We too suffer the stranglehold of a two party system
US presidential candidate Cornel West could be speaking for New Zealand when he describes the two ruling parties as antiquated, designed to perpetuate corporate dominance.
West is running for president on the ‘People’s Party’ ticket.
The philosopher, intellectual and civil rights activist is calling for a political revolution and the overthrow of the ruling corporate class.
According to Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Chris Hedges, Cornel West will be a singular voice for serious social and political change in an electoral system saturated with corporate money and rigged to crush third parties.
“We’ve got to get beyond an analysis of the predatory capitalist processes that have saturated every nook and cranny of the culture. We’ve got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonised by corporate wealth and by monied elite. We’ve got to get beyond that sense of impotence of the citizenry”, says West.
Indeed, there’s a feeling of hopelessness in NZ too among our citizenry as we approach another general election, where the choice we’re thrown, like a well-chewed bone to a dog, is Labour-led or National-led.
These are two sides of the same coin. Minor parties don’t get a look in..
West’s campaign will need a lot of organising to get grassroots support, says Hedges: “The array of forces that will seek to discredit and sabotage his candidacy will be formidable.”
In Aotearoa/New Zealand we are familiar with those kinds of forces.
Mainstream media is riddled with them.
The best thing you can do to avoid such bias, vitriol and innuendo is to cease reading government propaganda.
As in the USA, the two party system in New Zealand is, to use West’s words ‘not a narrow choice, it’s a preposterous choice’.
Political commentator Chris Trotter says the emergence of a serious new political party in New Zealand is “vanishingly remote”.
So how do we break the dominance logjam?
This Canadian in the middle of nowhere with his dogs and horses has an answer that he addresses to Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab:
“So guess what boys? I see a great reset coming.I see millions of people across the world getting really pissed off with the likes of you fuckers and we’re all going to stand up and say go fuck youself. People, we have the power. These people can mandate all they want, tell us to do whatever they want. We can tell them to fuck right off and it’s about time we started doing that...
Let’s stand up together as people of this world and say we’ve had enough of being told what to do by the few. We’ve got to set things aside for a few minutes and straighten these fuckers out. Then we can get on with our lives”.
Imagine if EVERYONE refused to do their dirty work.
Sources
A new political party? Needed – but unlikely | interest.co.nz
Chris Trotter on why he will vote NZ First
https://freedomplatform.tv/plandemic-the-great-awakening/#popup
UK Column News - 5th June 2023 | UKColumn
Go to the last 18 minutes for “WHO Makes The Rules?”
Outrageous WHO power grab - James Roguski
Register of political parties | Elections
There are five parliamentary parties in the 53rd Parliament. These are the Act Party, Green Party, Labour Party, National Party and Te Paati Māori.
Other parties are: Cannabis, DemocracyNZ, Freedoms, Leighton Baker Party, New Nation Party, Outdoors & Freedom, Vision, Heartland, New Conservative, New Zealand First, ONE, TOP
Hi Keri, you're a little behind things, Vision NZ, Outdoors & Freedom Party, New Nation & One Vote have combined under Freedoms NZ umbrella. Both Democracy NZ & Freedoms NZ are campaigning hard around NZ & seem to be making an impact.