Australia’s Future Foretold: We’re Argentina 2.0
Time travel is here.
For a modest outlay of only a few thousand dollars, anybody at all can board what appears to be a standard international flight and be catapulted forward by several decades.
I did it myself in January. I paid my fare and I saw Australia’s future – a particularly alarming version of Australia’s future, it must be said – with my own astonished eyes.
A minor point of clarification: technically, all I did was fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina. But that’s where our whole country is headed if certain Australian trends continue.
(Please continue reading the latest Quadrant column.)
UPDATE:
My reflections on Australia.
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) March 11, 2024
The bad news is they're on the same trajectory as the rest of the English-speaking world. The good news is things haven't gone nearly as far.https://t.co/rkGpZLUJln pic.twitter.com/kEfoAwTtj4
UPDATE II:
Bright spots throughout the world:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 11, 2024
🇸🇻 Tough-on-crime populist Bukele won re-election with 85% in El Salvador
🇦🇷 Anti-socialist economist Milei won in a landslide victory in Argentina
🇳🇱 Geert Wilders and his party just won a landslide victory in the Netherlands
🇵🇹 The…
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