• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzOP
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    6 days ago

    If anything in the past TOP was really the party of great policy and poor communication.

    The reddit ‘weirdos’ you reference understood (or thought they did) the policy and complexity of what TOP were proposing.

    Generally anyone saying they can solve complex issues with simple solutions, either doesn’t understand the issue or is lying to you. TOP broadly has/had good policy and good solutions but doesn’t know how to communicate that to the public at large, who generally are not that politically engaged.

    Most people are one or two issue voters; trying to communicate the nuance and complexity of issues and solutions to these types of voters is difficult.

    • passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz
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      6 days ago

      I don’t think TOP had great ideas, otherwise they’d have got more of the youth vote. I just want to get a decent quality rental that has privacy, and which doesn’t get either too hot or too cold. Can’t be that bloody hard, but everyone seems to tread carefully around landlords.