...too late?
I think it is.
The decline in New Zealand started in 1982. We fought the good fight and we thought we’d won.
We’d beaten the dishonest and the non-thinkers (read “university polluters”), first with a successful Springboks tour and then the re-election of Muldoon.
The rent-a-mob and half-wit crowd had been put in their place – often by the long batons of the Red and Blue Squads.
An aside: Even now when you look at the honest (i.e. not heavily censored) photographs from 1981 every photograph is of the same people – Minto/Richards dressed as pooftas, a god-botherer in skirt, a couple of Back Power racists, a couple more communists (usually sheilas) and a demented group of young people who would go on to create the most racist and wet society the Western World has seen.
We, unfortunately, sat back and watched, almost coincidentally, the failure and fall of communism (the other “communist’ country, China was, in fact a military dictatorship using “communism” to keep the populace quiet – but that is a different story)and we cheered - from our armchairs.
We ignored the grossly dishonest spin put on the subsequent reminiscences of 1981, thinking the children would grow up and learn.
They didn’t!
Instead they started the brainwashing, led almost completely by those who had lost their idols of the USSR but not their desire to tell everyone else what to do.
The current Woke wankery, the current apartheid, all stem from them.
Most of their dishonesty was aimed at the young – the younger the better – which suited because “teaching” was, since the WWII crowd grew old, the preserve of the lazy and life’s failures. Real people did, “teachers” told children why they couldn’t.
Consequently New Zealand has ended up with three generations now (including current schoolchildren ages 10 – 25) who live by the lies of those early ‘80s.
People like the current PM and almost all the other MPs.
Only insurrection or take-over by another country (most likely Indonesia, China or India) will correct this but it will mean NZ will not be the best place to be for the next 100 years.
All because we sat back, satisfied, when only half the job had been done.