How might the fact that the animals are having more celebrations even though their rations are being reduced work in Napoleon's favor?

Like any
good dictator,secures his power, in part, through ideology and spectacle. He promises that his
plan for a windmill - which he had really stolen from- will make life better at the farm, and
makes it a central point in his overall ideology. In other words, he uses it, among other such
symbols, to assert power over his workers, and to quell any dissent among them.

Napoleon presents himself as a leader who always acts in the best interest of his
fellow animals, while painting his opponents as evil allies of Snowball and/or Jones. In
reality, Napoleon is a despot, and becomes more and more like Jones as the novel progresses.
While this is readily apparent to us, the audience, the worker animals are distracted by such
ideological tools as the windmill, which is presented as a sort of panacea for the farm's
problems....