This thread certainly wins the Headline of the Day category.
Newsflash: politicians try to flaunt the more popular side of their politics, less so the unpopular side thereof.
The issue here is very simple. A huge part of the electorate has been conditioned to want/expect free goodies as part of the natural order of things. Paying for this is unsustainable. The current government has, as a matter of simple fact, not been able to sustain it, and has resorted to ever more desperate measures trying. Normal revenue-raising policy has not sufficed.
Nobody is going to tell these folks the truth: that the current government's pace of spending is - and always has been - unsustainable, and that the party will end. Nobody is going to do that because to say that is to lose without a shadow of a doubt: simply too many voters refuse to understand that the party can't go on forever without a plan. The only question is - what side of the equation gets fudged:
The K's pretend that this is sustainable when they know it isn't: they declare that under them the party will never end, and either pretend it's more workable than it is or try and skip that conversation altogether. Macri knows full well that to declare the party is over is to lose, so he too seems to be veering left of his actual positions, and make less clear just how over the party will be.
To make political hay of this is to be either stupid and naive, or cynical/disingenuous. Bajo does not strike me as naive nor stupid.
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To leave the trees for a moment in favor of the forest:
To all appearances it seems that the Peronist/K government, with their eye on the future, has left a few time bombs ticking that will go off during the next administration if it is deemed necessary. They know full well where the money is and isn't. They have as much organizing power outside of government as any party/movement anywhere. The blurring wholesale dismantling of the divisions between formerly apolitical institutions of the state and the party political apparatus is basically complete (see: central bank, INDEC, pension funds, ORSNA/entire aviation sector, etc etc etc), and La Campora can be assumed to have completely penetrated the government at all levels from executive down all the way through the bureaucracy. If the K leadership wants the government to stop, then stop it will. If they want to bring the country to its knees, they simply can.
The only way to overcome this ugliness will most probably be with more ugliness. The future of this country, whoever wins the elections, does not appear overly bright.