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With the horizon clouded by dark clouds of economic performance, (bad) politics are now joined in a frankly discouraging scrawl of tomorrow. It is not just a matter of various and failed interpretations, to the taste of the issuer, but of relatively firm trends that speak to us of a discouragement, to qualify it in some way, in the decisions to invest, produce and employ. Also of ominous expectations for the medium financial term within which the presidential succession of 2024 will be defined.
Of course, we are no exception, but in our lands the negative signs stand out in and between the productive bases where the present times of employment, consumption and financial markets are woven; where, it should be reiterated, the great and small waves of all political economy are hatched.
When information about discouraging scenarios predominates and government silence sets in, all kinds of lucubrations are removed in the sense that the high command of the State has other data that counteracts the bad omens. As the days become continuous present, configuring an ominous quasi-secular stagnation, the wands of hope become a carnival of frustrations and, worse still, discouragement spread throughout our social structure, where our dispositions to life are defined and redefined. cooperation and deliberative political exchange, source and flask of all democracy or, on the contrary, bonfires of hostility and pessimism, disqualifications and contempt are stoked.
For now, our social cohesion does not exactly have the best grades and the government’s aggression against its opponents, recently redoubled with a semblance of fascistic harassment orchestrated by the president of the ruling party, has introduced an environment of fear in the different spheres of opinion and political positions. Environment that is the result of paranoid perceptions and suspicions, nefarious environments where other voices
Truman Capote would say, can become sound and fury.
Such a scenario, already subjected to another where open contempt for laws and people and the daily exercise of violence reign, announces the reign of the jungle and the strongest. A circumstance unknown to most Mexicans.
The return of the far west to Mexican latitudes was neither expected nor promoted, less so in these years of democratic celebration, but it is here. Only the men on horseback are missing with some Marshall to the head and a revolver to the waist, so that the scenario of the demolition of a republic not as solid as we supposed would gain strength. The candidates to occupy those positions and show off those “stars, are already in line with the platoons at the service of the local powers that, in the end, know how to accommodate themselves with whoever is in charge.
Faced with the political poverty shown with so much bravado and threats from the constituted power, let us redouble efforts to continue weaving a good republic, of laws and citizens willing to listen to each other, expose their positions, respect differences and walk together.
