WAKE UP NEW ZEALANDERS. YOU ARE LIVING UNDER AN ELECTORAL DICTATORSHIP AND YOUR MIXED-MEMBER PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM ONLY MADE IT WORSE.

In previous works, I showed you that long ago, Americans, Canadians and Australians lived under representative democracies. Today and for awhile now, Americans, Canadians and Australians live under electoral dictatorships.

For each of their stories, check out these:

• THE BIGGEST LIE ALMOST ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE: AMERICANS HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. BERNIE, HILLARY AND ALL OF THE CANDIDATES LOVE THE BIGGEST LIE
• CANADIANS VOTE FOR PRETTY-BOY JUSTIN TO DICTATE TO THEM FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. CANADIANS ALSO LIVE BY THE BIG LIE
• BAD DAY MATE. AUSTRALIANS LIVE BY THE BIG LIE AS WELL. AUSTRALIANS LACK REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Like Americans, Canadians and Australians, New Zealanders have the right to vote. That is it.

Voting is mere illusion democracy. Voting does not equal representation.

Stupidly, in 1996, New Zealanders switched to a mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system from a first-past-the-post electoral system under the deception that MMP yields proportional representation. MMP fails to create what anyone needs, which is actual representation.

In the year of the switch, population to MPs jumped from a reasonable 37,105 to an unconscionable 57,415. That comes to a 1.6 times jump in one year!




Had Kiwis stuck with their FFP system, though far worse than they once were, they would have been better off.



New Zealanders went from having roughly having representative democracy to not having representative democracy at all in only one year. Although as can be seen from the above graph, New Zelanders had been steadily moving away from representative democracy right from their beginnings and especially after 1886.

And here is the picture of how many voters each MP has by electoral district as New Zealanders lack states or provinces for their sole chamber legislature.





When you discover that on a full-time, 40-hour work week with no time in Wellington, a MP could give a scant two minutes on average to each of his adult constituents, you will see the big lie about representative democracy for what it is.










Now, if New Zealanders were to have a truly representative democracy, one where each New Zealander could at least sit with his or her representative for 15 minutes, once a year and still have their representatives go to Wellington for three months to hash out the only most important matters of New Zealanders, here are the number of representatives New Zealanders need by each states.









My New Zealander friends. You have one problem. It is the same problem my Canadian friends have, my Australian friends have and my fellow Americans have. You don't have a representative democracy. You live under a dictatorship of a well-organized minority.

If you care about reality, self-determination and freedom, you will make representative democracy through authentic popular representation your only election issue.

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WILL NEW ZEALANDERS GIVE JOHN THE KEYS FOR A THIRD TERM?

So there is election upcoming on Saturday in New Zealand. As a fan Super Rugby four seasons on and the ITM Cup (second season, thank you Internet),  I've taken even more of an interest in New Zealand.



For John Key, the incumbent prime minister seeking his third term, the latest news on the New Zealand economy should help his chances. Between April through the end of June, the New Zealand economy grew at the fastest pace in 10 years, growing at 3.9%.

As leader of the centre-right New Zealand National Party, and former Wall Street foreign exchange trader, Key seems to have performed his job well. However, Key once quipped that long-time soccer star and fashion model David Beckham seemed "thick as batshit".  That might not bother most Kiwis since rugby is the national sport.

Stupidly, Key oversaw an overzealous arrest of Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz). Dotcom is the founder of Megaupload that has made file sharing of U.S. copyright movies easy to trade. Key had to acknowledge his government agents had screwed up, violating Dotcom's protected right to privacy for which the government has a duty not to violate.

Today, the New Zealand Herald published a story which claims that if Americans were picking the next Newzie prime minister, picking upon looks alone, Americans would pick Laila Harre. Harre is the leader of a political alliance of two left-wing parties, the Internet Party, which advocates for cheap internet, and free tertiary education, and the Mana Movement, which advocates for free school breakfast, government housing, $18.80 an hour minimum wage and free ertiary education. Kim Dotcom seems to be backing the Internet Mana bid.

I looked at the pictures. They're politicians. They look a bit dodgy to me, some more so than others.

Here is Key tipping back a coldie with Prince William Windsor of the UK.



Interestingly, I've yet to come across anything said by any of the candidates in support of individuals and their property.

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YAY CANADA (AND AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, NORWAY AND ICELAND)

Yesterday, a few media reported that Americans have the warmest feelings toward Canadians, at least according to the findings of the 2014 Chicago Council Survey of American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy.



When I think of the top people on earth and their respective countries, Canadians and Canada top my list, along with Australians and Australia as well as New Zealanders and New Zealand. Also, I think highly of Norwegians and Icelanders, especially as they do not belong to the E.U. nor are they part of the Euro banking system.

That is not to say I don't think favorably of others. I do.

The Irish and Finns seem all right. So too do all those from little countries like Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino and Liechtenstein. As well, those from the quasi-independent lands of Guernesy, Jersey, Isle of Man, Faroe Islands and Greenland seem all right.

The Germans, Swedes, Danes and Brits seem all right too. Mostly, the world of North Sea people have done well for themselves since the start of modern times.

The Japanese, the Koreans of the south and the Taiwanese seem to be all right as well. I enjoy anime and K-Pop.

I might enjoy travels to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Chile. Vietnam, Mongolia and Serbia hold an exotic charm for me. Ah and there are many Pacific Island countries that seem worthy of visits such, at least where the locals play rugby.

Even the Portuguese seem to have done right by those with mental problems by no longer prosecuting drug users.

The Chicago Council Survey consisted of 2,108 respondents who were asked about 26 countries. Here are the results.

The writers at VOX make a strong case for Canadians and Canada.

If only someone could make a compelling case for my fellow Americans and the USA. America has become quite the venue of Bizarro Theater. There seems to be so little freedom as politics seems pervasive, ruling over every aspect of American living these days.

Canadians seem to be doing it right these days. The Heritage Index ranks Canadians 6th in economic freedom right behind the New Zealanders and three down from the Australians. Americans now rank a lame twelfth. The Fraser Institute of Canada ranks the USA a shockingly low 17th on their Economic Freedom of the World index.

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