Bill Whittle summarises three key points about the momentous Brexit vote in this Firewall video.
His first point is that this decision by the British people is possibly the biggest event to happen in our lifetimes. It is on a par with the American Revolution, in that the people have decided they no longer want to be ruled by a bureaucratic, thieving and undemocratic empire across the sea.
Secondly, the elites are not happy at all about this, and are busy undermining the decision, and projecting their fear of the true joys of multiculturalism onto those who have voted against it. The battle is far from over.
Thirdly, this is a sign to the rest of the world that the people can say no to the stagnation of a socialist system, and the slow death of multiculturalism. It is within our grasp, if we are prepared to take it.
Bill Whittle worked for many years for the brilliant PJTV, an organisation which produced hundreds of videos which exemplify the principles of classical liberalism and cultural libertarianism. Bill Whittle’s video “The Narrative” is one of the most important documents circulating the internet. Although its parent, PJ Media, is still in operation, PJTV shut down a few months ago. Since then, Bill Whittle has taken his friends Steve Green and Scott Ott, with whom he used to present the current affairs show Trifecta, to present a show in the same format, called Right Angle, on his own website, www.billwhittle.com. They are well worth checking out, not least to see how a Jew, a Christian and an agnostic get along. They will make you laugh, make you angry, and they will always keep you informed.
If you would like to do something similar, The XYZ is looking to expand its operations into podcasting and presenting videos. You can contact us at editors@xyz.net.au, or private message us on our XYZ Facebook page.
Today, July 4, 2016, the NASA probe Juno will arrive at Jupiter. It launched in 2011 and needed to slingshot back around the Earth in order to gather enough speed to reach Jupiter. The plan today will be to insert the Juno probe into Jupiter’s orbit, gather information, then get it out. Today’s will be the first of multiple such manoeuvres.
For a cheesy, yet informative NASA trailer, you can view the video below. To find the NASA live feed of the event, which will occur some time this afternoonish, go to NASA’s Facebook page here.
Although human exploration of space has stalled in recent decades, we are currently living in a golden age of discovery and robotic exploration of the solar system, with new extra-solar planets being discovered, as well as new planets (or potential new planets) in Earth’s solar system, probes sent to Pluto, Saturn, and the landing of probes on Mars.
The breakthroughs achieved by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in being able to land and reuse rockets which have returned from Earth orbit, and the fact that competitors to SpaceX are close on its tail, mean that we are likely to be on the cusp on a new era of human exploration and colonisation of the solar system.
The results from this election keep getting more and more interesting. Not only has the conservative vote split between the Liberal Party and the minor parties on the right, the dozen or so minor parties on the right have split their portion of the conservative vote amongst themselves.
A crucial dialogue is taking place regarding which politician(s) and which parties should be supported by the conservatives who have felt betrayed by the Liberal Party, in order to present a united way forward. Paul Zanetti has made his views expressly clear regarding Pauline Hanson, and her relation to the movement in Australia which is opposed to the ideology of Islam:
“The big surprise to me was the most alternative conservative party, Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), didn’t get a Senate seat despite attracting tens of thousands of online and on ground supporters.
“What happened?
“Pauline Hanson happened.
“ALA is a party founded on opposition to Islam and halal certification, calling for a restriction on Islamic immigration. ALA’s roots go back to online forums 13 years ago.
“Six years ago the online group formed the Q Society which became the political party ALA with 20 conservative policies.
“Pauline Hanson jumped on the ALA bandwagon hijacking years of hard work of its founders, then taking the ALA homework to the elections.”
Paul Zanetti’s full article, and today’s XYZ Quote of the Day, is well worth reading:
The XYZ has a deep commitment to robust debate. So, what do you think? Do you support One Nation? Do you support ALA? Do you support both? Let us know.
King Malcolm the First of Wentworthia was utterly humiliated.
The Leftist cuckoo who usurped the leadership of the largest centre-right party in the country as well as the Prime Ministership on the basis of his electoral appeal, has proven himself to be electoral poison.
But even better, the slap to the face suffered by every right-of-centre Australian has been avenged by the vote for the minor parties.
As I advised last month, the sensible patriots of Australia took their vote elsewhere.
Despite what Mark Textor and the rest of the Turnbull inner circle might believe, grassroots conservatives do indeed matter.
As the national count stands so far in the Senate, the six biggest parties clearly to the right of the Coalition (One Nation, LDP, Family First, the Shooters, the CDP and the Australian Liberty Alliance) garnered over ten percent of the vote.
By contrast the Greens, despite the usual media cheerleading, as of now are under nine percent, with no other extremist party of the left coming close to breaching the one percent mark.
In Queensland, One Nation is beating the Greens on their own and are almost hitting ten per cent, the same six parties combined are over sixteen percent, and if you add Bob Katter’s mob, even more.
Let that sink in for a moment.
If everyone who voted for the six most popular right-wing parties had instead voted for a single party, then that party would now almost certainly control the balance of power in the upper house, able to dictate policy to the opportunistic sell-outs who make up team red and team blue.
The need for the maverick, independent-minded and sometimes stubborn individualists who populate the right-of-centre in Australia to merge together into a more powerful force is clearer than ever. Especially with what may be Malcolm’s parting poison gift of a Senate voting system that discriminates against micro parties and benefits the likes of Xenophon and the Greens.
Of course, saying we need fewer parties on the right splitting the vote is easy; doing something about it is like herding white cats in a snowstorm, while blind, and possibly drunk.
I talk to people from most of the parties I mentioned above, and while working out a common policy platform would be difficult but not impossible, the personality clashes are another matter.
This is why it was seriously depressing to read Paul Zanetti’s piece on the election. Not just because I hate to see a man I respect and whose work I admire get it so wrong, but because, across many of the minor parties on the right who were swamped this election by the tsunami of One Nation, he is fairly representative of many of the activists and members I’ve talked to since Sunday.
Paul wrote:
“The fact is, without the Hanson factor, ALA would have secured Senate seats…
I’ve no respect for Pauline Hanson. She’s an empty headed white supremacist opportunist….
Yet, she has swept to power (with expectations of 4 Senate sets) based on her dislike of an ideology she knows almost nothing about…
That, in a nutshell, is what happened to ALA and what has happened to the conservative vote
It’s split….
My only surprise is how many anti-Islam votes went straight to Hanson, not the ALA. Never overestimate the intelligence of voters.”
Paul is bitter and it’s understandable.
And in many ways he’s right on the money, the conservative vote in Australia is indeed split.
But it’s hard truth time.
Expectations from me, from sections of the conservative media, and from the hard-working activists who did so much work over so many years to make the ALA a going concern and to bring the dangerous aspects of Islam to light, were high, and disappointment is reasonable.
The truth is that if Pauline Hanson had not barnstormed back on the scene, the ALA probably would have picked up extra votes, but to argue that without One Nation the ALA would have been guaranteed a senate seat or even more is silly.
Despite huge amounts of work building an online profile from thousands of dedicated unpaid activists and supporters, the ALA did not cut through with the general public to the same extent that Hanson and her story of twenty years of dogged, gutsy perseverance did.
Neither did the LDP, despite the sterling efforts of David Leyonhjelm and some very hard-working activists. Neither did Fred Nile, despite decades of brave effort. Neither did Family First, despite their broad network of activists gained through faith circles.
And all of the above gained more voter support than the ALA.
If anything, the ALA, being new on the scene and having both libertarian and socially conservative aspects, stole votes that would otherwise have gone to them.
The bitterness, insults to the intelligence of the voters and especially the left-wing-style virtue signalling (“White Supremacist?” Really?) from so many people who should otherwise be celebrating the punishment of Turnbull the Leftist scumbag is disheartening.
The different wings of the Greens can’t stand each other, but they work together and are able to continually drag the media narrative and both major parties to the left.
If you think Pauline Hanson is The Answer it’s now time to get off your chair and do something to help her. One Nation is looking to run candidates in all electorates in the coming Queensland state election; if you don’t help now with time or money, there’s no point whining on the internet tomorrow.
And if you think as Paul Zanetti, and many libertarians I’ve talked to do, that there is no way that you could ever work with a big government nativist like Hanson, now is the time to join whatever party suits you and attempt to create a common platform to merge with the other small parties on the right.
Now is a time to celebrate, but a time for action as well.
Six or more parties splitting the right wing vote is a sad joke.
We might not all be able to get along, but if we can’t find a way to unite at least some of these hardworking activists, sparse resources and courageous public figures under fewer than the current dozen banners, the future looks grim.
Maybe I’m a naïve dreamer, but the weekend showed me that a better nation is possible, and that a united right would have the electoral and community support to make it happen.
It’s time to stop playing games, time to make those wrecking our country pay.
It’s time for the right to unite and fight; a better future is within our grasp.
The Western Revolt described by XYZ’s own David Hiscox has come to Australia: will you do your part? Or complain about those who do?
I find the arts industry interesting – well, mostly the music side of it. They all gripe and moan about the political right not doing the best by them, and have a sook about humanitarian issues on social media (you know, without actually doing anything about it) and of course it’s all the right’s fault, when actually it should be the right side of politics they should be supporting.
As an artist you’re not only a creative individual, you are a small business whose primary income is from your creativity. To be successful, you’re required to not only create pretty things but market it, exploit it, make deals and contracts, and the list of responsibilities goes forever on with similarities to other businesses.
Instead of working different ways to have their media in the public arena in a way that is profitable, they sit back crying that venues are closing down, that no one goes out anymore, that they should be given more support.
Let me cover these points: 1. Venues closing down.
Now, this happens for a number of reasons. Recently in Melbourne a lot of venues were forced to close due to residential complaints about noise, and due to low patronage or poor financial planning by the owners. They weren’t protected, and had to go, and since then a good policy has been put in place where established venues have sound-proofing paid for by developers (or the development has a greater level of sound proofing, anyway i digress from the original point of this…) The point is, there are many reasons places close. People get bored. Some managers are not great managers of a business, because face it, some people aren’t cut out for it. It’s not always the government’s fault. But you know it can’t be the artist’s fault now can it? 2. No one goes out anymore!
It’s a cry I have heard from many places and musicians. Times change, and TVs have gotten much bigger with the power of the internet behind them. People are, from my observations, becoming less and less inclined to leave the house; even when they have already purchased tickets. If you look at any successful businessman/woman they have adapted to change, sometimes subtly, other times drastically! If you want your media to be noticed, you have to do it in a way that’s going to get into the minds of people; then maybe, just maybe, you’ll bring some folks out of their rock for a little bit. 3. Support.
Financial support? How? Like the Greens Centrelink artist policy? Yeah right! That’s just devaluing art even more! If you want government support then seek the government, whichever party you support, and see if your work will assist them in advertising or promotion. If you want support, make it the sort of support that is beneficial for both yourself and the giver, instead of just lazy you sitting back on your Mac tweeting about how much the government sucks and how bad white male christians are!
For those that are creative be creative in business as well as art and see how far you can actually go!
What a disaster the 2 July election is unfolding for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Coalition’s chance of forming a majority government in the Australian House of Representatives is fading by the hour, and many voters, including Coalition MPs and Turnbull himself, are looking for someone to blame.
The truth is, Turnbull only has himself to blame. The rot goes back to Malcolm Turnbull knifing sitting Prime Minister Tony Abbott last September. At least Abbott managed to win a resounding electoral victory against Labor in 2013, precisely what Turnbull has failed to do. The electorate also abhors the unseating of a first term prime minister, something that was made patently clear after the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd merry-go-round.
Despite all of Malcolm Turnbull’s promises of unifying leadership communicated in silken, erudite speeches, he has utterly failed to deliver. His arrogant knifing of Tony Abbott, and his soft stance on Islamic extremism and terrorism has alienated large sections of the Liberal party and the electorate. In addition, he has also angered so called progressives because he hasn’t delivered on pet leftist issues such as same-sex marriage and climate change.
Right now, Turnbull has failed to deliver for anyone, including himself.
He naïvely allowed his ambition and ego to dictate his grasping for the prime ministership, and even when he had it, he failed to call an election last year while his popularity was still high.
Holding off until the middle of 2016 to call the election, and furthermore, trigger a double dissolution, was always going to result in a more difficult Senate than he had previously had to work with. And that is exactly what has now happened, with the proliferation of new independents and minor parties.
Malcolm Turnbull has brought on a crisis for his government and his own prime ministership. And he only has one person to blame.
On Saturday night/Sunday morning, when it became clear that the result of the election would not be settled for a few days, both Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten gave speeches which attempted to convey the impression that they had won. One of the most extraordinary moments in any “victory” speech came from Malcolm Turnbull, who referred to the fact that thousands of constituents in Queensland had reportedly received a text message, claiming to be from Medicare, claiming that a Liberal government would privatise Medicare.
Turnbull went so far as to suggest that the police would investigate, and indeed the Liberal Party has made an official complaint over the matter. Incredibly, Labor’s Queensland branch have admitted sending the text, but claim “Medicare” was the subject of the text, which may have been confused as the origin. And the Australia Council of Trade Unions had earlier sent out replica Medicare cards, with the same theme in mind.
There are several ways we could view these events. On the one hand, regardless of whether the action taken by the Labor Party Queensland branch and the ACTU are proven to have been illegal, it may well have a decisive impact in electorates where the result is yet to be decided.
On the other hand, we’re not Remain cry-babies. The losers in Great Britain have been demanding a revote all week, but that is not us. It is up to individuals to inform themselves of the policies of the parties they wish to vote for. If they are swung by misinformation, they don’t have anyone to blame, in the Google Age, but themselves.
Another line of thought suggests that Medicaregate may have provided a useful red herring, to Malcolm Turnbull, the mainstream media, and the left, so they can avoid the competing narrative explaining the result of this election: that conservative voters had already made up their minds about Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of the Liberal Party, were leaving it in droves, and planning to vote for minor parties on the right.
So we would like to ask XYZ readers the followng question:
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
As Australia finishes its first day without a government (again) and we realise that we are all getting on just fine, many of us quite rightly realise that we could get on just fine a little longer. Eventually though, we will need a government (for now) if not to pay for the roads, then at least to watch the border and figure out how we’re going to pay off all that debt.
One would think that with the blow given to Malcolm Turnbull, it was the Labor faithful who were feeling the happiest. Not so. The predicament the Liberal Party finds itself in, possibly having to rule in minority government, or, if it is to rule outright, it will have to wait a few more days, is a predicament of its own making.
But there is a victor in this already. It is the Australian people. I am prepared to assert that the majority of Australian people are conservative, but they want a conservative to vote for. I think Aussies thought Kevin Rudd was a conservative, just perhaps a little less conservative than John Howard. They knew Abbott was. And when push came to shove in an election, they would have backed him.
No-one has put this better today than Larry Pickering. Larry Pickering is part of the Western revolt The XYZ has reported on, and his analysis is as sharp as his drawing. Many people have already read his take on the election outcome, and if you haven’t it is well worth reading:
“We aren’t silly, we got exactly what we wanted… a spanking for Turnbull but not such a belting that would have delivered us Shorten. It was a fine line to tread but we managed to do it once again.”
The regressive left just doesn’t understand religion. And while they pretend to be down with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism (but only when it’s pitted against white supremacists – otherwise, Judaism is Hitler, apparently) they are just as clueless about the point of these religions as they are about Christianity. You just wouldn’t know it, because they bottle up and unleash a special kind of vitriol for Christianity that makes it difficult to hide their ignorance and their prejudice against it.
They regard humble people who have the audacity to quietly ponder the big theological questions and the meaning of their life, as being somehow less enlightened than more secular people who spend their quiet moments obsessing over the Gospel of Game of Thrones.
If you were to ask a regressive leftist if there is life in deepest space beyond the reaches of our knowledge, they would probably say yes, even though there is no scientific evidence to support this. If you were to say that race and gender are genetic, and not merely social constructs as they claim, they will angrily and categorically deny it with a rabid zealotry, even though there is no scientific evidence to support this. If you were to suggest that there seems to be some kind of intelligent design at work in all of the living things that surround us, the first thing a regressive leftist will demand is scientific evidence.
When it comes to Christianity, the regressive left always gets bogged down and obsessed by disproving the existence of ‘an invisible man in the sky’. They obsess over it like puritans of the highest order.
They spend all of their time searching for that elusive ‘gotcha’ moment, and inexplicably use science to try to debunk the spiritual. Which makes about as much sense as using spirituality to debunk science.
Atheists are a lot like the fun-stoppers who try to debunk pro-wrestling. Pro-wrestling debunkers are infuriated when they see fans enjoying themselves.
“Look at these idiots,” they say. “They actually believe all of this.”
Not exactly. It’s a suspension of disbelief. There’s a difference. They enjoy the pomp and spectacle. The ritual and ceremony.
Pro-wrestling and Religion aren’t exactly the same of course, but the ignorance of those who wish to p— in the punchbowl IS exactly the same. They have no comprehension of what they criticise, yet have the audacity to feel superior to it. They see pro-wrestling and just don’t understand that whether it is real or not is completely irrelevant. They see religion and similarly just don’t understand that whether a deity exists as presented or not is similarly irrelevant.
The main point that they always miss is that Religion would serve exactly the same purpose and fulfil all of the same positive social functions whether a higher power existed or not. When you ask people why they are of a particular faith, you find that the first thing they mention is rarely the wrath or mercy of a deity. They usually mention something surprisingly practical and useful.
Some people are religious because they see it as a reliable road map to live their life by. A moral compass at a time when morality can be blurred. Some people are religious because they feel that it is a means of personal enlightenment and self-fulfilment. Some people see it as a way to focus and help others. Some people see it as the tie that binds family and community. Others see it as a way to get through the trials and tribulations of life.
It can be a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Sometimes, perusing the I F—ing Love Science Facebook page when you’ve just lost somebody to cancer doesn’t quite offer the solace you need.
In short, religion enhances their quality of life, and helps them in dealing with the ebbs and flows of the human condition. Perhaps the intelligent design that drives their faith is real and tangible. Perhaps it’s not. Who is to say? Some things cannot be scientifically measured due to our mortal limitations.
But even if faith is merely a placebo that makes us feel better about our lot in life, and instills in us the desire to better ourselves and help others, is it even in the top five of things you actively want to discredit and destroy?
While I find a lot of Christians to be well balanced, some people literally need religion to stop them from going off the rails. Is spiralling into an abyss of illegal drug addiction, or being relegated to the purgatory of being numbed to all feeling and emotion with legal psychotropic drugs, really a preferable path for the depressed guy down the road to finding God and getting through it drug free? Do we need to throw troubled people under a secular bus and potentially ruin their lives, just to keep smug progressives happy?
People need structure. Religion seems to be able to provide it by and large, way better than big government. Compare poor religious communities, to poor secular communities weaned onto a never ending welfare cycle.
Christianity isn’t perfect. Like any institution it isn’t immune to corruption. There are always monsters in society who will be attracted to environments where they can have access to children. In pre-internet times, churches, scout troops, and schools were the main places that provided these kinds of predatory opportunities.
Now you’re more likely to find pedophiles writing pieces for Salon.com about how we are the Monsters for judging them, and that not allowing them near our children is discriminatory. Cultural Marxists are understandably outraged at the thought that abhorrent child abuse was covered up by Pell and others out of self preservation, but are completely cool with the Rotherham abuse being covered up to similarly preserve politically correct doctrine. If the recently revealed predatory culture at the BBC is anything to go by, perhaps the regressive left needs to get their own house in order before they start casting stones.
In 2016 for the most part, religion (at least the more reasonable, less aggressive ones) does far more good than harm. Hospitals, education, charity, good will, the social cohesiveness of Judeo Christian societies – the benefits are obvious to anyone who is willing to consider them with an open mind.
Compare the good work of the Salvation Army to say, the non-achievements of the Greens. The former has done a lot for the disadvantaged, the latter talks a lot about helping the disadvantaged, but do considerably less (if anything) than the ‘Bible Thumpers’ they sneer at in practice.
Religious organisations generally prefer quiet, meaningful actions to conspicuous slactivism. Which is why people who volunteer for domestic and foreign humanitarian efforts tend to be religious, while people who lazily ‘raise awareness’ (mainly about themselves) are not. Religion makes real and tangible improvements in people’s lives. That’s something that actually could be analytically proven if the regressive left ever bothered to try.
The stock and trade of the regressive left on the other hand, is ordering more tunnel as soon as they see light at the end of it. All these tangible results without the intrusion of an ineffectual secular bureaucracy are problematic to the Cultural Marxist narrative, and literally drives them crazy.
Even though the regressive left scoff at the tangibility of religion, they seem at least subconsciously obsessed with replicating many of its tropes and rituals with those of their own, that are not all that dissimilar when you really look at it.
These include Catholic Guilt (white self-loathing), the congregation (fragmented, divisive support groups), preaching (virtue signalling), prayer (hoping for a hate crime), miracles (finding a hate crime that doesn’t turn out to be a hoax), penance (lazy shares and hashtags), fasting (detox), prayer rooms (yoga, pilates, safe spaces), Gospel (groupthink), shunning (public shaming), and all importantly, Revelation (Climate Change), tithings (carbon credits), and accusations of blasphemy (Climate Change Denial).
Perhaps there is a higher power, and perhaps there isn’t. For what it’s worth, I don’t really have a dog in this fight. I identify as agnostic. I just tend to notice stuff which of course makes me a heretic in regressive left circles.
So no, the regressive left does not understand the point of religion, and probably never will. They can’t even prioritise their grievances about it. The religion that won’t allow gays in the building is somehow more heinous to them than the religion that throws gays OFF the building.
Meanwhile they are pushing several of the most aggressive, destructive, oppressive, intimidating, and intrusive psuedo-religious reformations the West has ever seen in Cultural Marxism, and their tendency to default to problematic and racially condescending concepts such as moral relativism, when defending the more indefensible aspects of Regressive Fundamentalist Islam.
Eh?nonymous was a thoroughly repellent unemployed social justice warrior until a one in a million glitch in his Facebook account affected the algorithms in his news feed, omitting posts from his much loved left leaning Huffington Post and I F**king Love Science, and inexplicably replacing them with centrist and conservative newsfeed items that slowly dragged him kicking and screaming into the light beyond the safe space that Mr. Zuckerberg had so carefully constructed for him. It’s a long road to recovery, but every Mark Steyn share he sees in his newsfeed is like another day clean from social justice addiction.
A day after the 2016 Australian Federal election, much of what I and my colleagues at The XYZ suggested would happen has happened, although perhaps not exactly as we had imagined. Most obviously, our prediction of carnage on election day proved correct. We may not know for a few days which party, Liberal or Labor, will form government, nor whether they will govern outright or as a minority government relying on the goodwill of minor parties and independents.
The XYZ Viewer Poll conducted last week indicated that this was probable, with many former Coalition voters saying they would preference the minor parties to the right before the Liberals, and many would even preference the Liberal Party last, in order to punish them for disloyalty to Tony Abbott and disloyalty to core conservative principles. It was not known whether this would manifest itself in a big vote for minor parties and independents in the Senate, (it has) or whether it would affect the House of Representatives too. Clearly, it has.
What has surprised me is where this protest vote has gone. I, along with other independent media commentators such as Paul Zanetti, had predicted a big haul of Senate spots for the Australian Liberty Alliance. Although there may still be a slim chance they could snare one seat on preferencs, it is unlikely. Instead, The XYZ’s Ryan Fletcher appeared to have his finger more on the pulse than I, predicting the return of Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party.
Regarding my own thoughts on some of the new independent and minor parties who have been elected in the Senate – the Protectionist Party, sorry, Nick Xenophon Party, Jacqui Lambie Party, Derryn Hinch, and One Nation – are that they are populists. My two favourites, the Liberal Democrats and the Australian Liberty Alliance, have both struggled. The reason I preferred these two parties was that they both appeared to have clearly articulated principles and a clear plan for the future. The Liberal Democrats are principled libertarians, and apply the philosophy that limiting the size and role of government to every aspect of political and national life is a good thing. Contrast this to the single-issue opportunism of Xenophon, and the attention-seeking opportunism of Lambie. The A.L.A. appear to have an extensive knowledge of Islamic ideology and history, and an understanding of how Islamic ideology instructs and drives Islamic terrorism and conquest. Pauline Hanson has re-moulded herself as an anti-Islamic candidate, but her previous opposition to migration, and Asians in general, makes me suspect her for the same reason I suspect the UPF.
The conclusion I reach from this is that parties which have a clear conservative, classically liberal, cultural libertarian philosophy, have a potential constituency, especially as the Liberal Party moves further away from these positions. At the moment, that constituency is voting for people whom it knows, who are familiar to them, but do not necessarily have an over-arching philosophy which can lead to coherent policy, and articulate a clear, credible strategy for the future.
Like XYZ contributor Lucas Rosas, I think a right-wing equivalent to the Greens is necessary to keep the Liberal Party in check. Otherwise, today’s satire on the merger of the Liberal and Labor Party will not be satire for much longer. For this reason, I think it is vital for the ALA and LDP to perservere, to hone hone messaging and organisation, and to keep articulating their philosophy. David Leyenholm has done a tremendous job promoting libertarianism inside parliament and on social media. The ALA have tremendous candidates in the form of Bernard Gaynor and Kirralie Smith, and the potential for big popular support in Angry Anderson.
