The National Jellyfish

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Here at the Sojournal we have been suspicious of Luxon from the beginning. Claiming to be a Christian, he has regularly exhibited jellyfish-like tendencies – a lack of a spine, and a willingness to drift with the current. (Other articles on Luxon are here, here and here.) His latest folly comes a day after Christians and conservatives the world over are celebrating the best bit of news we’ve had for a long time: Roe v Wade being overturned. Simon O’Connor, posted the following on his Facebook page which sad death-loving leftists took umbridge with.

Luxon forced O’Connor to take the post down because, and I quote “it was causing distress and does not represent the position of the National Party.” In this Luxon demonstrates once again that he is an unprincipled coward. To care more for the distress of some trauma queens over the loss of a ‘right’ to dismember babies more than the tens of millions of dead bodies that Roe v Wade has led to shows a broken moral compass. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. And the first step to calling evil good, is refusing to celebrate good or castigate evil.

What the overturning of Roe v Wade has demonstrated is that Christians can impact culture through smart politics. For too long, many pietistic Christians have personalised their faith and shunned things like politics because our personal faith in Jesus is more important and politics is dirty. As important as that personal faith is, we have been commanded to make disciples of the nations and teach these disciples to obey all that Christ commanded. What’s sad, is a man like Trump, who does not seem to have lived any sort of Christian life is responsible for a major change like this, but a man who claims to be a Christian like Luxon, can’t even let a fellow Christian celebrate it. Christians can and should be involved in seeing Christ’s rule and reign extended. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that we can expect National to enact godly law while it is led by such a jellyfish. My encouragement to all Christians is to give up on National at the next election. This man is not the leader we are looking for. He lacks courage and conviction and is focused on gaining power at any cost without holding to any real principles. In this he represents no real change from Jacinda Ardern.

Mainstream Propaganda and the Embarrassment National has Become

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For a long time I’ve been aware of the role media has in shaping public opinion. I remember the lead-up to the anti-smacking bill, civil unions and the more recent homosexual ‘marriage’ law and the cannabis referendum in 2020. Mainstream papers and television news blatantly promote their views and fashion their reporting to create their desired narrative. What’s more disconcerting than this fact is that so many Kiwis are hoodwinked by it, thinking they are getting largely unbiased ‘news’.

Unfortunately, our prostituted media have outdone themselves through the Covid ‘pandemic’. The insistence on calling anyone opposed to the covid vaccine or the government’s no jab no job rules ‘anti-vaxxers’ and almost daily smears against the unvaccinated combined with their attempts to underreport numbers at anti mandate protests or describe the protestors as far-right or white supremacists has, unfortunately, had its effect on the compliant Kiwi population. Sometimes the claims are just plain ridiculous. Just why the Maori ‘community’ would be interested in white supremacy I fail to understand. Perhaps our leaders are insinuating Maori are stupid and need a maternalistic state making sure racists don’t encourage them to make medical decisions for themselves. But the only stupid ones are those who believe and take on board these ridiculous smears without investigating for themselves.

Which brings us to the National Party of New Zealand. What a disgrace. You would think that we would have leaders intelligent enough to see through the government propaganda. But no. Men like Luxon seem to promise nothing more than more competent authoritarianism. “Labour is driving New Zealand over a cliff at 100km/h. Vote for us, we’ll spend less on the car, slow things to 50, and make sure everyone has their seat belts on!”

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