Trash politics and the language of powerlessness

Gonzalo abascal

09/06/2021 21:27

• Clarín.com

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Updated 09/06/2021 21:27

The campaign that ends in a few hours (at least for the PASO) leaves a certainty:

most of the candidates did not construct a speech that aroused expectations.

In that shared impotence, they rioted in insults and an attempt at humor that was more pathetic than effective.

The reasons are various, but there is a fundamental one: the two main forces have shown their ineffectiveness in solving the problems of the ordinary citizen, with inflation at the top of that table.

The choice will then be for the negative

; more out of anger against the adversary than out of enthusiasm for one's own. The growth of absenteeism and the blank vote verified in the provinces (Jujuy, Salta and Corrientes) and that is anticipated for Sunday is another symptom of the same distrust.

In this scenario, it was first Florencio Randazzo who presented a short with an alleged telephone dialogue in which Cristina filled him with insults. He should have clarified that it was a joke and the spot quickly left the scene. Later, Victoria Tolosa Paz joined and her

"in Peronism always went down."

Strategy to gain knowledge,

while expanding its

popularity

confirmed the impossibility of doing so with nobler weapons.

Javier Milei joined the trash style, without a hint of wit or irony:

“Larreta, you are a disgusting worm dragged along, capable of doing anything to win an election.

You know what, Larreta?

Like the shitty left-hander you are, you can't even shine a liberal's shoes, damn it.

I can still crush you in a wheelchair, let's see if you understand, ”he yelled

.

Not even the best credentials as an economist are enough to forgive such abuse of grievance

and lack of subtlety.

It may impress some young people (on Sunday we will have to see how many) but more than that it will surely put most of them to shame.

Milei's explosion of vulgarities was followed by successive advertisements by Randazzo and Berni exchanging

assholes

badly disguised by television "pips".

Other candidates were hardly heard. Former Health Minister Daniel Gollán showed greater eloquence in his administration in government than in his career as a candidate: it was

enough for him to be appointed on the Buenos Aires list for his voice to be almost silenced

, in a curious strategy opposed to that of Tolosa Paz . If hers was to grow at any price in the knowledge of the voter,

Gollán's seems to have been to decrease in the same category

. The less known the better. Both consolidated in the campaign the idea that the seal (Frente de Todos) is more important than the candidates. And that those who vote will do so more for Cristina Kirchner than for them. The hypothesis may be correct, but they could have helped a bit more.

Hostages of its limits, what the poverty of naked language is the impossibility to communicate with better weapons.

The difficulty to awaken emotions.

Other times and other heights, no one doubts it, but Raúl Alfonsín moved crowds by reciting the preamble to the National Constitution.

The distance between that speaker and the current ones is similar to the slope that confidence in politics has traveled since then.

Intangible of delicate fragility, that trust is essential for the strength of the system.

Now that with insults and bizarre humor they have already gained

fame

, the candidates are left with the task of regenerating that vital asset.

Understand that it is not the same to make people laugh than to laugh.