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I mean I remembered watching a film about the referendum in Chile.
The granny who was upper middle class didn’t know about the disappeared or the rest. Military governments weren’t unusual in Latin America and university was cheaper for her grandson. What doesn’t affect us directly…
It’s always a continuum. And frankly our current government in New Zealand is more authoritarian than its predecessors back to Muldoon. Democracy isn’t just one vote to choose a ruler, it’s a lot of other freedoms and participations.
The granny who was upper middle class didn’t know about the disappeared or the rest. Military governments weren’t unusual in Latin America and university was cheaper for her grandson. What doesn’t affect us directly…
It’s always a continuum. And frankly our current government in New Zealand is more authoritarian than its predecessors back to Muldoon. Democracy isn’t just one vote to choose a ruler, it’s a lot of other freedoms and participations.
Chile not the worst analogy. To this day there are deep divisions in Chile about the legacy of polarising Pinochet. Often it is the older generation (did well in that time) verus today's younger generation who are struggling. Pinochet proceeded over an era of strong economic growth, with Chile the stand out economy on the continent.
Many Chileans growing up in that era, were happy that they had the best standard of living in Sth America, not caring so much that they had a military dictator in charge. Every day life was pretty stable. Remembering that across the Andes, neighbour Argentina as a comparison has with a succession of incompetents in charge, often been an unstable basket case with hyperinflation making life very hard.