I think of the Russian athletes who spend their whole lives preparing to be able to compete and represent their country. Today they will not be able to do it because their politicians decided to go to war and today they are banned from all international competitions. His dreams vanished.
I think of the lady who does the cleaning in my office. She fainted three days ago because she has been eating only vegetables for weeks, specifically nopales. The money that she used to buy chicken and fish she used to buy some injections that Social Security did not have and she had to buy them. His diet and his health were altered by the work of a public institution.
I think of the fathers and mothers who today no longer have a place to leave their children because they decided to disappear full-time schools. Even in those children who perhaps made the only or the best meal of their day there, or that the school represented their safe home and that staying there put them safe from the brutal violence of their homes.
I think of the young people who prepared to enter a university abroad, and despite having passed all the filters, they will not be able to access because the scholarships have disappeared. More faded dreams.
Hundreds and hundreds of twisted destinies and lives. Lives altered and even destroyed by decisions of our politicians. Popper was right when he said that institutions should be designed so that politicians do as little harm as possible.
Despite the evidence that we gather day by day that politicians are destiny twisters, we continue to believe that electing our rulers is something unimportant. Or we believe that in order to govern, skills, talent, and career are not needed; that anyone can do it and that only honesty is missing.
As long as we continue to ignore and ignore the act of electing our politicians, destinies will continue to twist. Maybe we’ll understand until they twist ours. And when they do, we will understand that Bertolt Brecht was right when he said:
“The worst illiterate
he is politically illiterate
(…) He does not know that the cost of living,
the price of bread, fish, flour,
rent, shoes or medicine
They depend on political decisions.
He doesn’t know, the imbecile, that,
of his political ignorance
the prostitute is born,
the abandoned minor.
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