1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,200 We' re counting ten days for next Sunday' s 19th election. The 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:11,279 candidates are already lying on the street and it is until this weekend the publication 3 00:00:11,279 --> 00:00:14,480 of the poll on Thursday of the week that they come. In a week 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,600 political proselytism and political campaign ends in the media. Friday and Saturday will be 5 00:00:20,679 --> 00:00:27,199 days of the coming week of reflection, reflecting on the vote and also Friday 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,640 at midnight is forbidden the supply of drinks until Sunday until 5 a m on 7 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:39,159 Monday. You know that reflection thing on Monday the 20th and that way, 8 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,880 just like I' m going to vote. Well, everybody' s doing 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:50,439 the closet. Everything is taking advantage of it to say who it intends to 10 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:53,280 vote for. I know a guy who from day one I found ridiculous before, 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,560 when I was a teenager, to see journalists and certain communicators show themselves 12 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:06,519 to be unbiased assumptions and you saw his bias to see from a mile away. 13 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:14,280 It is one thing to deal objectively with impartial facts is no one. 14 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,079 We' re all partial. The fact that you say, say, you 15 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:23,480 sympathize with someone or something doesn' t mean that you give up objectivity. 16 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,760 Sometimes I see friends who see in the eyes of the parties what they sympathize 17 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:33,599 with, and I want to make it clear to someone something that I have 18 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,799 learned from politics has been a culture, a tradition. I' m going 19 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,640 to be called curious to know where this comes from, but part of it, 20 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,760 from the same religious faith. Politics turned into religion is a problem, 21 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:55,359 because I will set an example. The evangelical Christian says that he follows the 22 00:01:55,359 --> 00:02:01,120 teachings of Christ when he saw that separation between the Catholic Church, the sale 23 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:06,040 of forgiveness for the soul and those things. And Luther denounced all this sheath 24 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:12,039 and there is Lutheran reform and there comes that division of the Church. Before 25 00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:15,719 the Church had been divided when the great schism took place, it was divided 26 00:02:15,759 --> 00:02:19,560 between the Orthodox Church in the Catholic Church, and the Church was divided into 27 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:23,319 sixty- eight thousand and five hundred pieces from its very beginning as a religion. 28 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,639 There is always someone who understands that he has the best version or that 29 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,879 he has the best vision or that his version is the best of all And 30 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,400 he fantasizes about that. I understand that although that is a territory of scholars 31 00:02:36,479 --> 00:02:43,039 in depth of religiosity and all this, I do not believe that politics is 32 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,400 a struggle between bad and good, but between different forms, between different visions, 33 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,719 of how to achieve what people want, that is achieved and that results 34 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:59,120 in benefits for them. And here, in the Dominican Republic, the Perremeist 35 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,000 believes he grows up and assumes to be better than the Peldeist. But at 36 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:07,680 one time it was the Peldeists who were assuming and pretending to be the best, 37 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,560 the purest, what made albums of corruption albums, albums of corruption and 38 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:15,439 distributed them all over the country. I had one of those. I remember 39 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:20,520 them, as I was six years old. They edited it and everything in 40 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,080 the village was published and there were the names and the names and photos of 41 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:28,719 what they said, which were the great corrupts of the time in the governments 42 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:32,159 of the PRD, in the eighties. Being a child, I remember it 43 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:39,199 and then it would come to the time when balaguerism reformism would take up the 44 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:44,719 political stage for ten years and the PRD would sell themselves as the good and 45 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,919 the others as the bad. And you see it now, it' s 46 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:50,879 happening to me, it' s happening. That' s the one. 47 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,840 That' s the way to look at politics. I learned that this is 48 00:03:53,919 --> 00:03:55,840 not about bad and bad and I mentioned it in the year two thousand and 49 00:03:55,879 --> 00:04:02,639 twenty and I repeat them again. This is about interests and maybe in a 50 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:08,759 small, in a small, very small place. There is perhaps a vision 51 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,120 of how the things that are going to make the country better are going to 52 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:18,879 be achieved. But politicians are not doing politics for the good of the country, 53 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,800 in the first place, for the sake of the interests they represent and 54 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:30,000 then interest their own interests. If it' s not the other way around, 55 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:35,399 then you fight a friend, argue with someone, insult you for two 56 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:40,959 people who don' t know you, don' t know you, don 57 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:46,120 ' t care about you. I think it' s stupid if I don 58 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,040 ' t fight with friends for politics, sports, or every sheath. In 59 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,480 this case, I have a set of ideas that I defend and that I 60 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,639 have and that I consider essential in my thinking. But that' s not 61 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,879 why I' m going to fight someone, because we have different visions about 62 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:10,399 the direction the country should take. Not because of it, so I think 63 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:13,800 what you should think more about now what you are going to say, as 64 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,639 there are many people coming out of the closet and saying that I am not 65 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,160 afraid to say that, for example, the sixteen, the nineteen I am 66 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,959 going to vote for Luis a vinader O, that I would not vote, 67 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:26,839 nor die for Antonio Taveras, that I do not know why Member I am 68 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,480 going to vote in my psicuscription. That' s the reality. So I 69 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,399 think one and I say that my dead is not because he' s a 70 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:40,040 bad person, or anything like that, is that the ideas he defends are 71 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,839 not aligned with mine. What he represents and has represented in Congress for the 72 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,319 Dominican Republic are things that I consider to be harmful to the country. So, 73 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,319 therefore, I' m not here. Then we have the other option, 74 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:59,120 which doesn' t do much good either. Then I don' t 75 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,439 know better to throw the nulls on that one, on that ballot. In 76 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,519 my case, look for a known drunk, one who looks like a congressman. 77 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,079 I have maybe two options. Maybe a boat for a rat, then 78 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:11,639 a vein for you. He' s got a moderate higher, that' 79 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:14,600 s all. I know just one face of what you' re on that 80 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,319 one, on that ballot. But other than that, I invite you to 81 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:25,720 take advantage of these days that remain from here and share with your friends, 82 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,680 who may be deist fights, being you of the PRM, because there are 83 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,959 many people who are so passionate. Politics has that. Politics is that, 84 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:39,839 Party politics is structured as a religion. They fanatize the individual. The individual 85 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,000 sees in the eyes of the pastor or preacher, or the pastor says look. 86 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,199 None of those people you' re aspiring for have anything higher, no 87 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:58,600 special, no better than you. There are ordinary people. Ordinary people who 88 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,319 plow MPs, who aspire to senators, which are sometimes grosser than you. 89 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,560 Sometimes you move to an election table to vote for one who has less understanding 90 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,160 of the social, economic, political reality, which is the one that you 91 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,000 have the only difference, that he is at the top of the pyramid and 92 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:24,639 you are the vassal that has to go there and validate it with the vote. 93 00:07:24,839 --> 00:07:28,279 But it' s no better than you. So fight a relative or 94 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:34,279 get angry with one because they think different. That' s stupid. I 95 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:39,040 grew up in a house where I was going pa was shovel, warrior, 96 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:45,160 to the extreme and my mother was a perredeist, sick peñagomist and in my 97 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,240 house the politics was a subject of conflict. Everyone who took the side that 98 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:49,639 wanted me the command was a bullet screams like daddy. I was a peñacomita, 99 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:54,480 like Mommy and it didn' t mean that in the bosom of my 100 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,720 house. A subject of conflict, of enmity, of discussion, etcetera. 101 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,079 There came a point where my dad left so much of a reformist boot that 102 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,600 in the 2, 000 he voted for a hippolyte to please my mom. 103 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:11,160 So I don' t know, I don' t know, but I 104 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:15,319 think it' s a pending matter that has mainly the yes socially left us 105 00:08:15,319 --> 00:08:18,839 two. For example, it is now in the interests of politicians to polarize. 106 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,839 That' s part of that process. But, for example, now 107 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:30,600 that there' s talk of new young people being included with another vision of 108 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:33,799 politics and all that kind of stuff they' re not getting into our heads. 109 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:39,720 I believe that the fact that you share with your competitor and you see 110 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:45,200 that there are friends. We have different ideas, we can debate ideas, 111 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,159 but we are not enemies. But it' s really treated as enemies to 112 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,840 death and that' s passed on to the population, it' s passed 113 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:58,600 on to the followers and so on and so on, so that you see 114 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:01,840 the different discussions that sometimes end in a fatal way. Well, I think 115 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,720 if you practice with the example, that same thing will be passed on to 116 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:11,960 your section. If one studies the history of each stage, in history no 117 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:16,720 matter what system has prevailed. There have always been those who are in favor 118 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,799 and who are against what they believe, what they defend in the best and 119 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:24,279 what they understand is not. But I believe there is a chapter in the 120 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:33,639 most recent history in the world, which is what happened in China or what 121 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:45,879 happened at the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Gives you the idea 122 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:52,159 of how you can make them. You can give a picture of how, 123 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,919 when you' re convinced that what you' re defending is the best, 124 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:01,519 that it' s infallible, that it' s not wrong, that it 125 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:07,600 ' s perfect, you can get to commit terrible atrocities. And we' 126 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:13,559 re getting back to it and maybe we didn' t learn any chapters like 127 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:22,480 macarism in America, or a lot of chapters in history where out of nonsense, 128 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:30,360 just to think differently, a lot of people ended up dying and whole 129 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,960 societies destroyed in the dust. So, while politicians are distributing the budget, 130 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,200 taking it out of their pockets or taking it to tax havens, which is 131 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:46,240 what most people do and I repeat, most politicians who are in the public 132 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,759 service, as ministers, as directors, as senators, deputies, councilors, 133 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:56,720 mayors, what they are doing is distributing the administration of the state budget to 134 00:10:56,799 --> 00:11:05,200 take some of that tax havens into their pockets. It is not in the 135 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,000 center, you are not as a person, nor is there service to you 136 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,720 as a citizen. So, when you understand that, when you understand the 137 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:18,960 system, when you understand and understand that, you' re going to stop 138 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:20,519 fighting because you' re going to say I have nothing at stake. I 139 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,039 ' m not getting any benefits. What I want is simply for them to 140 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:30,759 fulfil their obligations under the law and do so half- way. Why do 141 00:11:30,799 --> 00:11:33,480 I have to go out and fight, go in the trunk with a friend 142 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:39,519 for the PLD presidential candidate? I don' t have to. Why should 143 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,200 I insult a friend because he understands that Avindera has been the best President in 144 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,879 history, who has not been, but he understands that he believes it. 145 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,559 I don' t have to fight him. I mean, think about it 146 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,440 this week and I come from the last election of like five death threats from 147 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:03,080 a Perremeist who wrote to me in private to threaten me with death for not 148 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,399 being aligned with the PRM or those who promised me that when the pr arrived, 149 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,600 I was going to know what the PRM was that they were going to 150 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:16,039 get me out of here or the friends who fought with me, because I 151 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:22,720 decided to be with Gonzalo because it gave me my damn wish and not with 152 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:28,360 the prm that we are not friends today, nor are we going to do 153 00:12:28,399 --> 00:12:31,240 it again, because if our friendship depended on us thinking the same way, 154 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,039 because we couldn' t be friends. We can' t be friends if 155 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:37,320 there was something I' ve always had. That' s what I' 156 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:41,519 ve got around a lot of people who think very different from me and I 157 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:50,240 can understand myself and accept that we don' t think the same and then 158 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:56,679 we respect that way of doing politics, of polarizing and seeing the opposite one 159 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:03,519 as an enemy doesn' t go with me. You are different thinkers and 160 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:13,679 we can think diametrically opposite in a different way, but reflect on whether you 161 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:20,000 are indeed what are at the center of the interests and actions of those you 162 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:24,639 are willing to take your life with other people. For and not so. 163 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:33,159 They are lying simulators in the service of your interests and when you understand them, 164 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,159 you will assume this as what is part one thing apart from the other.