The WEF’s founder, or anybody else, didn’t require a translator to understand what Argentina president Javier Milei was saying Wednesday. Whether in Spanish or English, it was loud and clear: Socialism is causing distress worldwide and it must cease. “The solution to be drafted by collectivists is not higher Liberty but rather higher regulation which creates a downward (spiral) of regulations , making us all poorer and life for all of us depends on a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office,” said Milei.
In his mere six weeks of job , Milei might as well have said no more bugs for food. Or stop putting tampons in men’s washrooms at military bases, imposing excessive carbon taxes that don’t stop pollution — and enough with the gender pronouns, climate change hysteria or Agenda 2023 nonsense that will mandate the end of combustible engines.
Describing them “parasites who live off the state,” he surely kicked the globalists where it hurts and told people to not be “intimidated” by them. Mostly, he was asking an end to the woke politics that are highly constrict freedom.
“Do not bow to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself. You are the true protagonists of this story! Long live freedom, damn it!” It had to be vocied and, at last, someone did it. Milei, chose the WEF at Davos, Switzerland, as the venue to say it.
Man, did he ever. From feminism to climate change to abortion, he let them have it. He asserted the astonished crowd the “radical feminism agenda has led to higher state intervention to manage the economic process, giving a space to bureaucrats who have not contributed anything to society.” He added solutions “presented by socialists” even go “as far as advocating for population control mechanisms or the bloody abortion agenda.”
Said Milei: “regrettably , these disastrous ideas have taken a stronghold in our society.” He argued it’s time to push back. “Fortunately, there’s more and more of us who are daring to make our voices heard because we see if we truly and decisively don’t fight against these ideas, the only possible fate is for us to have increasing levels of state regulation, socialism poverty and less freedom, therefore , ultimately having worse standards of living.”
He was addressing a number of world leaders. He talked about leaders clinging to power, printing money, taking on debt, pushing forward price control measures, bringing in subsidies – all what he called a modern type of socialism that sneaks in and achieves the same thing through regulation that labour socialism used to do with production lines. “I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger, and it is endangered because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inextricably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty,” said the newly elected Argentine president.
He further said “Argentina is an empirical demonstration” in that “no matter how rich you may be, or how much you may have in terms of natural resources… or how many bars of gold you may have in the central bank, if measures are adopted that disturb the free function of markets, free competition, free price systems, if you disturb trade, if you target private property, the only possible fate is poverty.” Praising business leaders for creating jobs and wealth, Milei also cautioned them of the evils of globalism. “The main leaders of the Western world have give up the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism,” said Milei. “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.”
Milei, who reduced Argentina’s government cabinets to half, said business, not communism, is the way to prosperity. “I would like to leave a message for all business people here. You are social benefactors, your heroes,” said Milei. “Let no one label you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it’s because you offer a better product at a better price.” It was quite a punch in the nose directed at many of those present.
He did receive applause. But from only about half the room. Nobody needed a translator. They got the gist of what Milei was saying.
