Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: voting

  • Were we wrong about Trump?

    A few thoughts expanded from my Twitter yesterday, on the number of leftwingers or liberals who I see saying things like “Oh, Donald Trump has calmed down since winning, he’s…

  • #PleaseWellington, get out and vote

    Words of wisdom from the best white man sitting behind a desk in New Zealand, if not the world. … and if you need a bit more information than that,…

  • QOTD: Herald Insights on NZ voting patterns

    Credit where credit’s due, some great work is coming out of the NZ Herald’s Insights data site, like this interactive exploration of how different groups in NZ vote. But there’s…

  • Why would progressives vote for Trump?

    [A note in hindsight: this post was published in April 2016, a good amount of time before it became crystal clear that Trump is a goddamned Nazi-enabling rule-of-law-trashing fascist. And…

  • The flag and democracy

    The results of the first flag referendum has really thrown up some bizarre perspectives on democracy in New Zealand. Like the person I jostled with on a mutual friend’s Facebook…