Worldwide I am seeing more of these leaders now.
I don’t know what’s happening in the rest of the world, but here there is a big problem of representation. The higher politics discuss things that have nothing to do with the problems of the Argentines. We were for ages a middle class country, now more than 40% of our population is living in poverty… and most of them dont have a job cause if they get one, they could lose their universal income*… things are bad, and we all know that it could (and will) be much worse.
This dude, milei, started talking about simple solutions to problems that the higher politics refused to abord for decades and the gross of the population most likely took the bait. Now the whole arc, and I mean, far left to far right is quoting his proposals as their own… and the people isn’t stupid**.
The political arc tried to stop milei first by not accepting his growing electoral base, then by saying that he can’t do shit without a majority on both chambers and finally by citing things that make absolutely no sense for the population: schoolshootings, an organ market, taking down the public Healthcare and education systems, bring back the junta… it simply doesn’tmake sense and if it does, people just dont care. So at the end, they only made things worse.
A month ago, a social worker told me an anecdote: he asked a villero (lower end of society) who was he voting for, the villero answer “milei”, so he told him that with milei, he won’t eat. The villero responded: “I don’t eat now, but with milei, you won’t eat too.”
There is a big chunk of the population that wants to see the country burn in the most literal sense of that phrase… and if milei wins, we will most likely be on that path.
We are fucked up.
*it is universal only if you vote for the ruling party and don’t have a formal job
**the people is stupid
It’s the same thing as trump in the US, they just say things angry people want to hear, and they get elected and end up being the selfserving lying pieces of shit they always were. The difference in Argentina is all the choices are lying pieces of shit. Yeah Milei sucks but so does Kirchner and Fernandez.
