June 28, 2005

Mainstream

How about pissing off some of the electorate just to please your core vote?
National Party leader Dr Brash said he didn't regard a variety of minority group members to be in the "mainstream". (Part of the radio interview transcription):
"Asked yesterday to spell out who was mainstream, Dr Brash said he would rather not go into too much definition, before referring broadly to unnamed minority groups the Government was pandering to."
i.e. brown people, people with kids, faggots, public servants etc. You have to wonder who is actually left to people the mainstream? And who would want to be? Nothing sounds worse to me than being considered mainstream, ordinary or just dull. It has always been a social and cultural death warrant.

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