• kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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        Bread and circuses has been a winning strategy with low information voters for as long as democracy has existed.

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      He’s the only one of the running candidates that hasn’t yet had the chance to demonstrate the country that he’s a putrid corrupt that will put himself before the people on every fucking step of the way as the others did over, and over, and over again, they normalized corruption so much that the average Argentinian believes that corruption is the only possible way to run a country, and there’s nothing left to steal. People worry about the loss of rights, but we haven’t been able to pay for adequate rights in a while.

      He’s also the only one with a reasonable plan to actually stop the inflation that the other 2 parties brew for the past 20 years.

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    A country in crisis picks a fascist that will undoubtedly make things much, much worse. As if nobody learnt a single thing from the past.

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      Look at the Philippines, we elected the son of the former dictator. And it was a landslide victory. I can’t still believe he won.

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      The left wing governments have messed up so much that the people are voting into the far right as a knee jerk reaction.

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        Except in countries where the far right have messed up in which case the opposite is happening.

        Basically the takeaway is from this that everyone is kind of shit. The populations tend to just flip flop between ideologies every couple of decades.

        Basically it’s the political equivalent of yo-yo dieting you don’t actually end up any better off.

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      Libertarianism as a philosophy may not be. Libertarian as a modern political entity surely is.

      Im not a fan of either, but you have to realize at this point the name has been hijacked by the far right chuds of the world.