Exhaustion of a cycle – MAS – Agotamiento de un ciclo

Ilya Fortún, Brujula Digital:

The MAS playing on another court

The crisis of representation throughout the political spectrum (both in the ruling party and in the opposition), marks the exhaustion of a relatively long cycle that began after the collapse of the previous political system, around the year 2000. The Movement towards Socialism, which was the main protagonist of that cycle, it no longer has anything to offer the country and languishes making its last, probably most dangerous, shakes. The political, regional and citizen oppositions have not so far been able to escape this end of the cycle, hit by long wear and tear.

What we have to ask ourselves today is whether we are also facing the end of the democratic cycle that began with supreme efforts in 1982. The latest political events unfortunately indicate that this seems to be the case. The judicial coup perpetrated by the Government with the extension of the judicial authorities is the culmination of a series of openly anti-democratic actions, starting with the loss of the government parliamentary majority.

In the other corner of masismo, an Evo Morales, wounded and cornered by a devastating judicial ruling, seems to be betting on disaster, initiating an escalation of convulsion aimed at destabilizing and eventually overthrowing his dolphin’s Government. In his current legal circumstances, he knows that his margins of action are narrow, and he seems to have decided to kick the board. After me, the deluge.

Although it is true that the Morales, the García Lineras, the Arces and the entire long list of Masistas never had a genuinely democratic spirit, for a long time they were able to maintain some forms and travel the route of authoritarianism disguised as democratic legality. They used democracy but never exercised it with real conviction. The years of overwhelming electoral support and economic chaos (both in the past) allowed them a thousand and one impostures, but now they are already playing on another field, which has very little to do with the democratic system.

Everything also indicates that they have decided to finish annihilating democracy, knowing that it is dangerously weakened at a global level, while autocratic capitalist regimes and extreme right-wing governments emerge that do not hesitate to undermine the democratic foundations of the West. Without going any further, what can we expect if the Americans themselves are about to throw overboard one of the most robust democratic systems in the world.

The survival of the rule of law and democratic rights is of great concern to the few of us who continue to believe that politics (with all its defects) is the only and best way to resolve the challenges of this new world order in the making, but It does not seem to sufficiently affect an electorate more concerned with survival and the commitment to the relentless economic model, no matter what and at any price.

The next political and electoral dilemmas that citizens will face do not seem to be the same as in 2019, in which democracy versus authoritarianism had to be defined. The Government probably makes the same reading and has therefore decided to take a one-way leap into the openly anti-democratic camp. It remains to know then if it is not only democracy that is in question, but also the maturity and political consciousness of the people.

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