LAS TUNAS, Cuba. — Once again, and despite an honorable abstentionism, but still scarce for the material and human miseries that we Cubans experience inside Cuba, we have just seen how communist “democracy” works to legitimize what the Marxist-Leninist theory calls “dictatorship”. of the proletariat.”
Before undertaking this analogy between civic action and inaction in an exercise in logic and comparative civil law, I must say that I read the article published by this newspaper with pleasure Why do we vote the way we do?by Dr. José Azel, who reviews concepts about the romantic theories and the retrospective of voters, according to the book Democracy for realistsby academics Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels.
These authors point out that, according to the romantic theory of democracy —which brought Adolf Hitler to Europeans in Germany and to Latin Americans in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, just to cite two examples— voters evaluate the qualifications of the candidates and vote by the candidate for public office who best reflects his own political values. Instead, through the theory of hindsight —according to the academics— voters act as evaluators of the past performance of leaders and identify, without further information, “the good or bad performance of the government based on how well it has done”. impacted their lives”, so “it is not political ideology, but a look in the rearview mirror that best explains why we vote the way we do”, concludes Dr. Azel’s analysis.
Then, it is useful to ask: Why do Cubans vote if the qualifications of their supposed leaders, who are not such guides, but rather communist commissars or aspiring bureaucrats, do not reflect their political values regarding political and business freedom, which only Can they materialize by emigrating to market economy countries, such as the United States, Spain or even to any Latin American country, necessarily not developed, but free?
Why do Cubans vote for political commissioners and mayors of a communist regime with terrible economic performance that for more than half a century has impacted their lives with a sign of misery and frustration, leading thousands to prison, exile or exile? firing squad?
Are the Cubans masochistic enough to support and give continuity to the regime with the endorsement of their vote that, although fictitious, does have legal effect in flawed elections, yes, but that will not be null until their illegitimacy is proven in due course? unimaginable process today?
I do not have sociological data, nor do I believe that anyone does, regarding how many Cuban people like to be mistreated by their peers of the other sex, so I cannot affirm that masochism is a national flaw, as I do believe that hypocrisy is the plague. (Understand: the epidemic of the Cuban, of the Cuban on a native scale and for many years). These two examples serve to illustrate the pretense that works in the nation like poison in suicides.
This Sunday I went to the bakery early. There was no bread, but there were several people in line, who with empty hands and without anything to eat breakfast, turned around, but not to return to their homes to ruminate on their misfortunes, as they do every day, but to go to “school electoral” to exercise their “right to vote”, which endorses the socioeconomic miseries of the communist regime more than the easy chair of a “deputy” in the “parliament”.
I know of Cubans involved in the process of humanitarian parole to go to the United States who this Sunday went to vote for the continuity of the communist regime in Cuba; “Fuck those who don’t have a sponsor, as long as we’re here we have to pretend we’re revolutionaries,” they were supposed to say to themselves as they dialed for the “united vote.” Between misery and flight, Cubans vote for the dishonor of their race. Pity!
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