What do you do when the population of your country, between madness, unconsciousness or despair, decides to vote for a fanatic who promises to fix everything quickly? In the US, Trump’s previous term ended with a horde attacking the parliament that left several dead, and now the electorate has rewarded his feat
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What do you do when the population of your country, between madness, unconsciousness or despair, decides to vote for a fanatic who promises to fix everything quickly? It has already happened. Several candidates from what they call extreme right, which is only a radical return to the old privileges of an exclusive ruling elite, have managed to either be influential in governments, or even obtain the head of state.
And what has happened in those countries? Not a little. Russia has ceased to be a democracy, making it impossible for someone other than Putin or his associates to come to power. In the US, Trump’s previous term ended with a horde attacking parliament that left several dead, and now the electorate has rewarded his feat. Argentina remains mired in calamity despite the “chainsaw”, which is only covering up some economic indices. In El Salvador the country has been filled with criminal persecutions lacking guarantees. It does not matter whether the dictatorship is right-wing or left-wing. In Venezuela there has been a very high number of exiles, which makes it clear that freedom there is non-existent. Democracy has enemies to its left and to its right. Stalin was no better than Hitler.
He modus operandi of all these tyrants is relatively simple, and is explained in two steps: 1. Inspire in the population contempt for democratic institutions and for anyone who is not the Beloved Leader; 2. ensure the support of the armed forces.
The objective is always the same: run the country to favor their personal economic interests, stealing public money under any pretext and ending taxes with the support of some big businessmen. In this way, they avoid the redistribution of wealth that they wish to monopolize, to the detriment of a population that they will try to deceive with propaganda, sometimes with fictitious jobs and frequently by promising “citizen security.” That population, finally, will be converted into an enormous mass of ultra-monitored vassals who will hardly ever cease to be vassals. Removing a tyrant from power today is very difficult. The revolution is no longer done with sticks, stones, fires and short weapons. Furthermore, technology makes it too easy for an authoritarian ruler to control us in any aspect of our lives, even inducing false happiness through its false messages on the networks and in any media. Getting out of that situation is almost impossible. Getting there is extremely easy.
Those who voted for Hitler in 1932 wanted a change, and boy did they have it. Just like the Russians when they killed the tsar and his entire family. The first went from a failed democracy to a dictatorship. The latter went from one dictatorship to another, since they did not have the luck that the English and French ended up having decades after their respective royal beheadings (1649 and 1793). And the “good guys” do not always win, that is, those who want freedom and prosperity distributed to their people. A revolution, even through the ballot box, opens the way to radical change, which does not always have to be towards freedom, but towards a false “freedom” that dictators loudly proclaim, and which is, as always, the extermination by different means of those who do not think like them.
The politics of too many democratic countries are incurring immense irresponsibility by not preventing the emergence of these satraps in very diverse ways – cultural, educational, administrative and judicial. But if the population votes for them, should we stay in the country to confront them or should we flee? One cannot stay in opulent dictatorships trying to change them, because one will end up losing one’s life for nothing. Nor in impoverished dictatorships, because sometimes their people are so accustomed to misery that they no longer even consider fighting against it. And without the people, rebellion is impossible.
What to do then? We don’t all fit in Iceland, Finland or New Zealand. Why don’t we then make our countries look like those? The only key is the popular fight against corruption. Only a non-corrupt people rejects the mischief of any of its citizens, not just politicians. It is the traditional or occasionally corrupt people who vote for dictators. If you want to know who voted for Hitler, watch the final scenes of ‘M., eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder’by Fritz Lang (1930). You will see how it is not even necessary for them to understand the German language. These images will bring back very current memories.
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