Election year has only just begun, but Heather du Plessis-Allan and Barry Soper are already ripping into the Greens on air;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=9330bb2d-f301-4237-90b6-1a67e31ce87b
Presumably in the hopes this will shift "swing voters" from Labour to National. But I wonder if this kind of strategic denigration could backfire on them Streisand Effect style.
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I do not understand my fellow kiwis attitudes to electoral options;
I'm reminded of the quote I posted recently about DataFarming platforms and their erosion of our ability to do collective sense-making. I'm increasingly inclined to think we can't fix electoral politics without liberating our mediasphere. But maybe @theblockchainsocialist's 24 Nov 2025 guests are right that the nation-state is over as a useful focal point of democratic politics?
