Argentines bear with resigned hope the sacrifice announced by Miley. To everyone’s surprise, they renewed their support at the ballot box. Has anything changed in the balance of values, or is it a momentary climate of opinion?
Perhaps stability today has become a shared value that is here to stay, and the promise of an effective state, free of thieves, is enough to fuel hope. The state’s minimum and that everyone should go out with their own fishing rod and face the challenge of management in the sea of fish.
Menarki Miley, the creator of the new order, is neither fairer for all nor freer for each individual. It is an unthinkable system in a society like Argentina, which is rich in a tradition of equality. Perhaps the fear of the return of Kirchnerism contributed to the victory, and many voted for Miley as the lesser of two evils. I think hope and fear contributed.
From the hopeful calm that ended the first year of this term, to the pain unleashed by a series of scandals that began with the Libra affair, the uncertainty created by failures in Congress, a dollar without a cap, and the prospect of another 2001 in the making, we are moving into post-election calm.
Stocks rise, the dollar remains steady, and we Argentines continue on the roller coaster. “I saw the country,” Tullio Halperin Donghae said. Peronism triumphed in the regional elections in Buenos Aires, through mayors and ballot boxes, but Kirchnerism was defeated at the national level.
Miley maintained a monopoly on the story and emotions. Peronism without unified leadership, as Cristina Kirchner plots a fantasy novel from the balcony of San José in the year 1111, but this time a non-consensual one. It is merely a shadow reflected in his hat, which is desperately trying to renew its story, but which no longer resonates.
There are many faces to the Miley: the Miley Terminator who, like Saint George, will put an end to the dragon/class; Miley Moses, guided in the desert towards the Promised Land. Your mission is a dual mission, to overcome obstacles and drive; Winning elections and ruling.
Miley is an ideologue and Miley is a pragmatist. Friend Trump, he got the dollars we didn’t generate; The global influencer, introduced us to the world of the powerful and walked in the golden palace from sea to lake… Miley, David the victor, supported by the powers of heaven.
A mystical story, a faith that embraces evangelicals who bask in the kindness of his sister Karina and who, from his first forum in Davos, calls on businessmen to practice the Protestant ethic. Religion before politics. Rescuer before negotiator. Attacked by rage but tempered by adversity, a rock star and civil servant in suit, tie and glasses, almost timid… a lion roars to call for votes and a gentle, supposedly educated, economist to neutralize challenges.
Miley, an outsider born on networks and television, came to power and from the state built a party with a national scope with a discourse that guaranteed him success. It is known that a game without a story has no destiny.
YSL PRO. Its leadership and rules are integrated into the tendency. Macri suffers Duhalde’s fate. Management and joy are outdated slogans that no longer call for change. UCR continues without a story and without a destination. From the “Together for Change” organization, there remain new orphans of politics and leadership that cannot find their way.
PRO and UCR face the same dilemma: to be swallowed up by melismo or to be found at an emotional and narrative disadvantage. It is difficult for them to combine their rhetoric with reasonable government proposals that also provide a tribal identity. They have no leadership capable of moving those disillusioned with secularism and Kirchnerism; They provide reasons, but they do not awaken emotions. The center is missing, the extremes feed on each other, and abstention from voting grows.
Zero deficit and the transvestite Gramscian cultural battle on the right: Are we witnessing the birth of a new cultural movement or is it a new manifestation of Pyrrhonism?
Miley wants to be Munim’s heir and, like himself, voted out even at the cost of ignoring the hesitation he inspires; Like Menem, he aspires to creative destruction in the manner of Schumpeter. There are many differences that separate them, but not a few of them are due to the climate of New Age ideas.
The Terminators are in fashion. Miley wants to return to the postulates of orthodox Pyrrhonism in a strange mixture of conservatism and libertarianism. Its motto is God, the homeland and the family. God is capable of everything. The homeland calls for and unites the family.
Perhaps the Millia is an updated incarnation, with the sideburns and the Menem family behind it, of the saga of the Rioja leader who knew how to stir up Argentine society. It promises us the future of Silicon Valley as Menem promised to travel to Japan in the stratosphere… Is it a combination of two Byronic spirits, Menemism and Kirchnerism in a new manifestation of the perpetual movement created by Byron? It has been more than a year since I wrote in these pages that Menemism emerged as an updated Menemism at that time.
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