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You are doing a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid admitting that New Zealand's government is representative of their people.
It's not like they have a dictatorship, lol.
Okay?
You mean, tbeir government is racist too?
Shut it. If only socio-politics is that simple.
edit: wow, it's not that I care. But this person won't waste a second to downvote every comment that doesn't agree with them.
Miss me with that ridiculous false dichotomy.
There's a shitload of room between "dictatorship" and "everything the government does is perfectly in line with what the majority of the people want them to do."
This is clearly an example of the government not being perfectly representative while also not being a dictatorship.
Because some people are protesting? Lol.
That IS the main method to express that you're not satisfied with the actions of those more powerful than yourself, yes.
Edit: and also because 60% said so back in November and there's absolutely no reason to believe that the percentage would have decreased since then rather than the opposite.
They're a minority, which means their government represents people other than them first.
Those 'other people' are the ones I'm referring to. You know, the ones who put this government in power.
My initial statement applies to them, which are the majority of New Zealanders since they are a democracy.
You're genuinely arguing 'minorities represent the majority' which is intrinsically false.
Expressing a majority opinion, see my edit of my previous reply.
Not when their opinion is in line with that of a significant majority of the population
Nope, you're the one doing that by pretending that the minority group known as The Government automatically only makes decisions that their voters agree with.
Btw, the current government coalition was voted in by a total of 37.23% of those eligible to vote (51.72% of votes cast with 72% voter participation), NOT the majority of the population.