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This place is fucked, and now we know Australia won't shoot themselves in the head for another three years at least people will continue to leave in droves.
When the bloodbath government budget here hits in two weeks time it will turn into a torrent.
Housing is expensive, opportunities are disappearing, healthcare and education are being hollowed out.
This country is doomed but we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We voted for these bozos.
At least the trans people will not be allowed to poop in the bathroom they are presenting as so I guess that's something. We are going to show those trans people who is who and where they belong.
Who do you mean by we? I don't know any boomer who isn't right wing. I know very very few right wingers outside of that generation. Anacdotal yes, but I can't help think this is the last gift from their generation before they cark it.
It also doesn't help that the right seems to shift the landscape further right, while the left sits on their hands and nothing barely changes. Its hard to label labour left anymore honestly. Just a constant ratcheting towards this brainless neoliberal experiment gone rogue.
What was the last policy implemented by any party that had a tangibly positive affect on your living conditions? For me, none at the time I left. Made leaving slightly easier. But now I'm overseas I feel like all countries are sinking ships for workers. NZ feels a lot further along and faster than most.
Who do you mean by we? I don’t know any boomer who isn’t right wing. I know very very few right wingers outside of that generation.
I have boomer family who have voted right wing their whole lives and got more leftist as they got older.
I also know people in their 30s that are out there campaigning for Act, full leopards ate my face stuff.
Generally the people I am close with are not right wing, but that's more a lack of commonalities to base a friendship on. I think you'd be surprised to find how much support National, Act, (and even NZF) get in the younger populations.
I'm sure another round of tax cuts will fix it.
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Don't worry too much about those of us that are left here, we will have our 100% pure NZ clean rivers and intact eco-systems
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