Elections: Why did Argentines support Milei in the legislative elections?
En las recientes elecciones legislativas en Argentina, los votantes respaldaron a Javier Milei pese a un contexto económico complicado.
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Despite the cuts in pensions, health, education and public works, many voters prioritized inflationary control and the commitment to change in the face of the opposition, which was perceived as weak and without concrete proposals.
The turnout was 67%, the lowest since 1983 in a country with compulsory voting.
In addition, international aid conditional on Milei's electoral success and the assistance of the United States helped to mitigate the pressure on the dollar and strengthen confidence in the government's economic management.
Finally, despite mistakes and social tensions, the electorate considered that continuing with Milei was preferable to known alternatives, betting on a process of change that still requires adjustments.
The testimonies of the people who said they voted for Milei, despite recognizing that they were better off with previous governments, even they do not know why they voted for Milei again. They do not express on the basis why they decided to vote for Milei again. Automatic voters, they vote and they don't know why they do it.
It strikes me a lot because it seems to me that kind of absurd mentality that says "we have to support progress, stop living in the past" but they don't know their past objectively, and therefore they don't even know how to point to what that "future" would be like that they talk about beyond "equality, making ends meet and buying everything I want". Thoughts that are only subject to immediate pleasure, that reflects absolutely nothing that has to do with the "collective building" of a country for the well-being of all and on the contrary.
This is like voting for a guy who, among his bad decisions, affects my life as little as possible and the one who can't with his life, well, that's life, lucky and less fortunate.
They don't know because they have a past built on rubble and they don't know how to use any tools to build anything new on what they step on under the pseudo labels of "Freedom, progress and living with dignity".
The news is crammed into centralized information like the one above, some alternative programs show a little more. I hope Milei's #1 fan on the Sott team (
) can enlighten us a lot more about it about this kind of thinking that's not much different in my neighborhood and that's why the interesting thing because this is definitely like a hive mind.
And the recycled mentality of the left certainly didn't help anything either, more of the same. After losing elections, they are always the most thoughtful and self-critical in the world but in actions, the same old contradiction, everything half-baked and using the thumb to cover the sun in case the light rays that seep in might start to burn the straw in their "Pants".
A retiree commented on the electoral victory of La Libertad Avanza, called it a “disaster” and listed the sectors that are being harmed by the economic policies of the government of Javier Milei.
In addition, he said that he earns the minimum and when asked about how he can live with that income, he said: "I deprive myself of everything."
I have listened to Argentine programs and they talk a lot about people's debt with their credit cards in order to survive. Selling your cell phone to buy food, buy medicine or buy groceries, etc.
Those who decided to vote for Milei, even recognizing that they were better off in previous governments, possibly did not have such a low need as others to give little importance to their vote, as I commented earlier, "if it doesn't affect me much, I don't see it."
The situation with these miserable parallel dollars it seems that the strategy is to drown people as much as possible and in the process convince them in the illusion that the dollar is better than their own local currencies and that they want it so much by painting them an uncertain future but a "quick solution" that that is the only thing they think about, quickly get out of the problem of not having enough income no matter who governs as long as they solve that issue but leaving aside their own rights and real freedom because what is the point of having enough income if the cost of living is high? we would continue in the same, without ever being able to achieve what is necessary to subsist "worthily", as they say and as always, it is never for everyone.
