Because the Greens are very much the same as ACT. Both are idealistically driven; both have welded themselves to the major party on their right/left side; both will ignore evidence to push their agenda.

One major problem I see in NZ politics is that we don't have a party that will sit on the cross bench and support good ideas; independent of the source of the idea. We seem to have drifted back toward FPTP, but with extra steps.

TPM was good at being on the cross bench but seems to have taken a bit of a step back in this regard, lately.

Edit: I don't think the current government has had many good ideas at all. But that doesn't change the need for a cross bench party.

[–] Antigrav@mastodon.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@absGeekNZ, that very first sentence is sooo wrong.
Splitting and dividing can be seen as favoring FPTP because that's what it'll in effect create again.
(It lowers the threshold for the bigger parties to get in, even if it means holding hands with the devil - as in present coalition).

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not wrong, in the current political climate. A Lab/ACT or Nat/Grn coalition is extremely unlikely.

What fee currently have is very FPTP like.

Without parties that will work both sides; MMP seems to devolve into FPTP. TPM did in the past, but also refuse to work with ACT (for good reason); but it limits options for progress.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why do you think randomly selected citizens who are willing to join such a thing would have a different political ideology than the citizens who vote for these parties?