Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>Canadians: Replace Ahern with Trudeau and use toher Canadian touchstones in place of <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/nzpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nzpol</span></a> and you have an accurate article for Canada.</p><p>Which should speak to what Progressives actually need to do.</p><p>"Ardern’s leadership has often been described as emotionally intelligent, compassionate, and people-centred. But compassion is not liberation. Empathy alone does not redistribute wealth, dismantle police power, or decommodify housing. What Ardern perfected was a mode of governance that couched neoliberalism in progressive language. A style of leadership that appeared anti-fascist, anti-racist, and feminist, while presiding over deepening inequality, mass incarceration of Māori, ongoing colonisation, environmental destruction, and a housing system that serves landlords and property speculators.</p><p>Ardern’s “politics of kindness” masked a status quo commitment to capitalism and state power. Her government’s housing policies floundered under the weight of market logic. Despite the crisis of homelessness and unaffordability, the Labour government never seriously considered nationalising housing, implementing rent controls, or seizing vacant properties from land-bankers. Instead, they protected the interests of property investors, many of whom were MPs themselves.<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/trudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trudeau</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Ahern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ahern</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.anarchistfederation.net/the-cult-of-kindness-the-reality-of-jacinda-arderns-leadership/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">anarchistfederation.net/the-cu</span><span class="invisible">lt-of-kindness-the-reality-of-jacinda-arderns-leadership/</span></a></p>