http://manu.org.nz/2011/11/03/mmp-for-stability/ The Issues, Ideas & Action for a Brighter Tairawhiti Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://manu.org.nz/2011/11/03/mmp-for-stability/#comment-418 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:03:37 +0000 http://manu.org.nz/?p=897#comment-418 I am not in a position to enter into a debate about ‘fact’ or a particular audiences view (Yahoo poll) about a topic. Rather I wish to express my own support for representational electrol systems. They provide an opportunity for ‘others’ to be heard, not only heard but taken seriously. New Zealand has changed over the last few decades and continues to do so, systems such as MMP embrace this change. Those who react negatively to such change seek to keep an ‘old order’, one that drowns out anything but the ‘power elite’ of the day, who of course see value in maintaining a status quo (that of their own power). They believe that they and only they have the ideological right to determine a future, the future that we all are a part off (with them assigning us our part – that of criminal, welfare dependent, good ‘Kiwi Bloke’). I suggest it is fear of change that drives the need to control it. I would be hugely concerned if we choose not to embrace it and understand it. To do that systems such as MMP, which has its flaws in its implementation, are surely the best way forward.

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