DBAHC keep the Nilhilists from taking power in New Zealand

How would you keep the Nihilists from winning the 1957 general election in New Zealand? It is usually considered to be a turning point in the country's history.

(this should be moved to post 1900, sorry)
 
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OOC: I assume that they meant 'the who' in the context of New Zealand. What extremist group in mid-twentieth century New Zealand had any relation to nihilism?
 
OOC: New Zealand was selected as the least likely place to have a nihilist government. I thought it would be interesting to explore the idea of a nihilist political movement, I don't particularly care about New Zealand. Ontario would have also worked.
 
OOC: how would a nilhilist government even function? How does nilhilism even constitute a political ideology? Would it just blow the budget on prostitutes, because defence and infrastructure don't actually matter?
 
OOC: Nihilism provides no overriding policy goal or reason to take power, I don't see how this makes sense. OP needs to elaborate on what he means by nihilism, was New Zealand taken over by a cabal of philosophy grad students or something? Nihilism is like absolute zero, it's a largely theoretical state that's only useful in comparison to something else.
 
OOC: Yeah at the OP, what do you mean? Nihilism is just the position that there is nothing of value in relation to X.

I.e., Epistemic Nihilism is the position that knowledge is impossible.
Ethical Nihilism is the position that nothing is moral.
Existential Nihilism is the position that life is pointless.

The above of course is a really dumbed down summary, but Nihilism doesnt prescribe anything, which is essential for an ideology.
 
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