Ideological Warfare: Unveiling MAS Tactics | Guerra Ideológica: Revelando las Tácticas del MAS

By Jhonny Vargas, El Diario:

The MAS Strategy

He who tells us the truth, even if bitter, is sincere and respectful of the individual and the country. He who flatters us, deceives and harms us, is interested in dominating and exploiting us, seeking to do so with a nation. This is serious because the consequences affect the collective, undermining national interests. Bolivia has not been told the truth, for different reasons. Previously, our country thrived on labor, then on raw materials (minerals, gas, oil, forests), now it wants to live off lithium and its derivatives. What will it live off next? Illusions, which will end up poisoning itself with disillusionment. Let’s analyze the MAS strategy, leading up to the 2025 general elections, with surgical precision.

Let’s make incisions and precise cuts in the power structures of MAS to expose its political and electoral strategy. Let’s begin. With internal MAS conflicts, the rotten political class of the country wants to divert public attention (with judicial elections, parliamentary crises, dollar shortages, party infighting, etc.) from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, using continuous distractions and manipulated information. It’s the distraction strategy, used by media to prevent the public from engaging with Bolivia’s essential problems.

We have serious social problems and emerging new leaderships that could be real options for change in the country, but television channels and other media captivate us with secondary issues, keeping alive the image of former President Evo Morales and highlighting the achievements of the Arce Catacora government. The goal is to keep the public from considering other options for change. They keep the power of MAS, led by Morales, alive, with some even saying, “Morales sets the pace”, “Morales is sharp, he’s too intelligent.” Many have fallen into the trap, failing to perceive the process of ideological subversion, a great “brainwashing” that international communism applied in the 1970s (when being Marxist was in fashion), but still wreaks havoc in the country.

Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent, foresaw the process of ideological subversion. It’s the MAS strategy to stay in power, using psychological warfare, subversion, and mind control. It’s their famous cultural Marxism, whose objective is the destruction of a nation (Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Bolivia). It’s a great brainwashing, with four stages: Demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. This technique of ideological domination is basically what MAS political strategists use to maintain political control in the country.

MAS has always created a crisis (judicial, electoral, political, and economic). That is, a problem, a foreseen situation, an artificial scenario, is created to cause a certain reaction in the public, so that they become the mandate for the desired measures to be implemented. Problem – Reaction – Solution. For example, to make an unacceptable candidacy (of Morales) accepted, it’s enough to apply it gradually, through consecutive events. Through biased opinion polls tailored to the one who commissioned them, which show the former president leading by a large margin without any political rivals. This strategy is called demoralization, coupled with the strategy of gradualism.

The country is truly deceived, both by populist left and elitist right. That is, we have the perfect breeding ground, the perfect emotional storm, a heap of ideas, desires, fears, and apprehensions. I call for reason, for reflection, not for emotions, because Bolivia is in a bad state, kept in ignorance and mediocrity by those in power. There is no democracy where there is no unity. Bolivia suffers from demoralization, destabilization, and crisis, and those responsible for it are the ones who will offer us solutions. Bolivians, the remedy turned out to be worse than the disease. Since 2005, a generation has been exposed to the ideology of the dominant party, constantly bombarded with it in schools and universities, without being challenged or counteracted by patriotic values. What’s the result? Half-hearted intellectuals, opportunists now hold positions of power in the government, media, and educational system, and we can’t get rid of them; they’re contaminated, programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a pattern. You can’t change their opinions, even if you expose them to authentic information, to the truth. This process of demoralization seems to have been completed.

The author is a Political Scientist and Postgraduate Professor.

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