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"Never Embrace Socialism... Or The Siren Song Of Social Justice" - Argentine Presidential Candidate Milei Warns Tucker Of The Dangers Of Statism
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, SEP 14, 2023 - 09:20 PM
Argentina's leading presidential candidate Javier Milei - a self-described anarcho-capitalist who won the primaries with 30% of the vote - sat down with Tucker Carlson this week in Buenos Aires for a wide-ranging discussion.
Prior to the interview, Carlson documented first-hand the hyperinflationary perils of statism run wild... (
episode 23 above)
Carlson and Milei talked about
why the citizens of Argentina are fed up with the relentless lack of change and the relentless economic decline, echoing many similar patterns taking place in America, with the one-time congressman explaining his platform of radical change which would include the dissolution of numerous socialist institutions and the very central bank which has led Argentina into multiple fiscal crisis events.
Milei's advice to Americans is simple:
“Never embrace the ideas of socialism."
“Never allow yourselves to be seduced by the siren song of social justice. Don’t get caught up in that terrible concept that where there is a need, there is a right. But that can’t happen on its own.
We have to be prepared for this, and wage a cultural war every single day and we have to be careful because they have no problem with getting inside the State and employing Gramsci’s techniques: seducing the artists, seducing the culture, seducing the media or meddling in educational content.”
Reflecting in the slippery slope of American leftist politics, Carlson noted that Argentina has adopted many left-wing social issues.
“I didn’t fully appreciate the degree to which the Argentinian government had embraced fringe academic, American-style social justice,” Carlson told Milei, adding that "a businessman told me at lunch today that people who identify as transgender pay lower taxes, and that in 2019 you had a Ministry of Women and Diversity created in this country for the first time. What does that ministry do?”
“In theory, it is supposed to deal with women’s issues,” Milei said.
“But when you look at the results, you find there aren’t any. Just writing songs...”
“Are women happier here?” Carlson asked.
“No,” Milei said. “Because there are no real results.”
And added,
"why isn't there a Ministry of Men?"
Then, Milei really touched the third rail... by supporting President Trump, and offering him some advice:
“[Trump] should continue his fight against socialism. Because
he is one of the few who truly understood that we are fighting socialism, that we are fighting the statists.
He understood perfectly that the generation of wealth comes from the private sector.
The State does not create wealth, the State destroys it.
The State can give you nothing, because it produces nothing. And when it attempts it, it does so poorly.”
“So I’d say, if I could humbly offer advice, all I could say would be to double down on his efforts in the same direction: defending the ideals of freedom and refusing to give an inch to the socialists,” he continued.
The discussion included Milei's controversial denouncement of the Pope, his views on abortion, and his belief that climate change is a "socialist lie."
Watch the full interview above:
(0:00) Intro
(3:32) Inflation
(6:00) Gender ideology
(9:57) Abortion
(11:45) Pope Francis' affinity for dictators
(14:45) Architecture
(17:52) Advice to Americans and Donald Trump
(22:23) Climate change
(27:55) China
(29:18) Prayer
(30:39) Violent political protests