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The state holds a lot of power in Singapore, it's very authoritarian. Sounds quite at odds to Milei and his libertarian idology.

• pavlov 2y ago
  The anti-state people often like the idea of an authoritarian leader figure who will fix things by their genius and power of will. Some really do want monarchy (see Curtis Yarvin), but others believe that the dissolution of state power needs to go through an authoritarian phase to happen at all. It’s not so different from the old-school communists who claimed that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” is a necessary step towards the true freedom of mankind under proper Communism. Conveniently they were the ones in charge of the “temporary” dictatorship in this picture. Libertarianism and communism are ideological siblings. Both fail time and time again, but to the believers it’s always someone else’s fault and the proper implementation of the ideology simply hasn’t been tried yet.
  • dmarcos 2y ago
    Is not Milei in Argentina the first self-identified libertarian president in history? Where has libertarianism failed?
    • brg 2y ago
      IMHO, Libertarianism fails not by collapse but by success. Any movement in the direction brings economic and social freedom, but in turn creates soft times in which a society's pendulum shift back to larger government is inevitable.
    • pavlov 2y ago
      Here’s a funny recent one: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int... “When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in” But surely there’s a million reasons why these were not True Libertarians, they were just doing it wrong, and the ideology is actually sound. Just like with communism.
• tim333 2y ago
  The state is quite controlling in some areas like law and order and banning drugs but pretty laissez faire on economic policy.