Poverty and politics | Pobreza y política

Editorial, El Dia:

The cocalero [coca grower] Morales has just made a criminal confession in Argentina. In a forum for leftist activists, he said that the rich do not need to do politics because they already have money and that it is the poor who should take power because they need resources to improve their lives.

With this revelation, it would only be necessary to determine how much he and all those who accompanied him in almost 17 years of government stole, and most importantly, how many truly poor Bolivians came out of that condition in that long period, the longest under the command of only one mandatary in the history of Bolivia.

The figures clearly show that poverty decreased very little compared to the enormous avalanche of public resources that the Morales regime had in its hands and that ended up in the hands of a handful of people who were never poor, but who have become millionaires, without having contributed in the least to the prosperity of the country, much less those most in need.

That politicians steal and that politics is the best way to obtain privileges and wealth is nothing new. It has always been like this and unfortunately it will continue to be so, to the extent that citizens, especially the poor, fail to identify the path to defeat poverty.

Unfortunately, politicians, not only the illiterate and loudmouthed like Evo Morales, but also the erudite, have a great advantage in brainwashing the masses with the story that the answer to collective problems is politics. In fact, Marxism, the most influential theory of the 20th century, imposed the idea that the individual does not matter, that personal effort is irrelevant and that the formula for progress is society led by an elite of enlightened people in charge of planning everything, deciding what everything and reign over everyone’s life and future.

Whether it is the most honest of governments, the most transparent of political systems or the most honest elite, the formula of the state as a manager of wealth has never been effective in transforming society, quite the contrary. The more statism, the more the government is given power to intervene in private affairs, the more poverty is generated and proof of this are the impressive disasters caused by socialism in those countries where the individual was annihilated in the name of collective progress, the distribution of wealth, the common good, equality, social justice and all the hoaxes that politicians invent to sweeten the ears of the poor.

Everyone says they feel sorry for the poor and socialists tend to take the lead in the fight to overcome this scourge of the world. Their formulas to achieve this have been a resounding failure and despite this, they still continue to captivate unsuspecting minds with their deceitful theories, with their lies and the imposture that hides the macabre truth that it is convenient for socialists to have poor people, the greatest number of them and above all, that they remain ignorant, otherwise the business-crime that the cocalero confessed to in Argentina would come to an end.

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