Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples?
Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples?
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Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples?
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I think there's some truth to this but at the same time Labour had a horrible string of this sort of thing this time last year, as did National across 2020/2021. ACT is a rolling dumpster fire at all times. That speaks to some of the pressure not being unique to the Greens.
Of course there's a special sort of nastiness that comes out when its the Greens because they profess to hold principles, and of course when they slip, that's worse than just not trying at all. NZ hates a 'try hard' after all.
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It depends on your view; message or messenger, which is the more important?
Do we care if the one pointing out that the building is on fire, stands up to the morality police?
I tend to err on the side of the message, evidence will sway me far more than personality.
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Its hard not to wonder if they're also held to a different standard; there's no way a Green candidate who beat the shit out of a younger kid with a bed leg and was credibly accused of being a bully later in life would be allowed to stand for election.
Old boy's club finds old boys club antics okay.
It's definitely double standards and the press should be ashamed to be perpetuating this nonsense.
Yeah definitely a different standard, but as the article points out, they try and hold their own MPs to that standard.