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#171540 22-Apr-2015 11:08
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So, what is this really?




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  #1291035 24-Apr-2015 18:34
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Geekzone has just illustrated what we've learnt about John Key over the past seven years:

 

     

  1. A large number of New Zealanders hate the man, hate his politics, his image and everything. 
  2. A similarly large number think he can't do anything wrong. 
  3. Every time he does something stupid or immoral the people in group 1 hate him more than ever. 
  4. Every time he does something stupid or immoral some of the people in group 2 dig deeper into their reservoir of giving him the benefit of the doubt.
  5. A hardcore handful of the group 2 people might wish he'd go further and stop pussyfooting around. 
  6. A few people in the middle drift from 1 to 2 or from 2 to 1 every so often. But for the most part views are entrenched and have been all along. 
  7. We go on getting more and more polarised over this. 
  8. That causes some people, mainly moderates to disengage from politics and civil society which in turn cranks up polarisation. Loop back to step 7. 
  9. We may or may not look stupid overseas. People in group 1 worry about this, people in group 2 don't care or pretend it doesn't matter.
  10. This will go on until either John Key does something so incredibly dumb there's a sizable defection from group 2 OR Key gets bored and leaves politics. 

 




Bill Bennett www.billbennett.co.nz @billbennettnz

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