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# Communism 101: Ardern’s Formula for Success
- URL: https://goodoil.news/communism-101-arderns-formula-for-success/
- Published: 2022-07-24T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T16:56:36.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

Here’s how you carry out a takeover of local government. It is a six-step process to deliver communism at the local government level.

**Step 1:** Exaggerate any minor local issues and say it is a “crisis”. A localised water quality issue [in, say, Havelock North, for example](https://www.dia.govt.nz/three-waters-reform-programme-government-inquiry-into-havelock-north-drinking-water?ref=goodoil.news#:~:text=Some%205%2C500%20of%20the%20town's,continue%20to%20suffer%20health%20complications.).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.34.10-pm.png)

**Step 2:** Place huge additional demands on local authorities. Tell them that they must come up with [plans to handle climate change](https://environment.govt.nz/what-government-is-doing/areas-of-work/climate-change/adapting-to-climate-change/climate-change-adaption-local-government/?ref=goodoil.news),

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.36.49-pm.png)

and [tsunamis](https://www.tauranga.govt.nz/community/civil-defence/tsunami/tsunami-awareness-programme?ref=goodoil.news),

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.39.59-pm.png)

and[ intensification of cities](https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/129175203/councils-are-defying-the-need-for-housing-intensification?ref=goodoil.news),

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and [changing roading to public transport, walking and cycling only](https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transport/keeping-cities-moving/?ref=goodoil.news)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.43.13-pm.png)

and that they need to [improve rubbish collection and waste going to landfills](https://environment.govt.nz/what-government-is-doing/areas-of-work/waste/waste-disposal-levy/expansion/?ref=goodoil.news)…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.46.09-pm.png)

Anything will do: just demand that they have massive, new, invented responsibilities.

**Step 3:** Tell them that you have conducted studies that show that they have [massive problems with a lack of diversity, bullying cultures, systemic racism](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maori-councillors-detail-abuse-and-racism-they-face-in-their-roles/A2YRQEURF6J566IH5AZUFA23UI/?ref=goodoil.news) and homophobia, and that teaching Te Reo is now their most important priority.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.50.48-pm.png)

**Step 4:** When you have forced them to take on huge additional staff, [tell them that their costs are too high, and that they aren’t efficient enough](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/124931395/mayors-open-to-review-of-the-future-of-local-government?ref=goodoil.news) anymore. When you have made them all run around in circles trying to do what you told them to do, tell them that they are too disorganised.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.56.15-pm.png)

**Step 5:** [Produce a report](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/124931395/mayors-open-to-review-of-the-future-of-local-government?ref=goodoil.news) saying that the councils are [clearly unable to do their job: they aren’t diverse enough, they are over-staffed, they are disorganised](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/126619102/local-government-review-too-early-to-say-if-amalgamation-on-cards?ref=goodoil.news), there are so many new invented “crises” that you can’t count them and the only way to sort this out is for the government to amalgamate them.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screen-shot-2022-07-24-at-1.52.24-pm.png)

**Step 6:** Congratulations, you have graduated in Communism 101.

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