Just as the departure of Ardern was weeks in the planning, so too was the socialist party’s attempt at re-election by dividing and (they hope) conquering. Proof of this pudding is the oft-repeated claim ‘We won’t divide people on the basis of race’: a clear case of giving the game away. Whatever they deny, or accuse you of doing, they are doing.
Hipkins announced politicians who exploit ‘fear’ of co-governance must reflect on their actions; in a carefully staged forelock-tugging ‘Yes squire, three bags full squire’, TV3 News was all over this in 30 seconds flat and going even further in their condemnation of Chris Luxon and the National and ACT parties.
The con game goes something like this:
- We the commies and Marxists are morally superior.
- You, the people, are not.
- Nor are you lackeys in the opposition parties.
- We need to raise you up to be as ‘good’ persons as we are.
- Aren’t you disgusted with yourself? At how morally repugnant you truly are?
Like all good con artists they have an eye on the future. The chap conning your granny out of your granddad’s life insurance payout has an eye on the door in case Detective Inspector Plod turns up; Hipkins and the socialist party are looking beyond the carnage of the 2023 election. Once their diminished caucus of 39 or 40 MPs have dusted themselves off in October, they can be the champions of ‘anti-racism’ through to 2026 – a far better position than Bill Rowling in 1975, Mike Moore in 1990 or Phil Goff in 2008, when they really had nothing much to talk about, let alone ‘oppose’.
But wait! There’s more!
By championing an imaginary issue – the racism of everybody who doesn’t vote for them – and backed up by the bought and paid for media, they don’t need to concern themselves with food prices, rising rents, a recession, a housing crash and other nasties which characterise day-to-day life in 2023. Instead of awkwardly looking highly embarrassed when those on low incomes complain that a Labour Government has made the cost of living so high, they can say, ‘The racists hate you – and you are complaining about the price of milk?! What’s wrong with you?’
(See how the con game is going to play out? See how easy this is?)
There was no way a discredited Jacinda Ardern could pull it off: too flaky, too unsuited to bare-knuckle boxing and too implausible for even the dumbest New Zealanders to swallow. But Hipkins learnt a lot at the knee of Trevor Mallard, and it is helpful that he looks like your son’s best friend who delivers pizzas and is kinda ‘wet’. How could anybody think this seemingly harmless fellow is actually conning you? When you need to engage in these sorts of tactics, when you need to create racial division, when you need to set one group against another, as the socialist party is doing, in order to win an election, it’s actually an admission your government has been a complete failure. I ask the question of every Labour MP and activist – why hasn’t the last five-and-a-half years been so self-evidently successful that you’re sleepwalking to victory? That they need to respond with a ludicrous ‘Oh because we live in the most racist country in the world and everyone is racist’ proves how bad they truly are.
