Not
all that hard to discredit John Key in the eyes of voters. Ask them
do they really want to be ruled by a jew derivatives-trader, who
played a key role in bringing about the global financial crash. Can
he really be trusted with other peoples' money? This tactic could
fly with tax-payers, huh?
Could
be kiwis are so dumb they don't care if he's a jew financier or arab
sheik, so long as he talks like one of us. I personally have no
problem with the guy – he's the first leader of the Nats that isn't
clearly a total fucking moron (tfm) since I started watching them in
the mid-'60s. One ought to give credit where it's due, eh?
My
father was a hard-line National party supporter. So was his father.
As the eldest of 4 sons, I was probably expected to toe the party
line, but unfortunately I wasn't born a tfm. By 1970, at age 21, I
finally got over thinking politics was too boring and had sussed out
that both patriarchs were closet fascists. JK deserves credit for
ditching the closet-fascist stance that Bolger & Shipley had
endeavoured to recycle.
I'd
never seen any point in reading a book by that young feller, Nicky
Hager, till a friend told me I had to read The Hollow Men a
few years back, so I did. Yeah, 'twas ok. I was amused at the
account of how JK & Murray McCully defeated the rightists in the
Nat camp. In politics pragmatism will beat principle any day of the
week & boy, do the principled folk hate that! Encountering the
email in which one of the ideological purists referred to MM as “the
dark side”, I thought how wonderful to be thus provided with a
classic example of jungian projection in a political context. I had
to concede Hager had got it right: the enemy within is a traditional
political archetype and the email trail validated the high drama of
the guerilla warfare in which good vs evil played out and the reader
as audience was presented with an impartial account. How to tell
which was which??
Most
entertaining. You couldn't! Well, my sympathies lay with the
pragmatic minority, JK et al. Two decades of new-right hegemony was
quite enough, thank you very much! So I must credit McCully for
being more than the clueless wimp that he had presented as his public
image since entering parliament with long hair back in '72. The
embittered right wing of the National Party refer to MM & JK as
socialists. Hmmm. Can't buy it. They ain't really that stupid!
However
it does rather open up a propaganda opportunity for the left.
Nationalist socialists haven't been in vogue for ages. Some would
even argue that national socialism is a discredited political
practice. Nonetheless, JK has already done enough to be credited as
a great national socialist leader. If the political left weren't
entirely clueless they'd see it, right? They're even shaping up to
hand JK a fourth term as prime minister. If he wins again, then he
really will deserve to be called the greatest national-socialist
political leader since Adolf Hitler.
