The Libertarian angst of the coloniser culture about woke overreach

There's a great deal of angst on the Platform about the woke - and how te Tiriti is some kind of pathway to ruin, a divided nation based on race - and how it fosters inequality and how Maori are overreaching and getting above their station along with the Judiciary.

Folks wearing red caps shudder with rage when Khylee Quince speaks out against the KC they hear talking to Oliver Sean Plunket on a regular basis about Tikanga and other topics like being culturally educated to be a good lawyer.

The Platform has a very regular focus on these race card matters, as in the background the settler state culture seethes with righteous indignation about these brown people getting something they are not.

They shake their heads at 7AA and all that race based stuff which is arguably Treaty based stuff and they want it gone.

They see it all in the context of woke overreach, treading on their sense of fairness and equality in these modern times going forward as they live in a global world, not a settler state.

The libertarian angst about woke overreach shows up in matters like Co-Governance, Treaty principles, Maori Wards, Bilingual Road Signs, Government Departmental Names, Supreme Court Decisions, Gang Tangi, TV News greetings, temporary environmental bans on fishing, roadblocks during a pandemic, and of course University Campus safe spaces.

There's nothing like the itchy white noise of the Settler State as it perceives that one baby born to Indigenous parents has more rights than another baby born next to it in the same hospital.

It's this resentment that both the Atlas Network baby Act Party and Winston Peters are both trying to capture and harness as both are recently beginning to lose votes according to recent polling.

The threat to their power in the long run ... is cultural and they can see that Labour's education policies would eventually weaken their grip - if increasing proportions of the population understood New Zealand history and in particular the history surrounding the original intentions of the framers of Te Tiriti O Waitangi.

None know much about James Stephen whose humanitarianism influenced colonial policy during the mid-19th century. Most have no idea what role he played in framing the Treaty - let alone Busby.

Education is a threat to the Pakeha assimilation of Te Ao Maori so Erica Stanford has moved quickly to dilute the curriculum de-emphasising NZ History taught in schools - while Michael Johnston from the Atlas Network NZ Institute - reshapes our future behind the scenes.

In the short term Winston is losing votes and the more he loses - the louder he barks and more conflict he needs to stay in the public eye - communicating with the angst ridden Settler State minority - who voted for him in the 2023 election.

Perhaps the next Atlas Network Tax Payers Union Curia Poll due out any day now will tell a different story from the Talbot and Verian polls - but Winston is barking off the leash anyway.

Like a grifter, riding on a wave of opportunity and resentment Winston was able to repurpose himself and NZ First over the past two years to dog whistle to his new constituency and make a comeback again. Surfing that big wave after Covid.

Putting political expedience first worked while resentment was inappropriately focused on Labour - for their world leading Covid response and being incumbent during an economic shock...but now the public are starting to resent the current Neoliberal Government even more.

David Seymour is taking away hot meals from the kids, National have attacked the disabled, media are still none the wiser about their future, beneficiaries have been punished and incomes cut in real terms, minimum wage increases have fallen behind inflation, workers have lost their rights to fair pay, the fast track bill facilitates corruption and deep environmental harm, rents are up, rates are going up, non tradable inflation remains sticky, tax cuts make no sense and make things worse, wealth has been transferred to land lords and political party donors, Maori are under attack, the Ferry has no replacement, Climate action is stalled, and zombie Neoliberal politicians fill our airwaves and every TV set.

This government is already technically gone-burger in the polls, while Winston barks and froths at the mouth and the JAG witch trial is paraded through the streets.

The jilted angry red caps are easily jilted and families are divided as many are still down the rabbit holes - while the Zombie Doctrine of Neoliberalism fosters the influence of billionaires on our politics.

Open up New Zealand and sell it off to foreign investors cry the NZ Initiative - but standing in the way is Te Tiriti as Winston blows a gasket and Seymour tries his context free vibes on the uneducated.

The mega prisons, the austerity for the poor, the transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy, the nonsense of trickle down, the tax cuts the deregulation for corporates - it still walks on - like a zombie in Aotearoa NZ ...it's knocking on your door.

The grip of Neoliberalism is on us - as the free market high priests worship competition and Winston claws at Seymour around the cabinet table and the useless leaders like Luxon and his bozo ministers make hash after hash of it.

Somewhere a grumpy white man shakes his fist at a passing cloud and tunes into listen to The Platform - not understanding anything about the real history of this country...as the Neoliberals try to make us all one - under a zombie sky.

The far more precious relationship between the people of the land and the people of the treaty is a world leading model of balance and all the good things like the interconnected nature of the natural world - but it's invisible to the settler state colonial lens.

All they see is woke overreach and they will fight it with all they have - calling their world view common sense - cos nothing beats a lack of education on a pathway to a world full of mistaken prejudice - that denies equity and the greater possibilities for us all.

The Libertarian angst of the coloniser culture about woke overreach

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