Today National party leader Christopher Luxon followed the lead of ACT's David Seymour, and started pandering to the shit-flinging nazi-sympathisers who have annexed Wellington. Along the way, he claimed that the current government is the "most divisive government in history".
I can only conclude from this that Luxon is entirely unfamiliar with even recent New Zealand history. To point out the obvious, the revolutionary NeoLiberal governments of the 1980's and 1990's were so divisive that we changed the electoral system to get more representative government (and as an act of revenge against them). Or maybe Luxon could look at one of his National Party predecessors, Syd Holland, whose government literally made it illegal to feed starving children if their parents belonged to the wrong union. Or Bill Massey, who sent his rural militia into our cities to beat striking workers, in what was virtually a civil war. Or the succession of early Prime Ministers, who started and or presided over an actual civil war in Aoteraoa due to their efforts to steal Māori land.
But all of these government were looking after the interests of the big business community, the people who Luxon represents. Whereas Ardern in a crisis has put people first and business second. And that, really, is why they hate her and regard her as "divisive".
Update: How did I not mention Muldoon, who is basicly the byword for nasty, divisive, oppressive arseholery in Aotearoa? The man who gave us this and this and this? But maybe Luxon doesn't think he was "divisive" either...
