2023-10-18 09:06:21
“Loco” is a nickname that is commonly used among Argentines, as “che” was at the time in some sectors of society. “Crazy, you don’t have a coin left over/I want to spend my whole life/listening to rock and roll,” Billy sang. Bond and Charly García. The ‘Ballad for a Madman’, by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, romanticized in 1969 the figure of those who could go outside the norm. “Crazy, crazy, crazy, like a crazy acrobat I’ll jump/ Over the abyss of your neckline until you feel / That I have driven your heart crazy with freedom, you will see.” But never before has the idea of craziness had acquired such a negative sign that it provoked fear with the emergence of the far-right Javier Milei.
‘Crazy. The unknown life of Javier Milei and his emergence into Argentine politics is called the unauthorized biography that Juan Luis González has written about the favorite candidate in the elections presidential next Sunday in Argentina, according the surveys. “Javier is psychiatric, he is humanly broken and that is why it is so powerful. If you want to fake half of the things that Javier does, there comes a time when you are not credible. When Javier gets crazy he gets seriously crazy, because he is Javier sublimating hatred of his father in the State and in politics. He is broken and that hatred is true, so he empathizes with the people who are angry,” says one of the libertarian leader’s insiders to the author of the book.
The economist with a past in heavy metal has put words in the public space that were not part of the common speech of leaders and candidates. Gustavo González, columnist for the newspaper ‘Perfil’, has taken the trouble to compile some of his recent outbursts: “motherfucker”“sorete”, “piece of shit”, “dragging worm”, “te plasto”, “disgusting skin”, “diabolical dwarf”, “idiot”, “dung tower”, “useless”, “liar”, “shitty parasite”“bloodsucking parasite”, “dumb”, “dumb”, “stupid”, “donkey”, “scourge”, “rat”.
Psychophysical examination
Milei’s skids are praised by a sector of the electorate. She feels that his insults are uttered in her name. But this unusual speech also provokes the opposite. Sergio Massa, The Minister of Economy of a Government with an annual inflation of 140% is at the same time the Peronist candidate who this Sunday wants to work the miracle of going to the second round on November 19. Massa tries not to argue with the far-right. Without naming him, he nevertheless requested a psychophysical test for the other contenders.
“That candidates to hold public office do not meet the same requirements that are required of the rest is to recognize a certain level of impunity and shared responsibility. One might even wonder if being president requires some (limited) level of madness.“, noted González. The recent history of the region finds in Ecuador a single case of psychiatric referral that ended with a Government. “The crazy one” Abdalá Bucaram He assumed the presidency on August 10, 1996. After five months and 25 days, marked by a social crisis, Congress removed him for “mental incapacity”.
Milei is not Bucaram, but the antecedent is not unknown to different analysts. Her untimely and unfiltered tone, her aggressive mannerisms and gestures –raised fists, bloodshot eyes, a countenance that cannot contain the signs of overflow-, are combined with the abstract jargon of a university professor. Beyond the public interventions, almost always on the verge of boxing, what is especially observed as signs of insanity is his program.
“Between the mafia and the State I prefer the mafia”
The phrases of anarchocapitalist They adorn memes and, at the same time, are read in catastrophic terms. “Between the mafia and the State I prefer the mafia. The mafia has codes, it complies, it does not lie, it competes,” said this staunch defender of the neoliberal presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-99). Milei considers himself a crusader of the Austrian school of economics of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek and the American paleolibertarian Murray Rothbard. His mission, he has assured, is to “kick the ass of Keynesians and collectivist sons of bitches“For Milei, Pope Francis”He is the representative of the Evil One on earth“The pontiff, he shouted on a television program, is an “imbecile” because he preaches social justice, which he describes as a “capital sin.”
The candidate of La Libertad Avanza does not believe that it is harmful for a company to pollute a river because what is left over in the world is water and its price “is zero.” Therefore, “who is going to claim the right of ownership” of an affluent if he cannot become rich. That absolute confidence in profit has led him to defend the sale of organs. “It’s just another market, why can’t I have my body?… Let the State enslave me (it’s correct), but if I want to have any part of my body, what’s the problem?”
Educate yourself with pornography
In her own way, Milei has founded a school. Your candidate for mayor in the city of Buenos Aires, Ramiro Marra, He called to replace the Comprehensive Sexual Education law with other internet teaching. “I encourage pornography. I tell the boys to look at it. If a kid has a computer or a phone, they learn about that. It’s how I learned.” The suggestion was so scandalous that he asked for forgiveness. Immediately afterwards this financier acknowledged that he pays for sex and called on young people to live with their parents after the age of 30. “Don’t become independent, live with them (take advantage), they are your parents. They decided that you should come into the world because they were probably bored. Let them pay that cost. “Let them finance you.”
The candidate for deputy Lilia Lemoine openly declares himself flat-earther. The candidate for governor of the northern province of Tucumán, Ricardo Bussi, son of one of the symbols of human rights violations, assured that homosexuality is a “disability.” In case high-sounding speeches were needed, there is the candidate for vice president Victoria Villarruel, defender of the military and police imprisoned for violating human rights during the last dictatorship military (1976-83). This Sunday, the polls will reveal to what extent this unprecedented language has penetrated a troubled society without horizons. Before it was too late, the pope decided to abandon his disregard for Argentine affairs and, without mentioning the libertarian, warned about the “erroneous illusion of young people” who “seek saviors or messiahs.”
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