The current political debate in our country revolves around the use of terms, slogans and slogans that do not contribute to clarifying concepts and ideas that are useful for society or add any value to the construction of a common destiny for our country.
Terms such as left, right, conservative, progressive, populist, neoliberal, among others, are used daily in the expressions and debates of leaders and civil society, without anyone explaining their content or their contribution to the search for concrete solutions. to the eternal problems of the country.
Thus, the political spaces boast of being clear regarding what they disagree with, but they do not specifically specify what they want and, even less, how to achieve it.
In this sense we can analyze, for example, the term progressivism, which, handled to the extreme, today does not explain anything; it only generates confusion and does not serve to define what would be the policy that deserves such a definition.
In an attempt to enrich the citizen debate, the governor of Córdoba, Juan Schiaretti, affirmed in the opening speech of the 2023 legislative sessions: “It is not a progressive who governs in an autocratic and feudal manner, no matter how much they recite slogans, but rather a progressive who applies public policies that support upward social mobility, respecting the institutional framework and coordinating with all expressions of society”.
Progressivism is a term that has been used in different stages of the history of humanity and that, in each historical moment, has had the meaning of adhering to those paradigms that, at that time, meant progress in the sense of improving life. of societies and individuals, advancing in the implementation of policies that promote the happiness of people and the greatness of nations.
However, today it seems more associated with a cultural club of doctrines intended to promote social confrontation, attacking the organic fabric of society.
Reciting progressive slogans while deepening the decadence of a society that has been advancing for a long time, degrading the foundations of education, production, work, institutions, security and the dignity of people, is caricatural.
Caught in an ideological war that is more media than genuine, some cultural progressivism seems to want to confront productivity with social justice. As if social justice were not the result of a society where “everyone must produce at least what he consumes.”
If the banner of progressive ideas throughout time has been social policies, there is no progressivism without production, without work, without education, without equal opportunities, without upward social mobility, without poverty and without indigence.
But neither is there without the defense of the Constitution and the institutions, without the independence of powers, without freedom and, above all things, without unrestricted respect for the laws, which is the only way to be truly free.
It is also worth clarifying, to those who are aware of this reality, that there will be no progress if it is not conceived in conjunction with all the interested sectors to achieve economic, social, political and institutional development, agreeing and building with those who think differently.
If this is not understood, we will continue swimming between slogans and abstractions, from one end of the ideological arc to the other, while Argentina will continue to deepen its decadence.
* Degree in administration
