In many ways that’s a nonsensical question, because the answer to bringing about the changes needed are not policies the left believe in. I will give you examples. The first is the fact that they have removed themselves from political reality. Their playbook restricts them from making the changes to once again become relevant. They don’t even run themselves – their outside paymasters, like the trade unions, do. “He who pays the piper calls the tune”.
This leads to a second problem. The unions represent the workers and the left doesn’t any more. They have chosen to reside in the woke end of town, joining those in the legal profession and others perched in the rarefied air of the towers of academia. This move has not gone unnoticed and the unions are not impressed that their members are being left behind. This situation is most apparent in the United Kingdom, where unions still have something of a stranglehold on the ability to wield power, which often comes in the form of retribution, like strike action on a continuing basis.
Their third problem is that the left are economically illiterate. When they do their sums one and one never seem to make two. In the case of the NZ Green Party, it’s $800 million. Their shortfalls are not made up by increasing productivity but by penalising the hard working taxpayers. These are business owners, workers (excluding public servants on Wellington trains), farmers and anyone else who has done the hard graft in order to better themselves in life.
Margaret Thatcher once said:
The state has no source of money other than the money the people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more and it’s no good thinking that someone else will pay. That someone else is YOU. There is no such thing as public money, there’s only taxpayers’ money. Prosperity won’t come from inventing more and more lavish expenditure programmes [free doctors’ visits, maternity scans, bus rides, prescriptions, etc]. You don’t grow richer by ordering another cheque book from the bank and no nation grew more prosperous by taxing people beyond their capacity.
What she was saying is exactly what the left fail to grasp – yet the majority of the population does. In a nutshell you can’t tax your way to prosperity. You have to earn it. That comes through increased productivity. The ‘rich pricks’ that the left like to despise know this. It is how they have prospered and they shouldn’t be punished for it. Political parties like Reform and One Nation also get it. You certainly don’t get it by forever showering endless financial benevolence on the ancestors of a group of canoeists who supposedly got here before the rest of us.
The fourth problem the left have is persistently attacking the man and not the ball. The most prominent victim of this has been Donald Trump. He has faced spurious charges from his opponents, not helped by blatantly biased left-wing judges aiding and abetting their political friends in the Democratic Party. The latest example of political bias arrived in my inbox just this week involving fraud by the left in Minnesota. The evidence is overwhelming but a judge sympathetic to the left threw it out because, in his view, the prosecution was simply out to get their political opponents. This is beyond disgraceful.
Problem number five is the left’s support for DEI and many other programmes that the majority of people consider to be outside the realms of a normal functioning society. They tend to be antisemitic, reluctant to address illegal immigration and other criminal activity and against free speech and praying in public. In many cases they favour the rights of the minority over the majority. Again they are opening the door to patriotic parties on the right who have picked up and run with policies akin to Donald Trump’s America First agenda.
The left are in many ways their own worst enemies. They are devoid of policies other than tax (for reference: Rachel ‘from accounts’ Reeves in the UK) and their ideology prevents them from implementing any of the above that might improve their chances at the ballot box. Their policies and their actions in the social sphere are condemning them to forever be out of touch with majority sentiment, both economically and socially.
In America, the thought is the Democrats may never win again. In the United Kingdom, the now defunct Starmer and his band of embarrassing and incompetent no hopers have consigned themselves to the dustbin of history. In Australia, greasy Albanese is watching with trepidation as Pauline Hanson’s love-in with voters has so far raised nearly $5 million for her party. The left, through their own stupidity and intransigence, are giving the right a field day globally.
Therefore the answer to the headline of this article can be summed up in two words – they can’t.
