Well, I think that my choice to use the avocado as a representation of the Greens is a signal that I think they're privileged and superficial. I mean, I broadly agree with their policy platform, but they're just pissing in the wind with all the stupid flame wars (including this one). Plus that whole Avocados in Trouble sketch, where I wrote down my real questions and then used their soundbites and catchphrases as answers.
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I tended to think the Greens had some integrity in 2018, but in 2024, I'm not so sold. Bluntly, the new people joining aren't activists, but the middle-class weekend warrior types that plant trees to assuage their guilt about travelling overseas. The reason that I refused to join is ultimately because it's an international political movement, and I personally believe that NZ's internal problems are far worse than our foreign relations or free trade problems. Like the conservatives, I'm all for localism and devolution! A local party is more likely to listen to those concerns, and I'd say that Labour and the Greens were stubbornly unable to budge the needle much on poverty or inequality, despite the outright majority that Jacinda had in the…