Exiled to Manitoba...say wha?

Mennonites rose to political power and fell to womanizing and corruption (one of them, a celebrated Mennonite race car driver, was exiled to Manitoba, so grave were his perversions).
(AXE comment: What sort of horror would you have to create to be exiled from pestilential and oozey Paraguay to Manitoba? Take showers? Brush your teeth? Not marry your cousin?)

Well, ok....when you decide to muse on Paraguay, Nazi paradise and garden spot across the Rio Plata from Buenos Aires, we gotta smile here at Defeatist Central. I have never had any desire to visit the place...but, there appears to be a couple of strong trends there. Graeme Wood's piece in The Atlantic makes me wonder if it's worth considering as a place where trends go to die...For some reason he compares it to Australia, and cites one of the Utopian movements that tried to take off there -- New Australia.

A few years later, renegade Australians arrived just outside Asuncion and settled a commune known as New Australia. They founded their settlement on strict separation of races, sharing of property, teetotalism, and family values. They quickly erupted in conflict over just about everything, and within a few years New Australia disbanded. Utopian principle: Teetotalism, marriage. Reason for failure: An Australian colony founded on teetotalism?

However, the concept of  Mennonite race driver Orlando Penner exiled to Manitoba really needs explanation...and would be a fuck of a Randy Newman album concept. Or the Three Tenors, except there's only one left, and he isn't looking all that great. Still, it's a thought. And a tourism concept -- Paraguay, where hope comes to become not hope! Paraguay, like Uraguay with pee! Paraguay, gateway to Beggary and Ruin!

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...if Australia's magic was to take bonded criminal dross and transmute it into civilization, Paraguay's was to take freely-settled cultural and religious aristocrats and reduce them to beggary and ruin. It is where pretenses to civilization came to die...