Opinion Sur
Even if governments change, if the process of concentrating wealth and decision-making power is not dismantled, while fully eliminating poverty and indigence, there will be no basis for a full democracy.
Subjugation consolidates a structurally unequal country, fraught with injustices, abuses, social instability. A minority concentrates wealth and its decision-making power, while popular sectors and declining middle sectors, the immense majority of the population, are manipulated and punished. In this heterogeneous majority there are victims who support their perpetrators.
It is not something new. History shows that, democratic or dictatorial, entire populations supported perpetrators or, at least, gave way in fear. In all these cases, there were gross deceptions mounted on slices of reality presented as if they were indisputable truths. These slices, which reflect misinformation, are fraught with hatred and defamation towards those who resist abuse and subjugation.
Skewed reality clippings
Usually, reality clippings that adventurers use show the ineptitude of different governments to solve serious problems of inequality, poverty, and indigence, which is true. However, they do not address the causes that generated these problems, they only point out other causes, almost always secondary, which allows them to cover up with a biased agenda the founding dynamics of the facts denounced.
This cover-up is functional to the interests of the dominators because it masks what really happens and slides the responsibility to the ineffective previous governments. Neither the dominators nor the governments that they put or conditioned managed to solve what revolts the victimized sectors.
Those who resist abuses of power and economic subjugation are persecuted, defamed with false information, and prosecuted in cases rigged by prosecutors and judges complicit in abusive power.
Adventurers in action
Economic power always acts to preserve its interests, that is, appropriating the value that society generates. If in this course they need to change their leadership, they do not tremble to make figures presented as “new leadership” emerge. They change their façade to ensure that policies favorable to the concentration of wealth and decision-making power are maintained. They consider themselves masters of the country and that is how they behave.
It is a shrewd political and cultural operation that reproduces cycle after cycle the concentrating process, each time led by an adventurer little known to public opinion. Those who dominate know their track record, have evidence of previous unholy behaviors, and know how to use them if their pawn deviates from protecting their interests. They mold their image to appeal to those who dislike all politicians.
The new leader bursts in with a hidden past so that he does not have to answer for anything that happened. He does not need to justify with facts and realities what he proposes, his strategy focuses on mobilizing emotions of anger and hatred towards those who he points out as responsible for the dispossession and hopelessness.
It is a trap sustained with the complicity of the media and judicial trenches that economic power keeps tightly under control. In this way, the adventurer turned into a new leadership has extensive coverage in hegemonic media and social networks that allows him to be heard in all corners of the hapless society. It shouts loudly with fabricated gestures that awaken unbelieving masses, segments of populations never heard or little heard that embrace an unfounded hope. With the impunity that is granted, the adventurer can mix barbarities of public policies with evocations of revenge and heartfelt reparations. This stuns the understanding of fervent followers.
If this new leadership assumes control of the government and implements its proposal, a new cycle of economic and cultural subjugation begins. The context changes for the worse with again covert defense of dominant interests.
Tackling the abuse
Facing this rarefied context with frustrations of sectors loaded with pain and indignation for never being heard, the disoriented victims turn to what they believe is different since the usual suffocates. It is easy to deceive a people who suffer and flee from speeches so often repeated. They embrace new luring siren songs; in despair it is valid to believe in lies. Important segments fall without defense to the cry of another false messiah.
Emotional whirlwinds are difficult to contain and even less to channel to dismantle what oppresses. A fundamental transformation requires clarification and social organization that does not spring instantaneously. It is a work that moves forward with measures and confidence. Concrete measures that address truths and restore confidence. In this march, not on the margins of it, voices that empathize by explaining what is being done, unmasking opposing interests. It is a way to open paths with concrete, hopeful, without reservations, clear and simple steps. With measures that are dismantling one by one the engines of concentration, the long-awaited popular mandate is fulfilled, the representatives comply, those represented validate. There the base of sustenance in the union of middle and popular sectors.
This union should be reflected in a powerful political coalition, which adds diversity and knows how to align interests, needs, and desires. May it win electorally and manage with prudence and firmness the change of course and way of functioning that includes and cares for everyone, respects Mother Earth where the peoples have always taken shelter.
This march is not pregnant with deception and abuse, income is redistributed, infamous inequalities are reduced, large assets provide the necessary financing to materialize the transformations. It is not a dream but a referential utopia that guides the trajectory and corrects any deviations along the way. It is built without stridency and lies, joining hands not fists. The yardstick used by the population measures that each advance reduces poverty and indigence with all the urgency of the case. It is the massive and consistent effort that calls and, then, makes the continuous sustenance of a full democracy.
It is a complex challenge, hard to face, that requires determination. Building full democracies does not come by concession from anyone, they are conquered with hard work, clarification, and organization. Skillfully and fairly aligning shared interests, needs and desires, uniting wisdom and experience, listening to integrate everyone. It is no longer useful to lament electoral episodes torn by disorientation and manipulation. Instead, it is time to stand upright, to unite freewill, to understand what is done and how to advance. It is building with the power of a society no longer deceived, mobilized in its determination.
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