Political trends come and go like a kind of wave that rises in countries or even continents. I speak of trends, because to speak of ideologies is something much deeper and more complex.

Right-wing governments take office and impose their policies for four or more years and, after the consequent disappointments resulting from unfulfilled promises, economic crises and high unemployment rates, among others, voters turn their eyes to the left and history begins again.

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In recent times, the cycle seems to be beginning to show some fissures that are generating very worrying particularities. In the troubled river of hopelessness, redeemers are beginning to appear who, with their speeches, are trying to seduce hundreds of “hopeless” people.

In an ideal world, one might suppose that these redeemers need a very elaborate, studied and full of arguments discourse to attract so many “confused souls”, but, more than that, they need transforming proposals that provide real alternatives. However, this is not what is happening.

On the contrary, for an inexplicable reason, which many of us have been thinking about for days and days in order to understand it, the strategy of these “saviors” is being built on incoherent speeches, nonsensical proposals and phrases from a drawer. The most serious thing is that with this strategy their followers are growing exponentially.

Their interventions seem like beginners’ sketches, full of lame jokes and pre-recorded applause. The most recurrent phrases, “they are all corrupt”, “let them all go”, “we are not going to keep on supporting lazy people”, etc. The proposals, dollarize economies, close congresses, stop scientific and cultural development, rule by decree, break trade relations with some countries without measuring consequences.

Formulas loaded with populism that seek to exalt the providential man, demolish the institutions of the State and deceive the unwary with the idea that new citizens imbued with autonomy will come.

In this welter of “proposals”, many of these characters have found an immense echo in some media. In fact, some of them are a product of those media because it was precisely there where they took their first steps as part of the show business world acting as buffoons. Then, after some time, those media were the ones that aggrandized them and magnified their incoherence.

In an anguished world, it is urgent to stop and think about the disastrous consequences that these new “redeemers” may bring and to analyze in depth their intentions, because crises are not conjured up with new crises, but with the joint work of citizens and institutions.

Thank you very much