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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
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hahahahaaa yeah
i think this speaks more of the fatigue with the utter failure of kirchnerism and exhaustion of peronism in general than anything else.
argentina has been ruined economically by leftist populism. it's a country rich in resources, with a fairly well educated people, but hamstrung by consumer subsidies and rampant kleptocracy.
you say "there goes..." but they've been gone for a while already, their resources wasted, their middle class reduced, their poor multiplying and getting poorer every day, their currency worthless, their debts mounting beyond the stratosphere, their economy stuck in the mud, their international influence reduced to... nothing really, except in football... which is mostly played abroad these days because whoever can flee does so immediately.
milei may be a clown, but until peronism arrived in the middle of the last century argentina was a very rich country, and an important one in latin america. sure they had their problems with inequality and a shit history (same as the rest of the continent), but they were extremely prosperous. then, decades of populism, cults of personality, a tragic military dictatorship interim, more leftist populism afterwards, statism and infinite political corruption have pulverized their chances at prosperity. when they had a brief chance at normalizing their economy with macri they just got deeper into debt.
that poor country is a walking disaster. crisis after crisis, bank run after bank run, national banrkuptcy always around the corner (remember menem?), and the politicians always thieving. kirchner would be in jail if it weren't because of her current post.
so i... understand these sorts of protest votes. argentinians are fucked, have been getting fucked for a very long time now. milei offers no real solutions, just fake libertarian scams, but where are they going to turn to now? they're ready to burn it all down.