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What American Presidential Candidates Can Learn from Javier Milei |
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By Roger Simon |
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Recently elected Argentinian president and economist Javier Milei has been creating a buzz from his speech to the globalists at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) annual conference at Davos. The assembled swells, many of whom arrive on private jets to expound on what is needed by us the great unwashed, are not likely to have enjoyed what they heard. While it is more than worth hearing the whole thing, here are just a few notable excerpts as quoted by Dr. Robert Malone on his substack: “Today, I am here to tell you that the Western world is in danger, and it's in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty." "Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the desire to belong to a privileged class, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism." "We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause." "Given the dismal failure of collectivist models, and the undeniable advances in the free world, socialists were lead to change their agenda. They left behind the class struggle based on the economic system, and replaced it with other supposed social conflicts, which are just as harmful to life as a community, and to economic growth.” Some of this sounds as if it might have been uttered by one Donald J. Trump, although in a less formal, less specifically intellectual manner. Mr. Milei, as noted above, is a schooled economist. That he became the president of Argentina, a country that was once among the richest in the world only to descend into poverty via nightmarish levels of inflation largely caused by a socialized government intervening in the market, is something of a modern miracle as well as a testament to the man’s courage. Their unions, even now, are doing their best to undermine him. Our presidential candidates have a lot to learn from this new libertarian (aka classical liberal) leader on the world stage. |
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Mr. Trump, the well-acknowledged front-runner, instinctively brilliant as he often is, should find interesting, even instructive, Mr. Milei’s well-thought-out system of laissez-faire, largely libertarian governance. Candidates who in any way countenance an open border, as Nikki Halley once did by stating that illegal aliens were not “criminals,” should seriously reconsider their thinking. Telling people what is illegal is legal, even by inference, is self-fulfilling and a further detriment to our already sullied judicial system. It encourages the kind of societal suicide we have recently seen with our children outlandishly forced to leave their schools in order to make way for unhoused illegal migrants. All candidates should also divest themselves of financial backers one might call Davos-related. What these oligarchs have to offer is just one more version of impoverishing (for the majority) socialism from which now Mr. Milei is laboring so hard to save the people of his country. Whatever they proclaim at WEF, their true intention is more likely to lock their money and power in place, free of any competition the open market might bring, in the name of the “collective.” That would include some, I regret to say, who tell us they are Republicans. One last quote from the Argentinian president: "The impoverishment produced by collectivism is no fantasy, nor is it fatalism. It's a reality that we in Argentina have known very well for at least 100 years. We have lived through it, and we are here to warn you about what can happen if the countries in the Western world - that became rich through the model of freedom- stay on this road to serfdom.” “The road to serfdom” is Milei’s conscious reference to the work by economist Friedrich Hayek that many, including yours truly, have found to have been tremendously influential in their political and economic thinking. On a far lower level than Milei, I don’t expect any miracles from my recently published book “American Refugees: The Untold Story of Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States.” But I would appreciate it if you would be so kind as to purchase it; that would be doubly so if you also left a review on Amazon:) |
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