New Zealand showing the way?

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Some good news from New Zealand, where the new government elected today is likely to be a coalition between the center-right National Party and the libertarian-leaning ACT (which got about 10% of the vote, and will have 11-12 seats in the 121 seat parliament).

Worth noting that ACT is good on almost all those issues where the US Libertarian Party is bad: they're generally pro-immigration, they support Ukraine against Russia, and they abjure moronic anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories and other quackery. They're also, of course, strong on issues of reducing government spending and regulation.

Some of ACT's success is obviously the result of NZ's MMP electoral system, which empowers small parties in various ways. But some is also because they don't alienate people with edgelord clusterfuckery.

There's a valuable lesson there, if we care to learn it.

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