exception proves the rule.
Maori is an official language of New Zealand (not Aotearoa). However, very few want to learn it, except those who get paid for using it, many getting special bonuses, to talk to each other in the public service or academia or speak it on air, bastardising English. The value in delivery outcomes for the general public is negligible, apart from Maori agencies like Whanau Ora.
The main issue is despite the best efforts and huge expense, most Maori still don’t speak Maori. If they did, Maori elites, public servants and academia would have a more valid and authentic argument. The current diatribe is just a fairy story we will not swallow.
No one, including Maori, needs them to communicate with us in Maori as we have a perfectly good language that we all understand. The rapidly growing number of Maori TV channels are a waste of money as no one watches them, so Maori content is finding its way onto English language channels.
This is coercion. Billions of dollars poured into promoting the Maori language has achieved very little over the years. Please note, Media and Communications Minister Melissa Lee and take steps to tone it down.
The disingenuous way the media are attempting to mislead us is outrageous. Take for instance pious brainwasher extraordinaire Professor Margaret Mutu, outraged with the return to English names for government departments, opining on Radio New Zealand, ‘Maori won’t be able to access them.’
Pardon me? This assertion is laughable. Mutu knows most Maori don’t speak Maori and use English to navigate everything. Her lies are fine with interviewer Hipkiss, who accepts them as gospel, not requiring another opinion as a ‘balanced’ journalist would.
Not the rest of us; no wonder RNZ’s ratings are falling.
I must add here I was informed on RNZ by Margaret Mutu, their go-to person for all things Treaty related, that the English version of the Treaty was just ‘Hobson’s wishlist’. Digest that for a moment… But I digress.
If Christopher Luxon thought the tough part of the role was campaigning, he will be rethinking. As many conservative commentators have mentioned, the media are out to attack him. The no-honeymoon phase has been created by the media’s negative agenda in sync with Labour and their interest groups. Applying cancel culture to the economic vandalism Labour caused, including recent Treasury reports on Labour’s unfunded transport policy that created an enormous (covered-up) pre-election fiscal hole. Where is the outrage from the media?
Peters and Jones need to keep lambasting the dishonest media and calling them out for what they are: fraudulent. Given the number of views on YouTube of Peters’s initial speech, the public are enjoying this new and uncensored era of free speech.
The PM would be wise to leave them to it. These are two seasoned operators who can efficiently put the ill-informed media in their place when required.
And for those, like Hipkins who piously opines that Peters is ‘not fit for office’, who seek to destroy him, Jones reminds them: “Winston has the memory of an elephant and the hide of a rhinoceros.”