Okay, I’m an optimist, but that’s not such a bad thing in our recession ridden, post-COVID environment, and it’ll sure help me handle the increased unemployment numbers when the September quarter figures are released this month.
One US presidential candidate has displayed fact over fear-mongering and substance over style in the run-up to the American election. Look at the pictures below and ask yourself which presidential candidate is keeping the COVID fear-mongering alive.
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To my mind the winner of the US election 2020 is clear, but don’t take my word for it, check out Steve Hilton’s considerable list of Trump’s first term achievements.
Paddy Gower is in the US to cover their election (cough cough). A Trump supporter told Paddy to pull his head in by refusing to comment. Why? “Because the press is corrupt!” Paddy learned then that Americans are way more aware of biased media than we are.
Back in New Zealand, we were psychologically out-manoeuvred by Ardern’s strategists. The COVID fear-mongering was so effective that people, particularly the elderly, are still crippled by fear. Some to the point of suicide, say the inundated medical profession.
Dr Bryan Betty, the medical director of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, said cases of depression and anxiety have risen “substantively” in the wake of the lockdown, and there was anecdotal evidence that more prescriptions were being issued for anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication. Sleep problems have also been widely reported.
“Access to specific mental health support like psychologists and psychiatrists working in the community is really limited in New Zealand, it’s really difficult,” said Betty. “Mental health has been an ongoing issue for years now, so this [Covid] has really come in over the top and exacerbated these longstanding issues.”
An employee assistance company that deals with mental health said the highest number of calls they ever had was the day after the Christchurch shootings but since COVID they have been at that level constantly. This is how much people have been affected.
We were imprisoned by lockdown and people still suffer the effects.
Cam Slater has suggested that some people might be struggling with Stockholm Syndrome as a result of the enforced (initially illegal) lockdowns.
“[Stockholm Syndrome] occurs when hostages or abuse victims bond with their captors or abusers. This psychological connection develops over the course of the days, weeks, months, or even years of captivity or abuse.
Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome:
1. The victim develops positive feelings toward the person holding them captive or abusing them.
2. The victim develops negative feelings toward police, authority figures, or anyone who might be trying to help them get away from their captor. They may even refuse to cooperate against their captor.
3. The victim begins to perceive their captor’s humanity and believe they have the same goals and values.
The combination of psychological manipulation, media bias and banned public meetings for political parties other than that of Ardern, who held sway over daily COVID briefings, played their part in contributing to Ardern’s landslide win.
On the surface Ardern sounds convincing to an audience cowed by the fear of a COVID death, but scratch below the surface and her track record of failed promises, fudging facts in interviews and bad diction paints a far less pretty picture. Naturally, media give her a free pass. She fits their preferred political profile.
Donald Trump is brash, opinionated and forthright to the point of rudeness, with a wicked sense of humour that media vilify because they can’t work out when he’s taking the mickey. They don’t understand Trump and they don’t want to because they don’t want him to win. He doesn’t fit their preferred political profile.
Achieving and winning motivates Donald Trump. He drives for success. When Ardern was still in nappies Trump was learning the art of the deal. He lives and breathes strategy, it’s in his blood. He calculates risk because he knows it is impossible to succeed without taking risk. Compare Trump to a successful poker player who calculates the mathematical success of every poker hand before deciding his next move.
Trump has integrity. He cannot put personal business interests ahead of, or in conflict with, American interests and when he took on the presidency he handed over control of his international business empire to his sons, walling himself off from the decision making.
Trump is focused on doing the very best that he can for America. Every decision he makes, every strategy he implements benefits Americans ahead of immigrants, foreign powers, global organisations and even himself. Trump has built a major part of the wall keeping illegals out, he withdrew American funding from the United Nations and he is revisiting America’s relationship with NATO. Globalists scream foul, but Trump is a nationalist putting America first.
Ardern and Trump are poles apart in motivation. Ardern is politically driven with little business sense, demonstrated by her lackadaisical attitude to her failed child poverty campaign.
Importantly, her globalist views are overlooked by media. Ardern should be considered a product of her globalist masters. What you see is not what you get. A vote for Ardern is a vote for her globalist masters and when the time is right she will move onto their stage as her predecessor Helen Clark did. That won’t come early enough for some of us, for a country in the grip of recession with decades of debt bestowed by globalists who don’t give a rat’s about New Zealand. Not to mention the lacklustre captain whose crew could not even turn up on time to select committee meetings last year.
On just about any level Trump and Ardern could not be further apart, but in the US elections Trump has the edge because Americans are not us.
American voters have measured Trump’s performance and they have not found him wanting.
American GDP is surging, Trump kept his 2016 promises, he handled COVID ahead of NZ, he backed his endorsement of hydroxychloroquine by taking it himself, he instructed big pharma to work on a COVID vaccine, he created jobs and he prioritised American interests.
Americans know exactly what media bias and misinformation does to the facts. On the basis of what Trump has done for the everyday American, and barring foul play by the Dems, Trump is a shoo-in to win 2020.
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