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The original was posted on /r/newzealand by /u/HempyMcHemp on 2025-01-21 20:32:22+00:00.

If you’re old enough, you might recall that 40 years of neoliberalism has led to the opposite of what we were promised. The commanding heights of our economy have been largely sold off to foreigners under the guise of “kiwi investors”, while the banksters who promoted these policies have made hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars from fleecing us of our wealth and making us buckle under the weight of private monopolies and cartels. Those banksters continue to fund political parties and Astro turfs that gaslight the nation. Their ‘free market’ is a market free to exploit the public. Their free market is the opposite of Classical Liberalism. Their ‘free market’ is one dominated by landlords and the 1%. To see how we got here, and where NACT is taking us, read the link below, and then let’s discuss David Seymour’s lies. He’s playing a blinder for his donors. But, theyve trained and resourced him well. He’s on the gravy train, and he’s making sure we don’t even have scraps “To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation’s governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form.” https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america#:~:text=MacLean%20explains%20that%20Virginia’s%20white,of%20influence%20began%20to%20widen