27-05-2025, 04:44 PM
No, I mean us. All of us. Governments come and go, policies though are built on perceived public interests. Satisfying those leads to political success. So if an idea becomes popular, and gains media support, polling support, and filters up to the leadership it gets adopted - because they want to be popular.
Fairness is part of our national identity. Sometimes it gets lost under other layers like dislike, and greed, and ambition, and racism and more greed, but mostly, New Zealanders are fair people. That is why we have become a socialist type of welfare state.
So, if we recognise that equity is about fairness, and doesn't take away from anyone else's rights or hopes, or potential, then it becomes mainstream. Like the changes to marriage laws. Like women's reproductive rights. Like the slow but unstoppable move towards accepting a capital gains tax.
If we want it, it will happen.
Fairness is part of our national identity. Sometimes it gets lost under other layers like dislike, and greed, and ambition, and racism and more greed, but mostly, New Zealanders are fair people. That is why we have become a socialist type of welfare state.
So, if we recognise that equity is about fairness, and doesn't take away from anyone else's rights or hopes, or potential, then it becomes mainstream. Like the changes to marriage laws. Like women's reproductive rights. Like the slow but unstoppable move towards accepting a capital gains tax.
If we want it, it will happen.