Javier Milei: speech in CPAC 25

President Javier Milei said this afternoon that the world is living "one of those moments in which History, with a capital H, is changing its course" because "finally, we can say that the era of the omnipresent State has ended".

The statements are part of the fiery speech he gave in Washington DC where the Conservative Action Conference, CPAC, is taking place, in which various personalities from the liberal world are participating, among others President Donald Trump and the Italian Giorga Meloni.

In his speech, he also announced that Argentina "wants to be the first country in the world to join this reciprocity agreement that the Trump administration is asking for in terms of trade. In fact, if we were not restricted by Mercosur, Argentina would already be working on a free trade agreement with the United States, which is mutually beneficial", he stressed.

He then disqualified those who say that "Trump and I are a danger to democracy," but specified that "we are a danger to the State party, to those who live off its unlimited expansion, to those who want an individual dependent and subject to their regulatory whims".

MILEI AT CPAC: HIS MOST OUTSTANDING QUOTES

• It is a great joy for me to be back in the United States.
• History happens in phases or stages, moments in which the spirit and the idea materialize in a person or in a group of people, sometimes close, sometimes with kilometers of distance between them, but with an invisible thread that, if it could be observed, I presume would be very similar to the images we see in neural networks of the human brain. Today we are, precisely, in one of those moments in which History, with a capital H, is changing its course.
  We are seeing in real time the destiny of the world branching towards a new path, different from the place where the elites, the political establishment of our countries, were taking us.
• Just as in the 1930s it was possible to see that the flame of freedom was fading and a new era of servitude for humanity was beginning, today we can finally say that the era of the omnipresent State is over. Today we are witnessing a moment when the long march of the State over the individual is coming to an end.

• I am referring, of course, to the collapse of the collectivist model and the dawn of a new era of freedom. We have prepared for this moment and I believe that we are genuinely fighting a crucial battle for the future of humanity.
• We must understand where we stand and what we are up against in order to know where we want to go. Throughout the world, Western societies face the same problem and the same enemy: a political class that extracts more and more resources from citizens through taxes, in order to implement a model of unlimited state expansion.
• A political class with a God complex that seeks to regulate every aspect of people's lives, honoring one of the maxims of Benito Mussolini's fascism: "Within the State, everything; outside the State, nothing; and nothing against the State." We have called this political class the "party of the State," an extended caste whose members, beyond superficial differences, share the fundamental idea of the advance of the State over society.
• They are all those who, out of economic interest, ideological conviction or a certain naive individualism, work for the interests of the State: the traditional media, the union oligarchy, the prebendary businessmen, the permanent bureaucrats who are not elected and, consequently, intrinsically irresponsible; the wrongly called non-governmental organizations, which do the dirty work of the politicians; the academic institutions that provide the theoretical framework for state expansion; the supranational organizations and all those who, in some way, belong to the great sect of world collectivism. And, of course, this includes the traditional political parties, which, regardless of their color, agree on the fundamental thesis that more State is always better.

• In Argentina, for example, we had a political system made up of "50 shades of socialism."
• In the United States, there was the illusion of bipartisanship, with a Democratic Party that set the agenda and a Republican Party incapable of confronting it... until the arrival of President Donald Trump. Long live...
• Curiously, President Trump is an outsider, just like me, because the task before us, the challenge before us, is not for traditional politicians who have lived their entire lives off the system.
• It is for people who owe nothing to anyone, who are not compromised by the vices of the system and who know that change is more important than power for power's sake.
• In the political establishment, our donations, there was a more or less explicit mentality that the advance of the State was equivalent to the advance of democracy; that each conquest of the State implied a "social justice" in the face of the supposed injustices of freedom; that the role of the State was to lead us to an egalitarian utopia through the systematic creation of new rights, which obviously had to be financed by taxpayers.
• It is precisely at the center of this scheme that we find the politicians, the main beneficiaries of this model of unlimited expansion of the State. Those who have made living off others by force a lifestyle, depositaries of powers and privileges that would be the envy of any monarch in history. The televised fights and the supposed partisan differences do not matter: they all work for the same God, the sinister one, and his manifestation on Earth, the Leviathan that Hobbes spoke of.

• Therefore, apart from some of the particularities of each nation, all of us here have the same mission: to take power away from the State party and give it back to society.
• The only rational way is to reduce the State to the minimum possible. Reducing the size of the State is, in itself, an act of justice, because every reduction of the State is a subtraction from the taxpayer. From our point of view, the only acceptable State is the smallest possible, to give back to the citizen what is his.
• Therefore, all the powers that do not have to do directly with the protection of the three fundamental rights - the right to life, liberty and private property - must return to their origin: individuals, associated voluntarily and without interference from the State. This must be so because, unlike the economy, power is a zero-sum game. All the power that the State has cannot necessarily be obtained by society.
• We do not believe in partial solutions or centrist compromises. We know that doing things halfway is an invitation to the return of the State, which, like a metastatic cancer, only knows how to expand and must be actively forced to retreat.
• There is no point in trying to reach a middle ground: everything that exceeds its essential function must be definitively removed from its orbit, or sooner rather than later it will return to usurp what does not belong to it. We know that this is not an easy task. The modern State has more than enough tools, which have grown in sophistication over time. We are not talking about an obvious State, like the neo-fascist or communist one, but rather a subtle and insidious State, which advances on the individual through art, propaganda and cultural infiltration.
• I am talking about the financing of academia, encouraging the elaboration of studies that justify the implementation of interventionist public policies, and the covert purchase of media outlets through public advertising. I am talking about the many NGOs that live off our taxes, the subsidies to culture to produce propaganda and, here in the United States, of course, the USAID scandal, which allocated millions of dollars from taxpayers to finance everything from magazines and television channels to electoral fraud, as in Brazil, or governments with discriminatory aspirations, like that of South Africa.

• And, as I said, governments with discriminatory aspirations, like that of South Africa, among many other aberrations, including the agenda of climate paranoia, the excesses of gender ideology and the research that led to the creation of the Covid-19 virus. However, the only thing that this globalist downline mechanism really achieves is to transfer wealth from the lower class of a rich country to the upper class of a poor country.
• In short, I am talking about a global network of influence, information and opinion paid for with citizens' taxes, a propaganda apparatus unprecedented in human history, perhaps the largest political scandal we have ever seen. And then, those same hypocrites accuse Elon Musk of interfering in other countries' elections.
• Beyond their obvious incompetence, the political class is not dedicated to solving problems. After all, a solved problem is an area from which the State must withdraw. On the contrary, the political class is dedicated to perpetuating problems and thus living off them forever. That is why they live creating new problems, installing them from their propaganda machines to then offer themselves as a solution. And what does that solution consist of? In the implementation of regulations that cause even more problems, to be solved by more regulations.
• In medicine, the term "iatrogenesis" is used to refer to the damage suffered by a patient as a consequence of medical care. It could be said then that the statist regime consists of iatrogenesis as a State policy. In other words, it is the doctor who gets rich from the intentional progressive deterioration of his patients.
• With the current State model, the State breaks your legs and then sells you crutches at a premium and forces you to thank it, and it persecutes you if you don't.
• As a counterpoint, some testimonies say that in traditional Chinese medicine, the family doctor charged a constant fee for keeping the family healthy. In other words, according to legend, when a member fell ill, the doctor stopped receiving fees, being encouraged to resolve the illness in an efficient and rapid manner. Imagine, if only the State could work like this... How much misery would we have saved ourselves?
• Today, those of us who want to dismantle this insane system are called anti-democratic. But, again, this is a misrepresentation of words, something very typical of the left, for a change. They do not call democracy the government of the people, but the paradigm of total and unlimited state expansion that they themselves administer. For them, democracy only exists if they win what they want, so they can subject the people to their whims. But when they are the electoral minority, the majority's choice becomes authoritarianism. In fact, many of those who accuse us of being undemocratic were not even elected. They make decisions that affect billions of people around the world, and yet no one knows them. They are accountable to no one but themselves, and they cannot be ousted by popular vote. And yet, they come to talk to us about democracy.
• They say that Trump and I are a danger to democracy, but in reality they are saying that we are a danger to them. We are a danger to the State party, to those who live off its unlimited expansion, to those who want an individual dependent and subject to their regulatory whims. And they know they are right: we are their worst nightmare. We come for their privileges, having been elected by the majority of each of our people, with the clear mandate to take away from them a power that does not belong to them.
• Today, our countries, Argentina and the United States, need to go through a second independence. The first freed us from the power of the European monarchies; the second will free us from the tyranny of the State party.
  That is why we have put so much effort into identifying it, because you cannot fight against what you do not know. Having a well-defined enemy is a fundamental aspect of our cultural battle. Now we know it, we have won the elections and we are in the process of disarming its Leviathan, which is a tool of perpetual oppression. We do not have any secret formula, only knowing human history and knowing what has worked and what has not.
• We defend a set of values that we are not willing to negotiate, just as they have not been willing to negotiate when it came to taking away our freedom. What they imposed without our consent is being eliminated without their consent. That is why we have passed the chainsaw through the sectors and powers of the State that we consider superfluous, redundant, unnecessary or directly harmful to society.
• And, what's more, this year we intend to put into motion Phase 2, which we have dubbed "The Deep Chainsaw," to continue shrinking the State, giving back to the people the wealth that should never have been taken from them.
  Shrinking the State is cutting off the hose to the State's entrenched clients, who exercised fierce resistance to change, using taxpayers' money to keep them subjugated.

• Our method is similar to that of our dear friend Elon Musk: going through office by office, keeping what works and serves, and discarding the rest. That's why I gave him a chainsaw. With us, no one who cannot justify the cost of their salary in taxes is safe. Many of them will have to return to the private sector and earn a living by offering their goods and services in the market, just like the taxpayers they have lived off for so many years.
• My condolences to the politicians who believed this moment would never come and are not prepared, because they are going to get a bucket of cold water. Fortunately for them, in every misfortune there is an opportunity, and because of our regulatory progress, private sector wages will continue to rise. So, if they do things right, they can be part of progress, but away from the state caste.
• Here in the United States, rebellious bureaucrats have attempted to sabotage the work of the Department of Government Efficiency and are resorting to bureaucratic and legal mechanisms to try to block any reform, which is also happening in our country, and it is something we must fight every day. But none of this has taken us by surprise. We are aware that they will do everything possible to stop this change, no matter the resulting damage. If they have to destroy the world to preserve their privileges, they will do so, and we will continue to fight.
  It is essential that the nations that have embraced the ideas of freedom remain united and collaborate with each other. We must form an alliance of free nations, because, as I have said on other occasions, organized evil can only be defeated by organized good. Only through this right-wing international can we put an end to the political caste we are facing, which is plunging the West into the darkest depths, and regain the impetus to protect ourselves from the despotic forces that want to subjugate us.
• I would also like to take this opportunity to announce that Argentina wants to be the first country in the world to join this reciprocity agreement that the Trump administration is calling for in terms of trade. In fact, if we were not restricted by Mercosur, Argentina would already be working on a free trade agreement with the United States, which is mutually beneficial and which does not burden the shoulders of Argentine producers, but neither does it burden those of the United States. This is because only by working together can those of us who want to build a free world be able to move forward. Only in this way can we get out of the nightmare of the omnipresent State and continue doing what we know how to do with the West: test the limits of what is possible, trusting in the creativity of society and not in the sterile discretion of bureaucrats. Only in this way can we return to our path of greatness as a civilization, honoring our ancestors, who gave their lives to see a free world and a prosperous humanity. Only in this way, finally, can we rediscover ourselves and believe again in what made us great as a civilization. May God bless the Argentine Republic, may God bless the United States, and may the forces of heaven be with us. Long live freedom, dammit!

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