Here's my voting struggle.
According to a political compass test I did last election, I'm most closely aligned to the policies of NZ first. I refuse to vote for them because they're headed by an immoral, racist, unethical, racing-industry-owned scumbag.
I'd vote greens except they're fighting hard to take the "most racist party" crown from Winnie.
I'd vote TOP except they don't exist outside the internet - none of my family or friends have ever heard seriously of their policies or what they stand for and it feels like a losing battle to get them to even 1%.
I'm not the right ethnicity to vote for te pati Maori, they don't want my vote.
And then labour completely lack the balls to actually make any form of change - they allegedly mean well but fuck it all up so badly it's worse than if nact were in power.
So I'm left with national and act as the least bad?
I want to see change but I'm so damn tired and worn out from trying to stay afloat that I can't be the change I want to see.
I wonder how many other median voters feel the way I do...?