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We have had a Minister of Public Works among us many moons ago. Did roads and tunnels etc when there were few of either. My Uncle stood (unsuccessfully in the end) for Parliament but has remained deeply involved in politics most of his life. I recall asking my very first private sector boss, a former Minister of Immigration, as a fresh faced ideological leftie right out of university, if when he successfully ran for Parliament he thought he could change the world. He went on to explain that every good idea would be watered down and then further diluted as every potentially affected bureaucracy commented and picked apart what was often a very good idea adding or subtracting pieces important to them leaving a rump of an idea.Įverything trended toward the status quo. He retired from politics when his party was unceremoniously dumped and became an Immigration Adviser. He spent the next 20 years of his life attacking the bureaucrats he once ran and supported. I will never forget him storming up the office hallway yelling that ‘If they want war, they will get a f****ing war!!!’ I sometimes thought they had actually driven him mad. Little has changed with who really runs the government and the damage they can do.

I thought in a democracy we, the people, get the Government the majority want? The aforementioned Uncle once explained to me as an avowed Communist at age 10, there are two Governments, the permanent and the elected. Yes, he (probably) sighed, thats the idea but not the reality. Politicians come and politicians go, what they really want is power. That is the epitaph on yet another system of government authored by the deceptive being, Satan the devil, who has weakened the nations (Isaiah 14:12).

Now, after 50 more years, we can safely say that this was a failed revolution.

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But the real power lies with the civil servants, they don’t come and they don’t go, they are always just… there. The series of articles we produced after 50 years of communist rule was called The Unfinished Revolution. Running the real show.įifteen years after that conversation along came that classic British TV show ‘Yes Minister’. It was far closer to reality than most might ever appreciate. Right now New Zealand is run by career politicians. There isn’t, as far as I am aware, a single Minister who has ever held a private sector job, let alone had to put their house on the line so they could run their own business. Yet they think they know what is best for all of us.

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They convince themselves they are making a real difference because they know what is wrong and how to fix it. #I WAS ONCE AN AVOWED COMMUNIST HOW TO#.

I was once an avowed communist revolutionary