Ok good, that's a productive direction for conversation.
It sounds like that is a new experience in NZ. It been a growing problem in the United States going back to at least 2015. And Trump doesn't seem to care to do anything about it either. It starts with opinion leaders, before long it will be ordinary men and women who say the wrong thing on facebook or at work or at the store. It will only get worse. It may start slow at first but it will eventually barrel out of control. Things that were perfectly sensible and acceptable a decade or a year ago will suddenly become beyond the pale. Don't think because you are normal or moderate or even liberal that you'll be safe. These people eventually eat their own. Everyone is at risk, even the people now leading the witchhunts (actually, they'll almost certainly will meet their end if their movement succeeds).
What you have to understand is two fold:
- You can't reason with these people and
- These tactics are the MO of a certain type of movement, the type that always ends in bloodshed.
There are not many solutions. The most likely end of this is bloodshed and war, kill or be killed. Since they control the state and the economy, it will mostly be 'be killed'. Those who survive this will only live to see their lives and their country destroyed and given over to foreigners. This may sound extreme, but it's a reliable pattern that's occurred many times.
If you want to avoid that this is the only known course correction if you don't already have control of the government (and willing to use that control):
- Be a hard target. Be able to live cheap and simple and not depend on a lot of income and have 1 or preferably multiple independent sources of income. Owning your own business. Preferably a kind that would only be strengthened if attacked. Anti-fragile.
- You all have to band together and support anyone attacked, so they are better off than before. Mutual aid and comfort. Not just individually a la kickstarter. Form organized groups; even if they operate in secret and the results seem to be spontaneous. Actually, thats the best way. Think flash mobs.
- When attacked, do not apologize, do not give in. Here is the survival guide if you find yourself on the receiving end of a witchhunt.
- Employers have to stop giving in. And if they do, they have to be made to feel pain by employees and customers alike and be made an example of. Make the pain of giving in worse than the pain of resisting the witchhunt. But this will only work with normal and sympathetic to you employers
- Stop working for employers sympathetic to the opposition. Companies run by the same sorts of people behind the witchhunts are perfectly willing to throw away BILLIONS of dollars to achieve these ends, even destroy their own company.
- You have to strike back against anyone and everyone who supports those witch hunts. They must all individually feel the pain. You have to make these witchhunts counterproductive.
- Along with #6 you have to start your own witchhunts against your enemies. You have to make them feel the pain so bad they want to drop this tactic.
- Through these actions you have to grow a support base from which to eventually undertake memetic and political action to take back control of you media and government. The goal here is to show the followers, those who go along, the fence sitters, that they will not be alone if they lend support.
- You'll likely need to create parallel institutions of all levels and kinds (media esp, government, church, finance, employment, service, etc).
But it is not hopeless. You'd be surprised how small a % of the population these outrage mobs are. But they are coordinated and dedicated and are magnified by the media and a sympathetic government. They look spontaneous but they're actually funded and directed in the background by foreign elements. What you have to do is form your own in real life connections for fighting back against this. You have to organize and band together. Action can/should look like spontaneous flashmobs (digitally or in real life) but you have to start forming your own corps.
Notice they shut down the comments on that linked article? Can't have people opposing this. What you probably don't realize is many of the people supporting this action against the doctor are likely paid shills or bots. Their goal is to make it seem to the public that these people are beyond the pale and this action is justified. Most people are followers of the herd, and when it SEEMS like most people have one position, they won't opposed that position even if they don't like it. They won't speak out. You have to overcome that dynamic, online and in real life. Flood the comment sections. Protest the employer. Make an example of this doctor. Put together a few hundred people willing to pledge x dollars a month to contract him to be their family doctor such that he suddenly has an indepenedent income of likeminded customers. And then publicize in the media and in real life how his patients or the people of NZ hated this action against him and believe in free speech and have rallied to support him and how he's better off now. Use that PR to get more supporters, and organize those supporters for action supporting the next witchhunt victim. Find out who reported him and who inside the hospital is giving in and drag their name through the media mud.
