NZ is becoming a very divided country in much the same way that the USA appears to have with their ongoing politics. (at least that’s the impression I get from what’s reported here in NZ.)

It might of been nice for us growing up in the 1980’s/1990’s , and living in a relatively carefree environment, but this is disappearing quickly from where I’m standing.

The covid ‘plandemic’ has even put kids in the frontline, requiring them to be vaccinated to save the old and infirm. Our kids deserve so much better!

The world is becoming a much smaller place due to social media and the internet, and it can be hard to maintain a neutral position in such a polarised situation.

This leaves us with several choices..

• Do nothing and hope it all comes right somehow
• Hide in plain sight like a zebra
• Retire to somewhere nice in the country -this option is disappearing with the increase of beaucracy and regulations that intrude into just about everything these days, and it doesn’t solve any problems.
• Fight back and do something about it

To this end, I ran for a place on the city council in the local elections recently.

I did this knowing full well, that I wasn’t going to be successful, purely due to a lack of a public profile. (I’m no social butterfly)

My policies were core services only, zero rate increases, and local control of water (stop three waters), etc.
This is because I don’t think we are out of this covid plandemic yet, and inflation is going to hurt a lot of people very hard.

In the end, there were more candidates that I expected, and media attention obsession with the ‘voices for freedom’ candidates,

This polarised things somewhat, but no matter, standing up for I think matters, matters.