Ignacio Zuleta
08/15/2021 7:48 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/15/2021 7:48 PM
Alberto risks by provoking the Church
Alberto Fernández
has incurred the most serious setback that could affect the ruling party in the campaign.
It is not
Olivos's birthday minuet,
but rather having announced, a few days before PASO, that it is studying a project to decriminalize the use of marijuana.
That notice, aimed at pleasing the electorate of the urban bourgeoisie that already repudiates it - electorally - is an
attack on the sector of the Church
that most supports the Government.
The announcement prompted a
reaction from the Episcopate
, through the emblematic Cura Pepe -in charge of the pastoral care that attends to the drama of addictions-.
Also, a dart of the most important reference of
Pope Francis
for these lands, the head of the CTEP
Juan Grabois
.
The plot of the Olivos photo is a slight injury but it
does not make the ruling party lose a single vote
.
It only adds discredit in the electorate of the urban bourgeoisie that rejects it in the polls and that voted against it in 2019 in five of the seven districts with the highest number of votes (Córdoba, Santa Fe, CABA, Mendoza, Entre Ríos, where the Macri-Pichetto formula won).
This plot by Olivos is a gaffe that
reveals the double standards of the President
, the Government, the politicians and the human race.
All morals are double, even this one, a skeptic will say.
The teacher
Felipe González
has ruled that the important thing is not to screw up, but to be able to get it out quickly.
The Forgotten Lessons: Aníbal 2015
Venturing into the decriminalization of drugs is among the
explanatory hypotheses for the defeat of Aníbal Fernández
in the elections to governor of Buenos Aires in 2015, which dragged Peronism to the end of its open cycle in 2001, with four presidential terms in a row.
The
Church has gambling and drugs as its main enemies
and severely monitors government policies towards these activities.
The drama of addictions in young people, the effect on the death and suicide rate due to drugs, and the consequences of gambling in the poorest are at the top of their concerns.
This perception prompted the
Cambiemos
government
to deactivate the State's commitment to gambling
, which it had until 2015. It dismantled agreements, closed gambling halls, and annulled privileges for a generation of businessmen throughout the country.
The agent of these undertakings was the lawyer
Fabián Rodríguez Simón
, today a refugee in Uruguay.
These hypotheses about the defeat of 2015 are based on dialogues by the bishop of Buenos Aires with Peronist leaders to point out his
dislike of Aníbal's attitudes
. The man closest to Bergoglio in Argentina, then rector of the UCA and today archbishop of La Plata, Víctor Fernández, invited
Daniel Scioli
to visit his office at the Puerto Madero headquarters.
"Tucho" would tell him: "This is Aníbal Fernández," and
he showed him a folder, who knows what content
.
Faced with the candidate's response that no accusation was true, "Tucho" would reply: "I had to tell you, but know that we are not going to be indifferent."
Scioli later said that he went to inform Aníbal.
No one has proven the legend of prayer chains or masses in the anti-Hannibal sacristy, but it has not been denied either.
The walrus hoax worked, without any proof, in that election.
Non-binary leftism
Was this announcement necessary, which the Cristina government had already put on hold?
It surely sought to flatter the urban electorate where it has less prestige
.
"In these matters I consider myself a very liberal person and everyone has the right to do whatever they want with their lives," Alberto boasted.
He will believe that repressing marijuana is on the right and that he must differentiate himself from his non-Euclidean geometry - he is not on the left.
He was unaware of the commitment that the Bergoglista church has with its own government
.
The symbol is the tax law for the recontra rich, which allocates 25% of the proceeds to comply with the Villas Plan, which was approved by Congress by another agreement between the Church, this time with the Cambiemos government.
That project was presented by
Mario Negri, Elisa Carrió and Nicolás Massot
and had an overwhelming majority of both chambers, which acted encouraged by the support that Pope Francis gave to those agreements, which Juan Grabois talked with "Pepín", Mario Quintana and Carolina Stanley, who now anger
Máximo Kirchner
.
Grabois: legalize street vendors
Grabois follows Cura Pepe in rejection of this decriminalization, which
dynamites already fragile bridges between the ruling party and the social organizations
of the Cayetano trident. "Why don't you consider legalizing street vending?" Grabois tells me, continuing to vindicate his commitment to the Government. Hurtful, it shoots: "'The proven diet of oblivion: PlayStation, TV and marijuana' says Mark Fisher in his book Capitalist Realism ... Change TV for Netflix and we are," he closes.
Prudent, Grabois frames these dissidents in debates that he considers useful, such as
the one he waged with Maxi Kirchner and other official spokesmen who lash out at him
: "There is a very interesting philosophical debate, although it sometimes takes the form of personal quarrels; there are those who despise the community organized and popular movements, and there are those who think that it is the only sure path to structural change. "
Liberalism is sin
To hurt this sector of the Church is to distance itself from a social demography that is cross-referenced with Pope Francis, and that
the Government has already brushed against the project to decriminalize abortion
. The sanction of Congress irritated the Church and the Pope, who redoubled his anger when he learned that the President repeats that he talks a lot with him and that he attributes to him having said "let's turn the page."
The Vatican does not turn the page, it files them and does not forget, even if it forgives.
In campaign times, the gag is more useful than the chinstrap
. Olivos may be electorally innocuous, but the effect of a reaction from that Franciscan demographic, strong in all districts, remains to be proved if those legendary prayer chains are recreated. They may or may not harm, but helping does not help.
The message of personal "liberalism" enchants the urban electorate, but
there Juntos por el Cambio has already secured victory
, as in CABA.
Alberto, who is a freethinker, did not remember that for the Church of Rome "liberalism is sin."
It was the subject of Mirari Vos, an encyclical by Gregory XVI in 1832. It is also the title of a book that has been the formative base of religious and Jesuits since the end of the 19th century.
It was written by Félix Sardá y Salvany in 1884 and has been republished since then.
It is one of the bibles of fundamentalism and provokes the fury of orthodox economists around the world.
Cornered by the opposition
The request for impeachment by opponents
Mario Negri and Cristian Ritondo
encouraged the campaign by votes that are already distributed in advance. It is a flowery move - as the Aztecs called their symbolic wars to gather scapegoats for their human sacrifices - that corners the ruling party as the Pfizer bill did at the time, which led Alberto to sign a DNU.
At that time it was to allow the vaccination of the 100,000 minors who needed immunization.
The opposition dragged Peronism into session
, and the ruling party only had the record of the President signing the negligence clause in a decree.
He preferred that there be, for future reproaches, a Pfizer Decree signed by Alberto, than a Pfizer Law endorsed by Massa and Cristina.
That's how rogue politics is.
Victimizations on demand
In this round, Olivos makes it clear that in the presidential environment the birthday photo obeys a personal plot of officials, who
has injured Alberto below the waterline
.
They filter from there that there could be a type 125 episode, with the threat of slamming the door.
At that time it was proven by testimonies of the current president.
Now that is unlikely, and may respond to a victimization tactic that divides the opposition.
There are leaders who argue that
a political trial could bring down the President and that Cristina would come
.
Negri, manager of this request for judgment, responds with irony: "Are we now going to have to ask Alberto how far we can criticize him as long as he does not leave office?"
Victimizing is a common tactic in politics.
Even
a Macri can take advantage of it
if they are followed by the wallpaper for the move between Acassuso and Los Abrojos in full quarantine.
Your environment says that you have the emails in order.
But they do not deny that it would be great if they turned him into a politically persecuted person, while the President himself has confessed to having committed a crime for which there are more than 14 thousand Argentines filed before the Justice ...
Other shortcuts to forgiveness
Alberto has other shortcuts of forgiveness. One is, admitted the crime,
self-report and pay a fine
. This is what
Sebastián Piñera did
when he was photographed without a mask on the beach in Cachagua last December. He paid a fine of USD 3,000 (three thousand dollars), less than what they are claiming from the cook Maru, who is Botana. Another is to issue an amnesty decree against all defendants, with the argument of the best procedural economy (it is used every four years to excuse those who do not comply with the mandatory suffrage).
It would be a serious liberal expedient, because it lays bare the bottom of the problem, which is how governments must deal with norms such as health or social protest.
Peronism is an authoritarian and military party, created by a military from a de facto government.
The worst thing that could happen to him is this emergency of the plague, because he
reacted in the same way as authoritarian administrations around the world, such as China, Poland, Russia
.
For the hard.
The mistake of repressing
The
"enforcement"
of sanitary measures should never go to criminal matters. They must be suggestions.
The public complies with them if they can and want, because they are suggested for their benefit
. Where there was a heavy hand, there was violence, as in the United States, which was broken with the death of George Floyd (May 2020, Minneapolis). That fracture exploded a peace already resented by the plague, linked to acts of violence that are not forced to be related to the final fall of the
Donald Trump
government
, which at the beginning of last year seemed to have re-election assured. Today he is at the house, waiting for the patrol car.
A country like Argentina, which carries the atrocious past of clandestine repression and the disappeared, cannot apply
criminal
enforcement
to those who do not accept sanitary standards.
Criminalizing the plague is like criminalizing protest
, a blunder that the government has already cost
Eduardo Duhalde
, victim of the crime of Kosteki and Santillán, who were repressed a traffic cut with shotguns.
Lack of memory, because in the '90s, with Carlos Corach and Alberto Iribarne in the Ministry of the Interior, Norma Pla was held at the doors of Congress by women police officers from the Federal, without weapons.
They should have learned.
Slippery Metaphors and Neurological Manicures
There are things, Angeloz said, that you
don't learn after a certain age
. One is to do politics; the other, you know which one. Among the basics of the trade is almost like a law:
do not fight with Carrió
, unless you want to wallow in the dust. Another: don't fight with whoever feeds you, including Larreta-Santilli. Three: doing politics is not going to the belly of the TV channels talking about everything, and less promising that you are going to reform Argentina's political agenda.
Doing politics is not fighting or winning enemies
;
It is knowing who you represent - not so much what you represent - and having the capacity to agree.
In short, sell the future, not smoke, there is already enough.
Incidentally, it is not appropriate for a candidate of radicalism like Manes to expose his professional prestige and speak of "the sick society", which he comes to cure.
Francisco Delich, a legend of Alfonsinism, smashed these rhetorical fantasies in the well-remembered article
“The metaphor of sick society”
[1983], a must-read from the transition years.
He attributes the use of metaphors about "the disease" to the authoritarianism proposed by iron surgeons, to operate without anesthesia and to cut corners.
Is the plague a war? Delich ends his study thus: "War does not expose a sick society, but rather a state lacking historical direction, erratic, in the private hands of an alienated prince."
Good thing Manes is a non-intrusive neurologist
. "I know the human mind and I can control it."