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Minor parties on Australian right must unite

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By Lucas Rosas

Any patriot with a conscience must vote for a minor party this election.

In my last article I mentioned the chilling, matter of fact quote from last year by Mark Textor regarding the traditional Liberal party base:

“The qualitative evidence is they don’t matter,” Mr Textor said. “The sum of a more centrist approach outweighs any alleged marginal loss of so-called base voters.”

It’s clear the Turnbull campaign does not care about patriotic Australians. It does not care about any right-of-centre Australians. In fact, they probably care very little for this country at all.

And they especially don’t care about your vote.

Why?

Because for at least thirty years the Liberal-National coalition has drifted inexorably to the left, abandoning social conservatives on cultural issues even as it betrayed libertarians and classical liberals alike by increasing the size and scope of government in every parliament.

And those who actually care about this country, those who love it, those to the economic or social right of the political spectrum continued to vote for them like turkeys voting for Christmas.

We continued to vote for these pampered weak fools who get make the speeches, get elected and then continue to guide our nation into the abyss the left has steered us towards while they enjoy flights, helicopter rides, private cars and all the perks they can shovel into their greedy, mercenary mouths.

We trusted these traitors in light blue to protect our nation from the death spiral the ideological fanatics of the left had set course for.

And they sold us out.

Our nation will likely never see a budget surplus again.

Our schools are indoctrination factories, the teachers unions the last reliable ALP foot soldiers outside the construction industry, filling children’s minds with absurdities on sex, gender, marriage, nation and society now almost compulsory to believe.

Our Academics now openly call for the death of our nation and the overthrow of our constitution almost without rebuke. The journalists produced from their cookie-cutter campuses spout leftist orthodoxies without any pretence of thought.

Every generation is being brainwashed into being further to the left than the last, from the first day of kindergarten to the last day of graduate school, and is being done so with our tax dollars.

Meanwhile our supposed conservatives in government boast about how much extra funding they will send to these manufactories of leftist conformity. No reform on performance standards for teachers as grade inflation drives the educational outcomes of students lower and lower, just more of your money without any significant oversight, for the people teaching your kids to hate their country, their culture, their gender, themselves and you.

And the parties you voted for to protect your family from these ideologues instead celebrate them while the “conservative” Prime Minister invites extremist Muslim preachers over for dinner.

More and more Australians are turning away from the major parties. In the Senate at the 2013 poll, one third of voters chose to vote outside the red-blue-red game and only eight percent of those voted for the Watermelon Greens. There are far more angry patriots than that.

The extremist left realised, after the Hawk-Keating years and the fall of the Soviet Union, that if they were ever going to push their perverted, monstrous, nation-destroying agenda they needed a semi-mainstream party outside the ALP to drive the opportunistic leeches that populate that wreck of an institution further towards our destruction.

The right on the other hand has not been as clever.

When One Nation came on the scene in the late 90s the Liberal party did far more even than the privileged street thugs of the far left to beat back the threat to their beloved perks.

It doesn’t matter if you’re religious or atheist, church-going social conservative or freedom-loving libertarian, if the right puts aside our differences and comes together around our own version of the Greens, not only is progress possible, the current trajectory towards social and economic disintegration might even be halted.

As it stands now, those civilisation-hating reprobates in the Australian Greens contain all stripes of the far-left factions, from adolescent anarchists, to deep green misanthropic enviro-fanatics, to a Senator who spent most of her political life as a devout Stalinist.

The idea that the much larger percentage of the population who like smaller government, traditional values, sensible immigration policies, and less taxation, rather than more taxation, can’t find a common platform, is ridiculous.

Our country is at stake.

It’s our duty as Australians, as patriots, as taxpayers and as citizens to drive the major parties to the right as the Watermelons have driven them to the left.

The only way to do that is to threaten to rip their overfed snouts from the trough.

After the election I would urge everyone to unite behind whoever does the best, but for now it’s enough to leave you with a plea for sanity.

You can put the Liberals above the ALP if you like, and certainly put them above the Greens, but for your nation’s sake, put everyone else above them.

Because unless something changes nothing will change, and the miracle our ancestors sweat and bled to create here on the bottom of the world will slip into the mediocrity we will richly deserve.

Lucas is a former soldier and current hedonist reclining supine beside a pool in a tropical paradise with a cocktail as the sun sets on Western civilisation. He likes hats.

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Social Media Social Engineering

If Facebook’s ‘rainbow’ filter wasn’t enough, YouTube is the latest social media giant to use its considerable reach and influence as a bully-pulpit to push the alphabet-soup dogma on us.

It is astounding how rapidly big government and big business have filled the vacuum once held by the church, in instructing the community on deemed moral and sexual mores, no matter how petty.

Even more ridiculous than YouTube’s frankly creepy sex and gender propaganda video, is the way that sugary food and drinks have become the latest moral frontier. If taxing cigarettes and alcohol into oblivion wasn’t enough, they’re now coming for your can of Coke. Yes, there really are people out there who want to dictate to you what you can and can’t eat, while reserving the right to eat their specially-flown-in-from-France cheese, and other fattening and sugary hipstery delicacies.

While the crusade against sugary drinks has been waged for some time in the United States, (the sanctimonious film ‘Supersize Me’ unfortunately comes to mind), those in the land Down Under have now had the misfortune of this great moral challenge being foisted upon us, in this year’s Federal Election campaign.

The Australian Greens, in their beneficence and wisdom, want to legalize mind altering drugs, but as for the diabolical moral scourge of obesity – well, that needs to brought under control by slapping a 20 percent tax on soft drinks!

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Quote of the Day: Sex Party champions Uber in Victoria

The Liberal Party still may be, nominally, the party of free enterprise and entrepreneurship, although when it constantly competes with Labor to see who can splash the most money at social programs, one is given pause to ponder.  The Liberal Democrats, represented by the stirling David Leyonhjelm in the Federal Senate, has free market credentials which are second to none.  The Australian Liberty Alliance too, professes a commitment to free markets and less regulations, despite the unfair stereotype of their being a single-issue party.

5802216287_f2fc5afec0_Fiona-PattenTo this proud mix, add the Sex Party.  (I voted for them once, when the Libs didn’t field a candidate in my seat, and they were the only party on the role who mentioned the freedom to trade in anything approaching a positive manner.) Although their representatives may not exactly leave you feeling like, well… you know… (Nor may they be your cup of tea,) but they have an admirable cultural libertarian.. bent.  Today, in the Victorian Parliament, the Sex Party’s Fiona Patten introduced a… private member’s bill to regulate, and thus legalise, the ride-share service, Uber, which has been in a legal no-man’s-land for the last few years.

It will still take a few months to push through the parliament, because, you know, the State, but with the possibility of even deregulating the taxi industry, the future is looking bright for free enterprise.  Who knows, maybe there are other areas of our lives where we can avoid having to deal with the government, and just organise things ourselves.

So to Fiona Patten, the Sex Party, and Uber, we award The XYZ Quote of the Day.

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Billionaires and politics

imageMy respect for Richard Branson is becoming slimmer by the day. What he has posted here is complete scare-mongering.

The bloodshed in Europe in recent years has been from Islamic invaders, and not from European neighbours.

The EU takes away national identity and pride, slamming those who want to stand out, and taking control of over nations, via a socialist regime, by unelected officials.

What Mr Branson has said here is that the individual governments and peoples are incapable of living peacefully side by side. Is he referring to the two world wars? Or the constant conflict that has plagued Europe pre 1900? Either way he has no regard for peaceful living people.

What about, for example, European countries out of the EU, like Switzerland and Norway? Are they living in a violent, backwards world? Short answer is no. Hell, they even have better trade deals than those in the EU.

Branson. You are not taking a risk. You are playing a safe bet to appease the politically correct, socialist left brigade.

The EU isn’t the founder of peace between nations. Common sense has been. (Also the threat of someone pissing off America before they became a whipped dog). I also believe that after so much violence, no European wants conflict on their soil again, regardless of the existence of the EU.

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Are car companies forcing communism onto their customers?

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Thanks, but we’d rather walk.

Are motor vehicle companies forcing communism onto their customers?

Take a look at the recent sales of new cars. They all come out with an amazing colour pallet of glossy paint primer!

For too long the motor industry has been towing the line where customers could choose a range of diverse and really cool colours that would make your head turn.

Now they are doing the desires of their Marxists overlords! No longer will vehicles be attractive or appealing. They will be bland and only used as tools.

“Individuality is frowned upon and we are making customers know their place,” a statement released by Hyundai CEO Chung Mong-koo.

He also was caught on camera stating to his aides that, “the North [Korea] has right idea for population management.”

Comrade Mong-koo has since not been available for comment on his above statement despite the XYZ’s many applications to his office.

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Hello.

Fight the blandness being thrust upon our roads! Choose metallic and CHOOSE COLOURS!*

*Beige is only a colour if you are an accountant.

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Quote of the Day: What causes poverty?

Here at The XYZ, we argue that what makes the difference between staying poor and becoming rich, is the opportunity to create wealth. We argue in favour of removing barriers to opportunity; barriers such as regulations, taxes, and the mindset that government intervention will make something better, when often it has the complete opposite effect to which it was intended.

So, when thinking about what causes poverty, and what creates prosperity, this quote, tweeted on November 15, 2015, by Per Bylund, who teaches entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University in the United States, is well worth remembering:

“What causes #poverty? Nothing. It’s the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, what causes #prosperity?”

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We’re not even making this up: Climate Change on Mars

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The scientific community has been rocked in recent weeks by the discovery that Mars is, at this very moment, experiencing climate change.  NASA probes have determined that “Mars has retreated from a glacial period that would have covered large areas in white before the thaw about 370,000 years ago.”  The full report in the journal Science can be found here.

In response to this dramatic news, XYZ Science Reporter, Dr Ikbin Depp, has the following to say:

Man made fossil fuel emissions endanger the whole solar system: This is a fact as we now know the polar ice caps have melted. On Mars! Our destructive practices now endanger the Martians – and what next – Venus? I predict Pluto will be warmer than Ibiza by 2025.

The science is settled!

It’s your XYZ.

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Why I support Brexit

24600489394_35b53e4822_brexitIn the upcoming days the people of the United Kingdom will go to the ballot to determine if the UK will remain as a member of the European Union.

Firstly, I want to say, I am a massive fan of direct participatory democracy. People will vote on this single topic – not on this single topic and every other policy bundled together, which is what a general election essentially comes down to.

The fact that this referendum is being held despite the major political parties being in consensus to remain is important. Major institutions like the BBC and so many entities are on the side to remain, yet the people seem to be set to vote to leave.

The main reason I am supporting Brexit is an inherent distrust of large institutions. In general, I believe they end in corruption and a lust for power. The EU seems to be no exception to the rule, and I believe it needs to held to account by the people.

More specifically, I believe the EU is becoming a dangerous entity and it is best for the people of the UK and the EU that Britain leaves.

Most tellingly, when you assess the character and motives of the Remain campaigners, why would you not want to leave.

It is a rare opportunity for the people to decide something so important to the fate of their nation and a continent and for this reason, no matter what the outcome, democracy will be the winner through the simple act of letting the people decide.

 

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The West’s Crisis of Culture and Meaning

Speculation has abound over the last week that the Orlando killer, Omar Mateen may have been gay himself, and even frequented the club where he brutally took the lives of 49 victims.

In trying to make sense of the attack, some authorities have speculated that Mateen’s motive may have been a ‘hate crime’ based up self-hatred and an inability to come to terms with his homosexual orientation.

Pundits have been quick to try and get political mileage out of the attack, whether it has been to push gun control, gay marriage, or going to the bizarre length of pointing the finger of blame at conservative Christians or even Donald Trump, himself.

I do not believe Mateen’s motive was self-hatred as there was ample motive to carry out the attack on Islamist grounds. In fact, Islam and Islamic State were what Mateen himself names as the motive for the Pulse nightclub slaughter. We now seem to have a tendency not to take terrorists at their word, and to concoct other motives and attribute these to the attackers when they have made no such claim.  I also find myself agreeing with the remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late last week when he said:

“This week’s shooting wasn’t merely an attack on the LGBT community, it was an attack on all of us. On our common values of freedom and diversity and choice. Radical Islamist terror makes no distinction between shades of infidel. This week it was gays in Orlando, a few days before that it was Jews in Tel Aviv, before that it was music fans in Paris, travelers in Brussels, Yazidis in Iraq, community workers in San Bernardino, Christians and journalists in Syria. All of us are targets.”

While the Israeli Prime Minister is on the money with what lies behind Islamic terrorism, the issue of self-hatred needs needs further exploration. Those who live in the West are fed a daily narrative of self-hated, so it is not surprising that this was raised as a potential motive.

Children are taught from the earliest age at school and through the media that their lives and prosperity are built on the proceeds of crime. Our education system instills a culture of guilt and shame for the sins of our fathers; where achievements of Western Culture are either ignored, dismissed or amount to nothing more than exploitation, and where the colour of one’s skin is said to make one automatically and irredeemably racist.

We live in a culture that is drenched in shame, guilt and self-loathing. Such a culture of guilt and shame has not come from Christianity, but has arisen from the rabidly anti-Christian secular left which now (like the Christian faith before it) dominates our civil institutions. Is it any surprise that this self-hatred might rub off on our young people?

While self hatred is unlikely to be the motive behind the Orlando massacre, the custom and practice of self-loathing indoctrinated into our children and each of us through the media is certainly behind the crisis of culture and meaning experienced by so many in the West.

How to Answer Duncan’s Question

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A few months ago a question asked on Q&A became front page news across the country:

DUNCAN STORRAR: “I’ve got a disability and a low education – that means I’ve spent my whole life working off a minimum wage. You’re gonna lift the tax-free threshold for rich people. If you lift my tax-free threshold, that changes my life. That means that I get to say to my little girls, “Daddy’s not broke this weekend, we can go to the pictures.” Rich people don’t even notice their tax-free threshold lift.

“Why don’t I get it? Why do they get it?”

In other words he’s asking: “Why don’t rich people pay more tax and the poor pay less tax?”

If you find yourself in a political discussion, this question, or a variant of it will no doubt be asked. It really gets to the heart of the economic philosophical differences between the left and the right.

It’s also a hard question to answer if you are an economic conservative without sounding like the love child of Ebenezer Scrooge and Hitler, (then again, disagreeing with a liberal (in this case we mean “liberal” in the American sense) on anything, will have them calling you this eventually, anyway).

So how do you answer this question?

Kelly O’Dwyer was put in the unfortunate position of answering this question on behalf of all economic conservatives, and she did a pretty bad job. She made the mistake of answering a very personal question broadly. She talked about the overall economic picture and about policy. If a question is direct and personal, it needs to be answered directly and personally, not with abstract ideas. Her answer did nothing to make conservative economic policies appeal to swing voters.

So what does work?

The first thing you need to accept is that when a question is asked from an emotional place, it’s nearly impossible to change someone’s mind. You can’t tell someone how they feel, even if the facts say otherwise. Feelings don’t influence facts, and facts don’t influence feelings. Duncan feels like he is getting a rough deal, and no amount of facts will convince him otherwise. You can tell Duncan 10% of Australians pay 50% of the total income tax collected. You can tell Duncan he actually gets more out of the tax system than he puts in, and that his mere existence is actually a net financial loss to Australia’s budget. These facts however, won’t change how he feels.

I know this is normally a very bad tactic in a discussion, but his question needs to be answered with another:

‘What percentage tax rate do you think Australians should pay?’

And:

‘What percentage tax rate do you think you should pay?’

Go to facts, figures and specifics as soon as you can. Get away from “More and Less” as quickly as you can, because “rich should pay more” and “poor should pay less” is an argument you’ll never win. What does Duncan think is a fair amount? Now, Duncan may answer this in a lot of different ways, but we are now at least talking about raw numbers, and not how we feel. Whenever you can do that as a conservative you’re already winning the argument. It’s a good way to approach any political discussion with someone on the left.

Now, if Duncan was a fair person he’d say “Well because I use the services of the government at a disproportionate rate, I should pay taxes to support those services.” It’s unlikely this will be his answer; his answer will no doubt be “less” or “nothing”. If Duncan’s answer for his own tax rate is “nothing” then it’s an easy win. You’ve just had him admit he doesn’t want to pay for any of the services he uses. That’s the definition of greedy. If everyone in Australia had that mentality, it would lead to the country’s complete economic collapse.

If he says “less”, then get a specific rate. You can’t argue against “less” but you can argue against an actual number. If you apply the same technique to the previous answer, you’ll still win, you just need to work a little harder to get there.

So what we’ve done now is flipped the script. We are no longer the evil politician withholding money from Duncan. Duncan is a selfish a–hole who wants to get more out of a system than he puts into.

You may not change Duncan’s mind, but you have potentially changed the minds of people watching the show.

So that’s how conservative politicians can answer that question on television.

Next time, I’ll talk about ways YOU can answer that question.