Javier Milei Arrives at the World Economic Forum and Lights the Place Up

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Javier Milei showed up at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday and gave a speech that left many in the audience fuming. 

For those unfamiliar with the WEF, it's an insidious international organization of actual (not just bogeymen) globalists who truly believe top-down accumulated state power will not only solve all the world's problems but that such an intrusion on individual rights is necessary to save the planet from perishing. Naturally, the richest and most powerful people know better than the mere normals, and while you must start eating bugs and own nothing, they get to fly around on private jets and eat filet mignon every night. 

There is nothing that happens at the WEF that couldn't happen over a Zoom call, but if you take a flight to visit your family, you're killing the planet. That's the kind of obscenely hypocritical thinking that undergirds the elites who show up in Davos every year. 

Milei isn't part of that crowd. He flew commercial to Europe to attend the gathering, and when he got there, he wasn't looking to fit in. Instead, he lit the place up during his remarks. 

MILEI: Today, I'm here to tell you that the Western world is in danger. It is in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inevitably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others, and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged class, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that inflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do believe me, no one is in a better place than us, Argentines, to testify to these two points.

Milei's battle cry to not surrender to the "advance of the state" is well taken. Argentina is a prime example of where that leads, with hyperinflation and huge increases in poverty. They are hardly the only example, though. The world is filled with countries led by leaders who truly think they can rig the game and come out ahead (and that assumes they aren't just tyrants). It never works that way. Death and despair always follow socialist ideals, even when held by those with the best of intentions. 

The crowd at the WEF doesn't want to hear that, though, and Milei's urgings will certainly be dismissed. Still, it's important they are made. It's important people stand up to the onslaught that is coming from Klaus Schwab and company. If they have their way, freedom and upward mobility will no longer exist. People will simply become cogs in their machines as they continue to live the good life. Want proof? The big-wigs at the WEF are currently pushing the idea of a so-called "disease X" that will kill 20x more people than COVID-19. What's their solution? More control because that's always their solution. 

There is no greater existential threat to freedom than the leadership class represented at the WEF. Terrorists aren't going to fundamentally change your way of life, but powerful heads of state all singing from the same sheet of socialist, anti-freedom music can and will. Milei is a much-welcomed voice in the fight against that.