Quote Originally Posted by Logen Ninefingers View Post
It is sick. It is wrong. If you are a democratic socialist, and you are working away to usher in a pure socialist system to replace our (psuedo)capitalist society, that should preclude you from standing for Parliament. Why do we allow people who want to destroy us the means to take power? It's insane.
Because thus far (at any rate) ACT's crypto fascist dogwhistling has not convinced more than a small proportion of the citizenry to abandon our broadly liberal democratic system and our generally centrist policies. That may be about to change. I hope not, because the more unequal society that will result will make everyone less healthy and happy.

Your sharing about your exhaustion, dissatisfaction, and general disillusion with the "rat race", and your resentment of the beneficiaries whose lives you see as better or more plasant and satisfying than your own, makes some of your postings more understandable and human, and I .encourage you to say more about that