He's so well behaved... a far cry from the guy that screams insults at people. But he says a lot of reasonable things, a lot. But he also has some really nuts ideas about how to run the country that truly concerns me for Argentina.
Despite his reasonable answers, there's something about his speech pattern that lacks depth and it almost sounds like he doesn't really comprehend what he's saying, more like he's rehearsing. I will allow nervousness, but not sure about this guy.
It is not and will not be the first time that someone says reasonable things to capture an audience. It is textbook for a politician in these contexts to use a real discontent to capitalize on it.
And much of what he says, lies by omission of data.
For example, here we know that indeed climate change is not an exclusive product of man but to generalize that the climate change lobby is something of socialist origin as he puts it, is to completely ignore that behind it there is not only ideology, there are the interests of technocrats and multinationals that will adopt one ideology or another for the sake of their coveted profit. And here is what is not perceived: ideology or ideologies are not the cause, they are the tool.
In another section when he talks about buildings, the aesthetics of the square and the ugly that he attributes to socialism, is to ignore the history of art. In this case he ignores that much of that aesthetic comes from the Bauhaus school of Weimar Germany. That school, although it was not alien to the ideologies of the time, tried to remain neutral. The question here is that this aesthetic is the one that would define after World War II, what we know as industrial design. Milei in his ignorance does not realize that:
es.wikipedia.org
At the time of its founding, the objectives of the school, characterized by Gropius in a manifesto, were: "The recovery of craft methods in construction activity, to raise the power of craftsmanship to the same level as the Fine Arts and
try to market the products that, integrated into industrial production, would become consumer objects affordable to the general public" since one of its goals was to become independent and start selling the products made at the School, to stop depending on the State that until then was the one who subsidized them.
It seems to me that a design school that wants to be independent from the state is a rather libertarian concept...
Finally, to say that socialism has been gradually embraced for 100 years is again to ignore Argentina's own history and economy. It is well known that before Perón's first government (Revolution of 1943), he was characterized by being profoundly anti-communist:
I could add more, but I think it is clear what I mean. Milei may say two or three truths but his ignorance of history and geopolitics (to say that Putin is a communist just because he associates him with China, is an ignorance not of past history of decades, but of recent history) puts him at the level of what he criticizes. If we add to that his extravagance with his pets, tantric sex etc etc... more woke in that sense I don't know what there is...
