2023-09-22 03:30:00
If it were true that “the best campaign is good management”, Argentina would be another country, since for more than a century voters would have systematically privileged those who were supposedly the most effective and honest without paying attention to those who would try to seduce them by making messianic promises. . Indeed, it is reasonable to assume that, had it settled for a more boring political culture, Argentina today would enjoy an enviable level of prosperity.
Unfortunately, that’s not what happened. Time and time once more, those who rebelled once morest the unimaginative flatness that they felt characterized the established order won; In his opinion, it was so mediocre that it was not up to par with a people that aspired to much more.
While it is easy to understand the contempt for the status quo of other times felt by those who managed to carry out a series of ambitious reforms that would have unfortunate consequences in the long run, The devastating crisis that the country is suffering can be attributed to the lack of interest that, since the final decades of the 19th century, the electorate has shown in administrative capacity. of the different governments.
Both here and in the rest of the democratic world, The most successful politicians are rarely noted for their practical skills. Rather, they are usually people who manage to ingratiate themselves with the majority of their particular country stating that they understand it better than their rivals.
However, while in almost all other societies those tempted to ignore specific limitations have felt obliged to respect them, perhaps out of fear of what would happen if they were violated, in Argentina too many have refused to do so. Here is one reason, perhaps the main one, why it is the most inflationary country in the world, which has most often proven unable to prevent the annual rate from reaching triple digits.
It would seem that in Argentina, even more than in other latitudes, politics has always been a question of identity and that therefore issues related to management are unimportant. Otherwise, today the Buenos Aires mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta would have assured a resounding victory in the upcoming elections, since there is no doubt that, unlike Sergio Massa and Javier Milei, he is an experienced and competent administrator. However, within Together for Change He was defeated by Patricia Bullrich not because people believed her to be more capable in that field but because she seemed to have a much stronger character.
However, although the candidate has surrounded herself with professional teams of obvious ability, she runs the risk of finishing third when the vote is taken in October. While it would be difficult to overstate how calamitous the economic management of Massa, the one who lately has started spending absolutely all the money available in a frantic effort to buy the support he will need to win the race without worrying at all regarding what would happen if he were to win, it would seem that he still retains a voting intention that surpasses that of Bullrich.
For its part, Milei has never administered anything significant and completely lacks the party “structures” he would need to govern without violating the rules set by the Constitution.
In other words, the electorate, this amorphous and changeable collective on which the destiny of the country and its inhabitants depends, He is not looking for a president capable of leading an effective and honest government but for someone who shares his desires.
Many feel represented by Milei; For understandable reasons, They like the idea that, to free themselves from a gloomy present, it would be advisable to expel a political “caste” that they consider parasitic and shrink, making use of the chainsaw that the prophet of the dollarized free market wields. with relish, the absurdly oversized public sector.
Massa is Milei’s counterpart. She doesn’t say it, but she is playing the role of advocate for those who don’t want the country to change much. In addition to the Kirchnerist militants who allegedly take the rhetoric of Cristina, their boss, seriously, Massa plans to count on the votes of many poor people who, although they have not personally benefited from the corporatist order that dominates the country since the beginning of the last century – rather, it has harmed them by condemning them to misery – they have become accustomed to the existing system and they cling to the notion that the Peronist leader on duty can protect them once morest attacks from evil “right-wing” individuals. that, the ruling party warns them, they are determined to deprive them of the little they have.
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