The “progressive” ones are further to the right and are looking at elections

Today, being progressive is more like being right-wing, said like that understanding that this political conception is appropriated, expropriated (utilitarianly, market-wise) by those who adhere to 21st Century socialism. Progressive as a “mechanical” counterpoint to the abuse of power, but above all for aspiring to justice, equal job opportunities and not just those rented to you by the State, to personal development, to freedom of expression and of the press, to citizen rights, to intellectual inclusion, that is, what is today positioned as an aspiration from the broad spectrum of the center to the political right, only recommending not to reach the extreme right, which is true that in its extension it touches that fatal, fallacious Latin American left that would be leaving many people without the desire to be traditional progressive and/or left-wing: common sense, sound judgment, today can hardly accept regimes like Maduro and Ortega, not to mention Díaz-Canel.

The disillusionment should be total, just as it happened in Argentina, which won against the “progressivism” of the K, although Milei’s fate is only halfway there and his outbursts and megalomaniacal traits make us distrust him enough. But the fact that the opposition has won in that country gives us hope that it will also happen in Bolivia, as we are really heading towards completing the cycle of that left to become like the sad Shame, whose mega electoral fraud and repression Arce continues to endorse, infamous morally, ethically unscathed.

Nobody knows who might lead the opposition in our elections, not so far away, but we will have to make every effort to support whoever takes the lead, who will unlikely be worse than the Arces or Evos of life. It is estimated that the electoral roll will probably remain distorted, and that the favor to buy consciences, businessmen, the media will continue, and, in addition, the transport of people in Santa Cruz will continue, but it will be impossible for them to steal another election from us if there are many of us. This hope should not be so utopian if Arce is nominated, horrible as president, and while the MAS remains divided.

It cannot be so difficult to defeat such a political scourge, and by such a difference that they cannot conceal it. We have known how to massively resist the flagrant abuse and we will surely be able to do it again, in the case of a (new) unfortunate electoral scam, although in this regard the unusual result of the census, which almost counts for less, and the ratification of the INE, putting everything (again) in a questionable situation to be overcome, give a very bad signal. But the possibility that Bolivian leftism will break away from false, or at least falsified, progressivism may be real. Because finally that word comes from progress, which is the last thing that a socialist or socialized country does economically, incontrovertible, incontestable evidence, in plain sight.