New Zealand's Democratic Failure

We say democracy is power to the people, yet it is not. Technically, it's power to the majority. The other 49% does not have less power in a democracy - it has no power. 

Add to this, the fact that the vote in a mass-democracy is largely blind or a personality contest, with severely limited electoral options, and we can see that democracy is as much power-to-the-propagandist as it is power to even the majority. 

Democracy at its worst is a tragedy. This isn't news to those who have studied it. Indeed, this is why America, originally engineered as a restricted democracy, introduced a foundational constitution and the separation of powers (into legislative, executive and judicial), and constructed numerous independent states to facilitate the power of foot-voting.

-Personally, I believe foot-voting is the most important power of all to the end of creating a free and prosperous society. [2 minute video here]

Yet even America is failing as a once well-engineered restricted democracy, because the separation of powers is no longer so separate. Parallel infiltration of all departments by Leftists, including the media, schooling and Hollywood, is slowly driving America towards socialism and childish extremist ideologies. Alas, the separation of powers is cosmetic when the pay-masters have their hands in all the puppets. 

New Zealand:

For democracy to survive, especially if it's a pure democracy (like New Zealand), it needs to have a strong "moral constitution" within the culture of its people. To put it most crudely, the dominant 51% needs to be decent enough to vote above self interest, and in turn not vote to turn the other 49% into their personal slaves.

From here we can point to New Zealand's democratic failure. The clear majority - that is, those who own a home or have a mortgage - have functionally outlawed the construction of affordable housing, via oppressive government regulation [video explanation here]. 

Note: A new home normally costs about $200,000 to build on an urban fringe. However, New Zealand has artificially restricted land supply, so that a plot of raw land on the fringe has become inflated by the bidding-war from $20,000 to more like $500,000. Regulations on building materials, and other, have dramatically increased the cost of constructing a new house, as well. The cost of high-quality kit-set houses imported from China and elsewhere, would otherwise make a new 3-bedroom construction cost less than $100,000 - if only it were allowed to be that simple.

The majority will not vote for any political party that dares allow their personal house price to fall - and, of course, all major political parties have taken that order to protect their careers. 

In New Zealand, the majority's lust for wealth has induced them to believe that the resale value of their homes should radically appreciate, as though others don't have to 'lose for something' while they 'win for nothing'.

To be clear: If a private cartel paid off our politicians to run a protectionist regime on food, designed to make the sale price of food three times higher than it otherwise would be, then the public would want that cartel hung, drawn and quartered for such corruption. Yet that is exactly what's going on in New Zealand's property market today, and with comparably devastating results. 

The New Zealand property market gives a perfect example of a democratic breakdown. The majority has voted like pigs - not citizens. The far-reaching impact is now seen in both reduced and heavily delayed fertility, due to extreme mortgage and rent burdens. The New Zealand fertility rate is now below even replacement levels due to the perverse housing burden on youth. 

Yet, it's never been easier for the retired to live the good life and go on overseas holidays, etc. 

You will see that most retired people feel no need to think about the politically-engineered wealth transfer. The retired typically see their bonanza as a tax-rebate for a lifetime of hard work, and they embrace that rationalisation without testing their assumptions and putting things in perspective. In other words they just believe what they want to believe, as people so often do.

So we have a failure of democracy to do what's right, even on the most important levels. That is a failing state. A state that cannot even breed properly.

The hope for young New Zealanders will be in their ability to migrate to better places, where the political majority is more dedicated to doing the right thing. There are now great opportunities with the modern live-anywhere economy, so it will be interesting to see what kind of out-migration New Zealand suffers once the Covid-19 hype is over.

It will also be interesting to see how a "great replacement" affects New Zealand, over time. The nation might well fall into socialism, even dictatorial socialism, if New Zealand natives are replaced with, assumedly, more anxious migrants who care little for serious politics. The demographic changes could allow the power of propaganda to completely dominate the direction of the nation. We will see.