Being able to say that as a political figure and not getting an unequivocal drumming down by everyone else shows how far gone the west is. There is no turning this ship around.
I'd guess that's exactly what's happening here. She could have simply said "men," which would have been a truthful statement. Instead, she specifically said "white cis men," which is a blatant lie.
It's the same tactic as blaming everything on immigrants or Roma people. You know what your voters already believe and what they want to hear, so you tell them exactly that. You reinforce their prejudices to win their support.
It's Horseshoe theory again and again.
Somehow many people think the problem is choosing the wrong group. Nope; the problem is choosing a group, full stop.
Material excess is what gives many people a means to express their tribalism in the way that they do instead of being occupied with some productive activity for the common good.
Declaring "the west gone" is something better left on a reactionary platform like X, rather than something like Hacker News.
> Seems like a fairly high percentage for a green party.
Which makes this statement, unless you're well-read on New Zealand politics, pretty strange. Do you even know if they have something like ranked choice voting, or vote-for-party rather than vote-for-candidate, that could greatly impact the performance of smaller national parties?