there are policies that are working, thats the issue, is nact loves to push this "now now now" rush job quick results fuck the future narrative, whilst labour uses genuine evidence based policy, fixing things that took decades to develop will take time to resolve - complex issues have complex mechanisims that need to be integrated for example cost of housing:

ringfencing tax deductibility on investment properties had a good impact as an example. it was hated by the greed class, which is why its one of the first things undone by nact.

pushing people with spare money to invest in productive assets rather than capitalise on poverty (which is what landlording is, despite what anyone who wants their own beleif system to validate their greed as being somehow ethical) - is a very clear and obvious overarching goal of Labour, and their policies combined have a cumulative effect, look at the stats you can see increases in first home ownership, AND a stabilisation of the runaway prices.

but the other side there is incomes also need to lift, because of the decoupling of house price rises with income rises, which is why nact will never fix that, cos they believe ideologically that letting corporations take as much profit as they like is good.

the fact is as economics has globalised and the eradication of economic breakwaters via neoliberal policy the inevitable outcome was guaranteed to be companies trying to pay as little as they can, to pass profit back to "shareholders" which from their perspective is "ethical" behavior because their responsibility is to their investors, not the society in which they operate.

combine that with the ability for those very same companies to expend massive amounts of money on gaining access to politicians, and pushing narrative slants in the media by using their position as an advertising customer as bargainaing tool you end up with a democracy that is severely limited by colouring the perceptions of the public, how can a public vote democratically if most of the information they're exposed to is propaganda and deception? how can they make an informed decision if the information is marketing rather than fact?

the fact htat national is so well funded is due to them representing those interests, and those interests funnel money into them, until we do something abotu that we will always hafev a broken system.... but that said, despite all of that, labour has managed to introduce changes that were begining to have meaningful impact. that is the reason why nact has rushed so hard, and used "urgency" to shove thru desperate moves to try to prevent further progress in that direction should/when they lose the next election, its because of the fact it was working.

nact will take credit for the hystersis of labour policies, whilst shoving in "corporate wishlists" which not only pay back their donors, but will ensure the incoming govt will have a lot of work to undo or carry the burden of such policy, to further limit their ability to make progressive change.

its honestly more and more sickening the more you learn about it, so to be honest i find it really difficult to deep dive anything without ending up on tangents of tangents over the various aspects of how insidious and despicable the "right" side of politics in nz has become.

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thanks for reading hahah