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Oh absolutely not. It's a much smaller population and being an island it's got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.
I have always loved New Zealand. It's like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.
And it's just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol
Just because an island has a smaller population doesn't make it any more or less predisposed to egalitarianism, nor do large populations have to be predisposed to authoritarianism.
....I never said either of those things?
"It’s a much smaller population" literally your second sentence, or do you not comprehend your own writing? Why is their smaller population relevant?
Please stop assuming that a) politics are the same as your country, and b) you haven't been fed a load of "see, everywhere is right wing now?" propaganda
I never said the politics were the same as my country.
And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it's verifiably a fact.