From the age of four or five, children stop saying the first thing that comes to mind.
There they understand something that they will practice for the rest of their lives: you can't always
let out what you think about others without a filter
.
Sometimes it is necessary to remain silent or reformulate phrases to avoid hurtful or insulting slogans.
Sometimes, it's just not convenient.
It is not about lying, but about applying the
social skills
that are developed at that age and that allow us, precisely, to live in society.
If we went around expressing our thoughts without a filter, there would be no marriage that would last, we would be fired from work after a week, we would have no friends and
we would grab pineapples a couple of times a day
on the street.
Some will mistakenly consider this to be a hypocritical attitude: those who do not understand the difference will also confuse coherence with stubbornness.
It is an essential sieve.
Be a merchant, bus driver, engineer or president.
However, that distance that adults put between their brain and their tongue sometimes seems to disappear in the case of Javier Milei.
There are plenty of examples, just remember the criticism of Lali Espósito and Alejandro Borensztein, but suspicion tends towards certainty when he describes Congress as a “rat's nest” and maintains that politicians
“are shit that people despise
. ”
Given that his character continues to be quite indecipherable and surprising, the President could be given the benefit of the doubt: it could be that he makes statements of this type on purpose,
because he has decided to reserve the role of bad cop
.
He gave results in the electoral campaign, why change?
Thus, he insults and others dialogue.
The problem is that the campaign is over and the government system, if it were that,
does not seem to be working
.
His main bet so far, the Omnibus Law, had to leave the Deputies with its tail between its legs.
To a large extent, because a chicane is one thing and a missile strike below the waterline is another.
Furthermore, presidential outbursts usually
target people who have dared to think slightly differently
than him but who could truly be allies.
Let Ricardo López Murphy say it, who can be accused of several things, but not of not being one of the most conspicuous liberals in the country.
Nobody asks that the President think highly of Congress or politicians.
He was a deputy for the last two years, so his opinion will have some basis.
But putting everyone in the same garbage bag never helps.
And in the first place,
it does not help his own government
which, whether he likes it or not, will have to deal with that legislature for the next two years and in front of which he will have to face to give his opening speech in just ten days.
Presidential intemperance is equivalent to ensuring that libertarians are fascists.
There will be some who are, but
generalizations are always unfair
.
Incidentally, Rat's Nest is one of the great classics of cinema, released in 1954. Directed by Elia Kazan, starring Marlon Brando and with music by Leonard Bernstein, it won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best actor.
Based on a series of newspaper articles published by the New York Sun, it tells the story of a former boxer (Brando) who
regrets working for a gangster and tells everything he knows
to Justice.
Its original title is
On the waterfront
and
Nido de rats
was its Spanish-American version.
Curiously, her name in Spain would have served to throw a more elegant stick at Congress.
Harsh, but not insulting and rude like the adjective Milei used.
There it was called
The Law of Silence
.