Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 11, 2021 15:13:56 GMT 12
WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING, NEW ZEALAND HAS LOST A DEMOCRACY – Amy Brooke
Jacinda Ardern believes New Zealand will become a republic. It’s all right, though, because she’s not in a hurry. But then, the Left, with their eye on the eventual capture of all our democratic institutions (remember “the long march”) have always had their eye on the end result.
Throughout the twentieth century, most New Zealanders did what family people do – they got on with their lives, those descending from Maori, European and other ancestors happily inter-marrying: no full-blooded Maoris exist today. Our people survived the Great Depression, and two World Wars, focussing on raising and providing for families in a stable society underpinned by Christian values. Aware of Communism’s aggressive agenda, this country’s former governments provided a modest military and civilian presence in Vietnam, and contributed soldiers in the 1950s to the United Nations “police action” to repel North Korea’s invasion of the South.
Unlike the reality faced by other European and Asian countries throughout the world, our isolation has been a protection. It has also been a disadvantage, given the long infiltration of our education system, in particular by destructive academics — openly, at the time, professing allegiance to neo-Marxism. One particularly damaging consequence — among so many resulting from the dumbing-down of our schools’ curriculum — has been the removal of the teaching of history, with its important reminders of the underpinnings of our western democracy. Most young and not so young New Zealanders are today extraordinarily ignorant about the lessons we should have learned from history......
www.spectator.com.au/2021/06/while-we-were-sleeping-new-zealand-has-lost-a-democracy/
Jacinda Ardern believes New Zealand will become a republic. It’s all right, though, because she’s not in a hurry. But then, the Left, with their eye on the eventual capture of all our democratic institutions (remember “the long march”) have always had their eye on the end result.
Throughout the twentieth century, most New Zealanders did what family people do – they got on with their lives, those descending from Maori, European and other ancestors happily inter-marrying: no full-blooded Maoris exist today. Our people survived the Great Depression, and two World Wars, focussing on raising and providing for families in a stable society underpinned by Christian values. Aware of Communism’s aggressive agenda, this country’s former governments provided a modest military and civilian presence in Vietnam, and contributed soldiers in the 1950s to the United Nations “police action” to repel North Korea’s invasion of the South.
Unlike the reality faced by other European and Asian countries throughout the world, our isolation has been a protection. It has also been a disadvantage, given the long infiltration of our education system, in particular by destructive academics — openly, at the time, professing allegiance to neo-Marxism. One particularly damaging consequence — among so many resulting from the dumbing-down of our schools’ curriculum — has been the removal of the teaching of history, with its important reminders of the underpinnings of our western democracy. Most young and not so young New Zealanders are today extraordinarily ignorant about the lessons we should have learned from history......
www.spectator.com.au/2021/06/while-we-were-sleeping-new-zealand-has-lost-a-democracy/