The ‘Luxon / Muldoon’ link is particularly telling! Although I think Muldoon, for all his arrogance, genuinely believed he was doing the right thing for New Zealand. As did Lange. I wonder where we would be had ‘Big Norm’ survived…
🙋🏽♀️Snap! Just read Josh's piece on Webworm, and, if you'll forgive the pun, it sent my mind down a worm-hole similar to yours. When it comes to Trump, the Secret Service may be taking the rap for falling down on the job with the attempted assassination & dead & injured bystanders, but I would be amazed if there haven't been other situations quietly handled & not publicised? On the other hand, people angry with him are mainly the less violent & "killing is the answer" types?
But honestly, I have wondered IF I had the chance to rid the world of him, could I/would I/should I take it? 🫢
As for Luxon, in my day there was a book that suggested "everyone rises to their level of incompetence" (The Peter Principle) and I'm sure it was based on Lux-flakes! Even with PM's in govts I didn't support in the past, they at least had some appearance of competence. Disagree about Muldoon tho' - he was a a misogynistic megalomaniac in my lived experience - it was my first introduction to politics as a young person & I saw no redeeming qualities in him at the time, or in hindsight 🤔
The ‘Luxon / Muldoon’ link is particularly telling! Although I think Muldoon, for all his arrogance, genuinely believed he was doing the right thing for New Zealand. As did Lange. I wonder where we would be had ‘Big Norm’ survived…
I agree. Muldoon is the last National
politician I can respect even if he wrecked the country because he at least thought he was doing right by the average New Zealander.
Thats not a similarity Luxon shares.
🙋🏽♀️Snap! Just read Josh's piece on Webworm, and, if you'll forgive the pun, it sent my mind down a worm-hole similar to yours. When it comes to Trump, the Secret Service may be taking the rap for falling down on the job with the attempted assassination & dead & injured bystanders, but I would be amazed if there haven't been other situations quietly handled & not publicised? On the other hand, people angry with him are mainly the less violent & "killing is the answer" types?
But honestly, I have wondered IF I had the chance to rid the world of him, could I/would I/should I take it? 🫢
As for Luxon, in my day there was a book that suggested "everyone rises to their level of incompetence" (The Peter Principle) and I'm sure it was based on Lux-flakes! Even with PM's in govts I didn't support in the past, they at least had some appearance of competence. Disagree about Muldoon tho' - he was a a misogynistic megalomaniac in my lived experience - it was my first introduction to politics as a young person & I saw no redeeming qualities in him at the time, or in hindsight 🤔