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Why is it that people once in the public spotlight such as politicians cannot quietly retire from it without feeling the obsessive need to continually meddle in people’s lives? It is a similar situation with celebrities and the wealthy too. All these people seem to suffer from a similar delusion and hubris: that fame/wealth/power raises their IQs to stratospheric levels above that of ordinary people when there is no evidence to suggest it and in fact, evidence often proves to the contrary.
Recently we have had many of the world’s arrogant and out of touch with reality elites, including that effete pontificator Prince Charles, going on about COVID giving us ‘unique opportunities’ to reset society. In that respect COVID, also known as the Wuhan Flu, has joined the bogey man of climate con as a Marxist weapon for the world’s communists, socialists and socialist elites to bend the world into their view of reality: a reality where they rule and everyone else works like worker bees or termites in the mound for the benefit of those elites.
This brings us to our own who have followed this well-worn path. A few years back we had Gareth Morgan in the spotlight. Having made a bundle from his investment in TradeMe on its sale he was then rich and obviously became bored. Thus a path of knowing everything about everything started including a website that you could think was an exercise in narcissism called Gareth’s World where he pontificated from on high about cats, the environment and other pet obsessions as he brainstormed about how he could benefit our lives with his wealth induced infinite knowledge, IQ and hare-brained ideas. He even started a political party based on Stalinism actually believing it would be a go. Fortunately, he has wisely remained relatively quiet for a couple of years now, which has been the biggest benefit to the populace and his best move in recent times.
Apart from our second rate celebrities and enviro commies berating us with their empty-headed rantings from on high, we now have a political ghost from the past to haunt us: that wicked witch of politics past, Helen Clark. After being PM for three terms and infamous for making silly announcements such as saying that scrapping the Sky Hawk jets from the NZAF was OK because “We live in a benign strategic environment” only to have the Bali terrorist bombings occur within two years of that, both we and she should know it is best she keeps her mouth shut.
Cartoon credit: BoomSlang
She backed the Green Party nonsense of dictating what showerheads New Zealanders could have in their showers and possibly lost the 2008 election on that alone. Then she went to that retirement home for washed-up politicians and walking dead bureaucrats, the UN. Not content to spend time there feeding from the trough of that failed organisation, getting plump and retiring, it seems it has honed her socialist hubris for controlling the masses. Thus she formed her monument to vanity, The Helen Clark Foundation, in 2019.
“Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is set to launch her own foundation for independent research into major issues of the day, including climate change and drug policy reform. I’m think [ sic] this is a good thing. We need more thinktanks, not less. I may not agree with much of what they say, but public policy is enhanced [sic] by having thinktanks doing good research in topical areas.”
NZ Herald
So the Herald disagrees with most think tanks, an ironic term if there ever was one considering some of their utterances, but states we need more! Hmm.
“The Helen Clark Foundation is an independent, non-partisan public policy think tank in New Zealand. The Foundation’s work is oriented toward a progressive perspective on its issues of primary concern, including environmentalism and drug policy. Its stated mission is to publish research papers that contribute to a “more just, sustainable and peaceful society”.”
Wikipedia
So we have a non-partisan think tank that just happens to mainly promote socialist policy of the UN, if their output is an indication, and openly states it is progressive, another ironic and favoured description by the left of their regressive policies and views. Now their socialist engineering has started too.
“….a new report calls for us to cut road deaths and carbon emissions – by increasingly leaving the car at home.
The Shared Path, a report published by the Helen Clark Foundation, proposes our cities create low-traffic areas, using planter boxes, traffic islands and trees to boost walking and cycling.”
“We’d also shrink our ever-increasing carbon footprint from driving, said report co-author Holly Walker?.”
“The former Green MP began to research road deaths, then realised multiple problems could be solved using a single solution. “It kept striking me that the one conversation we don’t tend to have about road safety is getting people to drive less.”
Stuff
Former Green MP? So much for non-partisan!
“To boost the attractiveness of active transport, planter boxes can convert car parks into space for cyclers and walkers. Neighbourhoods can build wider footpaths, separated cycleways, additional cycle racks, pocket parks, zebra crossings and traffic islands …….”
Stuff
Ah, the idealistic Alice in Wonderland fluff of a socialist utopia. All of us happy grinning dolts doped out on weed (another favourite of the foundation) as we cycle in circles back to 1850.
Next from the Stuff article, we have the socialist controlling mind-set of Clark, Green commie Walker and Co.
“We can’t be relying on individuals to make the changes we need if we want to see these different streets and neighbourhoods at scale. We need to get the policy settings right…”
‘Policy settings’. This is an overt euphemism for socialist thuggery, control and coercion if there ever was one.
Here is some advice for Helen Clark and her communist foundation. Stay out of our lives and retire permanently. We’ll make our decisions, not you.
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