Let’s not too quickly forget that as our politicians busied themselves during lockdowns rearranging the legislative substrate of our way of life, the toll of their mandates used to skirt around our lawful traditions caused such a widespread, deep-seated sense of shock, alienation and worry that our previous Prime Minister became trapped in the inevitability of her own Quixotic quagmire.
Desperate to salvage its chances in the up-coming election, her party premeditatively transplanted in the next mild-mannered ideological clone in waiting.
Seemingly unburdened with his predecessor’s baggage, after a few token concessions, her comrade pressed forward with the same transformative agenda. What a master stroke.
The public’s abhorrence of Labour’s push to surreptitiously imbed ‘co-governance’—clearly the underlying motive of ‘Three Waters’ – vanished with the ex-Prime Minster (‘Affordable Water Infrastructure’ is the new patronising blandishment marketing this imposition).
Symptomatic of an enculturated intellectual conceit and general spiritual decline, our rejection of truth is most starkly embodied in the dissembling academic, political, commercial and media rulership that’s relentlessly imposing its ubiquitous moral illiteracy.
So many ‘untruths’ have taken root to displace common sense, honour and our Christian heritage, that who we once were has been almost completely prised from our hands.
Rees Sutcliffe
East Tamaki Heights
