Why NZ is in trouble

The point of the cartoon being that NZ is being criticized for it’s admittedly Draconian lock-downs and mandates by people in countries that have experienced major Covid outbreaks and tens if not hundreds of thousands deaths compared with NZ’s few deaths and far smaller outbreaks.

On the other hand, NZ enjoys natural advantages these other countries don’t. We’re an island nation that is many miles away from any other country. It’s not like the UK or Ireland.And it’s not like continents where counties share their borders.

So NZ was in a unique position to avoid the influx of infected people. In fact, our outbreak would have been far less had the government closed down our borders a lot more quickly than it did. If anything, the government was far too slow to act and far too complacent and inept once it die.

In my opinion, the problem we have in NZ is that the government had no forward planning for any sort of pandemic despite the various warnings. NZ is a country used to “crisis management.” The government is not proactive, it is reactive. It’s always on the back foot regardless of the crisis.

To make matters worse, the current government is made up of career politicians with no practical knowledge outside of politics and they rely on advice from career bureaucrats who have no practical experience outside of the bureaucracy. It’s the blind leading the blind.

To make matters even worse, our current government is governed by a socialist agenda based on a far left ideology that is as close to Marxism as you can get without being Communist.

While the media and most Kiwis have been focused on the pandemic and the measures imposed by the government, the same government has been implementing legislation that will ruin various economic sectors the government’s ideology would like to see ruined.

The hospitality businesses. Beef and dairy businesses. Rental businesses. Small businesses. You name it. If it makes a profit then it’s a target.

All this harkens back to the period that our current PM’s mentor and employer, Helen Clark, ruled the roost. Clark traded off NZ’s sovereignty and independence to pave her was to a job in the United Nations. Her aim was the top job of Secretary General, but she missed out.

Now, her successor – Jacinda Ardern – is using NZ’s economy and freedoms to achieve what her mentor didn’t. She’s ruining the economy in order to make Kiwis reliant on government handouts and support so they’ll continue to vote for a socialist government.

For awhile there I thought that “ordinary” Kiwis would never see through Ardern’s well orchestrated act. That they wouldn’t see how so many Kiwis had been manipulated – with the help of the media – to fool them into believing that a bunch of amateurs in government were there for the good of the country rather than their own good.

I’m hoping that the wheels have truly fallen off the juggernaut. That the National voters who thought voting for Labour would keep the Greens out now realize how easily they were fooled.

Commentators are right in saying that the demonstrations at parliament are not just about the Covid mandates. They’re about the whole nasty mess this current government has made of the economy and NZ’s future. It’s about stopping the pendulum from swinging so far Left that there’s no return.

The sooner the voters decide that Jacinda Ardern and her politburo of self-serving amateurs is better off ruining the UN than NZ, the better.

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