Liberty Advances
More inconvenient election results from the End of the World...
“Today is a pivotal day for the ideas of freedom.”
~ Javier Milei following the weekend’s elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Syros, Greece...
For a newspaper that brandishes the motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” The Washington Post sure gets its knickers in a knot when democratic elections don’t go the way of the political elites...
Witness the results of Argentina’s local elections over the weekend, in which free and uncoerced voters handed President Javier Milei’s libertarian La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party an historic win… and a major boost in confidence ahead of the all important national midterm elections in October.
Here’s how the cooly objective “journalists” at The Post characterized the results:
In win for far-right President Milei, Argentines deal a blow to centrists in local elections
What was once a main stronghold of the center-right in Argentina has fallen to the radical libertarian party of President Javier Milei, a dramatic result that could help Milei’s chances in this year’s crucial midterms as voters across Buenos Aires abandoned the country’s main conservative party
Uh, did you get that? Argentina’s center-right has “fallen” to “radical libertarians” down at the End of the World.
Be afraid, gentle reader... be very afraid!
You’ll recall “radical libertarianism” as the intolerably toxic notion that free individuals are not the state’s property. Gulp!
What’s next?
Fanatical non-interventionalism? Militant pacifism? Fundamentalist peaceniks?
False Dilemmas
Oxymorons (and oxygen-deprived morons) aside, the results of the free and fair elections in Argentina represent yet another blow for establishment elites around the world, who relentlessly remind us that the only thing standing between polite civilization and apocalypse now is one of two controlled parties, Team A and Team B. A classic false dilemma, packaged and sold to propagandized voters as the illusion of choice.
Except, of course, when those very same voters choose the “wrong” choice, someone outside of the Overton Window, as defined and framed by the experts in government, in the academies, in think tanks, in mainstream media and of course, in Hollywood, where featherless bipeds are paid tens of millions of dollars to pretend to be people they are not, with knowledge and expertise they don’t have... as a job.
(Friendly reminder: George Clooney is not really an ER doctor... Leonardo DiCaprio is not actually a Wall Street wolf... and Jimmy Fallon isn’t really laughing.)
Like fair weather free speech advocates, elites only like democracy when voters say and do what they want, when they toe the proverbial line and don’t ask too many questions. (“Who is Viktor Yanukovych, anyway?” “What is Gain of Function research, exactly?” “What was Operation Paperclip?”)
As to the elections themselves...
Milei’s chosen candidate, the charismatic LLA spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, secured over 30% of the ballots in the local elections, ousting former President Mauricio Macri’s establishment conservative (PRO) party, which had held power in the capital city for 18 uninterrupted years.
Silvia Lospennato, the PRO candidate, came in third with 15.9% of the vote, roughly half Adorni’s total. A friend on the ground in Buenos Aires shared the following electoral map with us, which shows the shift from the 2023 election to the 2025 results this past weekend.
Yellow represents the PRO party, which had secured 50% of the votes in 2023 (and 56% in 2019). Purple represents Milei’s LLA, which was non-existent in 2019... and stormed to victory over the weekend.
Peronist Parasites
As President Milei declared at Sunday’s victory rally:
“We will paint the entire country purple.”
Now, that’s a fairly significant shift, you will surely agree... at least for those not suffering color blindness and/or salaried positions at The Post.
Continued the paper, as through gritted teeth...
Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party, or LLA, said it racked up twice as many votes Sunday as it did in the last local election, in 2023.
As a brassy Argentine rock anthem blared at the post-election rally, Milei burst onto the stage, bouncing and pumping his arms to whip up the crowd.
Ah, but all was not lost for the agitprop mongers over at The Post, who were at least able to cheer on the fact that their beloved Peronists (represented by the blue in the above map), were nonetheless able to make gains in the capital city, thanks to the “splintered right wing.”
Argentina’s left-leaning populist Peronist party, which has governed the country for much of the past two decades, came second, scraping over 27% in a city where they normally fall short, a sign of how the splintered right-wing has benefited the opposition.
That is to say, those very same parasites that reduced the once-thriving Argentine economy to a case of near terminal collectivism over the course of the past 70 years (not a mere two decades, as The Post pretends) are making inroads once again in the nation’s capital.
As far as the foreign establishment is concerned, it simply cannot be the case that liberty should prevail over tyranny... that cooperation be allowed to triumph over coercion... that free people, free markets and free minds flourish in the place of government directed interventionism and self-righteous do-goodery.
There’s just one problem for them: It is.
While old establishment parties fight for the scraps, a movement that didn’t even exist two election cycles ago has (again) swept the tables. As Adorni himself said on stage Sunday evening, after democracy stubbornly refused to die in darkness:
“It wasn't simply a local election. It was an election between two models ... The model of the political class, the model of a privileged few, and the model of freedom. And today, freedom won - once again.”
Said another way...
¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World...
Cheers,
Joel Bowman
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And they wonder why main stream media (WP, AP, NYT, LAT) are losing subscribers, and alternate news sources are attracting more.
“Radical!” Every time people on the left disagree with their adversaries, they are always called radicals. No discussion, no debate, just name calling. Would it be too difficult to exert a modicum of curiosity to wonder why the radicals are changing the minds of the voters? That may be a rhetorical question.