Estimates of the numbers who attended the so called March for Nature in larger cities yesterday vary considerably. Despite this variation, the numbers were still impressive. Sad really to see so many NZ citizens sucked in to the sick destructive vortex of socialism-communism, but it will happen if the counter messaging is weak.

The two clapped out old commies Russell Norman and John Minto have been around with the same message for decades. That they can still motivate so many people to march today is a sad reflection on NZ’s political debate.

The center right clearly needs to be much more vigorous and strategic in opposing the left.

The problem is the center right’s messaging is not as effective as it should be. Two main reasons for this are- 1) The message is too muddled and 2) the legacy or mainstream media is utterly corrupt.

The muddling exists because the center right willingly embraces too many ideas that give Norman and Minto traction. Man caused climate change is perhaps the most stark example. Coupled with the overall belief that the world is in dire danger of dying from the excesses of capitalism.

Both just silly leftist concepts that vigorously confronted with reason will melt away. However they are not so confronted, and this is the problem.

A few weeks ago in parliament there was a good example of this failure to confront. Labour leader Hipkins asked Mr Luxon what he was doing about the “wage gap” between male and female workers.

Rather than scorning Hipkin’s silly question Mr Luxon said he was as concerned as Hipkins and National was working hard to fix it. Such a disappointing response when anyone who can do maths and think logically knows the wage gap is an utter myth. All Mr Luxon’s response did was give the left more traction.

(If you need proof of the mythical pay gap, the matter was recently addressed in the Australian senate. Malcolm Roberts delivered a factual response to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency that was logically unassailable.)

The center right really needs to abandon their support for such issues as give legitimacy to communists like Minto and Norman, and start opposing them.

Point 2) above is a different issue. The politically corrupt legacy media is dying because many people know it is corrupt. Not everyone knows of this corruption though, and many of those ignorant of this fact could be found among the marchers yesterday.

So the center right needs to help spread the message that the media is corrupt, and not cravenly seek its favours as Mr Luxon is too often want to do.

More importantly, the coalition needs to stop the utter stupidity of providing finance to this corrupt entity. Its so simple a remedy. All funding to broadcast or entertainment agencies that are really just money laundering fronts for left wing activism (NZ on Air or Creative NZ or the Film Commission) needs to stop immediately.

All government advertising in the legacy media also needs to cease. TVNZ and Radio NZ need to be either sold off or defunded and disestablished.

If these two matters (the messaging and the media) are not acted upon then we should not be surprised to see an even bigger crowd nest time Minto and Norman organise a march.