The Greens continue to cry a river of tears over Darleen Tana. They either need to dry their eyes or do something about it.
Chlöe Swarbrick continues to caterwaul about Darleen Tana, again begging their former MP to quit. She is now sounding weak and pathetic, but maybe that’s the image she is trying to portray, rather than crazy and out of touch.
Yet there she was in her drab pseudo-Mao suit, looking the part as a petty commie dictator making demands she is both unwilling and unable to effect.
This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving problems to perpetuating itself.
Bureaucracies do not abandon governing philosophies: they preserve them. Winning the policy war is not enough. Lasting reform requires restructuring who decides – not simply rewriting what is declared.
The Epstein Files document a plan to turn global health emergencies into investment vehicles so by the time Covid arrived on the scene, the mechanisms to manage and profit from the so-called crisis, was ready and waiting.
They might ask the Iranian communists of 1979 how it’ll work out.
If we genuinely want a society that flourishes, the answer is not racial division, grievance politics, or endless attempts to save people from themselves. The answer is much older, much simpler, and far more powerful.
