The first thing to note, however, is that the farmers organising the Groundswell protests aren’t just sexists and racists, they are “reactionaries”. In this instance the “clingee” is the “purely extractive economic model” which, because the “clingers” are reactionaries, must be a thing of the past. Small wonder that the people organising the Groundswell protests are driving Federated Farmers and Dairy NZ to distraction. Like the Divine Right of Kings, the ideas of these “reactionary” farmers are relics of a bygone era. The “purely extractive economic model”, far from being a relic of the past, is still the driving force behind the entire capitalist system.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 23, 2021 19:25 UTC