新西兰2017大选：工党还是国家党？

先从一个故事开始：

I was talking to a friend’s little girl, and she said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, Labour Party supporters, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were to be the President, what is the first thing you would do?’

She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’ ‘Wow - what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘You don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my sidewalks and driveway, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food or a new house.’

She thought that over for a few seconds ‘cause she’s only 6. And while her Mom glared at me, the little girl looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

And I said, "Welcome to the National Party, sweetheart."

新西兰国家党是一个偏重于保护企业主权益而非工人权益的党派，也是一个偏重于保护富人权益的党派，所以在新西兰的选举中，国家党的选民往往都是中产阶级以上的人群；而新西兰工党的选民往往都是不太富裕的阶层。