On the Anti-System president

I see that the election of the screaming monkey in Argentina has caused a regime calm in the Italian newspapers. On the one hand, to please the master, they should exalt him. On the other hand, if they still want more than three readers, it is better for them to talk about it quietly. And describing him with an adjective that seems neutral, like "anti-system", whereas "obvious idiot" would be much more indicative.

But if we go beyond prudery, and talk about this adjective "anti-system", we must first ask ourselves what exactly this "system" is. Because the word "system" is a little like "toxic masculinity" or "patriarchy": everyone is sure that it exists, but no one can explain, precisely and practically, what it is.

So, let's try it. Because a "system", to exist, should have the following characteristics:

1. Unnatural, or at least artificial.
2. Man-made.
3. It grants power and wealth to some elites.
4. The elites guard and perpetuate it.
5. It is pervasive on the material level
6. It is culturally pervasive
7. It's stable.
8. It's repetitive.
9. He's conservative.
10. We can experience it firsthand.
11. It instills fear and extinguishes any rebellion.

In itself, this definition allows us to identify various entities, including the patriarchy itself, but we forget that defining and identifying something is not enough to make it exist: we know everything about Santa Claus, only that he doesn't exist.

So we could talk about capitalism or the free market, but it makes me wonder what kind of "free market" exists, when we can't even increase taxi licenses, or when an innovation like artificial meat comes along, part the law immediately to block it.

We could talk about a system understood as statism, but the state is in pitiful conditions, it no longer produces anything, it struggles to provide essential services such as healthcare or justice, and it is bypassed or ignored by practically all tax evaders.

However, there is something we are certain of. We are all certain of this because they have been telling us about it for decades. Because we can experience it on a personal level.

THE CRISIS.

The crisis, as it is mentioned in all the mouths or newspapers, or if you prefer the decline, is "the system". Let's see if it meets all the requirements.

1. The crisis is artificial. The world's GDP is growing, except in particular years. There is no reason for a crisis.
2. It is built by man, in the sense that it does not correspond to any natural event, but only to artificial events. (e.g. the subprime crisis, the debt crisis, the war in Ukraine, etc)
3. During times of crisis, the rich increase their wealth, while the others become impoverished.
4. The elites use the crisis to reject the demands of the population, to deny increases in income, to deny that distribution is unjust.
5. The signs of the crisis are everywhere. (health, school, justice, poverty, etc.)
6. Everyone is convinced that nothing more can be done for the poor, due to the crisis and decline. Indeed, the poor should understand this reality and stop demanding things.
7. It's stable. No matter how much the stock markets grow or how much the GDP increases, the crisis does not budge an inch.
8. The rituals of the crisis, for example "cuts" and "layoffs" are now periodic and repetitive.
9. Due to the crisis, we need to return to traditional values, such as frugality, degrowth and poverty.
10. The crisis is experienced firsthand, both for those who gain and for those who lose.
11. The crisis is scary, and when we try to change something there always comes the fear that, because of the crisis, we will make things worse.

Having said this, the most frequent objection is that there are many crises, or that in any case by crisis we mean something temporary. And this is why the word crisis is wrong. We have been in some crisis for 30 years now,

A crisis by definition is a temporary thing. If it lasts thirty years, it's not a crisis. It's a system.

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Having established that "the crisis" is a convenient name to describe a system that impoverishes many and enriches few, then we can imagine what an "anti-system" president is like. Or at least, how he would talk.

• President, we cannot pay workers more, there is a crisis.
• Fuck you. Pay your workers more. You created the crisis, suck it up.

• President, we can't spend that much to renovate schools. There's a crisis.
• And you can put it where the doctor doesn't see the sunlight. The crisis is a problem of the market, the state doesn't give a damn about the market and its crises.

• President, we cannot afford an ecological transaction, the economy could enter into crisis.
• And if he gets in, he gets out using your mother's gut. I don't care. Shut the fucking distributors down tomorrow. Electric only.

• President, you can't talk like that, the markets get agitated, and then comes the crisis.
• And then, after he arrives, he sucks it, tip-balls, tip-balls, slurp!

This would be, in a world that has "crisis" as its system, the speech of an anti-system president.

Do you see any around?

No.

So there are no anti-system candidates, because there are no politicians who speak this way.

Maybe you want to tell me that a president who speaks like this, rather than an enemy of the crisis system, speaks like the president of Idiocracy. Why, how does the Argentine idiot speak?

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So I'm sorry for the Argentine bullshit, I'm sorry for his shaman sister and his tipper wife: he's not an anti-system. It's just one that will send Argentina into crisis again.

In crisis.

in crisis.

We were saying, who is the anti-system?