Show threadStrypeyJun 25, 2024

If I'm reading this chart right, NZ social spending from 2019-2022 was *lower* (as a percentage of GDP) than about half the countries in the OECD, including the US;

https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/social-spending.htm

Yet the NatACT First coalition continue to insist that it was ridiculously high under the last government.

#PoliticalGaslighting

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Itamar MedeirosJan 13, 2023
The #political landscape of 2022 is inextricably linked to the phenomenon of ‘#PoliticalGaslighting,’ the erosion of the general public’s epistemic autonomy and #SelfTrust for the sake of forwarding a particular political agenda. https://globalvoices.org/2023/01/12/how-political-gaslighting-undermines-public-policy-a-case-study-of-south-africa-brazil-and-the-united-states/ #Brazil #SouthAfrica #USA
How political gaslighting undermines public policy; a case study of South Africa, Brazil and the United States

The political landscape of 2022 is inextricably linked to the phenomenon of ‘political gaslighting’, the erosion of the general public’s epistemic autonomy and self-trust for the sake of forwarding a particular political agenda.

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