Hello everyone,
so I’m not actually from New Zealand, but from Europe and I’m currently very worried about the rising popularity of facism and alt-right politics in my country and europe in general. I’m very scared of experiencing physical violence and I’m now very seriously considering moving to another country before the facist parties are elected into power. One of the countries I’m considering is New Zealand, because there wouldn’t be that big of a language barrier and also because I haven’t heard of a lot of problems with facism in New Zealand. So I wanted to ask you if my judgement is correct and what the political situation regarding the alt-right is like in New Zealand.
Thank you for reading. I really appreciate your help :)
Don’t even know where I’d look. What exactly are you looking for ?
We have quite a bit of gang culture here. Two main political parties are labour and national. It’s kinda difficult to compare them to other parties.
Is say national are basically the conservative party of the UK. Labour are kinda central leaning towards socialism but not really. I’m not great with politics. They mostly want to shaft you.
Seems pretty safe away from fascism but it does creep up everywhere. New Zealand has a lot to do with China. It’s main trading partner and is pretty much in bed with China. Similarly with Australia. New Zealand can’t exist without Australia and China.
That may or may not have an impact
Agreed, left and right politics are a lot more centre leaning here in NZ than in other countries (it seems) and I like that about it. Either extreme is bad for any society because they tend to get a lot alike the further away they get from each other. The fact is that it’s becoming harder and harder avoid overseas influences though and more extreme narratives pop up all the time, on both sides. I hope we manage to stay away from extremism for as long as possible.