Context: We now have three flavors of Menem (our Reagan) to choose from in October:
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not-so-racist Menem (Massa),
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very-racist-alcoholic-girlboss-Menem (Bullrich, yes, from the former slave-trading family),
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and ultra-cocaine-racist Menem (ancap Milei)
Not-so-racist Menem is toast cuz he’s been president the last two years, and people are really pissed at him.
So, the election is gonna be between ultra-racist alcoholic ghoul and the ultra-racist cocaine incel. Imagine an echo of Hillary vs Trump but with an openly racist Hillary.
And all the libs are doing the EXACT. SAME. THINGS.
Of course my favourite flavor of lib is the one who voted for Cambiemos (right wing party) and is now worried about Milei winning. I simply can’t.
For example, yesterday the incel explained very clearly how he plans to close and close/“privatize” the CONICET, the organism funding science and research.
And this krakkker dipshit goes “we shouldn’t protest with marches and stuff cuz we would only give them amunition, we need to start making tiktok videos!”
I was not at the point in my political development where I would have considered that.
Points in her favor:
She taught me about liberation theology
She showed a movie that had an explicitly leftist main character and had us write an essay about it (edit: important context includes the essay being the one where we are supposed to learn how to write about abstract concepts in Spanish).
Points against:
Was extremely catholic. Like, thought Chesterton had good ideas level.
Hmm, interesting
Perón got beef with the Argie Catholic Church (dominated by aristrocratic second sons with feudal mindset) and obviously with anticapitalist leftists. But the dude was himself catholic, even his wife (for some people, the one actually pushing him for “progressive ideas” like women’s vote) was against abortion, the dipshit.
So, depending how politically active she was, if she was a leftist intellectual not inside the peronist party, that would explain her not liking living there in that period. Now, why someone like that would choose the USA to migrate to?
The classic move was to migrate to France.
Quick question for clarification: was she a positive influence on him despite her being against the right to abortion? Like, if he was already against it was she pulling him towards positive things otherwise? Obviously bad to be taking an anti-abortion stance.
Idk if she spoke French. Maybe that was a factor?
I don’t think the anti-“church establishment” thing was a factor, she was ironically enough the most “American catholic” of the teachers that weren’t Protestants.
Uh, yes, she was way cooler than him.
1950 USA had far better economic perspectives than any spanish- or english-speaking country. Plus she probably had a lot of cousins that chose the US instead of Argentina to migrate to (I’m assuming she was italian or irish)