Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event. PHOTO/GETTY
Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event. PHOTO/GETTY
I am getting over the hand-wringing and whining from media people giving air to Western democracy's electorates not delivering their versions of how they believe their populaces should have voted. This is symptomatic of current social left leaning ideologues being thwarted by "dumb" voters who do not agree with theseideologues' versions of socially engineered world views.
That they consider Brexit and Trump bizarre is only a reflection of their angst at not being able to completely control their social engineered views upon us all. Is it any wonder that pollsters are told what they want to hear for fear of the left's clobber machine calling any contrary view racists, red neck, misogynist etc.
I can not wait to see how this is going to play out in our own 2017 election; because we too have a swath of middle classes disenfranchised by the political establishment's policies delivering homelessness, home affordability, jails filling up, pension affordability, free trade driving down our wages to third world standards and wondering why our citizens do not have enough wages to live on and then see third world immigrants driving living wages down further.
We truly get the governance we deserve if we do not all vote; that the ideologues are frightened of this amuses me.
The media and those with PC attitudes have told people who have concerns over things like immigration, trade agreements, job losses, multiculturalism, globalism etc - that they are racists, sexist, hateful, stupid people. In an environment like that it's no wonder people don't open up to complete strangers.
In response to Deidre Barnett's letter to the editor (November 11) regarding the proposed hotel in Koutu.
The writer labels the site as an "eyesore" and a "health hazard", yet I wonder if she is aware of where the site even is. The 120 residents who submitted opposing it are well aware. It is not the large vacant site at the Panui Rd/Bennetts Rd corner.
