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One reason the Hīkoi was able to pull such huge numbers, in a relatively short time, is that the Māori working class are a core part of the organising. Rather than being pushed to the margins by a middle class vanguard for not having exactly the "right" opinions, in their opinion.
Maybe there's something the Pākeha left could learn from that? Just saying ...
Along these lines ...
"[Catherine Liu and Olúfémi Táíwò] explain, for instance, why the Democratic party in the US (and many social democratic parties in Europe) is increasingly a club for the rich and educated, while many working-class voters have abandoned it. They illuminate, too, our culture’s obsession with the minutiae of symbolic representation and the policing of language but disregard for real material inequalities."
#KenanMalik, 2024
"However, these arguments also lay traps for the unwary. Just as social justice campaigners have abandoned the struggle for material betterment for that of cultural empowerment, so many of their critics have come to see the new 'cultural elite' as the main problem, ignoring the real material roots of power in our society."
#KenanMalik, 2024
The full text of Catherine Liu's book Virtue Hoarders is available here;
@strypey
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173404 (sorry for the formatting, apparently HN doesn't support markdown).