The Land of the Long White Cloud Set for Major Battle Over Identity Politics

Victim theory, which has so badly infected much of the Western world, has been exposed with a sensible and ever so refreshing approach by NZ’s ACT party.

New Zealand ACT Party leader David Seymour during a press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Aug. 31, 2021. Mark Mitchell/Pool/Getty Images

Commentary

Acceptance of responsibility is a key virtue that needs to be at the heart of individual and societal decision-making. However, it has been supplanted by victim theory which allows blame for all types of misfortune to be laid at someone else’s feet, or one’s background over which one has no agency and control.