2023-07-19 07:05:00
Student Council Elections. That, they told me recently, is what the campaign leading up to the August elections has been reduced to. As in student contests, nothing truly important is defined; the dispute centers on administrative issues, on being attractive and innovative, on making offers that appeal to the voter.
What is sought is someone who meets certain specific needs: that the bathrooms are clean, that there is a good cafeteria, that the party is organized properly, etc.; The background may be part of the rhetoric, but it is not seriously discussed, there is nothing that even comes close to a project or a plan, even if it was for next year; everything remains in simple activism, without a route or north. Proposals are not lacking, but as soon as you dig a little into them, we come across an immense void.
Even a transcendent decision, such as defining whether we want to obtain economic resources from mining and oil, is overlooked, and as little as possible is said about it so as not to generate unnecessary rejections; And, if the subject is touched on, it is to use it demagogically, without facing the fundamental questions: Is it possible to do without these resources? What are we going to replace them with? Do they need to be replaced? What kind of economy are we proposing?
The problem is not from now. The destruction of the parties, from within and from without, has led us to a scenario of electoral franchises without ideology or political project, created exclusively to contest public office or sell themselves to the highest bidder, with no other purpose than to be an electoral apparatus to obtain the someone’s personal goals
Unfortunately, although banality presides over the electoral campaign, the results that it yields will not be banal at all.
Perhaps the only thing left is to opt, not for the promise of something, but for whoever compromises the future less.
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