We all agree that politics have regressed in the last one hundred years, and perhaps it all began one terrible day when the leaders lost the skill to speak about economic matters — that is to say real matters — and became skillful in “social problems.” Do social problems exist in reality? Perhaps not, and judging by the messages on the banners that fly in the rallies, we are always buried in money problems; that is to say, in real problems.
The slogans don’t lie, “more free money, more cheap money, more state money.” However, nearly all leaders try to respond to public demands with consoling, while bleak, socialist language.
Sooner or later, all leaders learn the perfect language of the white lie, all don the socialist cloak in order to inject into their image this air of uncertain grandeur, this tone of public sermon that soothes the complaints and relieves the conscience. Barack is a good example of this; few North American presidents have obtained the popularity figures achieved by the current president. In his impeccable promotion campaign for the presidency, he took a Tibetan bath in socialist waters and a miracle happened: In a matter of days, he became a candidate with options, the unstoppable celebrity not only of the local voter but also of the grand populist fanaticism that shakes the rattle of the entire world.
But the people have learned, hopefully Obama as well, that in order to win an electoral fight, perhaps one needs to become a celebrity, but in order to govern a country, there is nothing more effective than to simply be a leader. The propaganda perfection demonstrated by Obama in the campaign contrasts with the premature disappointment of the United States' citizens. This is because Barack Obama does not believe in Jefferson; because Obama committed social democrat demagoguery and ended up crucified between good and bad thieves.
Jefferson said, “I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple,” but Obama’s sermon has gone in the opposite direction. For the current North American president, waste is not sinful if it goes to the hungry. While Obama continues to believe in the truth of altruistic erudite experts who live between prediction and popular preaching, Jefferson said, “I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
The United States is a country that was founded on models of legal rectitude, and those models evolved into two traditional right-wing parties. We all know that the right is not synonymous with rectitude, but we also know that in the land of Jefferson, the social democratic seeds do not stick because Jefferson, the founder of the immense country, once said, “If we can prevent the government from wasting the work of the people under the pretext of caring for them, they will be happy.” What is visible does not require glasses; the North American people are not happy and that has been clearly expressed in the ballot boxes.
Although at the moment North American society seems worked up, it is always possible to invoke the venerable ideals of the founders. Jefferson did not leave eternal recipes for the happiness of his people, but he did leave a simple thought. And when the United States falls into the obscurantism of complicated ideologies of martyrs … There is nothing healthier than returning to Jefferson.
The author of the North American Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of an enviable country, and did so without fanfare, talking with a mockingbird that was always perched on his shoulders. A mockingbird named Dick.
Todos estamos de acuerdo con que la política involucionó en los últimos cien años y quizá todo comenzó aquel día funesto en que los gobernantes perdieron la pericia para hablar de temas económicos, quiero decir de temas reales, y se volvieron diestros en “problemáticas sociales”. ¿Existen en realidad los problemas sociales? Quizá no y a juzgar por los mensajes de las pancartas que se enarbolan en los mítines, siempre estamos enfrascados en problemas de dinero, es decir, en problemas reales.
Las consignas no mienten, “más dinero gratis, más dinero barato, más dinero estatal”. Sin embargo, casi todos los gobernantes intentan responder a las demandas públicas con el consolador y a la vez desolador lenguaje socialista.
Tarde o temprano, todos los líderes terminan aprendiendo el idioma perfecto de la mentira piadosa, todos acaban metiéndose en un capote socialista para inyectar en su imagen ese aire de grandeza incierta, ese tono de prédica pública que aplaca los reclamos y alivia la conciencia. Barack es un buen ejemplo de esto; pocos presidentes norteamericanos han obtenido las cifras de popularidad alcanzadas por el actual Presidente norteamericano. En su impecable campaña de ascenso a la Presidencia se dio un baño tibetano en las aguas socialistas y sucedió un milagro: de candidato con opciones pasó a ser, en cosa de días, la celebridad imparable ya no únicamente del elector local, sino también de la gran fanaticada populista que agita las matracas en todo el mundo.
Pero la gente ha aprendido –ojalá Obama también– que para ganar una contienda electoral quizá haga falta volverse una celebridad, pero que para gobernar un país no hay cosa más efectiva que ser simplemente un gobernante. La perfección propagandística demostrada por Obama en la campaña contrasta con la prematura desilusión de los estadounidenses. Porque Barack Obama no cree en Thomas Jefferson… porque Obama incurrió en la demagogia social demócrata y terminó crucificado en medio de malos y buenos ladrones. Jefferson decía “estoy a favor de un gobierno austero y sencillo”, pero la prédica de Obama ha ido en sentido contrario. Para el actual Presidente norteamericano, el derroche no es pecaminoso si va destinado al hambriento. Mientras Obama sigue creyendo en la verdad altruista de doctos y expertos que viven entre la predicción y el apostolado popular, Jefferson decía: “Nunca he entendido que los seres racionales traten de asentar su felicidad en el dominio de los otros”.
Los Estados Unidos es un país que se fundó con modelos de rectitud jurídica y estos modelos evolucionaron a dos partidos tradicionales de derecha. Todos sabemos que el derechismo no es sinónimo de rectitud, pero también sabemos que en las tierras de Jefferson no se pegan las semillas socialdemócratas porque Jefferson, el fundador de la patria inmensa, dijo una vez “si impedimos que el gobierno desperdicie el trabajo del pueblo so pretexto de beneficiarlo, el pueblo vivirá feliz”. Lo que está a la vista no necesita anteojos, el pueblo norteamericano no está feliz y lo ha expresado claramente en las urnas.
Aunque por momentos la sociedad norteamericana parece ofuscada, siempre es posible invocar los venerables ideales de los fundadores. Jefferson no dejó recetas eternas para la felicidad de su pueblo, pero sí legó un pensamiento simple. Y cuando Estados Unidos caen en el oscurantismo de complicadas ideologías martirizantes… no hay cosa más saludable que volver a Jefferson.
El autor de la declaración de la independencia norteamericana puso la piedra angular de un país envidiable y lo hizo sin alardes… Dialogando con un cenzontle que siempre estaba posado sobre sus hombros. Un cenzontle de nombre Dick.
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