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Editor's Note: Camilo Egaña is the Camilo driver . The opinions expressed in this article are exclusive to the author.
(CNN Spanish) - Whoever believes in that little rainy thing that “the people have the governments they deserve”, to refrain from this letrilla.
Because what is tried is to go a little beyond the wild card to talk about politics and politicians.
And the idea is to do it from a certainty - if one can speak of certainties in the world in which we live - the future of democracies is in danger.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall when everything smelled of fresh cement, professional politics (“the one of a lifetime”) and what people need are moving away more and more; inequalities multiply and the squeaky speech pronounced by demagogues and other weeds reigns.
It is the discourse of simplicity and simplons: the one that always appeals to emotions. As if we could no longer reason.
How good it would be to ask, even if the answers look like slippery squirrels.
What is the histrionism in politics?
Where were the leaders of the stature of Olof Palme, Konrad Adenauer or Helmut Kohl?
To what extent do institutions serve as a dock before such mercurial subjects that end up in power?
How much can the voter, the press and the political discredit parties be blamed?
But what would happen if politicians and voters suddenly took politics seriously?
I suppose they would disappear from the political corridors, the so-called "men of the people": those subjects who sing the forty any less to themselves; creatures with an incoercible desire to save their countries from all possible and impossible threats; individuals unable to measure the consequences of their actions and their covenants. Disposable architects.
A bus driver would not be president; neither two comedians either, in Guatemala and in Ukraine.
Not even the Filipino president would have dared to say before a crowd that he "used to be gay" before "healing", thanks to the beautiful women.
Neither the Cuban president appointed by Raúl Castro, would have said that the "special period" - the worst crisis that Cuba has suffered after the disappearance of the Soviet patronage - was an "act of collective creation." Nor Bolsonaro would have mocked the appearance of the first lady of France; neither a senator and a candidate for the presidency of the United States would have alluded to the size of their phalluses to signify their political abilities.
Trump might have continued on his own. And on television, which is also his thing. Who knows.
Curious what I heard a famous fashion designer say, how elegant today is not to behave like politicians And for the record, he is a man who knows a lot about the use of masks.
