Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 27, 2023 4:07:54 GMT 12
Mike Hosking: WE'VE PROVEN WE LIKE DEMOCRACY
But it does go to show why the likes of ACT are onto it with their co-governance stance. That stance is more popular than any council, or indeed most media, would have you believe. The unfairness of it is not the fact Māori, or indeed any race, should have a say or a voice, because they can and they should.
And they can, through the well-established mechanism they call democracy.
But in that is the danger. In hijacking that mechanism they take democracy away from most of us, but pretend they haven't by deciding to do something they know is not representative of what the people think, but also by lying to us and telling us we can have a say, which technically we can, but under the subterfuge that it actually is representative and means something when it doesn’t....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/mike-hosking-weve-proven-we-like.html
But it does go to show why the likes of ACT are onto it with their co-governance stance. That stance is more popular than any council, or indeed most media, would have you believe. The unfairness of it is not the fact Māori, or indeed any race, should have a say or a voice, because they can and they should.
And they can, through the well-established mechanism they call democracy.
But in that is the danger. In hijacking that mechanism they take democracy away from most of us, but pretend they haven't by deciding to do something they know is not representative of what the people think, but also by lying to us and telling us we can have a say, which technically we can, but under the subterfuge that it actually is representative and means something when it doesn’t....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/mike-hosking-weve-proven-we-like.html