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Populism: Form of Domination

ORIGINAL DATE 16/12/2014

"Note to 03/03/2024 

The dramatic situation we are experiencing desperately causes the Opposition (Peronism K and leftist allies and dissidents within the ruling party) to try to involve President Milei in destabilizing situations. Today more than ever, we must take into account what the fatal Populist governments of the Kirchners, including the mandate of the Frontman Alberto Fernandez, have led us to. Such desperation is explained by the very high corruption that comes to light every day. And the Citizen can appreciate the mafioso magnitude that unites Peronism K with Trade Unions, Private Companies dedicated to Public Works, and those that provide Essential Services such as energy. Wherever you touch, pus comes out."

Populism: Form of Domination

"The forms of domination have varied over time and have adapted their discourse in Latin America. We are referring to a method of subjugating the people, that is, to a set of necessary and not occasional actions aimed at creating a new paradigm for the Republic.

In the conference of "the First Ibero-American Youth Parliament," the political scientist Gloria Alvarez quotes Dr. Florentino giving a definition of Populism.

"The shortcut by which we play with the passions, illusions, and ideals of the people to promise what is impossible, taking advantage of the misery of the people, leaving out absolutely all reason and logic in decision-making, playing with the need to simply impose a dictatorship."

Populism, with the purpose of perpetuating itself in power, faces a profound dismantling of democratic institutions and forces the restructuring of the 3 powers of the Nation, which implies rewriting the legal framework to accommodate the will of its corrupt political leaders.

This also leads to a profound reformulation of the entire republican structure to establish the necessary foundations and thus consolidate its hegemony in every sense. It roots itself in the social fabric to withstand future onslaughts, operating as a form of perpetual shielding.

But this situation is a consequence of the lack of response from the different previous political administrations that have not addressed the growing needs of the citizenry, building a path of cyclical crises in Argentina, which has led to the election of charismatic leaders with a vast imprint of Magical Realism. These leaders come to power through democratic means validated by popular will.

Asserting: "The People Have Spoken."

This powerfully effective argument does not cease to be fallacious in its consequences because this pronouncement is taken in a way that the leader is the only valid interpreter (in our presidential system); consequently, it reverses the terms and his will is the will of the People.

Capriciously, Article 22 of the CNRA is taken, "The people do not deliberate or govern, but through their representatives and authorities created by this Constitution......"

At that moment, the citizen ceases to be a subject of interest for the Leader, and the control of the State itself becomes his subject of interest. The citizen loses the power that the vote meant for him and has no other purpose than to submit to the Leader, this is because he does not have the necessary democratic mechanisms at his disposal to exercise effective control over the current administration, and thus democracy becomes incomplete and useless. Ultimately, this is what the last K administrations have sought. Accompanied by strong symbolic bases absolutely necessary to build their hegemony.

I quote again Article 22 of the CNRA ".....Any armed force or gathering of people that attributes to itself the rights of the people and petitions in its name, commits the crime of sedition." In the second paragraph of the cited article, we could have a multitude of questions about the events that occurred in the 70s and 80s."

"Both Menem and Cristina have tried to modify the constitution so that their mandates are perpetual, with implausible arguments in the throats of political operators who have announced them from Congress.

Especially, the logic of the current administration was based on the dichotomy friend, enemy. Right, left. People, Oligarchy. Where only the patriotic Left exists, represented by the government and its allies, showing as milestones their version of the events of the military dictatorship and the heroic role of the Montoneros as a military force and resistance, to then label all opposition as the neoliberal right that prostrated the country, accusing them of being traitors to the Fatherland who supported the military dictatorship of the 70s.

The intention was to blur the recent past to establish their own version of the facts. With acts of magnitude (among others) such as the People's Trial that was attempted against a group of journalists, including those who participated in the preparation of the CONADEP report, one of the most important political events in the country's institutional life, such as the trial of the military Juntas.

In that same logic, one of the most dangerous concepts was inscribed, where the distortion of the message has provoked arguments such as "you are poor because the other is rich."

In this way, the current division and confrontation of society reached an unprecedented degree of savagery.

This debate of left and right lost its context since it is used to contrast political messages and thus demonize any type of arguments or messages opposed to the intended hegemony of populism.

It is even worse because debate is eliminated in order to impose a single thought, which is that of the leader and his aureate group, where the legislative power dominated at will by the executive is not questioned or discussed but rather ignites the passion of unreason to justify what has been done and pretend to interpret what the "People" want.

These forms of governance have pushed us into unheard-of precariousness.

Education is the most deficient in the history of our country; Sarmiento's legacy has been definitively abandoned, which whether they like it or not, was the one who gave us a qualitative difference both in America and in the world.

Health has never been within reach of so few, and no politician can show acceptable results. Lack of supplies, attention, and security for doctors and other assistants, with chaotic situations of care.

Security: Neither the Federal Police, nor the Provincial Police, nor the Gendarmerie can ensure internal peace; they lack resources, will, and also attend to contradictory orders from their superiors. Today, a judge evicted the Gendarmerie from the Lear plant for incompetence.

The economy: In this context, talking exclusively about the economy without the frame of reference provided by what I mentioned above is to ignore the origin of the problems.

As a relevant fact that defines the passions of this administration, it is the nationalization of the AFJP, with the mass of funds genuinely contributed by the active class falling under the control of ANSES. Those who stick to the simple analysis that it was nationalized to benefit the retirees, the active contributors and future retirees, stay in the innocent arguments of an omnipresent, omnibenevolent State. The real reason is that this way populism could enter the boards of the largest national companies, appointing directors by the State and pretending to control them.

The left-wing governments prevailing in the world have become harsh dictatorships where the constant is the subjugation of the people, and none of that can be admired. Venezuela, Cuba, North Vietnam, just by reviewing the newspapers, you will know what I mean."