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God this is depressing. People are both shortsighted (tax cuts instead of fixing the underlying problems) and narrow minded (the books look bad during a global recession, let's go with someone else!).
I'm a business owner, so ostensibly should vote Nats because they are more likely to benefit me. But I'm not a selfish prick. I want society to be more equal, more inclusive, and less unfair. I want the wealth gap to shrink. I want public transport and climate responses. None of these things help me right now, but they help all of us in the long run.
Even with Labour wiffing hard during their terms, I have zero confidence in NACT to improve anything except for the wealthy in the long run.
Fucking depressing.
Yeah, we've got a choice between giant douche or turd sandwich.
Mostly I just don't want to see TPM anywhere near the reins.
People are sick and tired of competent management of the economy, falling house prices, a quick turnaround on inflation, etc.
They just want to vote for whichever party fans their racist flames the hardest.
It is interesting where the different parties are putting their billboards. The "rich" neighborhoods tend to have more Nat/Act advertising and the TPM billboards are in the less well off areas, definite profiling going on somewhere in the political parties.
It seems a little silly to me, like you are advertising to those that are likely already captured. Wouldn't your advertising dollar be better spend trying to convince others to vote for you.
Maybe they think it's a fools errand to spend money trying to convince people who are not likely to be convinced.
I'm sure you are correct, but it just seems a bit backward