Posted on 08/14/2023 4:07:23 AM PDT by RandFan
A far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina’s open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprising showing for a politician who wants to adopt the U.S. dollar as Argentina’s official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump.
Javier Milei, 52, a congressman, economist and former television pundit, secured 30 percent of the vote with 96 percent of the ballots counted, making him the front-runner for the presidency in the fall general election.
Polls had suggested that Mr. Milei’s support was at about 20 percent, and political analysts had predicted that his radical policy proposals — including abolishing the country’s central bank — would prevent him from attracting many more voters.
But the vote on Sunday made clear that Mr. Milei now has a clear shot at leading Argentina, a South American nation of 46 million with some of the world’s largest reserves of oil, gas and lithium.
“I think these results are surprising even to him,” said Pablo Touzon, an Argentine political consultant. “Up until now, he was a protest candidate.”
Argentina’s general election in October, which could go to a November runoff, will now become a new test of the strength of the far right around the world. Although hard-right forces have gained new influence in several powerful nations in recent years....
Mr. Milei has pitched himself as the radical change that the collapsing Argentine economy needs, and he could be a shock to the system if elected. Besides his ideas about the currency and the central bank, he has proposed drastically lowering taxes and cutting public spending, including by charging people to use the public health care system; closing or privatizing all state-owned enterprises; and eliminating the health, education and environment ministries.
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Their worst nightmare.
“Far right” + libertarian = oxymoron.
But that never stopped the NYT before.
End the Fed!
End the Fed!
End the Fed!
End the Fed!
He needs to double his security immediately.
Remember the last time media used “far left” in a news story? Me neither.
FAR right.
or “hard left”.
Can you imagine?
Go far right! Go far right!
As opposed to WEF supported far left Nazi.
“Libertarian” and “far-right” are oxymorons.
All actually-existing libertarianism serves leftism.
I know little about Argentinian politics, but all this article mentions are limited government, free market policies. Nothing about the issues like drug legalization and unrestrained sexual license that separate libertarians from conservatives. The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was also pro free market, Their economic policy was driven by the “Chicago boys”, followers of Milton Friedman’s economic theories.
I think Argentina has a long history of oscillating politics. They often seem to have “right-wing” government — and these result in strong economies, and a prosperous nation. Which then agitates for comminism. So a Communist government comes into power and trashes the whole country and oppresses people with political violence. So, after some time, they bring back a “right wing” government which restores prosperity. And then the people demand Communism again.
If Javier Milei wins, Argentina could become the western hemisphere’s ‘safehouse’ for WMA*.
*WMA: Outdated radio shortcut for; White Male American
The “free market” dissolves natural affinity groups and by rendering everyone free of unchosen affiliations renders everyone powerless before the organizers and owners of the “free market” - which, like mature communism when the state withers away, is an imaginary construct of intelligent but immature minds.
One hundred years ago Argentina was the fourth richest nation on earth. And what happened? Socialism. Marx, rather than common sense, took over.
Go, Extremism! Go!/s
Come now, we have been told for decades that Nazi’s are far right. /s/
Once again, their deliberate use of pseudo-language manifests.
Over the years, I have argued the point that socialism in its various forms is NOT an economic theory / plan. It is a political plan, masquerading as economic.
The correct antidote is not capitalism --- a term most prominent in so many Leftists' texts including Marx and Piketty -- but liberty.
As individuals make "free" and self-affirming decisions in their own best interests (and are prevented from theft as a "free" decision), there will be those who prosper and those will not. But their decisions will be theirs, consequences and all.
Meanwhile, socialism in all its forms presents government as the middleman, and what we know of middlemen is that they take their "share" and "as much as the market will bear."
Socialism as a thesis is a political plan. Liberty is its antithesis.
yup
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