They say that politics is like chess. Strategies plan and care for each action. They resort to surveys and project the campaign with the purpose of achieving victory. Like the millenary game, they know that an error can cost the game. Therefore, they measure in caution the steps to be taken and observed, with great interest, the route of the opponents. Even the most strategic visionaries, rehearse and train with their candidates the possible scenarios to improve their presentation and be more convincing. All for conquering votes and winning the game
In chess, honor. The chess traps are paid. It has differentiates what happens in politics, where strategists constantly resort to deceptions to achieve their goal. And they distort, in this action, the most noble sense of politics: the art of governing the citizen and providing solutions to their needs. Increasingly, the criterion of ‘Everything is worth’ is imposed on the campaigns in order to lock the King’s own and knock down, as it gives rise to the foreign king. Without traps, it seems, there would be no viable strategy.
The pawns are the soul of chess. And, following the analogy, the citizen is the soul of current politics. Although candidates and parties want to steal prominence. With his vote, the citizen defines the next authorities that, in honor of the democratic system, they must govern for and for people. Yes, that disruptive. After many, many years, of submission to the political and electoral euphemism of the ‘useful vote’; This August 17, the citizen will grant trust, and responsibility, to the new authorities with the implicit instruction of directing the social, political and economic coexistence of Bolivia.
