evo and the Victimhood Ideology | evo y la Ideología de la Victimización

By Diego Ayo, El Deber:

To jail with the Camba terrorists!

The ideology that Evo Morales staunchly defended is called victimhood. He wasn’t right-wing, he wasn’t left-wing: he was a victim. “They have done to me, they have said to me, they have offended me.” That’s the axis of his discourse. Did you commit fraud, buddy? Of course not, only some deluded individuals could blame me for that crime. Weren’t your extremely violent hordes the ones who could have caused an explosion in Senkata in 2029, killing thousands of fellow countrymen? No, we were persecuted and mistreated. We didn’t do anything. They did it to us! Are there more villains scattered in this scene of congenital evil, Evito? Of course, the empire wants to attack us, the Chileans humiliate us, and, worst of all, the cruceños want to escape from Bolivia: they want secession!

What did we see? Scoundrels attacking Bolivia. That’s ingrained in the fevered mind of Evo Morales that a huge portion of the Bolivian population has been enjoying for 15 years. There’s nothing more. And, to be frank, it doesn’t require more: with this, you can put anyone you want against the wall. It worked magnificently 15 years ago at the Hotel las Américas: the separatist, racist, and terrorist criminals gathered against us. That was the brutal imagery in which we found ourselves entangled.

Why? I paraphrase the scholar of victimhood, Daniele Guglioli, in his little book Critique of the Victim: “the victim is the hero of our time. Being a victim bestows prestige, demands attention, promises and fosters recognition, activates a powerful generator of identity, rights, self-esteem.” First point: the victim is the hero. “It immunizes against any criticism, guarantees innocence beyond all reasonable doubt. How could the victim be guilty or responsible for anything?” Second point: the victim is never guilty. “The victim hasn’t done, they’ve been done to: they don’t act, they suffer (…) We are not what we do, but what we have suffered, what we can lose, what has been taken from us.” Third point: the victim only suffers. “The victim is irresponsible, doesn’t answer for anything, doesn’t need to justify themselves: it’s the dream of any kind of power. In its erection as an absolute identity, in reducing being to a property that no one can dispute, it parodically fulfills the impossible promise of proprietary individualism.” Fourth point: “victimhood is the best way to exercise power.”

Today we’re living the process in reverse. That’s the issue to consider. Evo hasn’t lost the government, Evo hasn’t lost power, Evo hasn’t lost millions of state dollars for his electoral campaign. Or yes: he has lost them, but those losses are minuscule compared to this one: his pathetic, yet vital, air of victimhood. He has lost it or is about to lose it. Today we know: he ordered the killing of “terrorists” and put cruceño citizens against the wall. What’s at stake then? A legal matter, as we saw in the impeccable professional attitude of lawyer Gary Prado, but it’s naive to believe that this legal vicissitude ends everything. Of course not: here ends the self-exhibition of victim. Here ends his self-display of poor little victim/hero that worked so well for him for so many years. Evo Morales is the promoter of this extremely violent crime that changed the fate of the nation.

Do you understand? Today, someone who wakes up every morning thinking about promoting the development of the country/region should have been governor, not someone thinking about how to confront the central government. We would have had a Carlos Hugo Molina, not a Camacho, with all due respect this man may deserve from me. That’s the country we lost.

He claims he won’t go to any trial. Is that okay? Of course, it fits very well within the logic of his victimhood ideology: “they want to eliminate me, I only sought to maintain national cohesion against these secessionists, racists, separatists.” Could it still work for him? Good Lord, of course it could. It’s therefore imprudent to want to throw him in jail by any means necessary. That would only reactivate his victimhood ideology. We must do things properly. Gary Prado knows it: “a trial of responsibilities is required.” Perfect. Trying to throw him in jail by any means necessary with any trial done hastily would be falling into his infamous and whiny game that has given him so much political capital.

Let him go whine at that serious trial, and if legal fortune favors us, let him offer his final groans in San Pedro, where he belongs.

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