That's cool. It took me a while to really wake up to what was going on. I didn't really want to believe what I was seeing. Got there in the end. I think we have a small handful politicians here who are fairly genuine people - but they all seem to have lost the ability to think rationally. I voted for an obscure party run by a really angry guy that most people hated. He had this crazy idea that politics should all be about evidence-based policy, rather than personalities. He carefully laid out data to back up his policies. Made a nice change. Most people hated him because he once suggested that we had too many cats running around killing our native birds, and we should therefore cull stray cats if we wish to preserve our native fauna. That was enough for the newspapers to turn on him, and most people to hate him. Evidence clearly means nothing, as it turns out. Not a single party here is standing up to what our government is doing. At least Australia has some decent opposition calling out the insanity. We have no one.
yeah, sorry if I came off a bit snooty, but people who move high in politics are not nice, nor good. (and she seems particularly monstrous to me)
Think about how a nice person could get to be leader of a political party. Not going to happen.
I'm not in NZ and don't know who else there was.
What party seemed sensible? Is there one?
That's cool. It took me a while to really wake up to what was going on. I didn't really want to believe what I was seeing. Got there in the end. I think we have a small handful politicians here who are fairly genuine people - but they all seem to have lost the ability to think rationally. I voted for an obscure party run by a really angry guy that most people hated. He had this crazy idea that politics should all be about evidence-based policy, rather than personalities. He carefully laid out data to back up his policies. Made a nice change. Most people hated him because he once suggested that we had too many cats running around killing our native birds, and we should therefore cull stray cats if we wish to preserve our native fauna. That was enough for the newspapers to turn on him, and most people to hate him. Evidence clearly means nothing, as it turns out. Not a single party here is standing up to what our government is doing. At least Australia has some decent opposition calling out the insanity. We have no one.