Right now, New Zealand is in the middle of an election campaign. The result will decide the government for the next three years. The NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is the front runner, but hot on her heels is the National Party leader, Judith Collins.
Ardern is playing a shrewd game and I think quite dishonestly so. That's because she's using the current Coronavirus panic as a mechanism to bolster support for her regime. It is quite easy to do, here's Hermann Goering on the subject:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
Ardern is using the Coronavirus, COVID19 as a means to convince the population they're being attacked, not by foreign armies but by the virus itself. Any opposition is considered unpatriotic and thus exposing the country to even more danger. This is duplicitous to say the least but this is the standard of discourse these days.
Will people wake up? Eventually they will, but it may be too late by then. The country will have slipped into bankruptcy and possibly no longer exist in any real sense, it will have to fold and become a State of Australia, a status it technically holds but has never activated.
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